Author: Scott Shepard

Occupy Twitter?

Occupy Twitter?

Many of the country’s largest corporations have abandoned their traditional roles as, you know, businesses to jump hard into politics – always, it seems, on the side of the woke performative left. The partisan flavor of the companies’ metamorphoses is ...
How To Save A Republic

How To Save A Republic

Suppose that you’d been a sentient adult on December 7, 1941, when Pearl Harbor was bombed. Now posit a friend, a self-proclaimed advocate for freedom – which, in the United States, means a conservative or libertarian, a person of the ...
Nasdaq Adopts Mob-Style Tactics To Push Woke Agenda

Nasdaq Adopts Mob-Style Tactics To Push Woke Agenda

The directors of the Nasdaq, once an entirely innocuous governing board for a stock exchange, have waded deep into public policy, seeking to force corporations to establish board-member quotas for women and for certain preferred minority groups. Because the effort ...
Socialized Medicine: Karen Locking You In Your House, Forever

Socialized Medicine: Karen Locking You In Your House, Forever

Now that a “Biden”-Harris administration looks inevitable, we can rest assured that a new fight for socialized medicine will heat up again under whatever initially anodyne label gets used this time (likely it will be “single payer,” at least at ...
A Great Awakening: What 2020 Has Wrought

A Great Awakening: What 2020 Has Wrought

2020, amirite? <cue cymbals> Yeah, it’s been a wild and pretty awful year, in many, many ways. I would not have predicted most of its most salient features, and have no interest in offering any predictive hostages to the looming ...
Will BlackRock-Owned Biden Admin's Climate Policy Apply To All, Or Just Us Peasants?

Will BlackRock-Owned Biden Admin’s Climate Policy Apply To All, Or Just Us Peasants?

Everyone knows that Goldman Sachs pretty much owned the Obama Administration. And it appears that Larry Fink and Blackrock with be the real deedholders and architects of the Biden term. (You didn’t expect Joe Biden to be in control, did ...
Blue-State Bailout Arguments Contradict Core Blue Principles

Blue-State Bailout Arguments Contradict Core Blue Principles

In the days before Thanksgiving, the New York State Comptroller issued a report arguing that horrifically governed blue states really do deserve a federal bailout because, in the case of New York, the state only gets back 91 cents for every ...
Disney, Starbucks To SEC: Lock Conservatives Out

Disney, Starbucks To SEC: Lock Conservatives Out

Conservatives, libertarians and even moderates – the whole center-right majority of the United States – grow increasingly worried that corporate social activism seeks to shut them out of business and civic life. Disney and Starbucks have now provided proof. The ...
Big Business Pursuit Of Political Power Forces Response From Right

Big Business Pursuit Of Political Power Forces Response From Right

Big business, or at least the biggest and loudest members of the cadre, has turned away from the clean and honest pursuit of money via voluntary exchange, and toward the aggregation of political power to force its will on all ...
AT&T’s Debt Woes, CNN Irresponsibility Anticipate Bezos-Owned Woke Mill

AT&T’s Debt Woes, CNN Irresponsibility Anticipate Bezos-Owned Woke Mill

AT&T carries massive debts and appears to be “financially unstable.” The company is considering selling CNN, the one-time news station that it acquired with Time Warner in 2018. But the network, which before Trump’s ascendancy had viewers the same way those ...

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