Unca Darrell

MARCH 20, 2020 / Think last year was bad?

You ain't seen nothin' yet.

DESPITE PRESIDENT Donald Trump's best efforts, economic freedom in the [United States] declined slightly over the past year, even as it increased across the world, according to the Heritage Foundation's Index of Economic Freedom . . . .

Unca D's rewrite: Because of President Donald's overspending and protectionist trade policies, economic freedom declined . . . .

"This year's Index highlights a consistent trend . . . around the globe -- countries [that] embrace the ideals of capitalism and free markets . . .

OCTOBER 11, 2019 / Unca D accuses California of Venezuelization. The WSJ . . .

. . . sees that comparison, raises it, and takes the pot: Editorial, "California's Dark Ages," The Wall Street Journal, October 11, 2019 (emphasis added).

CALIFORNIANS ARE LEARNING to live like the Amish after investor-owned utility PG&E this week shut off power to two million or so residents to prevent wildfires amid heavy, dry winds. Blame the state’s largest blackout on a perfect storm of bad policies.

February 6, 2019 / Yergin on Maduro

NICOLAS MADURO'S REGIME in Venezuela has been waging economic warfare against the country it rules. The result has been an almost unfathomable million-percent inflation rate coupled with . . .

MARCH 23, 2018 / Another dreadful way station on the highway to . . .

 . . American decline: the $1.3 trillion omnibus federal budget deal.

Matt Welch gives the 30,000-foot overview:

[It's] long . . . past time to recognizing a glaring truth about two-party politics in 2018: In both effective practice and, increasingly, aspirational rhetoric, there are no significant Republican or Democratic voting blocs on Capitol Hill in favor of . . .

MARCH 7, 2018 -- The economics lecture Donald J. Trump . . .

. . . slept through:

Extra credit for spotting Ben Stein's deliberate error . . . 

 

January 8, 2018 / Patricia Arquette (unintentionally?), on . . .

. . . cause and effect.

Everyone in the commune [to which my parents moved in 1972 when I was four) looked down on ownership and had to contribute their income to the common good. Before long . . .  

JULY 24, 2017 / Victor Davis Hanson on the Great Decline

AMERICA IS SUFFERING a "revolutionary divide," says Mr. Hanson, and progressives are winning.

The consequences of globalization, the growth of the deep state, changing demographics, open borders, the rise of geographic apartheid between blue and red states, and the institutionalism of a permanent coastal political and culture elite -- and the reaction to all that -- are tearing our country apart.

Now to NOVEMBER 8 / Closed: Unca Darrell will vote for . . .

. . . one of the worst human beings and presidential candidates in American history, Donald John Trump. Here's why: 

SEPTEMBER 5 / Beyond parody

ON LONG WEEKENDS, the Houston Chronicle apparently takes off early and leaves the editorial page in charge of a college intern.

"Feed the goldfish. Water the plants. And, for goodness sakes, don't . . . 

JULY 1 / That to which the Progressive Project . . .

. . . condemns our children and grandchildren, per the Congressional Budget Office: