Whiskey and Car Keys

People, in general, prefer easier over more difficult, even if the former doesn’t align with their job or their values. People that work for the government are no different than you and I in this regard. The latest example is found in a letter from Attorney...

Some Simple Math

Almost every day, I read a story of another restaurant forced to close its doors due to a minimum wage increase. None of these stories, however, seem to penetrate the progressive zeitgeist, as evinced by the near-universal support for a national $15 minimum wage (or...

Trade War Blues

As someone who’s ‘of a certain age,’ and who has been attempting to save and invest money for retirement for several decades, I’ve grown a bit weary of the financial news outlets’ method of reporting market and stock performance....

Banning Cheddar

Erstwhile progressive darling Beto O’Rourke recently sought to jump-start his going-nowhere presidential campaign with a Hail Mary declaration that, if elected President, he’d ban “assault weapons”: Americans who own AR-15s, AK-47s, will have...