America’s declining cattle herd is nothing short of alarming, and some ranchers call it a “national security threat” to the nation’s food supply chain. This continues to be a major theme fueling record-high cattle prices on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and beef prices at the local supermarket. Elevated interest rates and soaring input…
Nothing is ever as it seems. The Oklahoma city bombing was not just a plot from Timothy Mcviey, like the FBI wants you to believe. There were so many irregularities about the whole entire thing. On the morning of April 19, 1995, a decorated Gulf War combat vet…
I was shocked and dismayed by many things which transpired in 2020 and 2021, but honestly, the fact that “essential worker” was allowed to become part of the general argot was supremely disappointing to me, even amidst such a plethora of supreme disappointments. I was naive. I believed that…
In his best-selling 1984 novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Czech-French author and Soviet dissident Milan Kundera defines “kitsch” as not merely tacky art or sentimental excess but a deliberate denial of reality’s messiness. “Kitsch,” he writes, is “the absolute denial of shit, in both the literal and figurative senses of…
Tangible things break for a variety of reasons, but in most cases the causes are easy to understand: 1) a part wore out; 2) a part was defective, or 3) the device was designed to break and be unrepairable to force us to buy a new one, i.e. planned obsolescence. Systems…
A black judge has released accused murderer Karmelo Anthony in the latest case of “we should not be forced to live with these people.” Angela Tucker, a graduate of SMU’s ironically named Dedman School of Law, serves on the bench of Texas’ 199th District Court where she was…
It’s not unusual for smallish nationalist political parties in Europe to be banned once they’re perceived as a possible “threat” to a country’s establishment. “Democracy” has devolved into a tightly managed system of manipulation and regulation, and populists and nationalists aren’t supposed to participate in an effective way. As…
So, you wonder why Democrats are so anxious to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the USA. Is it to lead the national ticket in 2028? Who else have they got? Pete Buttigieg doesn’t have half of Kilmar’s charisma. AOC is just pretending to be Sandy-from-the-block — and everybody…
For decades, U.S. foreign policy wonks such as Paul Wolfowitz, Raymond Tanter, Douglas Feith, and Richard Perle, argued that U.S. military power could reshape the Middle East, somehow transforming it from the tribal and religious mess that it is into an American-style liberal democracy. The primary beneficiary of this…
Story at a Glance: •The FDA was established in 1906 in response to public concern over unsafe food and drugs, such as spoiled food and counterfeit products. However, food industry lobbyists gradually gained influence, leading to the removal of the agency’s original leader. As a result, numerous harmful food…
