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Coronavirus dashboard: five years on

 – by New Deal democrat Covd-19 has now been with us for over five years. The first reliable statistics started to be kept at the end of March 2020. On Friday the CDC issued the final update for deaths ending the week of March 29, 2025, which means we now have five full years of documentation. […]

Alien Enemies Act has triggered memories

Relocation Officer William Husso checks departure list at the Gila River Relocation Center in Rivers, Arizona, on Sept. 15, 1945, as evacuees returned to their former homes in California. (War Relocation Authority photo from the National Archives) “President Trump’s rare use of the Alien Enemies Act triggering memories of the country’s dark chapter of Japanese […]

For everything there is a season 

Positing that the purpose of an economy is to produce and equitably distribute the requisite goods and services for a given societal unit, that the purpose of government is to provide a societal unit essential services including a well functioning economy, that no form of either is ordained, that it is neither the duty nor […]

The consequences of China Banning the Export of Rare Metals

“A large, slow-moving gun fired at the economy and the bullet is still in the air”  – by New Deal democrat A poster named Micah on Bluesky has written “the China tariffs were a large, slow-moving gun fired at the economy and the bullet is still in the air” By this, he is referring to the […]

Trump administration is a fresh onslaught against democracy

Joyce Vance of Civil Discourse to which I subscribe to directed us to The Contrarian where she joins Julie Zebrak, Bri Murphy, and Joshua Kolb to write. The topic? A new and fresh Trump administration onslaught against democracy. The characteristics of which are throwing as much garbage into the air so as to confuse the […]

“Maintaining Acceptable Water Pressure in Showerheads”

“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” Bob Dylan ~~~~~~~ Then, there was the White House’s new Executive Order on Wednesday concerning, of all things, “Maintaining Acceptable Water Pressure in Showerheads.” While that may sound like an Onion headline, the Order included the following clause: “Notice and comment is unnecessary because I am ordering […]

April 9, 2025 (Wednesday)

Subscribe to Prof. Heather’s Letters from an American. It was the first site in which I did so. There is a parallel to what was taking place after the Civil War and what is taking place today. Letters from An American On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia […]

Daily T—-p tariff recession watch

As outlined in Monday’s report, NDd will cover the impact of a tariff caused recession in his daily reports. Daily T—-p tariff recession watch: no evidence of hard data deterioration to start  – by New Deal democrat Are the T—-p tariffs quickly putting the US into a recession?  As I wrote yesterday, there are two daily […]

Trump is worse than al Qaeda

A consequence of the 9/11 attacks was that the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ were shut down for a week. “When trading resumed that week of September 17, 2001 . . . over the following five days, the Dow Jones average decreased more than 14%, the S&P 500 tumbled 11.6% and Nasdaq fell […]