“We waged a war on poverty and poverty won.”  President Ronald Reagan, 1988 State of the Union Address The dust has settled and the evidence is in: The 1960s Great Society and War on Poverty programs of President Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) have been a colossal and giant failure. One …

I, for one, back any and all elimination of the welfare state, as well as the warfare state.  Both of them seem to get us in the most debt and the most trouble in this nation.  While “military spending” is up (that means not just defense but the empire we’ve …

In 1935, the year that FDR signed the Social Security Act into law, the birth rate was 18.7 per 1,000. In 1940, when the first monthly check was issued, it had gone up to 19.4. By 1954, when Disability had been added, the birth rate at the heart of the …

The US Treasury’s recent announcement that the government will reach the debt ceiling on November 3 means Congress will soon be debating raising the government’s borrowing limit again. Any delay in, or opposition to, raising the debt ceiling will inevitably be met with hand-wringing over Congress’ alleged irresponsibility. But the real …

In a 1922 essay about Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address in his book Prejudices: Third Series H.L. Mencken asked, “Am I the first American to note the fundamental nonsensicality of the Gettysburg Address”?  One example of the nonsense of Lincoln’s rhetoric as explained by Mencken is as follows: “Think of the argument in it.  …

Well, here we are again as another selection season is upon us and the sheep, still remembering that elections are selections and how the 2020 election was clearly stolen, are excited to run to the voting booths believing that it will save them from what they have not only tolerated, …

Rarely does a book genuinely exposing the Deep State in a major way break into the mainstream, but Controligarchs: Exposing the Billionaire Class, Their Secret Deals, and the Globalist Plot to Dominate Your Life did. Freedom-loving Americans everywhere should celebrate this giant truth bomb dropped on the forces of tyranny and their …

Before New York Attorney General Letita James launched her selective prosecution of former President Trump, the former public defender was advocating for the “criminal justice reforms” that empowered criminals and terrorized a state. AG James had run for office promising to “reform NY’s criminal justice system and to investigate and …

They’re not defunding the police; they’re funding the thought police. Before New York Attorney General Letita James launched her selective prosecution of former President Trump, the former public defender was advocating for the “criminal justice reforms” that empowered criminals and terrorized a state. AG James had run for office promising …

“The madmen are in power.”— Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle The debate over U.S. foreign aid is a distraction. That’s not to say that the amount of taxpayer money flowing to foreign countries in the form of military and economic assistance is insignificant. Even at less than 1% of …