Category: Economy

Charity vs. Legalized Theft

“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.  As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”  Benjamin Franklin Suppose I saw an elderly woman huddled on a heating grate in the dead of winter.  She’s hungry…

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When Did Stupidity Become A Virtue?

The Progressive answer to all cultural tensions is more indoctrination into various left-wing ideologies that define justice as substantive equality and blame “power structure” for social pathologies up to and including murder. The world is unjust and those who are…

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Creating Money From Nothing

In 2020, Fitch Ratings estimated that the world’s central banks would create a total of $6 trillion that year. Of course, they won’t literally be printing the money – that would be physically impossible.  You’d have to stack $100 bills…

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Bureaucracy and Red Tape

“Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.”  Laurence J. Peter Who creates federal laws?  Civics books say it is Congress, but the real answer today may be the executive branch. Unfortunately,…

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Why Is Freedom Always the Problem?

Many Americans agree that something hasn’t smelled right about this pandemic.    Besides not having sufficient data to justify the extremity of government reaction, there is something in the air that smacks of calculated panic and political engineering.  It is…

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Pelosi’s Insurrection Insanity

In January, Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., tasked retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré with leading a review of the U.S. Capitol’s security infrastructure, interagency processes and command and control to prevent another “attack” in the nation’s capital. “Following the devastating attack on…

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PRO Union Bill

March 9, 2021, the House passed the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO), introduced by Bobby Scott of Virginia, in February. H.R. 842 is a sweeping left-wing revision of labor laws. A similar bill passed the house last year…

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The Debt Death Spiral

In the 14 months since the World Health Organization first declared covid-19 a health emergency, Congress has approved over $4 trillion in relief packages and the Federal Reserve has pumped almost $6 trillion into the economy.  Such deficit spending and…

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Currency War

The Chinese government made a move on January 16 of this year that one financial expert foresees as the beginning of the end of the American dollar as a world currency.  Hoping to use a “digital” yuan to oust the…

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Stop the Left’s Power Grab

Most people assume the federal government has the final say. When Uncle Sam says jump, states and local government simply ask, “How high?”   The federal government was intended to limit its actions to constitutionally delegated powers and all other…

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Money and Power Controls the Debate

Climate alarmism, based on the erosion of the distinction between science and political advocacy, is about making up scare stories based on computer models with no basis in reality and recycled as scientific evidence. Many of the climate lies promote…

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China Is Charting A Path to World Conquest.

December 20, 2019, an Indonesian fisherman working off the Coast of Selayar Island caught more than he bargained for. Aside from the usual haul, he discovered a seven foot Chinese unmanned underwater vehicle. Known as Sea-Wing gliders (Haiyi), developed by…

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Somewhere Chairman Mao is Smiling.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, self-appointed Socialist spokesman for the Biden administration, recently said in a video that they are going to ”try” to rein in the media so that there isn’t going to be disinformation and misinformation spread.    She even…

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