The Lighthouse®
Classified papers? Election denialism? Destroying evidence? Lying and perjury? The Left has crafted one set of laws for itself and another for everybody else. And nothing less than the constitutional foundations of the United States are at stake.
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Naomi R. Wolf (Substack)
Try disengaging from Indictment jubilation in Deep Blue America. If you express the worry that future Presidents may now routinely try to indict their political opponents...if you recall how
Al Gore’s team contested the election results in 2000...you’ll be guilty of a thought crime and cast into social outer darkness. Even if you were a member of Team Gore.
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Edward Fuller ( The Beacon)
Since it passed over Oppenheimer’s formative years, the film did fully not reveal his misanthropy and his unbridled arrogance. In fact, Nolan’s film version whitewashes the poisoned apple incident— which was the watershed event that put Oppenheimer on the path to building the atomic bomb.
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John C. Goodman (Forbes)
An MIT economist now says that the best healthcare systems in the world are the ones in Singapore, Australia, Israel, and Switzerland—all market-based. Independently, a conservative Republican has just introduced a bill that would go a long way toward implementing those MIT ideas. What’s going on here?
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Christopher J. Calton (San Francisco Chronicle)
Corruption in San Francisco involving bribery for building-permits? Regrettable—but the underlying problem is not unethical bureaucrats. Try a regulatory environment so extreme that you can wait, on average, 627 days for a construction permit. Yes, it’s time to make America’s most beautiful city more so by some heavy deregulation.
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Volume 26, Issue 33: August 8, 2023
Victor Davis Hanson (American Greatness)
Classified papers? Election denialism? Destroying evidence? Lying and perjury? The Left has crafted one set of laws for itself and another for everybody else. And nothing less than the constitutional foundations of the United States are at stake.
READ MORE »Naomi R. Wolf (Substack)
Try disengaging from Indictment jubilation in Deep Blue America. If you express the worry that future Presidents may now routinely try to indict their political opponents...if you recall how
Al Gore’s team contested the election results in 2000...you’ll be guilty of a thought crime and cast into social outer darkness. Even if you were a member of Team Gore.
READ MORE »Edward Fuller ( The Beacon)
Since it passed over Oppenheimer’s formative years, the film did fully not reveal his misanthropy and his unbridled arrogance. In fact, Nolan’s film version whitewashes the poisoned apple incident— which was the watershed event that put Oppenheimer on the path to building the atomic bomb.
READ MORE »
In Search of Monsters to Destroy
The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to Peace
The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to Peace
By Christopher J. Coyne
John C. Goodman (Forbes)
An MIT economist now says that the best healthcare systems in the world are the ones in Singapore, Australia, Israel, and Switzerland—all market-based. Independently, a conservative Republican has just introduced a bill that would go a long way toward implementing those MIT ideas. What’s going on here?
READ MORE »
Christopher J. Calton (San Francisco Chronicle)
Corruption in San Francisco involving bribery for building-permits? Regrettable—but the underlying problem is not unethical bureaucrats. Try a regulatory environment so extreme that you can wait, on average, 627 days for a construction permit. Yes, it’s time to make America’s most beautiful city more so by some heavy deregulation.
READ MORE »
How to Restore the California Dream
Removing Obstacles to Fast and Affordable Housing Development
Removing Obstacles to Fast and Affordable Housing Development
By Lawrence J. McQuillan
The Beacon: New Blog Posts
- The Waste of Federal Government Office Space, by Craig Eyermann
- The Lehman Trilogy, by Alvaro Vargas Llosa
- U.S. Government’s Credit Rating Takes a Hit, by Craig Eyermann
Catalyst: New Articles
- Japan’s Oldest Reactor Reaches Criticality Once Again, by Paige Lambermont
- The Emergent Urbanism Of Nairobi, by Scott Beyer
- Taylor Swift Faces Political Pressure Amidst Eras Tour, by K. Lloyd Billingsley
