Jerry Shenk

3 days ago | pottsmerc.com | Jerry Shenk

The American left may not understand economics. Public welfare, or wealth redistribution, is a case in point. Per Bylund, Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute, asks and answers: “What causes poverty? Nothing. It’s the original state, the default, the starting point. The real question is, What causes prosperity? […] Prosperity is the state of having created or otherwise acquired wealth.

2 weeks ago | pottsmerc.com | Jerry Shenk

“What is a woman?”My five-decade-old oversized, unabridged dictionary defines “woman” as “1) a female human being (distinguished from ‘man’), 2) an adult female person,” and lists one antonym: “man.”Twenty years ago, any high school biology student could answer that question. Back then, educators taught their students that biological XX and XY chromosomes, respectively, sexually imprint every cell of every female and male body.

3 weeks ago | pottsmerc.com | Jerry Shenk

Does America’s future really depend upon background checks, draconian controls on buying guns and a national firearm registry? Democrats seem to think so. Gun control, including measures that violate the constitutional right of Americans to keep and bear arms, is a central feature of their platform. In fact, Democrat-controlled jurisdictions, most recently Colorado, have imposed the harshest gun control measures in the nation.

1 month ago | pottsmerc.com | Jerry Shenk

The New York Times recently did something entirely unexpected. During 2024, and possibly earlier, the Times, usually a liberal mouthpiece/megaphone for Democrats, committed actual journalism and revealed its findings in a 12,751-word late-March article entitled “Key Takeaways From America’s Secret Military Partnership With Ukraine.”The piece is an extraordinarily interesting read, however, its timing is somewhat suspicious.

1 month ago | dailylocal.com | Jerry Shenk

Jerry Shenk: America in Ukraine: Now the truth can be told