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Trump Sold-Out His Base to Shovel $95 Billion to Ukraine and Israel

America last. America last. That’s all this is. America last, every single day. – Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene

The man who is most responsible for the $95 billion giveaway to Ukraine and Israel, is the same guy who pretends to oppose America’s “wasteful” foreign wars. Donald Trump. It was Trump who consulted with Speaker Mike Johnson about the contents of the Ukraine aid package, just as it was Trump who concocted the idea of issuing loans instead of dispersing the standard welfare hand...

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Debt

Some people are more observant than others. Some are more capable of thinking outside the box than others. Whether this is by nature or nurture is a moot point.

When we are children, we tend to look upon the world in all its wonder. We are amazed at what exists and we absorb it like a sponge. Then, when we are in our teens, we begin our second wave of discovery. We begin to pay more attention to the things that we find confusing; we become absorbed in issues like world hunger, warfare and politi...

Is the ‘Housing Shortage’ the Result of Housing-Hoarding by the Wealthy?

Those seeking to buy a house as shelter for their household can’t compete with the wealthy seeking assets to snap up and hoard for appreciation.

Longtime readers know I’ve been addressing housing issues from the start of the blog in 2005. Let’s start with the general context of housing in the US, courtesy of the US Census Bureau, which tracks occupancy and the number of housing units nationally: Quarterly Residential Vacancies and Homeownership, 4th Quarter 2023

All housing units 145,967,000

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The Bad Faith Olympics

“This is the weirdest era in human history. By far. Nothing else even comes close. Billionaires trying to kill everyone. Civil society unable to form a coherent thought. Institutions lie in smoldering ruins. Poisons handed out like candy. We are Neanderthals with iPhones.” — Dr. Toby Rogers

Did it warm your heart to see all those blue and yellow Ukrainian flags waved by our elected officials in Congress Saturday night with the passage of the $60-plus-billion aid bill to the Palookaville of Europ...

We Need To Do With the State What We’Ve Done With Slavery

This article is based on chapter 8 of my book Do Not Consent: Think OUTSIDE the Voting Booth, 2020

If someone asked you to define “free market,” could you?  Could you do it on the spot without recourse to dictionaries or other crutches?

The term “laissez-faire economy” might do as a first response.  But what does it mean?  In Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal Ayn Rand explains:

Based on a column in the Los Angeles Times, August 1962.

Colbert, chief adviser of Louis XIV, was one of the early modern s...

Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan

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Final Nail in America’s Coffin?

When future historians go searching for the final nail in the US coffin, they may well settle on the date April 20, 2024.

On that day Congress passed legislation to fund two and a half wars, hand what’s left of our privacy over to the CIA and NSA, and give the US president the power to shut down whatever part of the Internet he disagrees with.

The nearly $100 billion grossly misnamed “National Security Supplemental” guarantees that Ukrainians will continue to die in that country’s unwinnable war...

The 28th Amendment

This post sat incomplete collecting dust in my drafts folder since last spring. Given self-evident revelations about phony and rigged elections, and the global hierarchical nature of a psychopathic technocratic order’s command and control structure that dominates national governance, it genuinely seemed wasteful to allocate time and attention to a Constitutional Amendment. However, given recent geopolitical events, and the exhausted patience of true “America First” patriots sick of seeing their ...

Idolatry in a World of Diminishing Faith

I’ve always been fascinated by the concept of fame. In fact, I wrote a book about the subject: On Borrowed Fame: Money, Mysteries, and Corruption in the Entertainment World. I’m embarrassed to admit that I used to watch TMZ. The antics of celebrities are like junk food. I stopped watching when I didn’t know any of the celebrities.

Like other American youngsters, I grew up idolizing my favorite athletes. They were rarely the superstars that most other boys worshiped. Even then, I tended to avoid ...

The Demonic Flooding of America Was Deliberate

This was published last August in a series looking at the people behind the curtain. It is a “story” that I continue to follow because it makes me very very cross. I grew up with the Canadian version of these people, and found them limited in vision and cruel. I had no idea how bad it was.

In this essay, I draw together the evidence that from the 60’s on, their goal was to break the children of three generations, (ending with gender reassignment surgery), destroy their minds, stunt their futures...