Mine, Baby, Mine – Right Here in the USA!
President Trump’s Executive Orders have ended U.S. participation in the Green New Deal and Paris climate treaty. He’s also terminated mandates, programs and subsidies that would have changed our...
View ArticleThe Climate has Changed on Climate Change
Like the Marxist dialectic, or the predictions of the Gospels, the green movement has long seen its triumph as preordained. Yet sometimes the inevitable turns out to be not so.Over the past few years...
View ArticleThe Middle Class and Striver Divide
One of the important distinctions to understand in our society is between the middle class and the striver class.Being middle class is about building a life. It's primarily about the material elements...
View ArticleThe Massachusetts Backlash Against Forced Housing
The Town of Needham is a picture-perfect Boston suburb on the Charles River, replete with a classic downtown main street with a coffee shop, a commuter rail line to the city and old New England...
View ArticleCalifornia Tyranny, Part 2
Lawmakers in Sacramento recently upped the ante in their ongoing assault on local democracy in the Golden State. Earlier this year State Senator Scott Wiener (D–San Francisco) introduced a bill called...
View ArticleDoes Gavin Newsom Believe In Anything?
Gavin Newsom’s new podcast reveals not only a media-savvy politico seeking more exposure to a bigger audience. It also reflects a concerted drive by the onetime self-anointed leader of the #Resistance...
View ArticleThe Geography of Generative AI
A couple weeks ago, I purchased a new laptop. The laptop has Microsoft Copilot, the Microsoft AI tool launched in 2023. For kicks I thought I’d try it out. I asked Copilot to provide me with a draft on...
View ArticleIgnore the Bluster — Donald Trump is Not an Imperialist
US president Donald Trump’s MAGA brand of foreign policy has been treated with contempt and consternation by much of the world. He has incited the ire of neoliberal theorists like Francis Fukuyama, as...
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A Pro Family Housing Agenda
There is considerable concern about housing affordability in the United States. Housing is the most expensive element of the cost of living, which makes it an important issue to both households and...
View ArticleBlue States Could Be Biggest Beneficiaries of Trump’s Policies
Donald Trump is unlikely to win a popularity contest or an election in America’s deepest blue states. But, ironically, his administration could prove a long term boon to these places, where...
View ArticleFix the Subways in Hours?
Donald Trump famously said he could end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, yet the war is still raging more than two months after he took office. In the same way, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy...
View ArticleCalifornia's Population Bump Won't Make Up for Its Long-term Slide
When the U.S. Census Bureau recently revealed a small increase in California’s population, it came as a welcome sign to some that the state was growing again. The data even showed a slightly reduced...
View ArticleCoal Coal Baby
Net zero and decarbonization pledges are a dime a dozen.Earlier this month, the Australian government released an update to its “Net Zero in Government Operations Annual Progress Report.” The 65-page...
View ArticleClimate Change Is Driving California’s Golden Road to Decline: Part 1
This is the first of two essays on issues facing California.“From the Beginning, California promised much. While yet barely a name on the map, it entered American awareness as a symbol of renewal. It...
View ArticleWays Out of California's Forest of Problems: Part 2
The second of two reported essays on the issues facing California. Read the first installment here.California’s wide range of problems – including declining schools, widening inequality, rising housing...
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