“Presidents don’t control energy prices!” Currently, that’s one of the arguments being put forward by Democrats in defense of Pres. Joe Biden. Republicans have made…
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President Joe Biden’s first year in office was not so good. Our collective 2021 was arguably very bad, indeed. Data, as well as political and…
Public and private failures have struck both California’s and Texas’ power grids in recent years. Why is this? Is this a failure of the marketplace,…
Do “Hero Wage” laws during the coronavirus pandemic lead to supermarket closures? The short answer is, “Rarely.” That still doesn’t make such laws good policy.…
The concept of a minimum wage troubles me. Many nations do well without mandated minimum wages, while others do well with complex minimum wage systems.…
Voting for Joe Biden isn’t something I take lightly. It is the right thing to do, faced with the potential of another four years with…
The emergency aid was $2 trillion dollars. “We had to pass it.” It was named the CARES Act, Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act.…
With Bernie Sanders leading the Democratic presidential nomination race according to polls (and the first primary), there’s a set of questions voters should be asking:…
If we the people have to pay for your healthcare, your education, and any number of other “shared” responsibilities, than we (or our representatives) can…
For much of March and April, I’ve been fighting with technology… and losing. We rely a lot on the reliability (catch the wordplay?) of various…