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Today’s Politically Incorrect Lump Under the Rug

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We are told men and women are equal. This is not only preposterous, but obviously preposterous. Yet we pretend otherwise, for the sake of social conformity - which is becoming not...

Chinese Take Out…

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It’s funny - or sad, depending on your point of view. America car companies are downsizing and U-hauling operations to China as fast as they can . . . at the same...

The Moral Politician

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A reader laments that "moral politicians" haven't got much chance of getting elected in this country. A "moral politician"? Isn't that like a peaceful mugging? I agree with H.L. Mencken, who wrote that...

GM’s Job Cuts – More Than Back in ’08

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Here's something interesting that hasn't been much talked about - if at all: The massive layoffs GM announced this fall - about 15,000 people - is more massive and more people than...

Going Galt … on Wheels

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Lenin, the mass-murdering father of modern practical authoritarian collectivism, wrote about what it is to be done? I have a better idea. How about what we each can do - on our...

The Mobile Space Heater

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Have you ever run an electric space heater in a room with no other source of heat - when the air temperature is say minus 10 (or lower) as it is...

The $70 Million “Investment”

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Electric cars continue to cost lots of money - contrary to the now-forgotten original point of the exercise, which was once upon a time to find a lower-cost alternative to gas-powered...

They Can’t Drive . . . 50

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It’s not just obnoxiously high fuel taxes the French are rioting over. It’s also obnoxiously low speed limits. Last year, the government of Emmanuel Macron decreed the equivalent of America’s ’70s-era Drive...

The Double-Batteried Electric Polecat

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The Electric Dementia continues to wax, the latest evidence of which is Volvo’s announcement about its Polestar performance car arm becoming its electrified performance  arm. Hold up there, chief. Weren’t electric cars supposed...

Ghosn is Gone – Undeservedly

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Nissan/Renault honcho Carlos Ghosn (pronounced "gon") is gone. He has agreed to resign as chairman and CEO of the Japanese-French car conglomerate - apparently from his room at the Hotel Graybar...
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