(ThyBlackMan.com) As I constantly say, one of the central tenants of liberalism is “intent,” not results. It goes a little something like this: “We created welfare in the sixties to help women with children, even though it mandated the removal of the father from the home. We didn’t know it would ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) (This article is an excerpt from “The Fix This Time,” by James Davis ) Exporting our consumer demand to low wage labor markets started in earnest with Japan and now has reached a critical stage with China. Why has this become such a major problem now? Japan, South Korea ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) An inflection point is a period when the cumulative effects of recent events can move their direction up or down, left or right, or make things better or worse. Looking at events over the summer, I offer three examples of issues that appear to have reached their inflection points: ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Joe Biden leads the Democrat pack and he’s a catastrophe, meaning that we have to weigh the human kindness that compels us to seek to end his humiliation against the practical reality that this doddering establishment weirdo will get squashed by Donald Trump like a dung beetle under a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Yet more killings have taken place in Texas. This time it was in Odessa, Texas. According to the Midland, Texas police, 5 people have been killed and 21 wounded on the highway, and at the Cinergy Movie Theater in Odessa. The Cinergy shooter was killed, but they suspect 2 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Trump’s latest foray into the world of international economics — his ongoing trade war with China — has been widely derided by his critics. It’s been derided on the grounds that there is no long-term strategy; on the grounds that the trade war will not be, as Trump ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s a civil war brewing on health care. While many of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidates support some version of Medicare for All, others aren’t ready to give up on ObamaCare—and Kamala Harris is trying to have her cake and eat it too. “KamalaCare” would apparently move the country ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A true story to lead off in our batting cage warm-up session. A young man, out for his first political office, won the primary and defeated his challenger from within his party by a two-to-one margin. He was looking forward to taking a few weeks off and resting up ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald Trump is the Dennis Rodman of politics. To my Democrat friends, now that you have stopped laughing, please continue reading; to my Republican friends, this is a supreme compliment to President Trump, please continue reading. I have had the pleasure of talking with Rodman privately in the past and found him ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’m a firm believer in God. I pray before every meal, and before I go to bed every night, but I hate all religions. I think every one of them constitute a ridiculous assault on our intelligence, and the Devil is nothing more than an adult version of the Bogeyman, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What factors usually re-elect or throw out incumbent presidents? The economy counts most. Recessions, or at least chronic economic pessimism, sink incumbents. Presidents Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush were tagged with sluggish growth, high unemployment and a sense of perceived stagnation — and were easily defeated. The 2008 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Why all the hand wringing about the economy? If what I read this week in the Wall Street Journal is correct, anyone with a 401K, IRA, or other market-tied investment will most certainly take it in the shorts in the coming years no matter what happens between President Trump and China. ...