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Live Not By Lies: The Gulag Lesson America Forgot

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“Socialism does not collapse because it runs out of money. It collapses because it runs out of truth. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn understood this better than almost anyone alive. The Soviet Union was not held together by productivity, innovation, or freedom. It was held together by fear and a mountain of compulsory lies. Citizens learned to repeat obvious nonsense simply to survive. Newspapers reported record harvests while shelves sat empty. The state called itself a workers’ paradise while millions disappeared into camps. As the Bible warns in The Bible, Satan is ‘the father of lies,’ and every authoritarian system follows the same blueprint: suppress truth, punish dissent, and force the population to publicly kneel before fiction. The gulag was not the beginning of the process. It was the final invoice.”

Thune joins the resistance; Sends Senate home without passing a budget. Whee!

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Led by John Thune, Republican senators have joined the resistance by going on recess without fully funding the Department of Homeland Security—perhaps in an effort to attract the terrorist vote.

Senators claim it is a pro forma recess and not a real recess. I never studied the law but I do know that when lawyers start talking in Latin, my liberty is in jeopardy.

Accepting Reality, Not Lies and Propaganda

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Lies: People lie for two fundamental reasons: to protect themselves from something bad or to gain something good. That simple framework covers everything from a child’s first fib to a calculated fraud, but the full picture involves brain wiring, developmental milestones, personality traits, and social pressures that make deception a deeply human behavior. The average person lies once or twice a day, though that number is misleading. Most lies are told by a small minority of people, while many others rarely lie at all. Telling the truth is your brain’s default setting. Lying requires overriding that default, which demands real cognitive effort. Neuroimaging research shows that deception activates the prefrontal cortex, the region responsible for higher-level thinking and self-control, far more than honest responses do.

Gold Medal, Mystery Saboteur: The Matthew Emmons Story That Still Doesn’t Add Up

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There are Olympic stories about grit, discipline, and the triumph of the human spirit—and then there’s the one about Matthew Emmons, whose rifle got mysteriously vandalized right before the biggest competition of his life. Not misplaced. Not dropped. Not “oops, I leaned it against the rack wrong.” We’re talking deliberate, tool-in-hand, someone-wanted-this-gun-dead sabotage at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. In a sport where competitors track wind shifts measured in whispers and bullet holes measured in decimals, somebody decided to go full blunt-force caveman on precision equipment. And just like that, Olympic-level marksmanship briefly turned into a low-budget whodunit.

The 10-to-4 Problem: What Rimfire Teaches That Centerfire Hides

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At distances out to 100 yards, the differences between rimfire and centerfire aren’t subtle—they are foundational. A .22 LR match round leaves the muzzle at roughly 1050 feet per second, already flirting with the sound barrier and quickly settling into subsonic flight. Compare that to a typical centerfire round—say a .308—moving at nearly three times that speed, carrying significantly higher ballistic efficiency, and backed by a rigid, jacketed bullet designed to punch through the air rather than cooperate with it.

The Michigan Deer Debacle: How the DNR Managed to Fail Hunters, Farmers, and the Deer Herd All at Once

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For generations, deer hunting has been woven into Michigan’s identity. Opening day used to look like a state holiday. Orange jackets in diners at 4 a.m., rifles leaning in pickup trucks, kids learning from their dads and grandfathers that hunting wasn’t just about venison—it was about discipline, stewardship, and tradition. But if you look at the numbers today, something has gone badly wrong. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has spent decades regulating, restricting, tweaking, and “managing” the deer herd, yet the results speak for themselves: declining harvests, shrinking hunter participation, and a system so tangled that it now struggles to produce enough hunters to even keep the herd under control.

When Veteran YouTube Geopolitical Talking Heads Start Acting Like Internet Trolls

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Now let’s be clear about something. Veterans arguing about foreign policy is not the problem. In fact, it’s healthy. People who have worn the uniform should absolutely debate how American power is used. The military has always produced strong opinions—usually accompanied by horrible coffee and worse briefing slides. But what used to separate professional disagreement from internet drama was something the officer corps once valued deeply: discipline.

From Dionysus to the Edict: The Olympic Whiplash Nobody Planned

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In 2024, the world tuned in to Paris and was treated to a lavish, high-budget revival of pagan imagery—complete with nods to Dionysus, the ancient god of intoxication, ecstasy, and losing yourself so completely that personal responsibility becomes someone else’s problem. It was art, we were told. It was symbolism. It was “inclusive.” It was definitely not accidental. And it certainly wasn’t Christian.

Loud Guitars, Sharp Broadheads: Why Ted Nugent Still Matters to Michigan Hunters

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There are rock stars… and then there are Michigan rock stars—the kind forged in cold air, hard miles, deer sign, and a stubborn refusal to apologize for loving the outdoors. Ted Nugent is that kind of animal.

Hollywood Is Finally Telling Us the Truth: We Are Not Alone.

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For decades, the official story was simple: UFOs weren’t real, and anyone who said otherwise was either confused, lying, or needed to spend less time staring at the sky and more time paying their taxes. “Swamp gas.” “Weather balloons.” “Venus.” “Camera artifacts.” The script never changed—only the excuse did. But while the grown-ups in government played dumb and the media treated the subject like a late-night punchline, Hollywood kept doing something far more dangerous: it kept normalizing the idea that we are not alone.

Anus and Genital Rashes: Fox News, Big Pharma, and the Breakfast-Time

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I turn on Fox News for the same reason a man checks the weather before he goes outside: I want to know what’s coming, and I’d prefer not to be blindsided by it. Is the world on fire? Are we at war? Did Congress accidentally pass something useful? Did somebody somewhere do something so insane it requires a full segment and a therapist?

The Upside-Down Gospel: How Stranger Things Steals from the Bible, but Forgets the Cure

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Stranger Things didn’t invent spiritual warfare—it just put it on a BMX bike and added synth music. The show works because it’s parasitic: it feeds on biblical ideas already baked into Western consciousness. Shadow realms. Invasive evil. Possession. Sacrifice. Redemption. None of this is new.

Let’s Start The New Year With A Laugh: Liberals Can Be So Entertaining

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Let's Start The New Year With A Laugh: Liberals Can Be So Entertaining

I find listening to & talking with Liberals an endless source of amusement. Granted, there are few discussions because they quickly descend into insults & threats when you ask a question the Lib doesn’t like. Here are nine short vignettes of my interactions with Liberals since businessman Donald J. Trump won his first election.