During his January 20, 1981 inaugural address, Ronald Regan famously said, “… government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” In fairness to Mr. …

I wrote this in October 2020 during the weeks leading up to the 2020 presidential election. As you will see, it is quite long with a boatload of footnotes. It took a while to get done, but man, was the process ever therapeutic. I guess just taking the time to…

The Republican Party, whose progeny included such consequential figures as Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan, died fittingly on Capitol Hill, and notably the day after Lincoln’s birthday, at 3:50 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on February 13, 2021 at the age of 166. …

The Promises During the 2016 presidential campaign, then-candidate Trump promised Wyoming, West Virginia, Kentucky, and the rest of coal country that he would reinvigorate the industry and bring back mining jobs. Did he? The Reality Per the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Economic Data, there were 50,900 coal mining jobs in the U.S…