- Memorial Day - Including the Remembrance the USS Mount Hood
- Evert’s Electables
- American Lawfare in New York
- Timmons's Condescending Remarks of a Children's Christian Ministry
- Democrat Party Holds America Captive
- Are SC State Legislators Spying on Its Citizens?
- Are the Dark Ages Returning?
- Evert’s Electables - June 25th, 2024 Republican Primary Runoff
- Evert’s Electables Republican Primary - June 11, 2024
- County Council Candidate’s Shady Practices and Dark Money Ties
- 'Better Greenville' Dark Money Supports Both Republicans and Liberal Democrats
- The Times Examiner Endorses Steve Shaw for Greenville County Council
- The Assassination of Donald Trump and The Revenge of MAGA
- John Winthrop’s Great Hope, Exhortation, and Warning
- Cuban Missile Crisis II
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The Gambling Industry Wants to Make Fantasy Sports Leagues Illegal
- By Stephen Moore
Here's a sad and textbook case of how companies all too often use the strong-arm of government to destroy their competition.
The online gambling industry in America spent years and years fighting against the powerful Las Vegas casinos to make online sports betting legal in the states. They won a historic Supreme Court case in 2018 that struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, a federal ban on sports betting throughout the United States.
The court recognized this law as a protectionist racket -- and, for better or worse, almost overnight the floodgates were opened in most states for legalized online sports betting.
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The REAL Story of the Two Americas
- By Stephen Moore
For the past 30 years or so, the Left has invented a narrative that there are two Americas: a group of very super-rich people (the one-percenters) who have prospered over the past several decades, and everyone else who has gotten poorer. It's a fairy-tale narrative because almost all Americans have seen financial progress. The median household income adjusted for inflation rose by more than 40% since 1984.
Prosperity isn't an "us vs. them" zero-sum game. A rising tide really does lift all boats.
But there really are two Americas today. First, there are the cultural and overeducated snobs -- the kind of people who religiously read The New York Times, drive electric vehicles, wear Harvard or Yale sweaters, and have never even heard of NASCAR or eaten at Popeyes or ridden a John Deere tractor.
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New Bank Regulations Will Hurt Small Businesses and Middle-Class Borrowers the Most
- By Stephen Moore
The rapid succession of bank failures last spring clearly spooked federal regulators at the FDIC, the Federal Reserve Board and bank depositors. The bad decision-making at Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and First Republic Bank caused the regulators to implement emergency life preserver measures to banks and conjured up memories of the 2008 financial crisis.
But as the saying goes, in Washington a crisis is always a terrible thing to waste, and so we are seeing a reflexive response for more government intervention. No surprise that Senate Democrats immediately pounced into action, calling on federal regulators to add another layer of rules including a complex increase in capital requirements on the U.S. banking system. Reacting quickly, the Federal Reserve, with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the FDIC, released a joint proposal for the U.S. implementation of the "Basel III regulatory framework." These are complex rules, but in a nutshell, these rules would increase the amount of money that banks hold in reserve by 25%.
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Blue States Just Can't Stop Taxing
- By Stephen Moore
The latest Census Bureau data on population changes in America should have been a wake-up call to lawmakers in blue states and cities. The Census data provide even further evidence that "soak the rich" tax policies have incited a blue-state meltdown.
California, New York and Illinois all lost the most population last year. These states have nearly lost a combined 5 million people over the last decade. California and New York could both lose another three congressional seats by the end of the decade, and Illinois another two.
Did I mention that these are the three states with the highest taxes?
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The Tyranny of the Phillips Curve
- By Stephen Moore
Repeat after me, class: Growth does NOT cause inflation. Write it on the blackboard 100 times.
For decades, the economics profession has been trying to tell us all just the opposite. They keep shoveling out the dumbest economic concept of all time: the Phillips Curve. This was the lame-brained "theory" by neo-Keynesian economists of the 1960s and 1970s that to slow inflation, the Federal Reserve needs to raise unemployment and slow down economic growth.
The whole concept of an inverse relationship between unemployment and inflation blew up when it was put into practice in the mid-1970s and the result was rising inflation AND rising unemployment. Then in the 1980s and '90s, with free-market supply-side policies in place, we had low inflation and low unemployment.
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Why Does Washington Want to Destroy America's 'Magnificent 7'?
- By Stephen Moore
Nothing exemplifies America's tech industry dominance in the global economy more than the meteoric rise of what is now being called the "Magnificent Seven" stocks -- Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla. These companies single-handedly account for nearly all the gains in the stock market this year. They -- which is to say we as American shareholders who own them -- have a net worth of nearly $10 trillion.
Think about it. None of these gazelles are Japanese, German or Chinese. All seven are American companies. They are globally dominant. They are innovators nearly unrivaled in human history. Amazingly, you would think their best years are behind them, like an aging baseball player. No. They are getting stronger, not weaker.
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Green Groups Are No Longer Promoting a Cleaner Environment
- By Stephen Moore
The late, great humorist P.J. O'Rourke used to quip that everyone wants to save the world, but no one wants to wash the dishes.
Well, now that can be said for traditional environmental groups that seem to have lost their way.
Green groups are supposed to be about keeping our rivers, lakes and streams clean. They are supposed to be about fighting litter and keeping toxic chemicals out of the air. Their job is to maintain the beauty of our national parks and save elephants and tigers.
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- Dems Have Now Officially Rejected President John F. Kennedy's Legacy
- Will New York Politicians Tax Wall Street Out of Existence?
- The Nat Cons Are Dead Wrong: Middle-Class America Is Much Better Off Today Than in the Past
- When Will Politicians Learn Banning Cigarettes Will Never Work?
- The Great 'Green Energy Transition' That Wasn't
- America's Top National Security Threat Is Our Runaway Debt
- Our Public Schools Are a National Disaster
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