Happy Thanksgiving All
From Ms BWR and Wolf, have a Happy Capitalist Thanksgiving
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Tag: Capitalism
2020 & the Great Convergence II: The Coming Storm (Updated)
The progressives will not accept a Trump victory in November, thus ending an unbroken history of 232 years of peaceful transfer of power in our nation dating to when the Constitution was adopted in 1788. Seemingly the only question is how progressives will attempt to end Trump’s tenure if their
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Visions of America: videos from both left and right
There are several fascinating videos out there, so I thought I’d dedicate this post to them, along with a little moralizing of my own. First, Trump handles with incredible grace a question that only a hack pretending to be a reporter would ever ask: These Trump press conferences produce material
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Shopping in the 21st century at Walmart and Lowe’s
Once upon a time, we Americans would walk boldly into a Walmart or Lowe’s, grab a shopping cart, troll the aisles getting whatever we could need or want, and then head to the cash register, to stand packed in line with myriad other people to checkout. Those days seem like
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The 1619 Project: Scholarship Or Race Hustling? (Updated)
In addition to being an obvious effort to sow racial discord in America, the 1619 Project is based upon false, shoddy, and uninformed “scholarship.” Let’s take a deeper dive than I did yesterday into the evil of Project 1619. Let’s take a look at the work of two academics who
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A quartet of fascinating, informative PragerU videos
I’m never disappointed with PragerU videos. They consistently and intelligently distill important, complex ideas into interesting, short, accessible videos. Here is a quartet of excellent PragerU videos on such fascinating subjects as healthcare, tyrannical transparency, capitalism’s virtues, and organic foods’ costs. They’re all typical PragerU products: informative, understandable, and interesting.
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The Bookworm Beat 10/11/16 — the “election and culture” edition and open thread
I have a hefty batch of links related to the election and the culture wars raging in America. I’ll try to write just enough to pique your interest so that you follow those links or watch the videos: The reason the Left opposes photo ID for voting. James O’Keefe, who is
Continue readingThe Bookworm Beat 4/6/16 — the “speed blogging” edition and open thread
If there were a speed-blogging competition, my goal would be to win it with this round-up post. I’d meant to blog at length and at leisure today, but life caught up, including a glitch with the bank, which lost the signatures that would enable me to liquidate my mother’s trust.
Continue readingYosemite teaches life lessons about market freedom
I’m baaack! We returned from our weekend trip to Yosemite late last night. Having disposed of the four loads of laundry the family managed to generate with three days of travel and two days of hiking, I’m ready to blog — and what I want to blog about is the
Continue readingSerious stupidity from our friends on the Left
I wasn’t able to blog yesterday, but I was paying attention. That’s how I caught two examples of the truly irritating levels of ignorance that characterize those on the Left. The first thing that struck me was an advertisement running (ironically enough) on Truth Revolt: Of course climate change is real, you dodos. It’s been
Continue readingI don’t like Bernie because he’s a socialist
[92,000 104,000 116,000 121,000 130,000 142,000 160,000 people and counting. I must have hit a nerve here…. Welcome to all of you, even the trolls (of whom there are many, and yes, dear trolls, I am ignoring you in the comments section).] My older Little Bookworm can vote in the
Continue readingA retirement home offers a painful reminder about monopolies’ negative effects on consumers
Yesterday, I attended a meeting at my mother’s retirement community and got a very good reminder about why monopolies are bad for consumers. Without breaching privacy, I can tell you this: the retirement community is one in which residents pay a significant buy-in fee, which they are told is applied
Continue readingThieving monkeys and government corruption
One of my friends posted a very cute video on Facebook. If you can’t get the video to work, what you would see if you watched it is some clever monkeys in a Japanese tourist area. Rather than stealing people’s food, they instead steal people’s glasses, hats, flip-flops, and even their
Continue readingGuns don’t kill people — but government will kill business
It’s worth reading this article, about the Obama government’s attack on Bucky Balls and their owner, in conjunction with this letter to the editor (especially in conjunction with the last sentence:
Continue readingNailing the heart of Benghazi
I wrote a lovely post, right here, last night. Cheerfully hit the “publish” button and went to bed — only to wake up this morning to discover that the post not only didn’t get published, it vanished entirely. I’m not sure I can replicate it, but I’ll try. The point
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