Preview: California’s Collapse
California San Bernardino declares bankruptcy. This comes in the wake of Stockton and Mammoth Lakes declaring bankruptcy within the last two weeks. “SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. […]
BRA Economics
Triumph of the Will
Georgia Time to go back to Africa … Note: A visual illustration of why a war was unnecessary to end slavery.
Limits To Growth: 3 Trillion Barrels of Oil
Canada How do you know American policymakers are asleep at the helm on the energy question? “While the chattering classes yammered on about American decline […]
Limits To Growth: Mining Asteroids
New York In The Wall Street Journal, there is a new techno-utopian article about mining asteroids as a solution to resource scarcity: “Is the earth […]
Limits To Growth: Review: Too Much Magic
New York I’ve finished reading James Howard Kunstler’s new book Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation. This book is pretty […]
R.I.P. Navigators
BRA Mike Adams explains the consequences of the Obamacare decision: “Note, carefully, there is NO LIMIT to this “taxing” power. If you bring home a […]
America’s Richest Cities In 1978 And Today
BRA Can anyone here explain this? Note: There has been a decline in New Orleans, Milwaukee, Columbus (OH), Indianapolis, Buffalo, Detroit, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Cleveland, […]
The Export Crisis
BRA IMO, this will be much more effective than state based immigration laws anyway. We have already seen that the biggest deterrent to illegal immigration […]
The Religion of Free Trade
United States Vox continues to expand upon free trade: “Let us suppose I told you of a certain doctrine in which millions of people believe […]
The 2008 Economic Collapse
BRA Here’s an excerpt from Kunstler’s new book: “It was not a coincidence that the global financial system wobbled and crashed in mid-2008, the same […]
Kunstler’s New Book
Africa Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation … I’ve been reading a Kindle sample, and this is some dark […]
Free Trade: Vox Day vs. Gary North
United States The best debate going on at the moment: “To address North’s conceptual problem, a man with a badge and a gun and a […]
The Total Failure of BRA
BRA So this is what you are telling me? After America spent more money trying to achieve negro equality than was spent on the Hoover […]
The Politics of Loss
United States Someone finally notices that Democrats are unlikely to thrive in the emerging zero sum world: “When political scientist Harold Lasswell, writing in the […]
Buchanan on South Korea Free Trade Agreement
United States H/T Vox We had several discussions about this last year when Obama signed into law three new trade agreements with South Korea, Columbia, […]
The Strange Career of Juan Crow
Alabama In The New York Times, Diane McWhorter wails about her “alienation” from Alabama because of our popular new immigration law: “The depth of my […]
Mark Potok Flipping Out Over League of the South
Alabama Here’s the link to the great Michael Hill essay at Dixienet: “By the grace of God, the philosophies and institutions of Christian liberty are […]
U.S. Economy in a Depression
Nutroots Nation “Depression” isn’t even the right word. The economy would eventually bounce back from a depression. This is more like the death of the […]
California Perestroika
California In his latest Forbes column, Joel Kotkin takes a journey into the great progressive paradise on the West Coast: “California’s “progressive” approach has been […]
Tales From Detroit: The D Could Go Broke In a Week
Michigan Paul Kersey’s Escape From Detroit was written in anticipation of the financial collapse of Detroit which should have happened in April. The can was […]
SNAP EBT Spending Up 100 Percent Under Obama
District of Corruption The Daily Caller is reporting that food stamp spending is up 100 percent under Obama. As Jeff Sessions points out, we’re spending […]
The Wormhole
New York James Howard Kunstler has a new column on The Great Unwind in Europe: “Now we get to the really fun part of the […]
Review: Escape From Detroit
Michigan I’ve spent the better part of a month agonizing over how to review Paul Kersey’s Escape From Detroit for a non-OD audience. It wasn’t […]
House Republicans Cut SNAP EBT By $36 Billion Dollars
District of Corruption This could potentially be a huge story: House Republicans led by Paul Ryan have voted to cut SNAP EBT by $36 billion […]
Vermont Becomes First State to Ban Natural Gas Fracking
Vermont Vermont … the launching pad of great progressive ideas like the abolition of slavery, civil rights, women’s suffrage, feminism, and gay marriage has become […]
Jerry Brown: Support My Tax Hike
California H/T Walter Russell Mead In case you missed it, Gov. Jerry Brown has a special message for OD readers in California about the need […]
Peak Mexican
Dixie In my Hunter S. Thompson-gonzo style fictional writings about the apocalyptic post-Sunbelt future, I envisioned a world where illegal aliens had vanished from Dixie. […]
Central State University Brawl
Ohio In the Mars Challenge, I noted that the Bush and Obama administrations had spent $323 million dollars in 2008, $323 million dollars in 2009, […]
Walter Russell Mead Admits Liberals Believe Black People Lack The Capacity To Maintain Civilization
Michigan Walter Russell Mead has a new essay on the impending collapse of America’s Black Metropolis: “The second factor is more disturbing: there is a […]
Visualizing The New Economy
United States H/T Walter Russell Mead You might have noticed that this “recession” (looking in the rearview mirror, we are now four years into this, […]
Black History Month 2012: Le Vieux’s Ghost Town Capital
Côte d’Ivoire African-Americans are still recovering from the shocking news that a DNA test has confirmed that King Tut was of European ancestry. As we […]