Tag: infrastructure
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Glyphosate Is a System Design Problem
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Mar. 17, 2026) — Glyphosate coordinates seed traits, tillage methods, planting schedules, labor allocation, and financial risk management in modern agriculture. It ceased being merely an herbicide and became fundamental infrastructure. Glyphosate dependence persists because incentives, market structures, regulations, and production models continually reproduce this reliance—even in the…
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It’s Easy To Create Jobs
by Don Fredrick, The Complete Obama Timeline, ©2024 (Feb. 11, 2024) — A conservative friend of mine was recently harassed by a leftist who insisted that Joe Biden was the greatest thing since sliced bread, particularly because of all the “new jobs” he is supposedly creating with his “infrastructure” program. There would be new jobs…
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Green Mania Hits the Wall of Nothingness
by David Wojick, CFACT, ©2021 (Jun. 26, 2021) — It is now clear that none of Biden’s radical green promises are going to be kept. More broadly the wild green fantasies are going nowhere. There will be some action, but nothing much. None, nowhere, nothing much — welcome to the wall of nothingness. I for…
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Around the World of Woke in 80 Days
by Jeff Crouere, ©2021 (Apr. 10, 2021) — The first 80 days of the Biden administration have been a nightmare for Americans who love our constitution and appreciate limited government. On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced another batch of executive orders, in this case, dealing with expanding gun control. It follows a blizzard of executive…
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Trump Speaks on Infrastructure, Regulations and Ballots in Atlanta
“A NATION OF BUILDERS” by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 15, 2020) — “We’re doing something very dramatic,” President Trump said at a UPS center in Atlanta Wednesday afternoon at a planned speech on domestic infrastructure following a statement that the U.S. will vanquish the coronavirus. “Together we’re reclaiming America’s proud heritage as a nation of builders,”…
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Flood Plains are for Floods
WHAT IS “SENSIBLE”? by Viv Forbes, ©2019, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club (May 9, 2019) — Flood plains are created by floods. People should be free to build houses beside picturesque rivers but they must put up with the occasional flood. Community groups will always help those stricken by floods but taxpayers and other insurers…
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City of Bridgeport to Receive $14.6 Million for Infrastructure and Economic Development Projects from State Bond Commission
APPROVED PROJECTS INCLUDE: RECONSTRUCTION OF CONGRESS STREET BRIDGE, FORMER REMINGTON INDUSTRIAL SITE, AND IMPROVEMENTS TO SIKORSKY AIRPORT from Dalmarys Matos, (203) 333-2843, dalmarys.matos@bridgeportct.gov (Dec. 11, 2018) — Bridgeport, CT – Mayor Joe Ganim today attended the state bond commission meeting as they approved $14.6 million for key infrastructure and economic development projects for the City…
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Trump Recaps National Security Meeting
“NOBODY IS GOING TO BE THREATENING US” by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 10, 2017) — At 4:36 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Fox News broadcast a statement from President Donald Trump about a meeting of his national security advisers about recent events in Venezuela, North Korea and other matters. After making brief remarks, Trump took questions from…
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Public/Private Partnerships: Government-Sanctioned Monopolies
“ALL FOR THE COMMON GOOD” by Tom DeWeese, American Policy Center, ©2017 (Jan. 31, 2017) — President Trump is calling for a major new investment for rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure of highways, bridges and more. There is no question that it needs to be done. However, it’s vitally important that local, state and federal government…
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Home Depot Employee is not Great in U.S. History
“WORTHY OF OUR COUNTRY” by Jeff Crouere, ©2016, writing and broadcasting at Ringside Politics (May 20, 2016) — It is sad that so many of our young people today are clueless about our country’s distinguished history. In a troubling story this week that generated national headlines, a 22-year-old Home Depot employee, Krystal Lake of Staten…
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What Would Life Be Like Without Toilet Paper?
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2016, President, NARLO (Mar. 27, 2016) — Forgive us for entering into a subject that is best left in the bathroom, but without certain items of biological comfort we could be sent back to the dark days of outhouses and Sears catalogues. With the insanity that is radical…
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The Great Sucking Siphon of America’s Wealth!
“IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2013 (Dec. 1, 2013) — “It is an inescapable fact that there will always be the rich among us and there will always be the poor among us. Sometimes the rich will make a wrong decision, lose their wealth and join the poor. Sometimes the poor will break…
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Tapping Natural Resources to Address Maryland’s Economic Problems
WE SHOULD DEVELOP PREVIOUSLY UNAVAILABLE ENERGY RESOURCES TO GENERATE JOBS, REVENUES by Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr. (Oct. 19, 2011) — Maryland’s 7.2% unemployment rate is below the national average, but still too high. Budget shortfalls next year could reach $700 million or more, the Maryland Budget and Tax Policy Institute warns. Many of our cities…