The American Deep State
The ultimate motto of the deep state, as enunciated by Napoleon the pig, the Supreme Leader of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Image Credit: QuotesGram.com What is more important in our … Read More
Category: Political Issues
Ideas about the role of government in society, its relationship to citizens, and about how much power the government should be given.
The Dominican Republic
The view of the Dominican Republic from the front of our condo in Juan Dolio, DR. Greetings from the town of Juan Dolio in the Dominican Republic! Having traveled to … Read More
New York: Another Great Progressive Embarrassment
Lady Liberty in New York harbor looking outwards from New York. Is she welcoming the world to New York, or pointing the direction to greater freedom for New Yorkers? Wikimedia … Read More
Another Great Progressive Disaster: California
Cumulative net migration to and from California to other states from 2004 to 2013. The Sacramento Bee An even greater disaster for American progressivism than the state of Illinois is … Read More
The Progressive Disaster That Is Illinois
Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madigan speaking to press about the status of the state budget on June 22, 2017 during a special legislative session called by GOP … Read More
The Ideological Balkanization of the United States
The red state – blue state division of the United States as revealed by the presidential results of the past four presidential elections. Wikimedia Commons / Angr This week The … Read More
How the Left Would Overthrow the GOP and Donald Trump
Progressives man the barricades the day after Donald J. Trump’s inauguration as President of the United States. Youtube / Ibrahim Ka-Almasih Garba It is not as if Donald J. Trump … Read More
How Probable Is A Second American Civil War?
Union dead on the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, photographed July 5 or July 6, 1863, by Timothy H. O’Sullivan Wikimedia Commons / T. H. O’Sullivan Essays speculating on the imminent beginning … Read More
Reaction To The Violent Idiots Amongst Us
Fight between UC Berkeley students and Trump supporters. Screenshot of Fox News report. Yesterday, as a nation we suffered through a horrific reminder of just how bad the relations between … Read More
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) Is Shot!
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), Republican House Majority Whip, was shot this morning around 7:15. Wikimedia Commons / Steve Scalise’s House Webpage Given all the political hate and vitriol that has arisen … Read More
The Rot Goes Deep in the Democratic Party
Democratic Party workers watching the presidential election returns in shock on the night of November 8, 2016. Photo Credit: AP / Matt Rourke One might expect such a lurid title … Read More
How Is Donald Trump Doing Economically in June 2017?
The time evolution of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank’s GDPNow forecast for the second quarter of 2017. Image and Data Credit: Atlanta Federal Reserve District Bank / Center for Quantitative … Read More
Are US Progressives Committing Political Suicide?
Anti-Trump Resistance protest Screenshot of Youtube video from the Next News Network American progressives are becoming increasingly unhinged as they push ever further toward the political Left. Their hysterical reaction to … Read More
The Real “Colluders” With Russia
Progressive conspiracy theorists. (c) Can Stock Photo / Frostie Even now, despite the lack of any shred of evidence, Democrats and their media allies are pushing the meme that Donald … Read More
The Nation States Refuse To Dissolve!
Painting of “The Ratification of the Treaty of Münster”. This is one of the treaties leading to the Peace of Westphalia, in which the concept of the modern nation state … Read More
U.S. Economy and Stock Markets, May 2017
Alas! Real GDP growth is still trending downwards. Data and Image credit: St. Louis Federal Reserve District Bank / FRED It is now time to take our periodic look at … Read More
Progressives Incite Hatred and Violence
Riot by progressive students at the University of California, Berkeley against right-winger, Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos Screen shot of ABC news report The Democratic hysteria and that of their mainstream media allies … Read More
What Consensus on Anthropogenic Global Warming?
Dr. Nir Shaviv, Chair of the Racah Institute of Physics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, giving a talk on global warming at the George Marshall Institute on March 21, … Read More
The French Elite Is Snubbed
Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, winners of the April 23, 2017 first round of the French presidential election, will face off in the second round on May 7, 2017. … Read More
Does the Populist Revolt of the West Against Its Elites Continue?
The major French presidential candidates for 2017. From Left to Right: Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Communist (Wikimedia Commons / MathieuMD), Emmanuel Macron, Center-Left En Marche! movement (Wikimedia Commons / Ecole polytechnique Université Paris), François … Read More
Arguments Between the American Left and Right
Considerations (c) Can Stock Photo / radiantskies Today we are probably experiencing some of the most important clashes of ideas since the Age of Enlightenment. If … Read More
The Ideological Nature of Authoritarian Government
Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler: One dictator of the Left and one of the Right? Photo Credit Stalin: Wikimedia Commons / Workers Library Publishers (1930) Photo Credit Hitler: Wikimedia Commons … Read More
The Growing American Ideological Conflict
Middlebury College demonstration against Charles Murray, illustrating the strained relations between the American Left and the American Right Screenshot of Fox News Channel report In my last post, Concerning Ethics, Economics, … Read More
War Between the Progressives and Neoliberals
May the better ideology win! (c) Can Stock Photo / jgroup This is the fourth and final essay in a series in which I give neoliberal answers to progressive counterarguments … Read More
Progressives Become McCarthyites
Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-WI), a name that will live in infamy. This is the man progressives are currently emulating. Wikimedia Commons / Library of Congress (United Press) Almost 70 years … Read More
Why Would Anyone Be A Progressive?
Protest march against the election of Donald Trump in Saint Paul, Minnesota on November 9, 2016 Wikimedia Commons / Fibonacci Blue On many occasions I have mused about why anyone … Read More
The Proposed Border Adjustment Tax
Incoming and outgoing international trade in San Francisco Bay Wikimedia Commons / National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Arguments over U.S. tax policies are moving toward a controversial tax proposal around … Read More
Modern Day Mercantilism
An imaginary European seaport painted by Claude Lorrain around 1639, at the height of mercantilism Wikimedia Commons / Musée du Louvre / Mbzt In the year 1776, the same year in which 13 … Read More
The Divisive Issue of Foreign Trade
Container shipping has revolutionized foreign trade by greatly reducing costs of transportation by ship, rail, and truck. Wikimedia Commons / Hafiz343 I have written several times about why foreign trade … Read More