Jerry Stratton's Blog, page 75
April 6, 2015
Dr. Kookie, You’re Right!
Mike Royko’s final collection of essays, from the second half of the eighties, highlights his bias as much as his great writing.
April 2, 2015
Omni’s Jobs of the Future from 1985
What Omni’s popular science writers saw as the jobs of tomorrow thirty years ago.
March 30, 2015
Bring the House closer to the voters
The point of the House is that it is supposed to be close to the voters.
March 25, 2015
Income tax vs. national sales tax
There is no such thing as a fair tax. All we can do is try for the simplest, most unobstructive tax we can find.
March 6, 2015
Othering reduced spending
Reducing spending to match revenue is less of an answer than pretending the problem doesn’t exist.
World Chancelleries
Compiled shortly after the devastation of World War One, World Chancelleries is a plea for peace at any cost. It also sheds light on pre-Second World War viewpoints of progressive outlets like the Chicago Daily News.
March 3, 2015
Stop the rot—with sunlight and sunset
If reform conservatism needs an anticorruption agenda, what structural changes should be on that agenda?
February 28, 2015
Republicans and America must provide an alternative
If America does not provide an alternative to the evils of progressivism gone awry in the world, it is lost.
February 25, 2015
Liberal Fascism
The story of how the National Socialist German Workers Party and the fascist government takeover of businesses became defined as a conservative movement by socialists and leftists who believe the government should control businesses.
February 22, 2015
Progressive taxation static analysis
Static analysis is one of the hallmarks of progressive analysis: make big changes, and then expect everything else to remain the same. It almost always fails, and fails big.
