Sep 25, 2020
“The human costs of the emergency response to Covid-19 have vastly outweighed its benefits.”
So argue, backed by a vast amount of research, scholars Jay Richards, William Briggs, and Douglas Axe, authors of “The Price of Panic.”
For the first time in history, the world has shut itself down - by choice - for fear...
Sep 22, 2020
Talking with John Tamny about his upcoming book "When Politicians Panicked: The New Coronavirus, Expert Opinion, and a Tragic Lapse of Reason." His premise, and I agree, is that experts aren't the answer to crisis, they are the crisis. What was needed at the onset of the virus was leadership wise enough to let sensible...
Sep 15, 2020
Confused about what’s going on with the Post Office?
I am. So I asked my friend Brian McNicoll, who has written about the post office for many years and has a real feel for its economics and the politics, to clarify what’s going on.
In our conversation he tells me, “the Post Office has a monopoly on two things....
Sep 10, 2020
It’s Saturday in September and there’s no Big Ten football being played today.
But in a not-so-surprising reversal, just weeks after Kevin Warren, the Big Ten commissioner, pointedly said the decision not to play this year would “not be revisited”, they revisited.
They just announced that it will start up its...
Sep 2, 2020
Jean Shepard ("Shep"), the legendary 60’s and 70’s WOR NYC late nightradio show humorist and storyteller, romantically described the differences between what he considered to be "day people" and "night people.” Day people were conformists, night people were non-conformists, and he was proud to be one of them.
Well...