Thursday, August 6, 2026
Monday, July 27, 2026
Saturday, July 18, 2026
Saturday, July 11, 2026
Saturday, June 20, 2026
Thursday, June 18, 2026
Monday, June 15, 2026
How do you spell Mamdani?
Saturday, June 13, 2026
Monday, June 1, 2026
In March Pete Hegseth couldn't decide if Iran's military was merely decimated or totally devastated, and now Trump tells us Iran's military wasn't really hurt at all
Humpty Dumpty says words mean whatever he says they mean.
Meanwhile I'm quite certain nine in ten members of Iran's military prefer decimation to devastation.
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
When you just read the typo and go with it lol
Monday, April 27, 2026
Ha, taxes coerce behavior whether you like it or not, so you'd better decide what behavior you want because you're going to get it good and hard either way
Tax Power Not Designed To Coerce Behavior - Gary Abernathy, RCEnergy
... the Fifth Circuit’s ruling is a welcome nod to the fact that the federal government cannot take tax laws intended to increase revenue and twist them merely to regulate business activities. ...
I mean, do these people not remember Ronald Reagan?
“If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it.”
But Ronald Reagan ignorantly reduced high marginal ordinary income tax rates, destroying the need for the owners of capital to make the arbitrage decision going forward between either choosing low long term capital gains tax rates or the high ordinary income tax rates.
The owners of capital had been no dummies and had picked the low rates for years. That drove domestic investment throughout the post-war because it had to, and produced the good paying full time jobs and GDP which too few even remember now. But faced with an easier path to low taxes, they took it.
The tax windfall set the conditions for the hollowing-out of the U.S. economy when those billions of dollars met the opening to China in 2001, where they worked for pennies on the dollar and regulations were practically non-existent.
20,000 domestic manufacturing establishments alone were lost in the wake of the 1986 tax reform, and 70,000 more after 1997. Millions of manufacturing jobs went with them, and with them the American middle class and the American dream.
All because Ronald Reagan, the liberal, thought rich people knew best what to do with their own money.
In the mid-1980s we had maybe 35 billionaires and people in their 20s routinely married and bought their first home. Today we have 1,135 billionaires and people are nearly 40 before they can afford to buy their first home. And we have Ph.D.s all over the place who can't spell in their own language let alone in a foreign one.
Put a random set of 100 people in a room and the fact is only 25% of them are college material, but the rest need and deserve good jobs the same as they do, and they aren't going to be "knowledge" jobs.
I can still remember my company's HR head telling my truck-driving employees in the 1990s that they had to start thinking of themselves as "knowledge workers" instead of as what they were. I got the hell out of there. By 2003 most of those new "knowledge workers" of mine had lost their jobs driving truck when the company had to "restructure". Just one tale in tens of thousands of such tales.
America will not begin to be great again without tax policy which favors the American people over some eggheaded libertarian's idea of a principle which favors only the rich.
Saturday, April 18, 2026
Him is blocking voter ID lol
REP. ANNA PAULINA LUNA (R-FL): John Thune is a problem. I do not like what he's done because he has every ability, and really it's him that's blocking voter ID. He has every ability to embrace the standing filibuster or remove the filibuster.
Here.
-- B.S. Biology, University of West Florida
Saturday, April 4, 2026
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
It's embarrassing to have a whiny little baby for president demonstrating everyday that he's not up to the job of being the leader of the free world
Trump lashes out at UK and France, telling allies ‘the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore’
... “You’ll have to start learning how to fight for yourself, the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren’t there for us. Iran has been, essentially, decimated. The hard part is done. Go get your own oil!,” he concluded. ... For its part, Tehran continues to demonstrate its ability to dominate and derail maritime traffic in the strait, hitting a fully laden Kuwaiti oil tanker in the anchorage area of Dubai’s port earlier Tuesday.
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Roger Kimball polishes a turd
... Some say Trump exaggerates and overstates things. Perhaps, on occasion, he is given to mild hyperbole. But consider, sed contra, this masterpiece of understatement: “The United States of America has beaten and completely decimated Iran, both militarily, economically, and in every other way.” The Roman practice of decimation, rarely employed, was a brutal punishment for cowardice. The offending unit would be divided into groups of ten. One man from each would be selected by lot. The unlucky ticket holder would then be killed by his colleagues.
What the US and Israel have visited upon the Iranian regime is far more extensive than decimation. Most of its leadership has been erased. ...
More.
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
You will not be any wiser for having read it
The best part was the professor who lamented Epstein's typos while he himself misused the word disinterest:
“It was nihilistic almost in its total disinterest in communicating,” Bessner said.
Monday, March 9, 2026
Thursday, February 26, 2026
Monday, February 23, 2026
The disease spreads
The original story from The Nation had Cavalry. MSN picked up the story and promptly mis-headlined it Calvary. RCP mindlessly repeated the mistake.

















