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Have We Reached Peak NFL?

How will the owners and managers of the multi-billion-dollar NFL empire handle the league’s decline phase?

OK, I get it: pro football is so popular because it’s one of the last refuges of modern life that hasn’t been ruined by politics. Oops, scratch that. But we shouldn’t pin the decline of pro football’s popularity (as measured by viewership) solely on player protests, as the decline predates the recent politicization.

As this chart shows, viewership has been sliding for years across the en...

The Heretical Sects of the Middle Ages

The Socialist Phenomenon, by Igor Shafarevich

I bet you are thinking “aha, bionic has finally figured out the truth about the European Middle Ages and the role of the Catholic Church and tradition!”  Let’s disabuse you of this notion right off the top; the chapter title in Shafarevich’s book is entitled “The Socialism of the Heresies.”  I will focus only on his sections regarding the Middle Ages.

During the Middle Ages and the period of the Reformation, doctrines of chiliastic socialism ofte...

Gifts for Car Guys

Looking for the perfect gift for the car lover, commuter or techie in your life? Look no further than the 2017 Car Pro Holiday Gift Guide. Here are our 13 picks both to give and to receive.

Nonda ZUS Smart Tire Safety Monitor: $99.99

Sure, many newer cars have built-in tire pressure monitoring systems, but chances are they’re not as sophisticated as this one. Not to mention many older cars don’t have TPMS at all. That said, we bring you the Nonda ZUS Smart Tire Safety Monitoring system. It ca...

If Trump Actually Drained the Swamp

What would it look like? Would you recognize it if you saw it? What would you say if I said that Draining The Swamp has already begun? What if I told you World War III has already begun?

Is it possible that you might not even recognize it?

I can’t definitively say what is going on. Hell, most of you know I have not been a Trump supporter. I’m of the opinion that ALL of our (s)elected leaders are vile, villainous scum that cannot be trusted and who would blame me based on the last nine years a...

True Sports Fans Against War

Delaware North Companies, Inc.
Attn: Jeremy M. Jacobs, Jr., CEO
40 Fountain Plaza
Buffalo, NY  14202

Dear Mr. Jacobs,

My uncle, Norman Krolman, was a great hockey player and I love going to a hockey game in your Boston Garden. Until last night.

Before the game starts, you play the national anthem with its disturbing imagery of the explosive destruction of war. Nothing to do with hockey but that’s all right, I guess. It reminds me of my uncle.

During the game, you highlight a live warrior in t...

16 Facts 16 Years After 9/11

There are still many people who instantly place those who question the official narrative of  9/11 within the conspiracy realm. They do this automatically, without ever investigating or questioning for themselves, simply trusting in whatever narrative is provided to them via mainstream media. This is partly due to fear — it’s easier, and more comfortable, and less frightening to believe there are enemies far from home who wish us harm than to consider that the people we chose to put in positi...

What Happens After the Next 9/11?

Is a police state in the US possible? Absolutely.

That’s because people are essentially the same the world over, regardless of their culture, religion, race, or what-have-you. A certain percentage of them are sociopaths.

There is a standard distribution of sociopaths across time and space. It’s a function of Pareto’s Law, better known as the 80-20 rule. 20% of the people do 80% of the work. Another 20% are responsible for 80% of the crime. 20% of the population always winds up with 80% of the...

All-Out War

Klein is basically an investigative reporter who has written a great book on the efforts to reverse the results of the 2016 presidential election. It is an old fashioned type report based on facts with little opinion.

He details how three major institutions have banded together to destroy the Trump presidency. These are the Deep State (the permanent bureaucratic government in DC), Congress, and the “streets.” There is also most of the media which acts as the propaganda department for these in...

A Century of Change

Remnant Review

My mother was born on December 15, 1917. She died just shy of 98 years old in 2015. These time-marking dates got me thinking about the world that she entered.

Public health policies had overcome most pandemics by 1917. There was only one pandemic still ahead, the flu epidemic of 1918. That was the last one the West ever saw. While there have been tremendous developments in medicine since 1917, most notably penicillin and the development of sulfa drugs, the great breakthroughs i...

Does Vitamin Therapy Work?

According to modern medicine, vitamin therapy is hocus pocus.  It relies on a mixture of voodoo plus the placebo effect.  A report published in the Annals of Internal Medicine says unequivocally, vitamin and mineral supplements are a “waste of money.”  A noted professor of medicine says multivitamins just create “expensive urine” as they are rapidly excreted in urine (pssst… water soluble drugs suffer the same fate).  But is modern medicine just protecting its income stream derived from its o...