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Latest Articles: Opinions/Editorials
Why Bernie Sanders Can Defeat Donald Trump in 2020
Post Date: 2019-04-20 08:26:05 by Hondo68
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With his veto this week of legislation intended to end United States military support for the war on Yemen, President Donald Trump may have ensured his defeat to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in the 2020 presidential election. That is an argument political commentator Patrick J. Buchanan persuasively presents in a new editorial.With that veto, writes Buchanan, “Trump may have just ceded the peace issue in 2020 to the Democrats.” Buchanan continues: If Sanders emerges as the nominee, we will have an election with a Democrat running on the “no-more-wars” theme Trump touted in 2016. And Trump will be left defending the bombing of Yemeni rebels and civilians by Crown Prince ...
Financial Tyranny: America Has Become a Pay-to-Play Exercise in Fascism
Post Date: 2019-04-10 09:41:04 by Deckard
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If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street, If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat. If you get too cold I’ll tax the heat, If you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet. Don’t ask me what I want it for If you don’t want to pay some more ‘Cause I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the taxman… And you’re working for no one but me. — George Harrison (The Beatles) “Taxman” We’re not living the American Dream. We’re in the grip of a financial nightmare. “We the people” have become the new, permanent underclass in America. We get taxed on how much we earn, taxed on what we eat, taxed on what we buy, taxed on where we ...
The Top Ten Evilest People of All-Time
Post Date: 2019-04-06 10:29:20 by IbJensen
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Have you ever wondered who the evilest people to ever walk this earth are? Adolf Hitler always seems to be the go-to reference in such conversations. It is a difficult thing to quantify. Do we do it statistically — that is, according to who killed the most people — or should it be based on their evil influence on history? My list relies on both. Of course, it’s totally subjective, but those making the Top Ten might surprise you. So, starting in reverse order, I give you a list of people who will make you feel better about yourself: 10. (tie) The Kims: Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, and Kim Jong-un This is quite possibly history’s worst political dynasty. In addition to ...
American Idiocracy: 50 Years Later, We’re Still Stranded in the Twilight Zone
Post Date: 2019-04-03 07:44:09 by Deckard
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“We’re developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won’t be able to think.”—Rod Serling Have you noticed how much life increasingly feels like an episode of The Twilight Zone? Only instead of Rod Serling’s imaginary “land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas,” we’re trapped in a topsy-turvy, all-too-real land of corruption, brutality and lies, where freedom, justice and integrity play second fiddle to political ambition, corporate greed, and bureaucratic tyranny. It’s not merely that life in the American Police State is more brutal, or more unjust, or even more corrupt. ...
A Conspiracy Theorist Confesses to his Petty Crimes
Post Date: 2019-04-03 07:38:50 by Deckard
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By Edward Curtin “Our research has shown for the first time the role that conspiracy theories can play in determining an individual’s attitude to everyday crime. It demonstrates that people subscribing to the view that others have conspired might be more inclined toward unethical actions.” – Professor Karen Douglas, University of Kent press release for the research, entitled “Belief in Conspiracy Theories and Intentions to Engage in Everyday Crime,” in the British Journal of Social Psychology Let me be perfectly clear from the outset. I am not referring to the conspiracy theories of George W. Bush, Colin Powell, Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton, Donald Trump ...
Conservatives and Progressives Are Denialists
Post Date: 2019-03-15 08:58:01 by Deckard
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One of the major differences between libertarians, on the one hand, and conservatives and progressives, on the other, is with respect to freedom and reality. When it comes to the concept of freedom, libertarians have a grip on reality. Conservatives and progressives don’t. Both conservatives and liberals are convinced that they live in a free society. This mindset is reflected in various ways. The Pledge of Allegiance comes to mind. Having had this pledge inculcated in them in public schools since the first grade, conservatives and liberals continue to recite it at public events long into adulthood and all the way until the day they die. As they dutifully put their hands on their ...
Depravity, Frivolity, and Dissent: Are We Watching the End of an Empire?
Post Date: 2019-03-14 10:19:35 by Deckard
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The Organic Prepper A 40-year-old essay predicted the end of an empire and current events sure make it look like we’re watching it happen in real time. I spend a fair bit of time scanning the news every day for my site, Preppers Daily News. And some days, I just have to shake my head as I realize that people are so desperate for…something…that they just keep going to further and further extremes to try and find that elusive thing their lives are missing. The more I read, the more likeness I see to Sir John Glubb’s essay, The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival. (It’s only 24 pages and you should definitely read it – it’s brilliant.) ...
Casualties of Official Safety (They include fun)
Post Date: 2019-03-13 04:53:59 by Deckard
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Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaafety has cost us a lot – and not just money.It has sucked almost all of the the fun out of driving – especially for those who were born after the Safety Cult established itself as mainstream state religion. The Millennials, god help them. And us. It happened during the ’90s, when strange rituals which had previously been practiced by a few neurasthenic people – fearful of everything – became state policy, enforced upon everyone.These things are now unquestionable dogma.For example, cossetting kids in saaaaaaaaaaaaaaafety seats for the duration of every drive.Every drive has thus become a time-consuming chore for the parents – no more just ...
