Prominent neocon Robert Kagan has endorsed Democrat Hillary Clinton for president, saying she represents the best hope for saving the United States from populist billionaire Donald Trump, who has repudiated the neoconservative cause of U.S. military interventions in line with Israel’s interests. In a Washington Post op-ed published on Thursday, Kagan excoriated the Republican Party for creating the conditions for Trump’s rise and then asked, “So what to do now? The Republicans’ creation will soon be let loose on the land, leaving to others the job the party failed to carry out.” Then referring to himself, he added, “For this former … Continue reading →

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Originally published by AmmoLand.com. Louisiana – Ordinary citizens stopped mass murder.  Mass murder is defined as four or more victims killed in the same event. Many people were at risk in the stories this month.  Armed citizens like you saved lives until the police could come and make an arrest.  You did it, and the media never gave you credit. Let me say, “Thank you!”  Here are a few of the news stories since I reported in mid-January. You saved lives in a shopping mall. 22-year-old Matthew Willhite was carrying his handgun concealed as he does every day.  This day he was … Continue reading →

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As adults, we are constantly in awe of children and their abilities. Deep in the process of learning, they are thrown into trying a variety of disciples, both physically, mentally, and spiritually. But when they say something that seems so mature and witty, we almost can’t believe it. Perhaps it’s because we don’t expect them to be able to have such deep thoughts, but what we often forget is that their cleverness is a result of their brains being able to soak up information like a sponge. By now it’s common thought that our education is in need of deep reform, … Continue reading →

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March 1, 2016, will go down in history as the day the incubus of neoconservatism was banished from the Republican party – and, in effect, destroyed as a viable political force. It’s the day Donald Trump swept the GOP’s Super Tuesday primary, taking – as of this writing – Georgia, Alabama, Virginia, Massachusetts, Arkansas, Vermont, and Tennessee. Three realities are clear from the results: 1. Marco Rubio is finished. The great white hope of the neocons, Marco Rubio, only managed to eke out a minor win in Minnesota, which is a caucus state, and inconsequential insofar as delegates are concerned. … Continue reading →

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Self-Reliance. It’s a revolutionary word these days and I thought it deserved a manifesto. Manifesto: noun man·i·fes·to ˌma-nə-ˈfes-(ˌ)tō A declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of the issuer. ~~~~~ Have you happened to notice that our society is out of balance? The consumers outnumber the producers at such a rapid clip that we can’t possibly continue like this. But who has time to produce when they are indebted and working overtime to finance their current lifestyles? We live in a society made up mostly of rabid consumers.  As soon as the advertising pros on Madison Avenue point them in a … Continue reading →

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“Mr. Hart, do you contest the legitimacy of the federal government of the United States of America?” That question was posed to former Idaho State Representative Phil Hart a few minutes into his February 3 federal bankruptcy hearing. By asking that question, Assistant U.S. Attorney David Newman transmuted the proceeding into a heresy trial. “No, I do not,” replied Hart – a good and sufficient answer that was ignored by the Inquisitor. Exhibit 36 in the hearing was a book entitled “Constitutional Income: Do You Have Any?” which Hart published in 2001.  Newman read an excerpt from page 300 of … Continue reading →

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Lawrence Summers has written an opinion piece, entitled “Donald Trump is a serious threat to American democracy.”  We can only hope. Of course, he doesn’t care about the crafted story of democracy – the people are in charge, the people are the government, the will of the people.  The story we are taught in school.  But he knows this is what most people will read – or, at least, he hopes this to be true.  What he does care about is the façade – and if Trump threatens the façade, I find no reason to lament. Just to assure you … Continue reading →

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Surely, Hillary Clinton hopes for the happy conclusion to the maddening string of primaries and caucuses that have exhausted her. Surely, she hopes to be the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party this year. And surely, she hopes to be elected president. These hopes are realistic probabilities in her own mind. But if she is hoping for the end to her legal woes, that is a false hope — and she knows it. The relentless barrage of bad legal news for Clinton, which has been relegated to below-the-fold stories because of the primary news position of the presidential primary contests, … Continue reading →

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Over at We Meant Well, always-interesting writer Peter Van Buren provides a funny rundown of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)’s blunders he suggests prevented it from accessing information on an iPhone connected to the December 2 San Bernardino, California killings. The FBI sure does look like the Keystone Cops with Van Buren’s tale of mistakes that put the FBI into a situation where, to uncover encrypted information from the iPhone, it has to depend on a US magistrate judge ordering Apple, the phone’s manufacturer, to create a means to breach the phone’s information security. But, is there something more sinister … Continue reading →

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Super Tuesday may have been the beginning of the end for the Bernie Sanders campaign, but the ideas that propelled it are likely to linger for quite some time. With some writers comparing Bernie to Ron Paul (not in terms of economics and philosophy, of course, but as insurgent candidates), now seemed like an opportune moment to examine the Sanders message and legacy, and compare it to Ron’s. Like Ron, Bernie surprised all the pundits with his fundraising, polling, and electoral success. In fact, so successful has Sanders been that Hillary Clinton has been reduced to a pathetic and unconvincing … Continue reading →

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In the wake of numerous cases of lead poisoning through Flint, Michigan’s government-managed water supply, some commentators immediately began looking for ways to blame the private sector. Shortly thereafter, David Brodwin of U.S. News and World Report wrote “Flint: The Big Cost of Small Government.” According to Brodwin, what caused lead-tainted water to gush forth from faucets in Flint were “attacks on investment in public infrastructure and on a regulation of all kinds.” For these, he blames “right-leaning libertarian interests,” although he does not name a single one. America, writes Brodwin, has fallen under an “obsession with tax cuts [which] … Continue reading →

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Switching the clocks back and forward each year may trigger a wave of strokes, research suggests. Scientists think that daylight saving time gives the human body clock a jolt. And they found that the number of stroke victims taken to hospital rises for a few days after the time changes. Scientists analysed ten years’ worth of data from hospitals in Finland. They compared the average number of people admitted with a stroke in the week of a daylight saving transition, compared to the two weeks before and two weeks after that week. The team found that the rate of ischemic … Continue reading →

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