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No, Powell Is Not ‘Keeping Interest Rates High’

There really is no reasoning with Trump fanboys when it comes to the reality of his policies. They will spin anything and everything to portray Trump‘s blatant anti-freedom and anti-market policies as secret crypto-libertarianism. It’s all 1000-D chess, you see.

The latest bogus narrative of this sort comes from one of my readers who is convinced that Trump is right in denouncing those central bankers who inflate too little. The reader objects to my Wednesday column which says that Trump has now...

Every American State Is a Fully Sovereign Nation

The United States government claims that the United States of America, is a single sovereign nation;  while likewise claiming that it was always a national union, from 1776 onward.

But this was indeed never true; as every state was always a separate sovereign nation unto itself.

In reality, the American Revolution established the states as thirteen sovereign nations, by law, as originally declared in 1776:

And thereafter, every state was officially established as a separate sovereign nation und...

The Bell Tolls for All White Gentile Ethnicities

The Vice President and Secretary of State of the United States have called attention to the tyrannical behavior of the current German government, a corrupt anti-democratic government, controlled by Israel,  that is holding on to power by designating its rival, AfD, the rapidly growing second largest party as “extremist.”  Recent polls indicate that the AfD has pulled even and perhaps a bit ahead of the government that is trying to suppress it.

By applying the “extremist” label to its rival, the ...

A Lamb and a Shepherd Among Wolves

In the previous essay in this series, we honored Blessed Otto Neururer, the first priest to be executed by the Nazis. We also acknowledged those better-known victims of the Third Reich’s anti-Christian pogrom, St. Maximilian Kolbe and St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein). It is also fitting, however, that we should commemorate some other largely-unknown victims of Hitler’s National Socialist regime.

On August 9, 1943, on the first anniversary of the martyrdom of St. Teresa Benedicta o...

War in Ukraine – The Mineral Deal Pulls Trump Back in

This week the U.S. and Ukraine signed a ‘mineral deal’. It will allow the U.S. to profit from all future explorations of minerals and hydrocarbons in the grounds controlled by the Kiev regime.

The deal grew out of a scheme the (former) President Zelenski had peddled within the framework of his ‘victory plan’ last year. He had hopped to entice further support in form of weapons and even direct military intervention against Russia in exchange for some access to rare earth minerals in Ukraine. With...

Agent Waltz?

The Washington Post is reporting today that recently-ousted National Security Advisor Mike Waltz may have been involved in activities even more nefarious than inviting journalists onto highly sensitive Signal group chats. It appears that what really angered President Trump is less Waltz’s incompetence (or worse) in keeping sensitive military communications secure, but rather his taking an active role in doing the bidding of a foreign government.

As the Post reported, in advance of Israeli Prime ...

Why U.S. Interventionism Fails

My sister-in-law was born in Saigon just six days before it fell to the North Vietnamese Army on April 30, 1975. Together with her mother and siblings, she was one of thousands of South Vietnamese who were evacuated by helicopter in the U.S. military’s Operation Frequent Wind.

A few days ago, on April 30, her family attended a 50th anniversary ceremony on board to the U.S.S. Midway in San Diego to commemorate the evacuation. Local news stations captured footage of her and her siblings at the cer...

Trump’s Inflationist Monetary Policy Favors Wall Street over Main Street

The Trump administration has tried to cultivate a reputation for preferring “Main Street over Wall Street.” Unfortunately, this image is belied by the administration’s renewed push for artificially low interest rates and monetary inflation. By embracing these policies, Trump has put himself squarely in the camp of “Wall Street over Main Street.”

This is because a policy of monetary inflation and low interest rates favors wealthy owners of assets while imposing higher prices and fewer income gain...

Will We See Mushroom Clouds Over Kashmir?

One of the world’s, oldest and most dangerous conflicts went critical this past week as nuclear armed India and Pakistan traded threats of war. The Kashmir conflict is the oldest one before the UN.

In my book `War at the Top of the World’ I warned that the confrontation over Kashmir, the beautiful mountain state claimed by both Islamabad and Delhi, could unleash a nuclear war that could kill millions and pollute the planet. 

After three wars and many clashes, it seemed the two bad neighbors had ...

The Government Wants Americans To Get Married and Have Many Babies. But Is That Part of Its Job?

problem with that is, for many decades, the government has contributed to the problem. Moreover, there are other, more trustworthy, institutions that can handle this sort of problem.

The birthrate in the U.S. is 1.6 children per woman, below the 2.1 replacement rate needed for the population to sustain itself without immigration. Up until recently, our leaders used this fact to justify the unceasing deluge of third-world migrants. Rather than address why the people who already live here aren’t h...