A Republic if You Can Keep It In 1787 Benjamin Franklin was given a question: “Well doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” “A republic,” responded Dr. Franklin, “… if you can keep it.” A well-drafted Constitution has another requirement: it must be well administered to be a blessing to its people. […]
EVs and Human Trafficking/Modern Slavery
In Pursuit of Cobalt Cobalt is an essential component to every lithium-ion rechargeable battery made today, In what Siddharth Kara calls an almost Biblical scene is a crater in southeastern Republic of the Congo. Diggers numbering 5,000 or so are packed tightly together. Each is winging a hammer and pick to prise chunks of speckled […]
Breaking News: Reform at New College, Sarasota, Florida
About five days ago, Francis Menton (the Manhattan Contrarian) presented readers with his suggestions on how New College in Sarasota, Florida, could make headway revamping what has become a progressive hotbed of “wokism lunacy.” In an attempt to politically restructure the small, politically left-wing school, Governor Ron DeSantis appointed six new board members to New […]
Oh Yes! It Can Get Worse
So, you thought it couldn’t get any worse in California? Think again, buddy. Guess who is running for the Senate? As much as it pains Cockburn to do so, he’s the one breaking the loathsome news in Spectator: Representative Adam Schiff is launching a campaign, running to replace Dianne Feinstein’s seat in the US Senate in 2024. […]
“I Will Veto Everything They Send Me”
From Joe Biden In a speech to union activists in Springfield, VA, President Joe Biden said he would refuse even to negotiate spending reforms with House Republicans to secure an increase in the federal debt limit, Mr. Biden is now promising not to agree with them on any legislation at all. At first blush, acknowledges James […]
How to Fight Wokism Idiocy
Why even in Red states with Republican governing bodies is the worst Marxist and racial monoculture allowed to “fester and metastasize?” There seemingly has been little or no opposition. Adding to this malfeasance, wokism often comes with taxpayer funding. Fortunately, there is Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, writes the Manhattan Contrarian. On January 6, DeSantis announced […]
Don’t Believe ’em. They’re Coming for Your Gas Stove
Dictating what you drive, where you live, and how you cook: Consumer Product Safety Commission member Richard Trumka, Jr. claims, slippery or not, that “they” aren’t coming for your stove. But don’t believe it, Kimberley Strassel alerts readers in the WSJ. The reason gas stoves are in the news is simple: There is a coordinated, calculated—and […]
The Power of Words
When a Simple “I’m Sorry” Works Recently a WSJ writer lost both her parents. Megan Cox Gurdon, an author, is an only child who now finds herself an orphan in midlife. With her parents’ deaths, also gone are her childhood memories and “the remembered archives” of her parents’ marriage,” she mourns. Until my parents died, […]
US Debt Now Exceeds Annual GDP?
Driving on the Wrong Side of the Street Can you name one person who has supported has supported massive government expansion even during the brief period when that person was not occupying federal office? Well, James Freeman can. In the WSJ, Mr. Freeman reports that the person has occupied senior federal office for all but four […]
How the Biden Administration Is Destroying Our Energy Infrastructure
Foot Soldiers for Leftist Orthodoxy The Manhattan Contrarian is currently involved in a legal case in which Francis Menton’s client seeks to compel EPA to reconsider and revoke the 2009 action by which the agency claimed to determine that CO2 and other “greenhouse gases” constitute a “danger to human health and welfare.” “That agency action […]
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