Growing up is the often painful process of coming to terms with the reality of one’s own limitations, and recognizing that it’s impossible to gain anything in life without hard work and sacrifice. Wisdom lies in recognizing that—as the economist Thomas Sowell would put it—getting what we want often…
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Orban Issues Warning Over Soros NGO Network Fleeing to Brussels After USAID Funding Freeze
With the Trump administration cutting off billions of US taxpayer funding for the USAID international slush fund, formerly flush NGOs are now begging woke EU nations for money to continue operations, according to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. “WARNING! Our fears have come true: the globalist-liberal-Soros NGO network is fleeing to Brussels,…
A Hope: Can We Achieve It?
By seizing the initiative Trump and Musk stole a march on corrupt Democrats and their whore media. The whore media has been destroyed by the large amount of information that came out of the government’s own data clearly demonstrating immense theft from taxpayers by Democrats and misuse of approprIated funds…
The European Welfare State is Collapsing
Politicians in Europe are using the JD Vance and Trump external enemy excuse to disguise the existential problem of a system that is crumbling. The statist nightmare built around what politicians call “welfare state” has proven to be a subterfuge to multiply bureaucracy and create a dependent subclass. The welfare state…
Cold Immigration
The Post-Cold War Betrayal of the American Worker In a scene from Adam Curtis’ docuseries Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone, an interviewer asks a young woman: “If you had a wish, what would it be?” The young woman answers, “I don’t have any dreams, and even if I did they wouldn’t come true. I…
The New Sea People
This week Marco Rubio will meet with Russian officials to kick-off what Western media is calling Ukraine peace talks, but should properly be called normalization talks, as in the normalization of relations between Russia and America. The topic of Ukraine will be a part of the process, but not the…
Krakatoa Blows
“’Save democracy’ is code phrase for a club of delusional people who belong to a delusional group that does delusional things to justify their delusions.” — Wendy Williamson You’ve got to wonder who at CBS News thinks it’s a good idea to quadruple down on mendacious grandstanding when the network…
J. D. Vance Rejects ‘Safe’ AI at Paris Summit
More and more people are beginning to realize that Artificial Intelligence is a high-risk technology that could lead to the extermination of the species. That may sound like an exaggeration, but if you follow the developments in AI closely, you’ll see that it’s an accurate assessment. AI is…
The Fed Has Stopped Pretending That Price Inflation is Going Away
At its September 2024 meeting, the Fed’s FOMC cut the target federal funds rate by a historically large 50 basis points and then justified this cut on the grounds that “The Committee has gained greater confidence that inflation is moving sustainably toward 2 percent, and judges that the risks to…
$100 Billion in Covid-Era Unemployment Fraud Targeted by Republicans
Legislation that would give the U.S. Department of Justice more time to track down and punish pandemic-era unemployment insurance (UI) fraud is on its way to the U.S. House floor. The Pandemic Unemployment Fraud Enforcement Act, introduced by U.S. Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., provides a five-year extension on the statute…