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Textbook Communism: American Version

The same U.S. government that spent hundreds of billions of dollars and squandered tens of thousands of American lives in its “cold war” to supposedly defend against a communist takeover of America also spent hundreds of billions on communist indoctrination in American schools for the past sixty years.  Higher education in America is essentially a socialist institution thanks to pervasive government funding, even for schools like Johns Hopkins University, the recipient of hundreds of millions in...

The Silly Furor Over ‘Allegedly’

On Sunday, Kristen Welker of Meet The Press offered a throwaway line while introducing one of the show’s guests, former South Carolina governor and presidential candidate Nikki Haley:

Haley is now dialing back expectations… Haley also weighing in on the Supreme Court’s decision to hear arguments over Mr. [Donald] Trump’s claim that he’s immune from criminal prosecution for allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 election.

Colleagues went bananas, pitchforking poor Welker for including the pro form...

Fat Propaganda Roundup: Pharma Front Groups Demand Medicare Ozempic Subsidy

Documenting the meatiest, juiciest cuts of “fat acceptance” propaganda from corporate and social media.

Hotel hallways are too narrow, fatphobic, claims #bodypositive ‘travel influencer’

Via New York Post:

“In a video posted to her TikTok last month, Jaelynn Chaney listed several ways hotels can create “size-inclusive” amenities.

She said she is ‘on a mission to revolutionize the travel industry, and make it a more accessible, accepting, accommodating place for all,’ adding: ‘The needs of plus-s...

What Do L-Carnitine Supplements Really Do?

Carnitine is another important nutrient that’s abundant in animal foods. Your body produces L-carnitine from the amino acid lysine, and while healthy people are typically able to synthesize enough, certain conditions — like pregnancy — may cause your body’s need for carnitine to exceed its ability to produce it. For this reason, carnitine is considered a conditionally essential nutrient.1

L-carnitine and acetyl-L-carnitine are forms of carnitine found in dietary supplements. While your body abso...

Causing Posperity

We live in strange times, times when seemingly we have forgotten the obvious things and are suffering decline as our just desserts.

Not long ago, this was “blatantly obvious civilizational bedrock about which the west broadly agreed.”

Now it seems almost revolutionary.

And i suspect it’s because we’re asking the wrong questions.

This is the correct question.

“Why are these people poor?” is a meaningless question. it’s the base state, nasty, brutish, and short.

Ask instead: “how did some few pe...

Can Bitcoin Act as Money?

Since 24 January, bitcoin has risen 65% and gold rose about 7% priced in US dollars. Before gold began its current successful but relatively modest leap into new high ground, there is little doubt that hedge funds and others sold down their Comex gold contracts and bought some bitcoin ETFs instead. The listing permissions for bitcoin ETFs made regulated investment possible. And attracted by the limitations of supply, an investment cohort moved in for the kill.

This raises the often debated quest...

Global Recession’s Winners and Losers

The few winners of global recession will use the decline as a means to break the chokehold of unproductive BAU elites.

That the global economy is slipping into recession is self-evident. What’s not yet known is the eventual depth and length of the recession. Given that the extreme policies needed to avoid recession over the past 15 years have reached extremes that are now the problem, not the solution, there won’t be any more fiscal-monetary “saves” this time around.

What’s also not yet known is...

Religious Schools Should Reject Government Funds

The state of California has agreed to pay a Christian preschool over $30,000, and its attorneys $160,000, as part of the settlement of a filed by the school against the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) over the school’s biblical beliefs on gender and sexuality.

The Church of Compassion in El Cajon, California, owns and operates the Dayspring Learning Center preschool and daycare program. It “maintains biblically orthodox religious beliefs and practices regarding human sexu...

Covering President Donald Trump at CPAC

This is one of those “essays I fear to write.” I fear that those who are passionate admirers of President Trump will take umbrage at my notes about his recent speech at CPAC; and that those who are appalled at the mere mention of his name, will be even angrier at me than they usually are — as in this essay I treat him seriously as a Presidential candidate.

As many know, I used to be a political consultant — for President Clinton’s re-election campaign in 1996, and for Vice President Gore’s 2000 ...

Why Almost Nothing Changes When Republicans Are Elected

Before digging into the title of this column, I need to call your attention to what I said in this column of February 8:

As I said, among the millions of illegals that have entered the U.S. are untold thousands of drug cartel members. These men are among the most violent and bloodthirsty people in the world. Murder is a part of their daily routine. Human life means absolutely NOTHING to them. And Biden has given them everything they need to set up their butcher shops in America.

When my oldest s...