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The Dial Is Stuck On The Opinion Polling Machine. It’s Time To Shake It.

July 24, 2020

No matter how much money is made, or how many people are fooled, the only real value any of these organizations have is their credibility. How many wrong predictions do pollsters have to make before they are ignored? How many lies do media outlets have to tell before no one believes them anymore?

A Values-Driven Entrepreneur Shares Ten Principles For Success In The Highly Competitive World Of Sports Content.

July 23, 2020

Jason has thought deeply about – and codified - his own values. He includes them in his personal profile on his entrepreneurial distribution platform, Outkick. He cites Booker T. Washington as one of his guides. The entrepreneurial life is a values-driven life.

The Three Major Reasons Why Representative Democracy Will Fail, And The Combined Solution.

July 22, 2020

The viability of meaningful political representation withers as the ratio of representatives to voters decreases. There are 435 members in the House of Representatives in a country of 328 million people. This means that each member “represents” an average of 755,000 people. How exactly does one person represent the federal legislative preferences of 755,000 diverse people?

Reliving We the Living – An Invitation to Live and Grow Together

July 21, 2020

Please reply to the link below if you would like an invitation to join the We the Living Study Group on Facebook, obtain a copy of the novel, and commit to reading it. The time frame is August through October - 13 weeks and about 3 chapters each week. We will consider the virtues, vices, and motivations of each character, and the ethical and political context of their actions.

Mask Theater Past And Present: The Medieval Antecedents Of Our Bizarre 21st Century Ritual.

July 20, 2020

The beak of the mask would be filled with herbs and spices that would produce pleasant smells, which were believed to protect the wearer from invisible “poisonous emanations” in the air, called “miasma,” which created harmful imbalances in a person’s “humors,” or bodily fluids.

The Progressive Left Promises Heaven And Delivers Hell. “Systemic Racism” Is The Perfect Excuse.

July 19, 2020

Citizens do not vote to get higher rates of poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, and crime. They vote for Leftists because they trust them to fulfill their promises to end these social ills through the implementation of “progressive” policies. When reality trumps their ideology and the Left inevitably fails, it needs a reason.

The SBA Claims To Have Saved More Jobs Than Ever Existed.

July 18, 2020

PPP loans – a.k.a. “Magic Beans” – are so effective that they saved more jobs than the total number of employees in at least 15 industries. Landscape architecture firms “retained 114,000 jobs — more than three times the number of people who worked in that sector in 2019,” the Washington Post reported.

Senseless And Counterproductive: Inspirational Latino Entrepreneur “Cancelled” By AOC And The Twitter Left.

July 17, 2020

It’s easy to point out how senseless and counterproductive this boycott is. Founded in 1936 by Mr. Unanue’s Spanish immigrant grandparents, the company is a living example of the American Dream. Mr. Unanue hopes his company’s story will inspire other Latino entrepreneurs. He was praised by Michelle Obama for Goya’s big role in her healthy-food initiative. None of it matters to AOC and her comrades.

A Central Issue For Our Times: Education For Children, Not Unions.

July 16, 2020

Sowell points out that for charter schools to succeed, they must please parents by educating students. Charters do not offer tenure to teachers, and therefore leaders and parents can demand high levels of performance from every teacher. Correct incentives enable charters to succeed, with teachers accountable to the parents and the school. Public schools have perverse incentives: parents often have no choice.

Facing A Mindless Assault on Capitalism, George Reisman Defends the Mother of All Poetic Justice

July 15, 2020

Scientific analysis shows that while each individual is always economically best off earning as much money as the freedom of competition allows him to earn, people are not better off when earnings increase as the result of government policies of creating money. Absent government money creation, lower GDP signifies increased wealth and human well-being.

These People Can Not be Trusted To Make Decisions On Our Behalf.

July 14, 2020

These People incessantly display utter ignorance of – or contempt for – basic economic realities. These People have done so for generations. Much of what These People say about economic matters is the economic equivalent of voodoo, and even more of what they do on the economic front is destructive.

The New “Type 2” Socialism Is No Less Lethal To Human Beings Than The Original “Type 1”.

July 13, 2020

Socialism with a capitalist veneer will be plagued with the same chaos that always afflicts plain-faced socialism. Socialism has been cataclysmically lethal wherever it has been tried, and will always be so: it will make no difference whether it emerges through nationalization or intervention.

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