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Demographics of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine
In his article of last summer “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians”, Vladimir Putin wrote the following:“But the fact is that the situation in Ukraine today is completely different...
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Foreign Threats Demand a Muscular Domestic Response
With our natural resources, our productive capacity, and the genius of our people for mass production we will...outstrip the Axis powers in munitions of war.Franklin Roosevelt, Message to Congress, Jun...
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California's SB9 Housing Bill Starting To Sound Like Prop 13
That rumbling you hear in the residential real estate market is SB9—either a silver bullet or a boogeyman, depending on where you stand.Senate Bill 9 is the latest law with the potential to reshape...
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“ESG” efforts to rid the world of fossil fuels will drive humanity back to...
Today, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) divesting in fossil fuels are all the rage on Wall Street these days to divest in all 3 fossil fuels of coal, natural gas, and crude oil, just to...
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The Coming Bloodbath of the Democrats
The depression-era comedian Will Rogers once famously said he did not belong to an organised political party because he was a Democrat. Yet today the traditional factiousness of the Democratic...
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Gas Prices and Transit
While no Americans are happy about the “special military operation” in Ukraine, transit agencies and advocates are positively giddy about the effect of that operation on gas prices. Despite all their...
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Census 2021 Estimates: Increased Dispersion
According to the US Census Bureau, the year ended July 1, 2021, grew the slowest of any year on record. The driving factor was the Covid-19 pandemic, which increased morbidity and substantially reduced...
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The Biggest Cities Are Past Their Prime
As the centers of media and political discourse, large cities, notably New York, have a unique ability to promote themselves, asserting that dense, core urban areas own the future. Yet in reality, even...
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With F-150 Lightning, Ford Makes Industrial History — Again — at ‘The Rouge’
Ford is rapidly laying down the path to the future of the automobile, but in a strange way the new journey is wrapped in its past. That makes for a striking contrast — and promise — in Ford’s...
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Urbanists: "Fundamentally Misaligned"
The story I’m writing today is very different from the one I started out to write.The single issue that seems to drive debate in urbanist circles is our nation’s housing crisis. Urbanists of all types...
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The Most Dangerous Class
Twenty-first-century America may be dominated by oligarchic elites, but arguably the biggest threat to our economic and political system might be located further down the food chain. This most...
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Oversupply of EV's from Foreign Manufacturers and Lack of Demand May Be...
Until the current elite owners can demonstrate to the middle-income and those on fixed incomes that their EV’s are their primary family workhorse vehicles, and a solution to shipping potentially...
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Farmer Craig Hits an Oily Patch
For years I’ve bought the majority of my meat and eggs from a farm family north of the city. Every two months Farmer Craig drives down in a refrigerated van and I fill my freezers with lamb, poultry,...
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Americans Do Not Want to Return to Urban Living
The Census Bureau recently released data on domestic migration that took place during the COVID-19 pandemic, and their findings were heavily covered in the press with headlines such as “Cities Lost...
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Saving America from Planet-Threatening Fossil Fuels?
Presidential candidate Joe Biden repeatedly promised to end fossil fuels in America. There’ll be “no more drilling, including offshore,” he said. “No ability for the oil industry to drill. No more...
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When the Arc of History Bends Back Toward the Dark Ages
The notion that “the arc of history” favors humanity extends across the political spectrum from George W. Bush to Barack Obama. Yet rather than facing the dawn of a progressive future, we may be...
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Huge Spike in Domestic Migration from Urban Cores
Net domestic migration losses spiked perhaps as never before in the pandemic year of 2021 among urban core counties --- the counties that contain the urban cores (Note 1). This article reviews net...
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We Told You So: On Trade, the Working Class Was Right
It seems impolite to say “we told you so,” but the working class and labor unions were so unjustly maligned more than two decades ago—when they fought the push to expand unfettered global trade—that it...
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For Texans and Australians It's Breezes and Sunshine, Or No Grid At All
The Texans’ Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), and Australians are constantly being blown away with the growing “nameplate” capacity of wind turbines and solar panels to provide...
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The Metaverse Isn't Real Yet But It's Already Really Lucrative
In a society that seems addicted to the “new, new thing,” it is easy to pass off talk about the “metaverse” as classic techie hype. It’s not that or, at least, it’s about to be and is already becoming...
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