Here is a Top 10 List for the Best of BeeLine for 2025. The first five are the most popular posts I wrote during the year based on the number of views. The second five are a few of my personal favorites out of the 143 blog posts I wrote during the year.
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The Best of BeeLine-2025 list is below with pull quotes from each of the posts to give you a better idea about what is contained therein.
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The Best of BeeLine---2025
Most popular based on views
What's Next For Canada
(May 2, 2025)
What's next for Canada now that the national elections have left the Liberals in control of the country for another four years?
In many respects Canada is facing much more difficult problems than the United States.
Canada's economy is very dependent on trade with the United States but the threat of tariffs puts the country's future in doubt.
77% of Canada exports go to the United States.
Those exports represent 22% of Canada's total GDP.
In fact, more goods are exported from Canada to the United States each year than any goods that are transferred among the provinces of Canada.
The Iconoclast
(January 13, 2025)
No society or organization can advance without iconoclasts.
However, iconoclast are extremely rare. It takes an individual with advanced intelligence and the ability to perceive things that others do not but also someone who has the strength of personality to withstand the ridicule and possible scorn that comes with challenging the status-quo and conventional wisdom.
Iconoclasts don't do it the way it has always been done. They break rules along the way. It can be uncomfortable for those set in their ways. Iconoclasts are often attacked, ridiculed or subject to scorn. However, iconoclasts often get results that few expect.
Yes, that is Donald Trump.
It might also describe Elon Musk. Or Steve Jobs.
(January 22, 2025)
There have been few long-term political careers that blew up as spectacularly as Joe Biden's did over the last four years.
It was bad enough that Biden presided over a long list of policy failures.
Afghanistan, Covid vaccine mandates, inflation, the border invasion, social media censorship, Ukraine and Mideast Wars, woke policies on steroids and all the rest.
It was compounded by the concerted effort by his staff and the media to cover up Biden's declining physical and mental capabilities.
It ended with a mass of pardons the likes that have never been seen before in the history of the United States.
(May 17, 2025)
How much longer will Europe be Europe?
I saw this recent factoid about the population of Brussels, Belgium.
Only 1 in 4 of the population of Brussels, Belgium has a Belgian background.
How can Belgium be Belgium without Belgians?
Or Germany be Germany without Germans?
Or Italy be Italy without Italians?
How much longer will Europe be Europe?
Demography is destiny.
(April 30, 2025)
As it stands now, the student loan program scams too many.
If any good is to come from what we see has come of the student loan program it should be to consider this as yet another example where the most well-intentioned government plans results in unintended consequences.
However, the answer should never have been to spend more taxpayer money to cancel the debt.
We see it over and over and over again. Ronald Reagan said it well and we should remember it.
"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them".
Truer words have never be said.
Five of my personal favorites
(April 2, 2025)
DOGE Derangement Syndrome may be even crazier than Trump Derangement Syndrome.
That is something that I did not think was possible.
Two years ago Leftist Democrats were telling us the world was going to end if we did not all drive electric vehicles.
Now it seems that it will end if Elon Musk finds one dollar of waste and fraud in the federal budget.
That is why it is now apparently justified to deface Tesla's and firebomb Tesla dealerships.
Crazy does not begin to describe it.
(May 5, 2025)
Conventional wisdom and consensus is not always right.
In fact, at times it is 100% wrong.
Dick Fosbury proved that.
So did Pete Gogolak.
Beware conventional wisdom and consensus.
It is only by doing so that societies improve and advance.
(June 11, 2025)
There is no Founding Father that is more popular with liberal Democrats than Alexander Hamilton.
It appears to me that those liberal and progressive elites that adore the character that Lin-Manuel Miranda created in his musical may be surprised to find out what the actual views of Alexander Hamilton were on mass immigration--legal or illegal.
Hamilton also understood the importance of law and order to the fabric of a society.
The immigration laws exist to provide order and to protect our society from masses who might undermine the character and values of our society if immigration is not controlled.
(October 2, 2025)
There is a reality behind the argument for reparations for African Americans that the proponents fail to mention.
Only 4% of the entire African Slave Trade ended up in the United States.
This is a fact that is not taught in schools.
I doubt those making the argument for reparations are even aware of the reality.
If there is an argument for reparations in the United States isn't there a larger moral and legal obligation for Brazil and a number of other Caribbean countries (including Cuba) to provide reparations since 96% of the slave trade to the Western Hemisphere went to these locales and only 4% to North America?
However, we never hear about the need for Brazil, Cuba or Jamaica to pay reparations.
Why not?
(November 24, 2025)
Tehran is literally running out of water and the city may have to be evacuated.
At a minimum, it appears that plans are being made to relocate the nation's capital as Tehran is not sustainable over the long term.
The news reports cite mismanagement, illicit drilling, indulging Tehran's citizens and drought for the water problems.
I found it interesting that no one in Iran was blaming "climate change".
There must be no political gain in doing that in Iran.
Seeing water issues facing Iran I have to admit that I could not help but also think about the stories in the Bible where God exacts justice on those who deviate from his moral code or who wish to do harm to Israel.
Could that also be at play here?
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