Chain, chain, chain
(Chain, chain, chain)
Chain of fools…
So ran the chorus to Aretha Franklin’s 1967 hit song “Chain of Fools.”
One hundred twenty years earlier, the Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels proclaimed: “Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!”
The chains of Franklin’s song and those of the Marxist slogan are linked by one word: Fools. Continue reading
Socialism spreads like a plague. Too many countries eagerly bite on the lure of ‘free stuff.’ When people vote for socialism, freedom is quickly stripped away by permanent strongmen dictators. Trump wants to reverse this trend.
We like the idea of a “Donroe Doctrine,” where the United States stops handing over hemispheric power to China and Russia. Donald Trump is the opposite of the weakling Jimmy Carter. Communist China has been carefully playing the ‘long game.’ They’ve slowly infiltrated and gained influence in Canada, Mexico, and South American countries. They depend on Venezuelan oil. Trump has now tipped China’s game board over by making sure they no longer control the Panama Canal or have the chance to build military bases in Venezuela or Colombia. Continue reading
In a stunning turn of events, President Donald Trump has urged Republican lawmakers to “be a little flexible” on the Hyde Amendment which has been the bedrock protection that has shielded American taxpayers from funding the slaughter of innocent unborn children for nearly half a century. Speaking at a House Republican retreat on January 6, 2026, at the Kennedy Center, Trump casually suggested compromising this non-negotiable principle to push through healthcare legislation amid negotiations over ACA subsidies and rising premiums. [1] [2]
ACA subsidies are federal financial assistance programs designed to reduce the cost of health insurance for eligible individuals and families who purchase plans through the Health Insurance Marketplace. The two sides are currently at an impasse, though some bipartisan Senate negotiations are exploring a compromise. Continue reading
The “Little TURD!”
It’s hard to imagine America being intimidated by a guy named “Little Turtle”. And yet, in the year 1790, he was about as terrifying as it could get.
Little Turtle was the war chief of the Miami nation, one of the Algonquian-speaking tribes in the Great Lakes region, and he had made a name for himself fighting against the United States during the Revolutionary War. Continue reading
When the Framers drafted the Constitution in 1787, the first three words were “We the People.” The rest of the document repeatedly refers to “the people,” a term clearly denoting citizens of the United States, those whose rights the Constitution addressed. Additionally, the Tenth Amendment to the Bill of Rights identifies the states and “the people” as the repositories of plenary power, in contrast to the limited powers delegated to the federal government. Continue reading
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) stated that federal agencies have terminated or scaled back 55 contracts over the past five days, eliminating an estimated $261 million in spending tied to what the task force described as wasteful or duplicative services.
The canceled and descoped contracts had a combined ceiling value of $863 million, DOGE stated in a Dec. 22 social media post announcing its latest update. Continue reading
“Just the tip of the iceberg” is a perfect metaphor for what’s unfolding in Minnesota — a state swamped by over $1 billion in alleged welfare and program fraud, much of it tied to networks in the Somali community.
But Omar isn’t just the tip; she’s quick to cry “racism” whenever the fraud is called out. She’s slammed scrutiny of these schemes as “disgusting” and “vile,” insisting we shouldn’t “blame the lawlessness of an individual on a whole community.” Continue reading
“He sees you when you’re sleeping.
He knows when you’re awake.
He knows if you’ve been bad or good,
So be good for goodness’ sake.”
— “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”
For generations, “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” has been treated as a playful reminder to children to be good because someone, somewhere, is watching.
Today, it reads less like a joke and more like a warning.
The Surveillance State is making a naughty list, and we’re all on it.
Long before Santa’s elves start loading his sleigh with toys for good girls and boys, the government’s surveillance apparatus is already at work – logging your movements, monitoring your messages, tracking your purchases, scanning your face, recording your license plate, and feeding it all into algorithmic systems designed to determine whether you belong on a government watchlist.
Unlike Santa’s naughty list, however, the consequences of landing on the government’s “naughty list” are far more severe than a stocking full of coal. They can include heightened surveillance, loss of privacy, travel restrictions, financial scrutiny, police encounters, or being flagged as a potential threat – often without notice, explanation, or recourse.
This is not fiction. This is not paranoia. Continue reading
(Roman Genn)
It looked for a moment as if Henry Cuellar’s career might be over. The eleven-term congressman from Texas’s Rio Grande Valley had long fought to retain his seat in this overwhelmingly Hispanic region of the state, facing closer margins over the years as the Republicans gained traction among Latino voters during the worst of the Biden-era illegal-immigration crisis. The voters in Cuellar’s district had, for the first time in history, given their votes to a Republican — Donald Trump carried the district 53–46, in a straight reversal of Biden’s 2020 margin. Statewide Texas Republicans altered his district’s shape to make it slightly redder. And on top of it all, Cuellar was indicted in 2024 on twelve federal charges of bribery, conspiracy, and money-laundering. Would this be the end of the popular, but increasingly threatened, incumbent?
