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Why and How To Fire 42,000 IRS Agents…

The true scandal of current American fiscal governance needs be commented on. Or, better still, hammered upon good and hard.

To wit, the American electorate apparently doesn’t give a shit about runaway government spending because as a practical matter the overwhelming share of voters don’t pay the taxes to fund it. Aside from social insurance taxes, which most payroll taxpayers still believe to be a premium for a government-sponsored retirement annuity, the bottom 90% of households fund only a t...

The Wile E. Coyote Recession

So where are corporate profits going to come from as globalization, price-gouging, planned obsolescence, shrinkflation and immiseration run out of rope?

We all know there’s a time lag between the moment Wile E. Coyote runs off the cliff at full speed and the moment he realizes there’s nothing but thin air beneath his feet. His expression in the second before he begins his descent communicates surprise, fear and a woeful awareness of impending impact with unforgiving ground.

This is an apt descr...

Trump’s Fourth Greatest Betrayal so Far — And Pete Hegseth

The title of this column on April 3 was Trump’s Three Greatest Betrayals So Far.  Today, I’m highlighting Trump’s fourth greatest betrayal so far. And, given the fact that we are only three months into Trump’s second term, there are doubtless many more betrayals on the way.

Trump’s Greatest Betrayal Number Four

On May 7, the Trump administration will require that all Americans obtain a Real ID to be able to board a domestic airliner.

FOX News covers the story:

Conservatives are sp...

Archbishop Viganò: Bergoglio Was Installed by Globalists To Further the Masonic Revolution

Archbishop Viganò believes that globalists schemed to remove Benedict XVI from the Vatican and replace him with Francis as part of a worldwide “coup.”

According to an April 23 letter by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, he gave a characteristic interview about the Bergoglian reign to editors of Italy’s “Fuori dal coro” (“Out of the Ordinary”) television program.

When asked for his evaluation of Pope Francis, the former papal nuncio to the U.S. suggested that every Catholic would jud...

What They Don’t Tell You About Anxiety

Many consider anxiety to be the disease of the modern age. It is thus one of the most significant disease markets in America (e.g., from 2001-2004, approximately 19.1% of American adults had an anxiety disorder and in 2007, 36.8 billion was spent on medical care for anxiety and mood disorders). Yet despite spending billions on anxiety, rather than be appropriately addressed (like many other industries that depend upon the perpetuation of the problem they “solve”), it has only increased.

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A ‘Trump Deal’? Juggling War, ‘Easy War’ and Negotiation

The key MAGA issue is not foreign policy, but how to structurally re-balance an economic paradigm in danger of an extinction event.

Trump clearly is in the midst of an existential conflict. He has a landslide mandate. But is ringed by a resolute domestic enemy front in the form of an ‘industrial concern’ infused with Deep State ideology, centred primarily on preserving U.S. global power (rather than on mending of the economy).

The key MAGA issue however is not foreign policy, but how to st...

Evil Doctrine Smashed by EO

Yesterday the White House released an executive order called “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy,” taking aim at the inane and destructive “disparate impact” policy.

According to this policy, if any employment requirement has a “disparate impact” on the races, the employer can be hauled into court and forced to defend the requirement — easier said than done.

That includes requiring that applicants pass a test (even an excruciatingly simple test), or hold a high school diploma, or ...

Crimea’s Bloody History

NBC just reported that high level talks in London to end the war in Ukraine foundered when Zelensky proclaimed he would never agree to a deal in which the U.S. officially recognized the Crimea as Russian territory.

Zelenskyy has consistently rejected the suggestion that his country give up its claim to the Crimean Peninsula.

“There’s nothing to talk about here,” he said at a media conference Tuesday. “This is against our constitution.”

A brief review of history reveals there is little historical...

How a President Becomes a Dictator: By Executive Order

“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.” — Ayn Rand

130 executive orders in under 100 days.

Sweeping powers claimed in the name of “security” and “efficiency.”

One president acting as lawmaker, enforcer, and judge.

No debate. No oversight. No limits.

This is how the Cons...

Secretary Hegseth Threatens the Deep State

It’s been three months since Vice President Vance cast the tie-breaking vote to confirm Pete Hegseth as Defense secretary.  The Deep State worked hard to scuttle Hegseth’s nomination in December and January with a steady drip of news stories calling his character into question, but President Trump and his trusted veep stood by their man and applied enough pressure on wayward Republican senators to secure his confirmation.  Suddenly, corporate propagandists posing as reporters are back with fresh...