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The Battle of Golden Spurs

by Scott McPherson March 11, 2022

The political and social order of the Middle Ages was feudalism. Land ownership was the pinnacle of wealth and power, and from it was derived, at least for men, the obligation of service to a liege lord as a knight in battle. Not even high birth could replace the importance of land. Without land, a human ...

Things Are Getting Worse, Not Better

by John W. Whitehead March 9, 2022

“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.”—Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism Let me tell you about the state of our nation: things are getting worse, ...

Corrupt Federal Statistics Cover Endless Cons

by James Bovard March 1, 2022

Federal agencies don’t count what politicians don’t want to know. President Joe Biden and other Democrats perennially invoke “science and data” to sanctify all their COVID-19 mandates and policies. But the same shenanigans and willful omissions that have characterized COVID data have perennially permeated other federal programs. The rule of experts? During his update on his Winter COVID Campaign in December, ...

Thus Always To Tyrants

by Scott McPherson February 25, 2022

In 2018, U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) made headlines when he casually referred to “nukes” as a reasonable way to arbitrate a dispute with millions of Americans who might resist enforcement of a federal ban on the private ownership of semiautomatic rifles. “It's not the 18th century,” he snarked, dismissing the notion that armed citizens were in ...

Dystopia Disguised as Democracy

by John W. Whitehead February 23, 2022

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the ...

The Government’s Kill Switch for Your Car, Your Freedoms and Your Life

by John W. Whitehead February 11, 2022

“A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power.” — Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle If we haven’t learned by now, we should beware of anything the government insists is for our own good. Take the Biden Administration’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Given the deteriorating state of the nation’s ...

Make Canada Great Again?

by Scott McPherson February 9, 2022

A minor revolt may be brewing in Canada. And like many others before it in history, the cause will be arrogant elitists indifferent to the suffering of their fellow citizens and always eager to push the limits of their power. It may, in fact, grow from merely protest to political realignment, with surprising results for the establishment. Like a ...

Freedom Is a Stabilizing Influence

by Scott McPherson February 3, 2022

The nativists at Breitbart are sounding the alarm. “Reports: U.S. Society Grows More Divided Amid Diversity” was a headline at Breitbart on January 28. The reports noted come from the Associated Press and the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace. Both suggest a growing divide between different people in the United States, and apparently foreigners are to blame. According to the ...

The Slippery Slope from Lockdowns to Concentration Camps

by John W. Whitehead February 2, 2022

“All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwald, the Auschwitzes—all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worst of all, their conscience. ...

Liberals’ Love Affair with Leviathan

by James Bovard February 1, 2022

The election of Joe Biden as president magically transformed all federal agencies, ensuring that their iron fists no longer posed any peril to the American people. Or at least that seems to be what many Biden supporters, liberals, and Democrats now believe. I stumbled upon that new catechism on a cold morning last November. I ambled online after breakfast and ...

The Social Engineer as Ethical Authoritarian

by Richard M. Ebeling February 1, 2022

Since the start of the coronavirus crisis, advocates of greater government planning and redistribution have used “following the science” as the rhetorical cover to rationalize the growth in political paternalism. Now, however, some of them are coming out of the closet and insisting that economists, for example, must explicitly adopt an authoritarian ethic that requires the end to any ...

Totalitarian Paranoia Run Amok

by John W. Whitehead January 27, 2022

“Totalitarian paranoia runs deep in American society, and it now inhabits the highest levels of government.”—Professor Henry Giroux Once upon a time, there was a government so paranoid about its hold on power that it treated everyone and everything as a threat and a reason to expand its powers. Unfortunately, the citizens of this nation believed everything ...