(ThyBlackMan.com) With less than two weeks until the midterm elections, things look bad for President Donald Trump’s Republican Party. Generic polls show significant movement away from Republicans and toward Democrats since Trump defeated former Vice President Kamala Harris by 50% to 48% two years ago. Republicans seem doomed to lose ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) French economist Gabriel Zucman has come to California bearing a familiar French solution to a fiscal problem: another tax. Once based at the University of California, Berkeley, Zucman is back and campaigning for Proposition 40, which would impose an allegedly one-time five percent tax on the net worth of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What is troubling about the unrest spreading across Europe is not that people are taking to the streets. Protest is a legitimate part of democratic life. People have the right to object when fuel becomes unaffordable, schools deteriorate, public services fail, and housing slips beyond reach. Governments should hear those ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Sports columnists and other talking heads went into overdrive explaining why the Los Angeles Dodgers, the unquestionable best team in Major League Baseball, failed to win a third consecutive World Series. If they had advanced from the National League championship round and then beat the American League champion the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Arguments over immigration can be smart or misguided, but they are always complicated. Let’s start with an annoying one. Donald Trump’s ramp-up of immigration arrests has hit the construction industry, much of whose labor force is undocumented. Employers of such workers are blaming the raids for the rising cost ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.” — Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) The U.S. Constitution was ratified to create and to restrain the government. It established boundaries beyond which the government may not venture, even when it invokes national security, public order, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A family in Ohio has worked hard and sacrificed for three generations to keep their small-town grocery store in business, serving a community they live in and love. A billionaire in California who invests some of his money in the movie industry lives in a beachside mansion in Malibu. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Why on earth did Ford stop making its heralded electric truck? As Americans shudder at high gasoline prices, prospective truck buyers are lining up at car lots to buy used F-150 Lightning and other electric vehicles. Ford stopped making the F-150 Lightning last December. There are several reasons American ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Watch the man long enough and you notice something quiet underway. Barack Obama walked out of that big White House back in 2017, and plenty figured the arena was finished with him. Retirement suits some people fine. Golf, travel, a memoir that prints money. Everybody assumed #44 would settle ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) October 14th is the shared birthday of George Floyd and Charlie Kirk. There are those who venomously argue that it is the only thing that the two men share. Both men died prematurely. Then again everyone dies prematurely regardless of their age to those who truly care about the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Investigating a bank for following the government’s own rules to create paths to address longstanding discrimination in lending is an abuse of the agency’s investigative authority and a transparent attempt to scare every lender in the nation away from their legal obligation to serve underserved communities.” — Nikitra Bailey, executive ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The November midterm vote will be shaped less by party slogans than by the judgments voters make about their daily lives: whether prices feel manageable, whether their communities feel safe, and whether Washington is listening. Neither party can assume that frustration with its opponent automatically amounts to trust in ...