Trump on the Couch
You have to laugh at politics or you’ll collapse in a corner and start babbling like Joe Biden. A recent comedy fest has been the book by President Trump’s niece, Mary Trump (MT), trashing him
Author: John Seiler
Guns and Riots
A Biden victory would mean our guns would be taken, leaving us to be devoured be the rioters and the terrorists.
You Are Living Fourth Generation Warfare
Fourth Generation War is non-state warfare. It’s when the state breaks down, or just becomes so weak it loses the monopoly of force.
Fake News Fakers
There’s nothing more self-righteously unctuous than high-level media figures blathering about their virtues. Here’s Andy Lack, chairman of NBC News and MSNBC, “Journalism is under attack from coronavirus and the White House. But we’re winning.”
Clueless, Cloroxed Liberals
It used to be the news media at least tried to be serious. Now they’re just stupid. The latest: President Trump supposedly said a cure might be injecting people with Lysol and other cleaners. No, he didn’t.
Nobel Laureate Stiglitz’ Humor Column
“Those on the Right have a strong belief in markets – and yet markets seem to be failing us, just when we need them most…. Society would like to have an excess supply of masks or ventilators just in case—in case we have an emergency like the current one. A well-functioning government would have stockpiled them, recognizing the risk of not having them in just such a circumstance as the one now confronting us.”
Thoughts on Churchless Easter 2020
A year ago I attended Midnight Mass at St. Michael’s Abbey of the Norbertine order in Silverado out here in Orange County. It began with a procession with candles, then continued with the beautiful liturgy going back many hundreds of years.
Why the Economy Should Recover Fast from Coronavirus Panic
On the economics of the coronavirus panic, scholars and editorialists commonly have compared it to the Great Depression, World War II, the Great Recession of a decade ago or some other event, but…the best comparison is what is ironically called “The Great Depression of 1946,” because there was no Great Depression, or even a small recession.
Ten Good Things to Come from the Virus Crisis
When Prohibition was imposed in America in the 1920s, G.K. Chesterton, himself a famous bibber, quipped it was a good thing because it would bring families together to make beer and wine at home. My late father, born in 1917, remembered helping his father make wine in their basement in Detroit. I don’t want to downplay whatever is overtaking America, medically and economically, from the coronavirus. I recently got a takeout burger at a restaurant in Costa Mesa. The manager said the day before he had to personally call 60 employees to “terminate” them, an unfortunate but necessary technical term...
The Economic Consequences of the Coronavirus
I generally have been supportive of President Trump’s economic policies. His tax cuts and regulation reductions have been crucial in sustaining prosperity. But he has made a couple of mistakes I have been meaning to write about. With the virus infecting the world, now is a good time.
