Energy and fuel costs impact virtually everything else. This has become part of the broader debate over the politics, regulations, and investing practices tied to ‘green’ policies. “Green” and “ESG” investing’s impact on energy and fuel are among the underlying causes of inflation which in turn increases the costs of all housing, including naturally more …
Elon Musk apparently made possible for independent reporter Matt Taibbi to get what is being called “The Twitter Files.” It is evidence of the evolution of a social media platform that was supposed to be a public square for all that became weaponized to favor a specific perspective that favored Democrats and harmed certain Republicans, …
The 2022 midterm congressional elections are nearing completion. The manufactured housing industry faces what may well be the worst regulatory onslaught in its history. The self-proclaimed national representative of “all segments” of the manufactured home industry – the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) – owes the industry an explanation for its serial failures with respect to …
Our son Tamas will soon turn 16. In the predominantly blue state of Illinois as well as the purple-turning-red state of Florida, Tamas has been exposed to in person, online, and televised political or other events. Tamas (sounds like “Tah Mash”) been homeschooled most of his young life. As political independents for the past decade …
“[Music-clock ticking] 0:21 “The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant,” says the voice of the late President John F. Kennedy in this edited transcript of the video trailer of The Real Anthony Fauci Movie posted below. “The 0:24 dangers of excessive and unwarranted 0:26 concealment of pertinent facts far 0:29 outweighed the dangers which are cited …
An October 2022 “Federated States Newsletter” is perhaps more aptly a euphuism for a Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) “newsletter.’ Evidence for that point includes the fact that it opens with plugs for MHI backed events. The third event they plugged was this: “MHI’s Next “Monthly Mondays Meet-Up” for State Executives – November 7, 2022.” As …
You’ve heard the axiom, ‘If I can do it, you can too.’ Your Masthead editorial writer believes in that notion. Why? Among the reasons: “38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[a] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else …
Paraphrasing the American Press Institute (API), the constitutional ‘job’ of the news media isn’t to kiss the ample derrières of government or other officials, nor those of the ‘financial elites.’ The importance of peering into evidence beyond apparent propagandists is highlighted by Swedish historian and author Hanna Herland’s fascinating and focused op-ed. Industry pros should …
There are those in the civilian world who treat information about people and groups something like military intelligence treats information. Before elaborating, as a disclosure, this writer has never served in the armed forces. But to shed light on that opening sentence above, from a young age, I read military histories galore. Because my father …
Rolling Stone provided “25 Gut Reactions to ‘My Son Hunter,’ the Very MAGA — and Wildly Boring — Biden Family Biopic.” Left-of-center Salon said: “My Son Hunter”: There’s barely even a movie inside this deep state right wing grift.” At 4:23 PM ET on IMDb gave the film a 7 out of 10. HollywoodInToto said: …
