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Elon Musk's Party for Oligarchs

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Just what America doesn’t need – another party dominated, and this time even started, by oligarchs. SpaceX owner Elon Musk may be able to design rocket ships, but his understanding of politics and public opinion is below elementary-school level.  read more »

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The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, of Electric Vehicles

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Electric vehicles are being mandated in California, but Governor Newsom is oblivious to the fact that it’s just another product that cannot exist without oil  read more »

Under Zohran Mamdani, the Jewish Exodus from New York Likely to Accelerate

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Zohran Mamdani may represent the future of New York, but only by destroying the secrets of its past success. The city, even under the quasi-socialist mayor Fiorello La Guardia, has from its Dutch days been a fundamentally capitalist enterprise.  read more »

The Midwest Climate Critique is Bogus

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Every so often I see that someone makes the claim that people are leaving the Midwest because the weather sucks. That claim is bogus.  read more »

Homes for Hipsters

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More than his good looks, charm and great social-media game, the biggest reason that Zohran Mamdani may become New York’s next mayor grows from his focus on the city’s affordability crisis, most of which is tied to high housing prices.  read more »

Do Driverless Cars Hallucinate Electric Sheep?

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Waymo is operating driverless taxis in Los Angeles, Phoenix, and San Francisco, partnering with Uber in Atlanta and Austin, and expanding into Miami and Washington DC soon.  read more »

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Beware the New Eugenics

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Visionaries, dreamers, and autocrats have long dreamt of reshaping humanity to their preferred model.  read more »

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The Big Beautiful Bill Torpedoes Big Solar & Big Wind

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Last November, I published 10 can’t miss predictions about the presidential election. One of my predictions was that if Donald Trump won another term in the White House, he wouldn’t repeal the alt-energy subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act. I wrote:  read more »

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Carney's Canada Will Devolve into Feudalism

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Canada may have severed its feudal ties less violently, but like America, it experienced far less sustained aristocratic domination than either of its two mother countries, France and Great Britain.  read more »

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