A World Dedollarized is Gold Remonetized
From August 22 through 24th, an extended coalition of over 40 nations which has become known as BRICS+ will meet in Johannesburg, South Africa. Among the likely topics of discussion is the feasibility of setting up a jointly-owned international financial institution. It would be funded by gold deposits, issue a currency, and extend loans tied […]
National Guard Official Says Mark Milley’s Jan 6. Warnings Led To Deployment Delay
Editors’ Note: It appears the January 6th Capital Riot was exacerbated by the failure to deploy troops requested by President Trump. What seems lost on many commentators is that if an “insurrection” was the President’s intention, it would be nonsensical to deploy troops just to put it down. However, the riot got out of hand […]
Arizona Business Community Weighs In On Likely Border Ballot Referral
Some Arizona business groups have voiced views on the “Secure the Border Act” as Gov. Katie Hobbs and other Democrats have said it poses a risk to the state economy. House Concurrent Resolution 2060 is expected to make it onto the ballot after Republicans in the state House and Senate are planning to vote in […]
Biden DOE Called CCP Official Before Releasing Petroleum Reserves
A new report says that Biden’s Energy Secretary called up a top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) energy official before the Biden administration released America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPR) in late 2021. Aside from the ostensible goal of lowering gas prices (even while the Biden administration wrecked America’s energy independence), the Biden administration’s Department of Energy […]
Lessons from the Chinese Exclusion Act
Bipartisanship is often heralded as the pinnacle of legislative achievement. The recent votes on foreign aid to Taiwan, Israel, and Ukraine offered a display of this heraldry. But we should stop praising bipartisanship as a virtue. It is not inherently praiseworthy. Bipartisanship is praiseworthy as a byproduct of the legislative process. When powers are divided, […]
Biden Makes Grand Canyon National Monument, Ending Uranium Prospecting
Editors’ Note: The concept used to be, “public lands”, where ranchers, lumbermen, miners, off-road enthusiasts, hunters, hikers, and mountain bikers, in other words, “the public” had use of the Federal lands. Now propelled by the environmental movement, increasingly these become “private lands” government-owned and approved for only progressive causes. It is even worse. As the […]
Weekend Read: Your Car Your Freedom
The automobile is one of the devices that truly changed America and the world. Invented originally in Germany, it found its greatest expression and success in America. In the early years, car technology competed with each other based on gasoline or kerosene power, diesel, electric, and even steam. The internal combustion engine using gasoline prevailed. […]
The Biden Administration Can’t Ignore This Whale Of A Problem Any More
As whale deaths mount on the east coast, the Biden administration can no longer pretend offshore wind farms are harmless to marine life. FOX News Digital revealed that the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is quietly offering a grant to study interactions between wind farms and critically endangered North Atlantic right whales. Even though government-issued […]
Grading the First Peanut Gallery Debate
Vivek was the single exception to an underwhelmingly mediocre debate While the eyes of well over 160 million people were on the highly-anticipated interview between President Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson, the undercard debate of also-ran candidates proved very telling in its own way, often at the expense of the GOP. With a single exception, all of […]
The Therapeutic Roots of Wokeism
Political scientist Yoram Hazony argued in Quillette that “an updated version of Marxism” was surging in America today, owing to the decay of liberalism, and its proponents were coming for everyone who did not subscribe to its politically correct, woke dogmas. Hazony’s warning that the followers of this new breed of Marxism “cannot grant legitimacy to any […]