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Measuring Success

During the current age of anxiety I have maintained a zen-like disposition. Discussing this with my wife I realized that my lack of anxiety was due, at least in part, to my lack of pride, lack of ambition, and lack of envy. With only a little reflection it can be argued that these characteristics would not lead to success in life.

The details of my professional life are more than any reader should be asked to endure but I will relate one example. I went to graduate school at Duke University in t...

Why Does the US Establishment Hate Russia?

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Whatever Happened to Conservatives?

Conservatives of whom there were few in universities, media, and politics were a principled opposition of the wayward ways in which Americans were being led.

They were defenders of the Constitution. They believed that the US government’s job was to protect citizens’ constitutional rights and to serve American interests rather than the interest of foreign governments. This last belief was compromised by conservatives’ opposition to the Soviet Union and support for wars, primarily the Vietnam War,...

DEI Dying on the Vine of the World Economic Forum

Looking at the websites of The World Economic Forum and the United Nations, one might think that earth was inhabited only by women.   Empowering women.  Women of the future.   The Gender Gap.   Women’s Healthcare.  Women inventors.   It is nauseating.   In Palestine these ‘women’ are murdered daily.  In America they are raped by illegals every day.   And McKenzie Scott’s ‘charitable donations’ are targeting baby deaths, ie abortions, and trans, ie men who want to be fake women.   While Bill Gate...

The First Amendment Takes a Beating in the Supreme Court

Late in oral arguments yesterday during the Murthy v Missouri censorship case before the Supreme Court, newest Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson interrogated J. Benjamin Aguinaga, Solicitor General of Louisiana:

JACKSON: So my biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways in the most important time periods…

Can you help me? Because I’m really — I’m really worried about that because you’ve got the First Amendment operating in an environment ...

Baseball, Without the Competition

In our years of raising six children, we’ve made a point to have every child play sports in our Atlanta community. Nobody needed to be a superstar—just a solid participant. All of our boys played baseball for a few years, and all of our girls played soccer. During those younger years, we did a few stints with tennis lessons and swim team, too, neither of which were crowd favorites. In this way, we hoped to teach them to be vigorous, engage with others confidently, and toughen up under a bit of h...

Skyrocketing Male Infertility May Threaten Mankind’s Survival

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I personally believe this may be the most significant factor for the observed decrease in male sperm count. You may not recall this, but it was well known in World War II that radar operators could easily create sterility by exposing the groin to radar waves. Radar is microwave radiation and was the precursor to cellphones that use similar frequencies.

In May 2011, the cancer research arm of the WHO, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, classified radiofrequency EMF — suc...

The Biggest U.S.-and-Allied Lies About the War in Ukraine

#1 lie: If Russia takes Ukraine, we’ll be next.

There is zero evidence for this lie, and it is a lie that is even more outlandish than the lie that if Vietnam falls to the communists, that will be just the first “domino” and all the others will fall and the Soviet Union and/or communist China will take over the world.

Russia actually had no motivation to invade Ukraine until the U.S. carried out a coup, which overthrew and replaced Ukraine’s neutralist Government and installed a rabidly anti-Rus...

What Do Justin Trudeau and Kristi Noem Have in Common?

The left and right sides of an ellipse are descriptive of Left and Right politics. At the top of the ellipse is Liberty. At the bottom of the ellipse is Tyranny. Republicans and Democrats spend most of their time arguing over things that fall in the middle of the ellipse.

I define Tyranny as anything that promotes the power of the state to control people’s lives and liberties beyond the Natural Laws of our Creator. I define Liberty as anything that constrains the power of the state to control pe...

The One And Only Case for Lower Rates— Still Another Fix for Wall Street

There is surely no development more inimical to main street prosperity and democratic governance than the lock, stock and barrel capture by Wall Street of the nation’s central bank. That baleful condition enables and sustains the two very worst forces in American society today—the spenders and warmongers of Washington and the Wall Street speculators, who otherwise claim to be traders and asset managers.

The not-so-secret sauce of the Fed’s rogue monetary regime, of course, is artificial, ultra-c...