Archive for March, 2026
“[This] announcement continues to build on the department’s promise to streamline federal education functions and cut red tape.” — Madison Marino Doan and Jonathan Butcher, The Heritage Foundation A little over a year ago, President Trump issued an executive order calling for the end of the U.S. Dept. of Education, which has existed only since […]
“Rent control is not only increasingly futile, but increasingly destructive the more severe it is, and the longer it remains in effect.” — Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson As the new mayor of New York City, one of the several, ill-conceived campaign promises Zohran Mamdani will try to fulfill is rent-control “for all tenants […]
There is so much negative news out there, including in-fighting among politicians that are supposedly “on the same side”. President Trump is, of course, the subject of much of the complaints and controversy. But, instead of going that direction myself, I decided to post a reminder of some positive things that Trump accomplished in 2025. […]
“There are reasons to question whether authorities are telling us the truth. Doing so does not make you a conspiracy theorist. But abandoning truth and reason does.” — O. Alan Noble, Dispatch Faith The Dispatch newsletters are, I admit, not exactly my favorites. I often disagree with their takes on socio-political matters, or at least […]
This is my second blogpost excerpting from Henry Hazlitt’s modern classic, Economics in One Lesson. The topic, which followed shortly after that which I cited last time, is one that should be familiar to anyone with at least a smattering of reading in, or a lecture on, basic economics, regardless of which school of thought […]