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Spreading Risk Does Not Mean Avoiding Risk.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Risk Is the Price of Staying in the Game A lot of people hear the phrase “spread your risk” and picture a strategy built around caution, retreat, or playing defense. But that is not really what diversification does. It does not remove uncertainty from life, investing, or even everyday ...

ICE Social Media Surveillance Threatens First Amendment Rights.

(ThyBlackMan.com) When a government agency comes to an internet service provider demanding information about Americans because of what they have said on social media, the provider should discard the demand, close the door or hang up the phone. The government is not entitled to rummage through the political opinions, associations, ...

Ro Khanna’s California Wealth Tax Plan Could Punish the Entrepreneurs Who Build Companies.

(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s an old saying: Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach. A similar idea underscores the debate over wealth taxes in California and elsewhere: Those who can, build companies. Those who can’t, devise ways for the government to take shares in what others have built. This new version ...

Reginald Foreman’s Murder and Black Violence in South Los Angeles.

(ThyBlackMan.com) You can’t find one negative word written and spoken about Reginald Foreman. Yet on August 6 he was shot dead in the Hyde Park area of South Los Angeles. Foreman was a community activist, violence prevention counselor, and a well-known and respected presence in South Los Angeles. His murder ...

Donald Trump’s Truth Social API Raises Questions About Power, Profit, and Early Access.

(ThyBlackMan.com) When Truth Social, President Donald Trump’s media mouthpiece, announced that it would be selling advance access to Trump’s posts, I thought they were kidding. I mean, have they no shame? When the announcement met with a round of criticism and Democratic demands that the SEC investigate, I figured they’d ...

Aging Politicians, Mitch McConnell and the Lesson of Knowing When to Step Aside.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Michael Jordan is arguably one of the best professional basketball players in NBA history. Among his many accomplishments during his illustrious career, Jordan was Rookie of the Year, five-time NBA MVP, six-time NBA champion, six-time NBA Finals MVP, and an NBA Hall of Fame inductee. Jordan’s final game as ...

Moderate Democrats Push Back Against the Democratic Socialist Left.

(ThyBlackMan.com) You couldn’t find a wackier candidate than Francesca Hong, the Democratic Socialist vying to become the governor of Wisconsin. She wanted to defund police and abolish ICE, topping it all off with a call to end Thanksgiving. “Saturday Night Live” couldn’t have made her up. Hong lost the Democratic ...

Jones Act Waiver Exposes the Cost of U.S. Shipping Protectionism.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Since March, America has been running an accidental experiment and glimpsing what the country might look like without one of its dumbest statutes. The results are in, and they embarrass a century’s worth of U.S. lawmakers and defenders. The statute is the Jones Act, passed in 1920 to rebuild ...