Why True Conservatism Means Anarchy
Post Date: 2019-03-12 13:51:25 by Deckard
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For the sake of preserving liberty and tradition, conservatives should reject the state’s legitimacy.“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.” These words are Patrick Henry’s, uttered in the course of his famous oration known for its powerful closing words “give me liberty or give me death.” Although Henry probably did not intend it as a sociopolitical axiom, the Anglo-American conservative tradition has adopted it as such. Conservatives rightly look to the past to influence their views of the future. Change in the basic structure of society’s ...
Safety vs. Saaaaaaafety
Post Date: 2019-03-05 05:27:53 by Deckard
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Driving a car that has loose lug nuts is always unsafe.No one in their right mind would knowingly do it.Driving a car that might not hold up as well as a tank in a crash – if you have one – is not “unsafe.”You’ve simply accepted a heightened degree of potential risk – a greater chance of injury in the event you do crash – for the sake of a tangible (and certain) reward, such as better fuel economy or visibility.Like a lot of people over 40, I grew up driving cars that would be libeled as “unsafe” by the government, if anyone tried to make them today. The ’74 Beetle I owned while I was in college and for several years after, for example. It ...
Tobacco Bans and Marijuana Bans
Post Date: 2019-02-26 05:53:44 by Deckard
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Hawaii state representative Richard Creagan is on a mission. Actually, he is on a crusade. He wants to effectively ban the smoking of cigarettes. Hawaii is already one of six states (California, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Oregon being the others) where the minimum age to purchase cigarettes has already been raised to 21. But age 21 is not high enough for the Hawaii lawmaker. Creagan has introduced a bill (HB1509) to raise the minimum age at which Hawaiians can buy cigarettes to age 100. The bill has got to be read to be believed. Here are some excerpts: The legislature finds that the cigarette is considered the deadliest artifact in human history. The cigarette is an ...
What Should Be Christians’ Response to ‘Same-Sex Marriage’? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2019-02-06 10:46:09 by IbJensen
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The attempts to redefine marriage have been going on for more than a decade. In the past few months, Ireland and USA have made overt, definite steps to legalize same-sex marriage. Many other countries around the world are moving in the same direction. In Singapore too, the voice in favor of same-sex marriage is getting louder. There is an incredible surge of interest in affirming homosexuality over the last few months. In my opinion, ‘gay marriage’ will soon become a common practice across the world. Therefore, we must not dither over this issue! Should Christians go along with the changing mindset of modern society about marriage? Unfortunately, some churches around the world ...
The Real Baby Killers!!
Post Date: 2019-02-05 12:26:23 by Justified
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Just before my time they called our soldiers "baby killers" because some "might" have accidently killed babies in war zone. Well now the left the demoncrats really are the baby killers. We need to start pushing the truth by calling demoncrats who they are "Baby Killers"!
The Cops Were the Aggressors in This Week's Deadly Houston Drug Raid
Post Date: 2019-02-01 06:21:06 by Deckard
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Even if Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas were selling heroin out of their house, the government's violent response cannot be morally justified.On Monday evening in Houston, a dozen armed men broke into the home of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas, a middle-aged couple who had lived in the house at 7815 Harding Street for at least two decades. The first man through the door, who was armed with a shotgun, used it to kill one of the couple's dogs. Tuttle responded to the home invasion by grabbing a revolver and shooting the man with the shotgun, who collapsed on a sofa in the living room. As Nicholas tried to disarm the intruder, his accomplices shot her. Tuttle returned fire, and ...
Some Still Waiting Return of Liberty
Post Date: 2019-01-31 07:14:01 by Deckard
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For decades I’ve had my doubts about whether America is still the land of the free. With rules and enforcers everywhere you look, it doesn’t seem so. I’ve been wrong. Most Americans are free — as free as they want to be. I prefer liberty to freedom. Liberty means having the freedom to do everything you have a right to do; freedom is simply doing whatever you want, without regard for others. This is why, for most Americans, America is the “Land of the Free.” They are doing what they want. They tolerate checkpoints because they make them feel safe. They comply with the airport “security theater” gauntlet, pretending it’s fighting terrorism. They ...
Trump’s Foreign Policy Reveals the Tribal Nature of Our Politics
Post Date: 2019-01-29 09:15:31 by Deckard
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When President Trump decided to pull US troops out of Syria, anyone under the naïve impression that the famously peace-loving Democratic party of the past two decades would hail his bold end to American military adventurism in the Middle Eastern nation was surely disappointed. For these benighted few principled voters, the stark political realignment on this issue has offered a masterclass in tribal politics. Democratic leaders like Hillary Clinton bellowed, “This president is putting our national security at grave risk.” Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, called Trump’s decision to exit Syria “dangerous.” Yet, politicians flip-flop all the time, so the ...
