Aug 21, 2023 – What in the wide, wide world of sports is going on with car prices? Now, I knew they were expensive – and we’ve already established how cheap I am – but, you know? It’s one of those things that doesn’t really smack you in the chops until you see a...

Aug 21, 2023 – Welp, unions are shooting for the stars and hitting some of them lately. American pilots were going to sign a new contract at first, but then they got airline envy. In March, those rival Delta guys had done pretty well for themselves… Delta pilots have officially ratified a...

Aug 21, 2023 – It might be raining in California in August, but it’s the driest it’s been in Panama in about 100 years. And that is causing some serious problems at a place that never really registers in the national consciousness anymore – the Panama Canal. And it really should, as 40%...

Aug 21, 2023 – I don’t even know what to say. “There’s an airport right up the road. Why isn’t that being used? There’s ocean front 20 feet from our lobby. Why are we not using that?” This will tear your heart out. I can’t stop crying. “He was...

Sep 7, 2023 – When last we saw our dueling parties, the UAW had voted to authorize a strike against Ford, GM, and Stellantis and was thoughtfully laying out what it would take from the companies not to walk off the job on the 14th of September. Lots of cha-ching, for starters....

Sep 7, 2023 – The climate cultists ensconced in the Biden administration and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have been in an all-out assault on the American way of life since assuming power. And by power, I mean their power-trip. Never before has there been such an intrusive, unending, and concerted effort to...

Sep 7, 2023 – Xi Jinping, the Winnie Pooh-ish look alike running the People’s Republic of China, isn’t going to be happy with the performance of his country’s currency this morning. It could throw a bit of a wrench in his plans to conquer the world’s markets – and, by extension, the world itself...

Sep 6, 2023 – Only Oprah Winfrey’s problem seems to be one of self immolation by association vice actual flames tickling her toes. For such a carefully cultivated image after all these decades, old girl’s been coming apart at the seams these past few weeks, with jarring, insensitive gazillionaire misstep after misstep....

Sep 6, 2023 – I guess it was about time. I haven’t really been snortin’ fire about student loan anything since last fall’s blogging flurry when Biden forgiveness schemes and court cases smacking them down were going back and forth. Truth be told, I was sort of humming along, even with the occasional,...

Sep 6, 2023 – Here is another in a line of inexorable “told you so’s.” At the beginning of August, I’d posted that the German Green dream was crashing more than just the Hofbräuhaus (tavern) budgets of burgermeisters’ rural citizens. It was coming for Germany’s vaunted industrial complex. It’s not at all good...

Sep 5, 2023 – So the putschists in Niger have gotten around to doing a little math on their own, and decided that what they’ve been receiving for their uranium is way below market value. They’ve upped the price in an effort to realize more of an equal return from one of their most...

Sep 5, 2023 – And there was a collective gulp heard ’round City Hall. I wouldn’t be surprised to find some of London Breed’s administrators forced into a life of crime to keep the street lights on…just kidding, just kidding. But “I don’t think we’ve reached the bottom yet” is all that...

Sep 5, 2023 – Everything’s just going SWELL, ain’t it? It’s not POTATUS’ fault you simple peasants can’t see it. Top @JoeBiden economic advisor Jared Bernstein says Americans who don't feel the economy is improving "need to look around the corner," and "see a president that is working day in and day out!"...

Sep 4, 2023 – When I first saw this this weekend (and picked it up for our Headlines section) I thought, “No way would they be that bold.” Teachers unions are up to no good! — James Lindsay, Dga.F. (@ConceptualJames) September 2, 2023 Once you get into the meat of...

Sep 1, 2023 – Things in the job market look to be slowing down, no matter what ALPA, the Teamsters, and UAW think is going on. Hiring slowed this summer and unemployment rose in August, signs the labor market is cooling in the face of high interest rates. U.S. employers added 187,000...

Sep 1, 2023 – As the old saying goes, “If you don’t give them the stick to beat you with to begin with…” That’s probably the reason behind this reticence shown by the State of New York to release last year’s public school test scores. Schmaybe they haven’t worked out a duck-and-cover schmeme yet...

Sep 1, 2023 – Oh, the headlines two years ago were horrific – HORRIFIC. It was every racist, oppressive, creepy boarding school nightmare scenario come to life, and just one more baseball bat to the reputation of a colonizing, supremacist Roman Catholic Church. The Catholics had let orphaned indigenous children wallow in...

Aug 31, 2023 – ZOMG! Have the brainiacs followed the yellowoke path to diversity, equity, and inclusion mediocrity? Caltech drops calculus, chemistry, physics class requirements if your school doesn't offer them, allowing you to take Khan Academy instead. Doesn't seem that crazy. Until you notice they also got rid of the SAT,...

Aug 31, 2023 – Well, that’ll raise the diplomatic temperature several degrees. They did give Amb. Sylvain Itte 48 hours to get packed up after receiving a letter in which he was asked to leave. Or, as they put it, when the junta “invited him” to leave. …The Nigerien Ministry of Foreign...

Aug 31, 2023 – For all the Green dreamers and shrieking climate cultists on Earth do to mandate, cajole, and bribe the populace and industries into following them over a climate change cliff, every day there are more and more signs it’s going to be a massive – and heartwarming – bust of epic...

Aug 30, 2023 – Another African country, another presidential guard goes rogue. Today it was Gabon, as officers declared they had seized power and immediately set to shutting things down. Military officers in oil-producing Gabon said they had seized power on Wednesday, placing President Ali Bongo under house arrest and naming a...

Aug 30, 2023 – I do not know what has happened to the land of the majority of my forebears. To an outsider looking in, it seems the very things they threw rocks, waged guerilla war, and died in the streets against, they have become. Back in May I posted about their new...

Aug 30, 2023 – On Tuesday, November 7, 2023, the people of Kentucky will go the the polls to vote for governor. Incumbent Democratic Governor Andy Beshear is running for reelection against his Republican challenger, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron. For the better part of the summer, Beshear – touted as one of...

Aug 29, 2023 – Or it was. Doesn’t appear to be so heavenly at the moment. Facing a reported $45M budgeting shortfall, it’s turning into a slaughterhouse for faculty academic careers. "The fix is simple: the legislature should step up and say they truly support WVU, and cover its deficit without eliminating any programs....

Aug 29, 2023 – Um…hasta luego, señor? Francis Suarez out of 2024 Republican primary race. Never clear why he entered race in first place. — Byron York (@ByronYork) August 29, 2023 Nonentity and occasional object d’ scorn that he was, Francis Suarez stood atop the shining mount one...