The reason we don’t tax religions isn’t that we think they need to be subsidized. Rather, it’s that we don’t want what the Supreme Court (in its better days) deemed to be “excessive entanglement” between the church and state. The …
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Let’s Make Teaching as Unattractive a Profession As Possible
Virtually no response to the epidemic of school shootings, exposure to disease, greatly restricted methods of teaching and discipline, narrowed curricula, book bans, forced unpaid overtime, as well as lousy pay, have all teamed up to create a huge teacher …
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Tagged with: epidemic of school shootings
Why Are Americans So Sour on Biden?
The “receipt” here makes me wonder what Biden could possibly do to improve his dismal (40%) approval rating. As suggested by the falling gas prices and by the buoying of the Dow Jones, the market seems to believe we have …
Hawaii’s Last Shipment of Coal
Hawaii has said goodbye to coal, and will be doing its best to phase out oil, as an increasingly rich mix of renewables comes on line. From Governor David Ige: “This week Hawaii is receiving its final shipment of coal,” …
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A Problem that Requires an International Solution
Here’s a coincidence: I found the meme here, just minutes after hitting “publish” on my post on the new $700 billion spending package that passed the U.S. House of Representatives, containing $370 billion for climate and the environment. I wrote: …
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Tagged with: climate and the environment
Democrats Appear To Have Climate Bill Passed
An old school chum who went on to become a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown and I were talking about the coup attempt, during which I wrote: “I’ll never forget what you wrote in my yearbook: words to the …
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Xfinity Mobile: A Good Thing to Avoid
A reader asked me if I had tried Xfinity (Comcast) mobile. I wrote: I did. It was horrendous. He responded, Really. I am trying to get my bill down and assumed since they use Verizon towers it would be good. …
Tagged with: corporate greed and lying
Learning Adventures at Home Depot
Just getting back from Hawaii, visiting my aging mom. She asked me to run her by Home Depot to pick up a few succulents and some potting soil, which I didn’t mind doing even though I personally don’t spend a …
Tagged with: socioeconomics
Fox News: Prominent Conservatives Report Election Lost, Not Stolen
As reported by none other than Fox News, a group of prominent conservatives has published a 69-page report to the effect that the 2020 presidential election was “lost, not stolen.” It begins: As part of his post-election attempts to retain the …
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Inflation Is an International Issue
An old friend writes: This sign is at a fuel station in Greece. Those prices are Euros per liter; you do the math. Then stop complaining about fuel prices in the U.S. and, absolutely positively, stop blaming high fuel prices …
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