Pensions are not insurance

A common motif on the American left is that Social Security is not an investment, it is insurance, as are pensions offered by the state to their employees. It sounds good, but it shows a deep misunderstanding of what insurance is. This mindset and lack of what insurance actually is probably also contributes to our …

End the modern Triangle Trade

Republicans complain about how we have an “open border” and how Biden needs to “deport thousands of illegals” among other things. This nonsense is going to increase in the lead-up to next year’s presidential election and is going to become nauseating. The reality is that the history of the drug war started in 1971 when …

How Tories keep winning in the UK

If you go deep into British politics, before the formation of the Labour Party in 1900, there was a regular switching of prime ministers from Whigs (known as the Liberal Party after 1859, and Liberal Democrats since 1988) representing the left wing of British Politics and the Tories (known as the Conservative Party since 1834). …

Updated Presidential rankings – 2022 edition

President Biden has turned his presidency around, I need to update this. Ranking of American Presidents I am only ranking Presidents who have served for at least 365 days. Lyndon Baines Johnson is ranked as the greatest president in history because of his efforts in combating poverty, his willingness to lead the country with his …

Brightline, is libertarian rail the future?

Brightline is stating that they will be able to expand service to Orlando next year. This will be the first time the rail operator has extended service outside of the Greater Miami Area. Libertarians and Republicans are looking at Brightline as a clear lesson of how the government is inefficient, bureaucratic, and messy, and how …

Safety precautions

It is interesting how the US will extend visas to NATO allies, violate human rights in our immigration prisons, and perform warrantless wiretaps, arguing that they keep this country safe, despite no evidence these actions keep us safe, and some evidence they actually make us less safe… But we absolutely refuse to mandate vaccines in …