(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. … They conferred against the Government the right to be let alone — most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.” — Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) The rapid spread ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last month, President Donald Trump left the summit in Ankara, Turkey in a catering truck. He walked onto the old Air Force One in view of all the cameras, then snuck onto a catering truck to be whisked to a military jet, which flew him to England, where he ...