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Blowback Is Coming… 7/22/25

From 2024 into 2025, over roughly 9-10 months, I worked with journalist Margaret Roberts on her upcoming book, titled Blowback: The Untold Story of the FBI and the Oklahoma City Bombing. My role was that of a research consultant—a friendly resource available to help with a project that I viewed as significant and a righteous undertaking. It was both a pleasure and an honor to collaborate on this project.

Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue connected me with Roberts, whom he knew for years (r...

How the ‘News’ Media Distort About the Cuts to Medicaid

A typical example is the Politico article, on July 3rd, “Three reasons why Republicans cut Medicaid”, which at its opening asks and answers the question: “why did the GOP slash deeply into the health insurance program in its megabill? Three reasons: [1] Republicans desperately needed money to avoid a big tax increase next year, [2] they wanted to claw back Biden-era policies GOP lawmakers say led to lax eligibility checks and more fraudulent benefit claims and [3] they wanted to curb the Medicai...

Configuring All Things to Christ

So, then, what is Christian Culture? What does it look like? Are there certain defining features that distinguish it from what passes for culture these days? And if so, how are we to recognize them?

What it is, at the deepest level, is an answer to the question raised by the Hebrew psalmist in a time of unprecedented anguish and desolation, when the People of the Promise are forced to endure exile and captivity. They have lost their land, their freedom; the temple where they worship the living G...

Stepping Out of the Debt Trap

Donald Trump has claimed that American banks are not allowed to do business in Canada, which isn’t true, but the US banks would love to have a bigger piece of the financial pie in Canada, since commercial banks are some of the most profitable businesses in Canada.

And banks have an obvious advantage: it’s easier to be profitable when you can make money by making money.

As Mark Carney stated in his book Value(s), “In the modern financial system, the private sector creates most of the money in cir...

Nothing to Say, Ma

As a result of recent conversations, my life-long closest friend Diego wrote the following. If you’re lucky as we are, you have such a friend whose interests and thoughts match yours so closely that it seems that you were separated at birth in a dream. We both felt from the days of our youth when chance brought us together that, to paraphrase Bob Dylan,  it was not he, she, them, or it that we belonged to, or that we would ever gargle in the rat race choir for those who make the rules to terroriz...

What Rothbardians Should Think About States Rights

States Rights has been a dominant theme in American history. We all know about the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, the Tariff of Abominations, the War Between the States, the battle over the civil rights movement, and so on. But I’m not going to rehash American history in this week’s column. Instead, I’m going to ask a more fundamental question. What should Rothbardians think about states rights?

For Rothbard, the key question in all political issues is  how to promote freedom. As he says in ...

Ron Paul Rewind: Don’t Ban Flag Burning

In a Tuesday speech at Fort Bragg, President Donald Trump declared that “people that burn the American flag should go to jail for one year,” something Trump proceeded to state he is working with United States senators to bring about.

Twenty-two years ago this month, members of the United States House of Representatives were debating on the House floor whether they should approve H. J. Res. 4, a proposed constitutional amendment that would have empowered the Congress to “prohibit the physical des...

Skilled in All Ways of Contending

On a cruise in the Aegean—the first time in 20 years—I am reminded that contending with adversaries lies at the heart of the human condition. For millennia, the lands and islands that are now the territories of Turkey and Greece have been contested by a bewildering array of tribes with conflicting tribal and religious identities.

Many of the places I have visited were the scenes of conflict between the Knights of Saint John and the Ottoman Turks. The following photo is of a little church that wa...

Staring Down the Barrel of War With Iran Once Again

Well it looks like the US is on the precipice of war with Iran again.

US officials are telling the press that they anticipate a potential impending Israeli attack on Iran while the family members of US military personnel are being assisted with evacuation from bases in the region.

This comes as Tehran issues a warning that it will strike all US military bases within range of its missiles if it comes under attack. There are reportedly some 50,000 US troops in 10 bases which could come under fire ...

Now That the Parasites Have Consumed the Host….

The parasites have been feasting for so many decades that they’ve lost the ability to discern reality: their survival now depends on feeding on other parasites.

Let’s conduct a thought experiment. First, set aside all the usual economic-ideological certainties, mythologies and filters–capitalism and free markets are the fountains of endless wealth, socialism is the answer, etc.–and then look at our culture not as a monetary-economic machine but as an ecosystem of parasites and hosts. From this p...