Category Archives: Politics

The State of Play

Posted on September 26, 2021 by Joe Benning

There are plenty of things to rue about the Biden Administration. There is, for instance, old fashioned incompetence, an equal opportunity employer.  But the Administration’s slipping-on-a-banana-peel habit has become so routine that even its most enthusiastic defenders (AKA the press) … Continue reading →

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Corporate Welfare

Posted on September 14, 2021 by Joe Benning

Regulations are typically framed as necessities designed to protect consumers. Except that in reality they are often designed to protect existing businesses from competition, thus making consumers worse off. The video below produced by John Stossel provides a good look … Continue reading →

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James Earl Biden

Posted on August 29, 2021 by Joe Benning

With each passing day the magnitude of the U.S. defeat in Afghanistan is sinking in. In an attempt to reduce the domestic political damage, the Administration of James Earl Biden is furiously trying to reframe the discussion.  For instance, the … Continue reading →

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On Charter Schools

Posted on August 21, 2021 by Joe Benning

John Stossel recently produced a short video on charter schools. It is well worth watching. See below. JFB

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Culture Wars

Posted on July 20, 2021 by Joe Benning

One of the things that makes the culture wars so vicious is that the attack on Western culture is a thinly disguised attack on Western civilization posing as progress. The “right side of history” and all that mindless propaganda.  We … Continue reading →

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The Voting Rights Scam

Posted on July 14, 2021 by Joe Benning

Where to begin? Let’s start with President Joe Biden’s over-the-top rhetoric about Republican resistance to H.R.1, the constitutionally dubious “For the People” Act the House passed that among other things nationalizes elections. Its dubious constitutionality partly owes to Section 4 … Continue reading →

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The Road to Hell…

Posted on July 11, 2021 by Joe Benning

As we all know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. But it seems to be a lesson social planners never seem to learn. Ever. Here below is a YouTube video produced by Reason that illustrates just a … Continue reading →

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Helplessly Hoping Progressives

Posted on July 7, 2021 by Joe Benning

The absurdity of progressive politics is now on full display. Let us consider just two of the many inherently contradictory initiatives championed by the Biden-Schumer-Pelosi axis. What these initiatives share is the preposterous notion that a huge centralized bureaucracy is … Continue reading →

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Indicting The Trump Organization

Posted on July 2, 2021 by Joe Benning

In the matter of the indictment of both the Trump Organization and its CFO Allen Weisselberg, the Wall Street Journal reports that Mr. Weisselberg is charged with illegally avoiding taxes on $1.76 million he allegedly received in benefits over 15 … Continue reading →

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Progressive Good Crime

Posted on June 11, 2021 by Joe Benning

Coinciding with the Biden Administration’s push for higher taxes on wealthy individuals and a greatly expanded IRS, ProPublica published documents that purport to show private tax information of several high profile billionaires including Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg and … Continue reading →

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