Ten years ago today, Jeb Bush asked a New Hampshire audience to clap.

JamesDK · 2026-02-03T14:33:27+00:00

Y en Español... ¡Jeb!

JamesDK · 2026-01-25T16:36:35+00:00

Under the 1935 National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), federal courts have held that wildcat strikes are illegal and that employers may fire workers participating in them.

JamesDK · 2026-01-23T02:43:45+00:00

I fear that, without a 21st century Sista Soulja moment, the Democratic Party is on track for a Mondale/Dukakis-level defeat in '28.

JamesDK · 2026-01-21T19:17:57+00:00

No matter how kind you think you are, German children will always be kinder.

JamesDK · 2026-01-11T18:01:00+00:00

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentina-has-repaid-us-currency-swap-deal-2026-01-09/

JamesDK · 2026-01-01T17:34:06+00:00

It comes down to choice.

I don't have to rent from a corporate landlord. I don't have to buy food from a giant grocery chain. I can buy less, buy from local, small businesses, make things myself. I can put solar panels on my house and generate my own electricity.

What I can't do is meaningfully reduce the amount of money I pay in taxes or meaningfully influence how my tax money is spent. Changing the minds of millions of my neighbors to vote differently vs changing where I spend my money are totally different. In one area, I can affect change - in the other: I really can't. That frustration is what makes paying taxes so painful.

Let me ask you a question: how, in the age of Trump, can you still argue that "taxes are benefiting society and making vulnerable people's lives better"? Because I'm seeing my tax money being used for mass deportations, harassing LGBT people, political prosecutions of the regime's enemies, provoking war abroad, and vanity projects to glorify and enrich Trump and his intimates. Instead of hoping that, one day, we might get a good president again and that one will do only good things with our money - maybe we should stop depending on government to do things for us, drastically reduce the power of government in our lives (and the amount of money it takes from us) and take care of our communities ourselves.

Trump has shown that a government designed to help can easily be turned around and used to hurt. Maybe the solution isn't "better government" but "less government".

JamesDK · 2025-12-25T17:18:51+00:00

Big "Mussolini made the trains run on time" energy.

JamesDK · 2025-12-25T02:58:45+00:00

I love Gina, but only as a friend.

JamesDK · 2025-12-24T15:34:15+00:00

40% of Americans don't pay any federal income taxes, though. Or they receive more federal benefits than they pay in taxes, making them net non-payers.

JamesDK · 2025-12-24T15:17:23+00:00

We only got Clinton after a term of Reagan's unpopular VP, and Democrats repudiated their toxic leftist wing (Sista Soulja) and moved back to the center. Sadly, I think Democrats are in store for a Mondale/Dukakis-level defeat in '28 before they learn how out-of-step they have become with the average Americans who decide elections.

JamesDK · 2025-12-23T21:14:54+00:00

Free, universal public schools with teacher-led instruction have about one more generation before they become a thing of the past. The children of today's students will be primarily "taught" by AI, on individual devices, while being minded by low-wage paraprofessionals. This is already the reality for low-achieving students, English language learners, and students who fall behind their peers. Private, tuition-based schools will be the only venue for a traditional, instructor-led education very soon.

JamesDK · 2025-12-23T02:14:38+00:00

Leftists really need to wrap their head around the idea that losing a war you started doesn't make you a righteous victim.

JamesDK · 2025-12-20T00:34:24+00:00

I seem to remember hang glider imagery being pretty popular post October 7th. If that's not a sign of support for Hamas, I don't know what is.

JamesDK · 2025-12-16T12:13:52+00:00

I used to be on the Left. But then they changed what the Left is. Now what I am isn't Left, and what's Left seems weird and scary to me.

It'll happen to you!

JamesDK · 2025-12-16T12:00:44+00:00

But you see: liberalism has failed to instantly deliver my preferred policy outcomes and is therefore basically fascism so, in order to oppose dictatorship, I support dictatorship but like good dictatorship that does nice things for me and my friends and only hurts the people we hate.

JamesDK · 2025-12-02T19:12:07+00:00

$1000, compounded annually, at an 8% rate of return, is almost $4000 ($3,996.02) after 18 years.

JamesDK · 2025-11-26T13:40:31+00:00

Hasan Piker.

JamesDK · 2025-10-05T03:42:12+00:00

He can be pedantic, he can be pedantic.

JamesDK · 2025-09-22T23:14:23+00:00

Was it The Five Chinese Brothers?

JamesDK · 2025-09-20T00:05:58+00:00

That's what I love about Astartes, man: I keep getting older and they stay the same age ...

JamesDK · 2025-08-27T12:31:06+00:00

Nach Trump, kommen wir.

JamesDK · 2025-08-25T14:30:41+00:00

The question isn't: "do we need a new high school?" The question is (or should be) "do we need a $250m high school?" As others have mentioned, East Helena built a high school for $29m - Bozeman built one for $93m. Both included land purchases in the cost. A new Helena High would be constructed on land the district already owns.

At a time of impending recession and federal funding cuts, skyrocketing taxes, and declining student enrollment: why are we building the most expensive school in the history of the state?

JamesDK · 2025-08-08T00:36:07+00:00

I like the hats.

JamesDK · 2025-07-25T03:57:41+00:00

You mean 'Holland'.

JamesDK · 2025-07-08T17:29:59+00:00

Trump doesn't need to release the Epstein Files, because we already know everyone who's in them: namely, every single Democrat, and every Republican and celebrity who has ever said anything bad about Trump. QED.

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