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 […]
The Sound of Silence
In his recent podcast, Charles. C.W. Cooke, senior writer at NRO, discusses the case of Ivan Provorov, the Philidelphia Flyers defenseman. Provorov quietly refused to take a pre-game skate in the team’s LGBTQ+ warmup jersey, claiming his wanting “to stay true to myself and my religion” (Russian Orthodox). From Provorov: “I respect everyone. I respect […]
“No, Not Through Me.”
“No, Not Through Me.”… Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn In 2008 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the outspoken critic of Soviet oppression, died at age 88. The words in the above title, he uttered long ago. In an article about Utah’s Sundance Film Festival, Gary Geipel, a communications consultant and writer based in Indianapolis, writes that he started watching Sundance’s offerings […]
The Burden of U.S. Bureaucracy
Why do the costs of building a new computer chip fabrication plant in Arizona seem to be so much higher than in, for example, Taiwan? According to James Freeman in the WSJ: From a CQ-Roll Call transcript with Taiwan Semiconductor CFO Wendell Huang: Let me share with you this. The Arizona fab. We make the decision […]
Give Me Clean, Efficient Gas
Natural Gas Now a Badge of Freedom Will this year mark the Great Gas Stove Rebellion of 2023? It probably won’t resonate with future generations of freedom-loving folk the way the Boston Tea Party does, predicts Gerard Baker in the WSJ. Who Comes Up with This Stuff? It’s unlikely that the plucky protagonists in the […]
Social Justice Fails Black Kids
“Schools Serve as a Prison Pipeline” Gavin Newsom is about to begin his 2nd term as governor of California. After a ”painstakingly choreographed” inauguration, Newsom is looking to discharge a gaggle of new laws that will expand government power and limit freedom, reports (in NRO) Will Swaim, president of California Policy Center. Among Gavin Newsom’s […]
Martin Luther King’s Leadership, Moral Imagination, Strategic Genius
“It is one of the enduring mysteries of American history—so near-providential as to give the most hardened atheist pause—that it should have produced, at every hinge point, great men who matched the moment,” begins Charles Krauthammer’s essay “Martin Luther King in Words and Stone” in Krauthhammer’s Things That Matter. A roiling, revolutionary 18th-century British colony […]
NOTAMs Not Inclusive Enough
Why Did Southwest Air Receive Billions from the Biden Administration? The FAA’s computer failure this week exacerbated an already chaotic travel system. It resulted in the largest flight grounding since 9/11. According to the AP, the rare and alarming breakdown showed how much American air travel depends on the computer system that generates alerts called […]
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