Venezuela: None of Our Business
Post Date: 2019-01-29 08:56:48 by Deckard
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On January 23, the President of Venezuela’s National Assembly, Juan Guaido, was sworn in as “interim president.” In what was presumably a pre-coordinated move, Guaido’s administration was quickly recognized by the governments of the United States, Canada, and several countries in Latin America.Guaido’s claim rests on a provision in Venezuela’s constitution which allows him to assume the office should it become vacant. The Assembly says that it is. Nicolas Maduro, elected to a second term as president in 2018, begs to differ. A number of countries, including Russia and China, continue to recognize his government.All of which seems either remarkably simple ...
A Pentagon Campaign to Keep the Public in the Dark
Post Date: 2019-01-26 16:41:03 by Deckard
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Reports that were never classified before are suddenly considered top-secret.President Trump doesn’t much care for efforts to monitor and report on wasteful Pentagon spending and other military inefficiencies. This month, he ordered acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan to withhold battlefield reports from inspectors general in order to keep the information from becoming public.“The public means the enemy,” Trump explained. “Those reports should be private reports.” This order doubles down on a worrying trend at the Defense Department since Trump took office toward increasing unnecessary secrecy. {"contentId":"PLOO6O6JIJV20 ...
Food stamp section 8 ride is over!!! Welfare queens got their wake-up call!!!
Post Date: 2019-01-26 12:53:03 by A K A Stone
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Economic Controls Turn Regular People Into Criminals
Post Date: 2019-01-22 08:55:58 by Deckard
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Part of the underlying drama of the show The Americans is that we know how it ends up. The glorious communist utopia of the Soviet Union, to which the main protagonists have devoted their lives as undercover spies, goes belly up at the end. Which is to say: they seem to be wasting their lives on a lost cause. The viewer knows this going in. The characters do not. They continue to believe they are working for the great cause.You can summarize every domestic economic policy of Russia following the Bolshevik Revolution through 1991 as an attempt to salvage the unsalvageable. The attempt began in 1922 with the New Economic Policy, an expedient to save lives following the disastrous wartime ...
What We Own...
Post Date: 2019-01-18 20:45:01 by Deckard
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It’s interesting that the only things we can say we truly own we have no legal title to. The clothes I am wearing, for instance. They are fully, meaningfully mine in that I have absolute control over them; the government (i.e., organized other people, who’ve empowered themselves to do violence to whomever the please, “legally”) doesn’t decree the style I am allowed to wear. No “shorts are unsaaaaaaaaaafe, you might scrape a knee.”Or the size or the price. There are cheap clothes and expensive clothes and practical clothes and hugely impractical clothes. I can wear my clothes as long as I like – no matter what anyone else thinks of them – ...
Black People Dismantle "White Privilege"
Post Date: 2019-01-18 09:09:55 by A K A Stone
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Lift Up Your Hearts: The Democrats Are in a Shambles
Post Date: 2019-01-11 09:10:23 by A K A Stone
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It is time to rekindle our political spirits in this new year, and to take stock of the subjects of encouragement. First, the takeover of the House of Representatives by the Democrats was, on balance, not as jarring to the vital organs as was feared. As a figure of horror, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has become almost like Bette Davis, one can believe she just acts the part, though she acts it convincingly. And she has earned her spurs as a Democratic legislator with staying power, the first speaker to serve non-consecutive terms since Sam Rayburn (D-Texas). She certainly didn’t get much back-talk from all those bushy-tailed Democrats who were going to send her off to knit ...
Beware the Emergency State: Imperial, Unaccountable and Unconstitutional
Post Date: 2019-01-10 07:37:45 by Deckard
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“For seven decades we have been yielding our most basic liberties to a secretive, unaccountable emergency state – a vast but increasingly misdirected complex of national security institutions, reflexes, and beliefs that so define our present world that we forget that there was ever a different America. ... Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness have given way to permanent crisis management: to policing the planet and fighting preventative wars of ideological containment, usually on terrain chosen by, and favorable to, our enemies. Limited government and constitutional accountability have been shouldered aside by the kind of imperial presidency our constitutional system was ...
A Rash of Evil (Rashida Tlaib)
Post Date: 2019-01-10 07:34:43 by Deckard
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I have long assumed that such vermin as Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Maxine Waters, or Donna Shalala are the lowest of the low for the female of the predatory species, Tyrannosaurus Democraticus. After all, how likely is it that any woman anywhere could be uglier, viler, more corrupt, tackier, phonier, more asinine and Marxist than these four? But I was wrong. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) may well surpass them. Not by much, mind you. But even to be in the running with such stiff competition after one week in the US House is impressive. Were I a betting gal, my money would say ol’ Rash will nauseate more Americans more mercilessly than even Maxine, the Mistress of Malaise. First, though, ...
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