Edward Fuller for Assembly 2016

04/11/2024

Proof of sea level rise due to climate change:

Reflecting on the beautiful low tide seen at the Santa Barbara Harbor this week.

05/27/2023

According to a poll from Equimundo (which should be taken with a grain of salt given the Social Justice™ ideology of the organization), 44% of men are suicidal and 65% of Gen Z men say “no one r...

05/06/2023

https://fee.org/articles/the-jane-jacobs-history-you-weren-t-taught-in-school/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2020_FEEWeekly

Today—May 4, 2023—marks the 107th anniversary of the birth of the remarkable Jane Jacobs. No one is an expert on cities if he isn’t well aware of what she believed, what she wrote, and what she did.

02/12/2023

A historically distinguished black family currently to be celebrated by the accomplishments of beautiful actress Taraji P. Henson.

Confession Number One: I have a bit of a calendar fe**sh — love wall calendars, but particularly adore those page-a-day calendars. One of my 2023 calendars is called “Outdoor Planet.”...

02/11/2023

https://fee.org/articles/todays-anti-capitalists-want-to-regulate-what-you-can-eat-how-often-you-drive-and-the-size-of-your-home/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2020_FEEWeekly

Seriously? “Rationing sounds unpleasant. But perhaps life would even be more pleasant than it is today, because justice makes people happy.”

01/28/2023

Todd Hayen Everyone is asking the question: Why can’t people see the obvious? Why can’t people believe what is going on and stand up and do something about it? And we have heard a lot of possibilit…

01/15/2023

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/xi-jinping-is-badly-damaged-by-chinas-zero-covid-debacle-w0ctt9wtg

Speculation is growing over the strength of Xi Jinping’s leadership in Beijing. The Chinese Communist Party is struggling to put a positive gloss on his abrupt and messy lifting of Covid controls

01/11/2023

Don't vote for people who lie to you.

Many liberals — avowed friends of the American worker — are calling for more immigration so that employers don’t have to raise wages and get Americans back to work.

12/01/2022

https://lawliberty.org/mercantilist-follies-then-and-now/?utm_source=LAL+Updates&utm_campaign=5920153aba-LAL+Updates&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_53ee3e1605-5920153aba-72558837

Discredited mercantilist notions shape many of our present economic debates.

12/01/2022

https://fee.org/articles/8-ideas-that-will-teach-you-to-think-like-an-economist/

Some characterize economics as applied common sense. In many ways, they’re right.

11/21/2022

Apparently humans can not escape their past, it may only go into remission for a time. The article mentions how peaceful Japanese society is while ignoring Japans horrific wars waged less than 100 years ago.

Human violence is in the news every day. But is violence innate in Homo sapiens?

10/01/2022

Actually a worthwhile read.

One of the most insightful quotes from Adam Smith you’ll ever find.