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Anti-Liberty Conservatives Want More Theft

American Compass, a think tank promoting a conservatism lacking even a rhetorical commitment to free markets, recently called for Republicans to support tax increases. The organization claims a GOP embrace of higher taxes will enable the uniparty’s left (Democratic) and right (Republican) wings to create a deficit reduction plan balancing tax increase with spending cuts.

American Compass is correct that both parties need to prioritize deficit reduction. The 35 trillion dollars (and rising) natio...

Transhumanism – An Alien Vision For Planet Earth

The transhumanism debate heats up.   Google is ‘transhuman’.  Who is leading the AI advancement?   Seems rather obvious – it is not Humans.  For all their cock stalking, humans don’t have the mental acumen to create what is being created in AI.  Silicon Valley is a congregation of secular pawns They believe that their indoctrination by aliens makes them superior in the technological sphere – but in reality, it simply makes them the epitome of  sheeple.   They take credit for advancements they do...

Don’t Forget the USS Liberty’s Dead and Wounded

Reader’s celebrating and remembering veterans on Memorial Day and on D Day should not overlook the sacrifices of the dead and wounded on board the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967.

I am grateful to those that have read my previous stories about the sneak attack made on the USS Liberty by Israel, an attack which killed 34 and wounded 171 Americans. I am continually surprised at the number of people that are not aware of Israel’s duplicity and treachery visited on an unarmed, plainly marked and neutral...

‘The Myth of Mass Democracy’

There is a persistent and largely unquestioned myth that the United States is a “democracy” in that its government is of, by, and for its people. This myth resides in the idea that there is an “American people” that has a will, which it exercises by voting in large-scale elections to elect officials who will adopt policies that reflect this will, and that the people can hold these officials accountable by replacing them if they fail to enact the people’s will. Instead, the government of the Unit...

Do You Know Who’s Hitting You?

Which of the following statements is politically correct?

— End Foreign Aid to Israel and Everyone Else

— End the Draft Permanently

— U.S. Soldiers Died for Nothing in WW I

— Abolish the National Anthem

— Memorial Day Is Based on a Lie

— Abolish the FBI, America’s KGB

— The Soviet Union Won WW II

— Thank You for Your Killing

None of them, of course.  Each is linked to an article written by Future of Freedom Foundation (FFF) founder Jacob Hornberger over the past few years.  Hornberger, refreshin...

Against Defeatism: The Apocaloptimist Manifesto

“Never accept an inferior position to anyone. It is the strongest spirit that wins, not the most expensive sword.”
—Miyamoto Musashi

The Courage to Survive

“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”
—Winston Churchill

Port Elizabeth, South Africa. December 18, 1994.

“Do you think she’s dead?” a man asked, speaking in Afrikaans.

“No one can survive that,” said his companion.

Later dubbed the Ripper Rapists, the two climbed into their victim’s car, one tossing a denim shirt onto the motionless b...

Laptop Deniers in Delaware

Below is my column in Fox.com on the authentication of Hunter Biden’s laptop in the Delaware trial. The government has denounced the Russian disinformation claims as a “conspiracy theory” and put on evidence that there is no evidence of tampering with the laptop. The FBI declared the laptop to be “real” and “authentic” and the court agreed. It was introduced as evidence before many reporters who previously embraced the debunked “conspiracy theory.” As discussed below, Houdini’s elephant was just...

The Achilles Heel of the Fiat Money System

The fiat money system will not disappear just like that. Any expectations or hopes to that end should be tempered. Yes, the fiat money system could collapse; yet there is a significant likelihood it will persist longer than most people might think. This prolonged existence may come at a cost: a fascist state encroachment on the freedoms of citizens and entrepreneurs would be more profound than most people realize.

Much ink has been spilt about the impending collapse of the international fiat mon...

Socialism’s Very Quiet Revolution

In his 1949 book The Road Ahead: America’s Creeping Revolution, John T. Flynn warns about the “great tides of thought and appetite that run unseen deeply below the surface of society.” These unseen tides are political waves that shape the law and institutional policy, but because they are unseen, there is no widespread awareness of the danger they pose. They are barely debated in academic or policy circles. They are treated as an uncontroversial aspect of the political “consensus,” and their imp...

Defending Gaza (Part I): Natural-Law Principles Vs. National-Interest Statism

The individual’s natural right to life antedates the state apparatus.

Let us not commit the Sin of Abstraction—the sin of escaping into theory, and in so doing, avoiding reality—the reality of Israel’s real sins, real crimes, the crime of all crimes.

When Americans reflect on history’s tragedies and travesties, they habitually extol the virtue of Pax Americana, but never the horrors of it. Having shaped the annals of the past, regime historians, naturally, speak a great deal about Hitler, but ha...