Cover Only APPROPRIATED Expenditures!
Today Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced that the US will run out of borrowing authority (again) on January 19th and needs to have the debt limit lifted by Congress before summer More...
Can we avoid dystopia?
In Lionel Shriver’s dystopian novel The Mandibles: a Family, 2029-2047, the US falls into chaos when it learns that it can’t just More...
Mental health, policing, and energy are examples.
In 1519 Hernan Cortes burnt his ships in Vera Cruz to prevent any attempt by his soldiers to return to Cuba instead of conquering the Aztecs. “Reformers” like this strategy also. If you More...
Parts of Pakistan are sinking ten times faster than seas are rising.
Recently-flooded Pakistan is the poster child for “reparations” to be paid to third world countries by the developed world for the damages caused by climate change. H More...
But has an even huger job ahead of him.
Ron DeSantis won newly red Florida by 19 points. Republican Governor Phil Scott won reelection here in Vermont with an historic 47-point margin over his Democrat opponent! This was apparently the More...
Will we accept them?
The only certainty about Tuesday’s election is that almost half of us are certain to be disappointed by the results. If Rs win the House and Ds keep the Senate, more than half of us will be disappointed. Local resu More...
They can’t be allowed to sit on their assets.
The Wall Street Journal has a More...
Time to rethink almost everything.
In 2019 the UN Population Report predicted that the world population would reach 10.9 billion people by 2100 and still be growing. In the More...
Tackles both short- and long-term energy problems.
In the brief time after Liz Truss took office as UK Prime Minister and before the death of Queen Elizabeth, Truss made her inaugural speech. Despite her conservative reluctance to inte More...
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