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The Trump-DeSantis Primary Fight Begins
This week, as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg considered indicting former President Donald Trump on a flimsy felony charge over a seven-year-old hush-money payment to former porn star Stormy Daniels, Trump placed his focus on the man he perceives as the truest threat to his political dominance: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Trump backers ...Read more
How To Crash the Economy, Big Government Style
We are in a looming financial crisis, even if we don't want to see it.
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was, according to Moody's, worthy of an investment-grade rating as of March 8, 2023. S&P Global Ratings similarly held a high opinion of SVB. Two days later, SVB was shut down; immediately, Moody's dropped SVB into junk territory. So did S&P Global ...Read more
What the Media Elites Didn't Show Us About Jan. 6
Jan. 6 was, according to White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, "the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War." Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer explained that the riot of Jan. 6 was a "violent insurrection." And in order to preserve democracy, Schumer stated, Fox News should take Tucker Carlson off the air.
What, pray ...Read more
Wuhan Lab Leak of COVID -10 is the Greatest Cover-up in Human History!
First, it was supposedly a conspiracy theory. Then, it was banned. Finally, it was true.
The so-called "lab leak" theory of the origins of COVID-19 -- the theory that COVID-19 originated in at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and then was unintentionally loosed -- was always the most probable explanation for the outbreak of the deadly virus. ...Read more
Joe Biden Turns the American Government Into Wokeness, Inc.
Last week, as Presidents Day weekend loomed, the Biden administration dropped a little-noticed executive order. That executive order happened to be one of the broadest, most transformative executive orders in modern American history; it turned the federal government into one giant machine designed for the propagation of woke principles. The so-...Read more
Young Americans Are Losing Their Minds! The Social Left Is to Blame!
This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data showing that our nation's young girls are in a state of absolute emotional and mental crisis. According to the CDC, 57% of high school girls said they were depressed in 2021, compared with 36% in 2011; 30% said they had considered suicide, compared with 19% in 2011. The ...Read more
Satan Is So Hot Right Now
This week, the Grammys were held in Los Angeles. They featured a star-studded cavalcade of singers who can't sing, songsters who require a team of dozens to write their songs and dancers who can't dance. They also featured a full-on satanic ritual onstage, starring used-to-be-just-a-gay-dude-then-genderqueer-now-gender-nonbinary singer Sam Smith...Read more
When Black Police Officers Kill a Black Man, That's White Supremacy
This week, tape emerged from Memphis, Tennessee of five black police officers engaging in the beating of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old black man. Nichols was pulled over for reckless driving according to the officers; they ordered him to get on the ground and to give them his hands; he did not comply and instead began to run. When the officers ...Read more
Racial Reparations Solve Nothing
This week, the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee released a report calling on the city to pay every black resident $5 million and absolve all of their outstanding personal debt. Their rationale was broad -- as it had to be, since California was founded as a free state: "While neither San Francisco, nor California, ...Read more
Our Government is Blundering and Intrusive!
Our government seeks more and more control.
Our government is not competent.
These two statements are both true, and together amount to a nightmare for institutional credibility. A government that seeks more control must at the very least demonstrate credibility in implementing its goals; a government that is incompetent can only regain ...Read more
The Death of Eternal Truths and the New Paganism
Last week, Pope Benedict XVI died at the age of 95, nearly a decade after stepping down as head of the Catholic Church. His life was marked by adherence to a belief in an eternal truth above all. As he stated in a 2008 meeting with Catholic educators at the Catholic University of America, "Truth means more than knowledge: knowing the truth leads...Read more