Maximum Pluck

by | Feb 14, 2019 | Economics, Politics, Taxation

NY Governor Andrew Cuomo has been all over the news lately, with complaints and warnings regarding a tax revenue shortfall that’s threatening his progressive agenda. He points the finger of blame (something he may or may not have learned from the...

Broken Windows and New Deals

by | Feb 9, 2019 | Economics, Environment, Politics

By now, everyone who pays attention to politics has heard of the Green New Deal being proposed by the left-end of the Democratic Party. Being flogged as not only an environmental necessity, but as a means of achieving social justice and support for the poor by it-girl...

Shooting The Moon

by | Feb 8, 2019 | Opinion, Politics

Now that more and more people are throwing their hats into the Democratic presidential nomination ring, and now that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has become the “it-girl” of the Left’s political rhetoric, serious people are starting to question the...

State of the Union 2019: A Review

by | Feb 6, 2019 | Opinion, Politics

As has become my norm, I opted out of sitting through the State of the Union address, choosing to read the transcript the morning after. In doing so, I save myself 82 minutes of theater, preening (by everyone there), applause breaks, photo-ops, and the like that...

Eternal Servitude

by | Feb 3, 2019 | Culture, Education, Opinion, Politics

Those who delight in schadenfreude were in special glee the other day, with the latest example of the Left eating its own. It all started out with former Starbucks CEO sending the Democrats into a shark-chum frenzy over his announcement of a potential independent run...