MONTGOMERY COUNTY ROAD BOND PATCHWORK OF PORK
Friends in MoCo On Sat., May 9th, MoCo voters will go to the polls to decide whether or not they believe our leaders are giving us the best solution to our dire transportation/mobility needs around the county. (Early voting starts Mon. April 27th http://www.mctx.org/election/ But are the contents of the mega-loan a good,…
The Goal is to Keep Racial Grievances Alive Forever
Every revolution begins with lofty concerns but most often ends in violence, bloodshed, loss of freedom, and long-term despotism — from the French Revolution to the Cuban Revolution and every revolution in between and since (China and Venezuela). David Chilton writes the following in Part One of his review summary of James H. Billington’s Fire…
Rent Control: A History of Failure
14 Comments Governments can and do try to fix prices, but history tells us it never works. From the price-control dikats of the Roman Empire’s Diocletian , to the wage and price controls of President Richard Nixon, governments have tried and failed. The historian Edward Gibbon said the Roman Empire imploded owing to economic disasters…