It’s time.
Time to subscribe to No Dowd About It.
If you’re already a subscriber, thank you. Go ahead and ignore this message. But if you’re a free signup, and stuck behind the paywall, you’re missing so, so much.
Let’s start with Dowd’s Daily Download. Every weekday, it supplies information of great interest to intelligent, productive, thoughtful people. Taxes, civil liberties, energy, transportation, culture, history, national defense. I cover the big stuff, the important stuff, the stuff you don’t hear about watching Entertainment Tonight. Fifteen links a day equals 75 links a week. And as a professional policy researcher, I know which sources are solid, and which are specious. Only the best for my subscribers.
Next: my weekly column.
The privatization of space science. The revolting “documentary short” 38 At The Garden. (The Federalist ran that one.) The vital importance of America’s mining industry. How best to preserve Cold War history. The ongoing anti-taxpayer atrocity that is subsidization of NFL stadiums. The crock o’ [expletive deleted] that is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
If you’re not a subscriber, you’ve missed them all.
On Throwback Wednesday, I revisit a column out of the past, and connect it to something going on now. (Last week, for example, I republished my October 2020 endorsement of Donald Trump.) I’ve been doing what I do for some time, and the D. Dowd Muska archives are vast.
Finally, Bureaucrats Behaving Badly. Subscribers seem to enjoy this feature the most. From perv-o “educators” to a stripper emerging from a firetruck, free NHL tickets to dirty cops, inspectors who don’t inspect to lousy financial management, “public servants” are frequently crooked. Every Friday, BBB provides a police blotter for government employees from coast to coast. (And I accept submissions.)
Look, I’d love to post my content for free. But I was raised on the poorest apple orchard in New England. And I’ve spent my adult life — 30 years, as of two weeks ago — fiercely fighting for the principles of limited government and personal responsibility. No whining, but trust me, that’s not a prescription for building wealth. Without subscriptions, No Dowd About It doesn’t exist.
Antonin-Gilbert Sertillanges, the priest and philosopher, asked:
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Best,
DDM