Archive for April 2020
100 Years On The Lincoln Highway
If you like old cars and old roads this video is for you. I grew up in Cheyenne, Wyoming living most of the time two city blocks from the Lincoln Highway as it went through town from East to West. In 1963 the age of 17, I hitchhiked from Lima, Ohio to Cheyenne, all of…
Read MoreThe point that “Huckleberry Finn” so eloquently made
The point that “Huckleberry Finn” so eloquently made is the moral climax of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It comes in Chapter 31 when the escaped slave Jim is recaptured to be returned to his owner, the widow Miss Watson. On a raft floating down the mighty Mississippi Huck and Jim have formed a…
Read MoreThe Not So Machiavellian Gretchen Whitmer
Gretchen Whitmer, the Democrat governor of Michigan, is a tyrant seeking new ways to punish the people of Michigan. This governor is ambitious but not very smart. She makes no pretense of persuasion. She is ham-handedly imposing hardship on her people. They have started a recall petition. “Greater Good” and “The Ends Justify the Means”…
Read MoreMajor Rivers of the United States
Trivia question: What state is the origin of the most major rivers in the United States? Answer: Colorado is the origin of the most major U.S. rivers. The Rio Grande, Arkansas and Colorado rivers all originate in Colorado. Two major rivers begin in Texas, the Red River and the Brazos River. The only other states…
Read MoreDr. Seth Cory: The Pandemic is Peaking
Dr. Seth Cory: The Pandemic is Peaking If you read anything, read this. It is chocked full of information. It was written by Dr. Seth Corey, Professor, Pediatrics and Molecular Medicine, and on staff in the Departments of Pediatrics, Cancer Biology, and Translational Hematology and Oncology Research at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Cory: Seth Corey…
Read MoreHaunting lessons on political economy in new book about China’s “Great Leap Forward”
This was first posted on June 1, 2013. I find it still relevant. Economist John Taylor tells us that Yang Jisheng was just awarded the 2012 Hayek Prize for his book Tombstone about the Chinese famine of 1958-1962. An estimated 36 million Chinese died of mass starvation, the majority during a 6-month period during the winter of 1960-1961. Those…
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