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Mr. Callahan Has His Say: California’s Governor Defends Child Exploitation, Attacks Law Enforcement

Jack Callahan was frying rainbow trout on his camp stove along the Upper Sacramento when the news broke on his iPhone. California’s Caligula was at it again, crying about federal agents doing what they’re supposed to do—enforce the law.

This time, Gavin Newsom was throwing his slick-haired tantrum over immigration raids at marijuana farms where ten children were found working illegally.

“Trump calls me ‘Newscum’ — but he’s the real scum,” whined Slick on social media. Jack set down his spatula a...

Trump’s Election Interference Tariff

Like a child with his new favorite toy at Christmas, President Trump is using tariff taxes not only to attempt to centrally plan the pricing of thousands of goods and services in the economy, but also to engage in election interference in other countries.  The latter statement refers to how he recently put the government of Brazil on notice that 50 percent tariff taxes would be imposed on Brazilian imports to the U.S. unless it dropped the legal case against the former Brazilian President Jair B...

Limiting Governments by Limiting a Party

Everywhere, power is exerted over people’s life, liberty, and property by governments.

Limiting Governments

In tribes, power was exerted by chiefs. In larger agricultural civilizations, power was exerted by kings. The person who used the most power reigned.

In Israel initially, laws were given by God and administered by judges, and collective self-defense was organized under military leaders. In Israel later, power was exerted by kings, and people soon fell away from God.

The Dutch Republic, the...

Why the Income Tax Is Evil

All government intervention is bad, but the income tax is a particularly insidious form of evil. As the great libertarian theorist Frank Chodorov wrote in 1954: “With this definition of ‘evil’ in mind, it is the purpose of this book [The Income Tax: Root of All Evil] to show that many laws and governmental practices are impregnated with it, and to trace this wholesale infringement of our rights to the power acquired by the federal government in 1913 to tax our incomes—the Sixteenth Amendment. Th...

Constitutional Lawyer Robert Barnes Weighs In On The Epstein Case History & Why Trump’s Approval Rating / Agenda Are Being Tanked

Constitutional Lawyer Robert Barnes Weighs In On The Epstein Case History & Why Trump’s Approval Rating / Agenda Are Being Tanked

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Odd happenings

Bruce McLane wrote:

I can’t believe Epstein killed himself right before he was about to be acquitted due to a complete lack of evidence.

 

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What Underlies the Erosion of Trust in Modern Medicine?

One of my longstanding curiosities has been what universal laws govern the reality we inhabit, and I have gradually concluded one is “the law of equilibrium,” which states:

•Any process we observe is the product of competing forces balancing each other out to an equilibrium point.
•While it is sometimes possible to shift the equilibrium point (e.g., by mass poisoning the world with COVID vaccines), in most cases, systems will typically return to their equilibrium point.
•While the equilibrium so...

Beware the Priest as Clown

Clownishness reached new depths several months ago in the Philippines. Not the Bozo kind, the Catholic kind. Cardinal Antonio Tagle took to the stage, donning a chorus line outfit, microphone in hand, bobbing and swaying as he crooned John Lennon’s “Imagine.”

For those fortunate to have escaped the cultural junk-littered demi-monde of the ’60s and early ’70s, this song was a paean to the consolations of atheism. His Eminence held the Filipino Catholic crowd in thrall as they, too, swayed to this...

President Trump’s Renewal of America Has Gone Dramatically Wrong

Donald Trump attracted massive political support–the most we have seen any candidate attract in many years–because he said his aim was to restore America on its traditional values, the values that had made the United States a successful country. Instead of foreign wars, Trump promised restoration at home.

But everywhere we look Trump is enmeshed in foreign, not domestic, affairs.  Netanyahu is leading Trump into war with Iran. Trump sends Zelensky, not himself, to meet with Putin despite the fac...

The Rise of the Prison State: Trump’s Push for Megaprisons Could Lock Us All Up

“You think we’re arresting people now? You wait till we get the funding to do what we got to do.”—Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar

America is rapidly becoming a nation of prisons.

Having figured out how to parlay presidential authority in foreign affairs in order to sidestep the Constitution, President Trump is using his immigration enforcement powers to lock up—and lock down—the nation.

After all, a police state requires a prison state. And no one is cheering louder than the private prison corpor...