One of the strangest periods of Roman history was the period right before the republic collapsed and became an empire. The Romans, not known for losing, during this period lost nearly everything they put their hands on. Catiline nearly overthrew…
The Coronavirus lockdowns helped the left realize a long-cherished goal – to make more people more dependent on government largesse, hence increasing government control and power over the people. Millions of Americans who were once self-sufficient suddenly found themselves locked…
Did you know that Iranians held a candlelight vigil for George Floyd? Did you know that murals of Floyd with the words “I can’t breathe” were painted on the Berlin Wall and on a landmark in the Adlib province of…
The two destabilizing events recently occurring back-to-back, the response to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic and the George Floyd rioting, illustrate well how America is now institutionally incapable of making decisions in her own best interests. That is, the overreaction to…
July 17, 2003, was the death toll of the Democrat party and the birth of the new Shadow Party. At a meeting held at George’s Soros’ Southampton estate on Long Island, Democrat political strategists, wealthy donors, left-wing labor leaders and activists met…
Last week five Iranian gasoline tankers moved into a Venezuela port. With an estimated value of $45 million, this shipment will provide about one month’s supply of rationed gasoline for a nation that desperately needs it. Unfortunately, after President Nicolas…
“If the government exists to serve us, and if freedom is part of our humanity, how can the government take freedom from us? Is human freedom in America a myth, or is it reality?” Since the government derives its power…
For the first 125 years of history, America operated under the individualist ideology of laissez-faire capitalism with the principles of private property, equal rights under the law, and individual sovereignty, predominant throughout her culture. Today, most of the world operates…
On September 15, 1974, I delivered an address in the chapel at my Alma Mater. I graduated from a boarding high school military academy in Carlsbad, California; Army and Navy Academy. The President of the Academy asked me to address…
In the 1920s and 30s, the ruling elite became deeply intoxicated with the illusion that they could regiment human beings like machines on a factory floor. Realizing it wouldn’t happen overnight, they hatched a plan to stealthy erode our freedoms…
Dr. Richard Land once called our country, “the divided states of America.” How apt—especially when we survey the various responses to the coronavirus. They are lessons in liberty and lessons in tyranny. To paraphrase what a friend of mine wrote…
Conservative intellectuals tend to be a dismal sort and by natural disposition pessimistic. But perhaps we shouldn’t be so fast to blame them, especially when you considers the history of mankind and in particularly, the sorry history of human governance. From starting unnecessary…
VICTOR HUGO once remarked: “You can resist an invading army; you cannot resist an idea whose time has come.” Serving in Congress was always envisioned by our founders as a chance to serve one’s country not as a means to…
What the hell is an essential job and an essential business? Who is more essential, the cop, or the kid in the mall-kiosk who fixes my phone? Fortunately, that decision shouldn’t be up to a politician or a judge. It…
“Evil destroys itself because it carries the seeds of its own destruction. It is not just destructive, it is also self-destructive. Evil is cunning, but it is also stupid. It is ruthless, but it is also cowardly. It loves plans,…
