Breaking the Internet Blame the NSA’s Internet of Things By Mark Luedtke In the year or two leading up to 9/11, anybody who paid attention realized America would soon suffer a devastating terrorist attack. Expert after expert warned us it would happen. Books were written about it. Tom Clancy’s “Debt of Honor,” which featured […]
Thou shalt not share But the sharing economy is winning By Mark Luedtke Taxi companies have declared war. In a handful of years, Uber and its ridesharing model went from nothing to the most valuable startup in history. Two and a half years ago, Uber was worth $18.2 billion. The New York Times valued Uber […]
Oops, they did it again Dayton Rulers squander other people’s money Mark Luedtke For anybody who exposes the petty and not so petty (but legal) graft that permeates government at all levels, Dayton’s rulers are the gift that keeps on giving. The Dayton Daily News reports on the latest development of its one former property. […]
Victory for the forgotten man Chapter2: The Celebrity Apprentice wins By Mark Luedtke In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election, mainstream commentators galore have rediscovered the term “forgotten man,” but many may be confused about what it means because, as Wikipedia documents, “It was first used by William Graham Sumner in […]
Progressive bullies Violence is at the core of leftist ideology By Mark Luedtke Leftists have raised bullying to an art form. They’ve managed to make themselves look like victims while they bully. With their Uggs, they trample into dust the wise old saying “sticks and stones can break your bones but words can never hurt […]
Beware the clowns The global warming clowns, that is By Mark Luedtke Around the country, people are in a panic because of clown sightings. In one example, The Cincinnati Enquirer reports, “Erlanger-Elsmere Schools were in ‘safe and secure’ mode Oct. 6 after police notified the district they had received a report of a clown sighting […]
We all lost We all lose every election Mark Luedtke Statistic after statistic reveals what we already know: the American people are worse off now than when Barack Obama was first elected. We were worse off in 2008 than when George W. Bush was elected. The same is true for the Clintons and Bush, the […]
Life or death Trump versus America’s Queen of Death By Mark Luedtke I confess to mixed feelings about Trump’s campaign for president. On the one hand, I have no interest in the self-aggrandizing blowhard and lecher with the comical comb-over who advocates protectionism and sticks his foot in his mouth every time he opens […]
Are taxes too low? Mayor Whaley thinks so By Mark Luedtke When voters go to the polls this November in Dayton, they will get to vote on Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley’s proposal to increase Dayton’s income tax burden to 2.5 percent. Before voters go to the polls, I hope they ask themselves if Dayton and […]
Drowning in depression The economy still stinks by Mark Luedtke The economy is supposedly fantastic. Just read a government propaganda organ like the Dayton Daily News to find out all about it. President Obama is an economic wizard. He failed to stop the rising of the oceans, but he turned the economy around with the […]
Syria’s Peace agreement Made possible by avoiding the U.S. By Mark Luedtke You may have heard of the short-lived ceasefire agreement between the U.S. and Russia in Syria. What you probably didn’t hear of is the peace deal that instigated it, a peace deal made between Turkey and Iran and brokered by the Russians. The […]
Terror up the streets Government highways test self-driving cars by Mark Luedtke Imagine you owned your own road, and your children, family, and friends all drove on it. Now, imagine some multi-billionaire asked if he could test his self-driving car on your road next to your family. The billionaire could build his own roads and […]
Blood in the streets Blame George Soros By Mark Luedtke Legendary banker Baron Rothschild is credited with saying, “The time to buy is when there’s blood in the streets.” The idea is prices of assets fall to their lowest level at that time. Investors who follow that adage do their fellows a favor by buying […]
Social spending Profits improve all our lives By Mark Luedtke Some people compare capitalism and socialism from a utilitarian point of view, others from an ethical point of view. From a practical point of view, Ludwig von Mises destroyed the idea of socialism with one observation. As the Mises Institute Wiki reads, “Ludwig von […]
Proof government cares nothing for your life By Mark Luedtke You may not have heard about the EpiPen price crisis, but anybody whose life depends on EpiPens has. The price of a two-pack of EpiPens has skyrocketed to $600 from $100 in 2010. The pen delivers adrenaline, which can relax muscles and free airways […]
No new car for you Thanks to Obama’s regulations By Mark Luedtke You might have noticed the price of new cars is rising. Kelley Blue Book reports, “The estimated average transaction price (ATP) for light vehicles in the United States was $34,112 in January 2016. New-car prices have increased by $919 (up 2.8 percent) […]
Love thaws the ice queen with the Dayton Opera The scale and spectacle of Turandot is something not to be […]
Dayton Philharmonic backs prodigy Jackie Evancho at Schuster Jackie Evancho will sing opera favorites as well as her new more […]
DVAC auction returns to Sinclair’s Ponitz Center Attendees can appreciate local artists while socializing with their friends and family. By […]
Tracy McElfresh sews, up-cycles, and blogs her fashion forward McElfresh is fan of vivid colors and bold patterns in her […]
Dayton Funk Forever brings the spirit of 70s soul to Oscar’s (L-R) Joseph Hamp, Patrick Coyne, Brandon Guthrie, Adam Uhlenhake, […]