Trump is saying, essentially, “If you don’t want to get hurt, you’ll do what I say“.
Illustration by Paul Spella
The Sunday before the New York City mayoral race, President Donald Trump told New Yorkers he might withhold federal funding if Zohran Mamdani won.
“It’s gonna be hard for me as the president to give a lot of money to New York, because if you have a Communist running New York, all you’re doing is wasting the money you’re sending there,” Trump told CBS’s 60 Minutes. Continue reading
This is one of the takeaway lessons from the recent elections, particularly in New York City.
There a young and inexperienced pro-Islamist and democratic socialist won the mayoral election in part by promising voters goodies like free bus transportation, free childcare, some government grocery stores, and heavier taxes on the rich.
Unable or unwilling to take care of themselves, Zohran Mamdani’s supporters have fallen prey to one of the oldest tricks in the book, dating all the way back to Ancient Rome’s bread and circuses for the masses: They have surrendered liberty and self-reliance for a mess of pottage. Such ignorance of the past, or worse, such willed stupidity, strips away freedom and empowers would-be dictators. Continue reading
When Robert Oppenheimer watched the first atomic bomb detonate in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945, the blast confirmed that America had won the race to build a nuclear weapon.
The destructive power of these weapons was extraordinary; the explosion from Oppenheimer’s “Trinity” test unleashed an astonishing 83.7 Terajoules (TJ) of energy from just SIX kilograms of Plutonium-239.
By comparison, a typical power plant in 1945 would have required 9.5 MILLION kilograms of coal to produce a similar amount of energy. Continue reading
For generations, Americans have believed in a simple promise: that our government is of the people, by the people, and for the people. But today, citizens across the political spectrum feel that this promise has been broken. Both conservatives and progressives agree on one thing: the system is no longer responding to the will of the people.
Our politics are dominated by special interests, corporate money, lobbyists, and entrenched politicians who remain in power for decades. The average voter has been pushed to the sidelines while billion-dollar industries shape our laws, our regulations, and ultimately, our lives.
Reclaiming our country does not require choosing a “side.”
It requires fixing the system itself. Continue reading
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
We now live in a nation where constitutional rights exist in theory, not in practice.
Yet what good are rights on paper when every branch of government is allowed to ignore, circumvent, chip away at or hollow them out in practice?
Two hundred and thirty-four years after the ratification of the Bill of Rights on December 15, 1791, the safeguards meant to shield “We the people” from government abuse are barely recognizable. Continue reading
There is no way I can possibly count all the ways our property is being stolen from us by our so-called government “of the people, by the people, for the people”. But we are losing our property rights at breakneck speed and soon we will be property if we don’t put a stop to this iniquitous thievery. Continue reading
A 16th-century astrologer predicted political upheaval and a renewed conflict between East and West in 2026 – but it’s not all doom and gloom and there may be something positive to look forward to in the new year.
Michel de Nostredame, better known as Nostradamus, is said to have foreseen disturbing world events including 9/11 and Princess Diana’s death in his book Les Propheties, which was published in 1555. Continue reading
The Wrath of God
After I had finished my evening reading last night I was sitting around digesting what I had read; waiting for bedtime to come rolling around on the clock. As I did that, not thinking about anything, but thinking about everything all at one (if that makes any sense to you) a thought popped into my head; one that I felt was important enough to write down, ‘Moral relativity will prove to be the downfall of this country.’ Proving that point will be the focus of the remainder of this essay. Continue reading
President Trump says his ban on Third World immigration is permanent.
“We DON’T want those people! People who aren’t friendly to us, like SOMALIA! We don’t WANT THEM! Like SOMALIA, where you have [llhan Omar] going around telling everybody about our Constitution and yet she supposedly came into the country by marrying her BROTHER! They’re not good countries. Crime-ridden, don’t do a good job, don’t register for success. We frankly DON’T NEED THEIR PEOPLE…” ~ President Trump
Why should America be forced to babysit the third world? We have no obligation to them – we have obligations to our own citizens. The United States is not the world’s babysitter. Continue reading
The explosion of AI across every industry has seen hundreds of water – and power-hungry server farms sprout up across the US. Already, one-third of the world’s internet traffic flows through data centers in just one US state: Virginia.
However, until now, there has been no official record of the number of data centers in America, who owns them, or how much electricity they consume. Continue reading