Author: Scott Shepard

Prepare For The Man-Hate To Boil Back Over

Prepare For The Man-Hate To Boil Back Over

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Minority groups supported right-of-center candidates in 2020 at much higher levels than in presidential cycles since 1960. In many areas, the majority of Hispanic votes were cast that way. Black votes for the right soared. Even including the weight of ...
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Biased “Expertise” Is Worse Than Worthless

Biased “Expertise” Is Worse Than Worthless

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Few institutions, habits or presumptions have survived the rolling conflagration that has been 2020 without getting a little singed. But few have been razed as thoroughly – burned down to the subbasement timbers and then entombed in concrete from a ...
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Woke Companies, Stop Pandering To Millennials’ Socialism Phase

Woke Companies, Stop Pandering To Millennials’ Socialism Phase

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
The agitators who indignantly demand that corporations adopt their radical leftwing policy wishlists don’t care a hoot about corporate profits in the near term or into the “sustainable” future. If they did, they’d pause at evidence that they’re urging corporations ...
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When It Comes To Climate Science, Benedict Cumberbatch Is No Sherlock Holmes

When It Comes To Climate Science, Benedict Cumberbatch Is No Sherlock Holmes

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Actor Benedict Cumberbatch is a preening twit. It’s a shame to have to say that. He’s been immensely watchable since his long-ago appearance in a not-very-good British one-off series called Fortysomething that he, and mostly Hugh Laurie, saved from being dire. Tremendous Sherlock, ...
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Honest Climate Policy is Hard

Honest Climate Policy is Hard

National Policy Analysis #683 /
Recognizing Unacknowledged Risks, Possibilities & Value Judgments Part II: The Fatal Flaws in AYS Coalition Climate-Related Policy Claims The second in a series analyzing claims by proponents of Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) and stakeholder primacy policies about the feasibility ...
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Science Is Real – But They’re Doing It Wrong

Science Is Real – But They’re Doing It Wrong

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Have you, too, been irritated by those signs on the lawns of your most unjustifiably smug neighbors – the ones composed of a list of cliches that, depending on how they’re interpreted, are either innocuous bromides, dog whistles to the virtue ...
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Had Enough of Crushing Lockdowns? Sign the Great Barrington Declaration

Had Enough of Crushing Lockdowns? Sign the Great Barrington Declaration

ConservativeBlog.org /
Have you had just about enough of these endless lockdowns, with their arbitrary and counterproductive rules?  Do you sense that they've long been more about politics than public health? If so, you're not alone.  Thousands of infectious-disease doctors and other ...
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Native American Activist: Renaming Teams “Like Another Indian Removal Act"

Native American Activist: Renaming Teams “Like Another Indian Removal Act”

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Despite what you may have heard from the once-mainstream news media, huge swathes of Native Americans eagerly seek to retain Native representation throughout American culture – including the Washington Redskins, Cleveland Indians, Florida State Seminoles, and other representation – national ...
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Sheldon Whitehouse's Obsession With the 'Dark' Federalist Society Is Out of Place

Sheldon Whitehouse’s Obsession With the ‘Dark’ Federalist Society Is Out of Place

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
The Left’s claws and teeth have been bared and bloodied this seminal, shattering year of 2020, tearing into everyone who dares contradict its slavering radicalism as toxic, hateful, racist, and any other canard that might aid it in its cancellation ...
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Abandoning Broken Locales Has Become A Fiduciary Obligation For Firms

Abandoning Broken Locales Has Become A Fiduciary Obligation For Firms

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Only an Icarian mixture of high-test naiveté and hubris would lead anyone to dare fate to create more headaches in 2020. One conundrum that has reached, or soon will reach, migraine status for businesses (and families) is whether to move ...
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