The Next Pandemic Will Test More Than Our Immune Systems

By any honest accounting, the pandemic did more than disrupt daily life. It rewired cultural instincts, reshaped how Americans relate to authority, and quietly altered how dissent is treated in a society that once prized it. The damage was not limited to lost lives or lost income; it extended into trust, neighborliness, and the very idea of personal agency.

Renaming Greenland – Trumpland: The Arctic Now Belongs to the Hegemon

Let’s stop pretending this is a seminar where everyone raises their hand and waits to be called on. The United States is the global hegemon. That’s not bravado; it’s the rebuilt operating system. When America “consults,” it’s being polite. When America decides, the rest of the world updates its talking points.

Protecting Somali Fraudsters, Washington State’s Attorney General Threatens Journalists

Protecting Somali Fraudsters, Washington State's Attorney General Threatens Journalists

Independent journalist said “I went to seven Somali child care locations today in the Kent, Washington area. I was told they weren’t daycares despite receiving taxpayer dollars. There was no sign of kids or being a daycare facilities.” Of the 1800 day care centers in Greater Seattle Area, 539 are owned by Somalis, most are fraudulent.

Calling the Shots: Life as the Global Hegemon (And Why the Cleanup Is Always a Mess)

As the global hegemon, we don’t merely influence outcomes. We decide who is fit to lead. We anoint. We delegitimize. We sanction. We isolate. And when necessary, we remove. On that front, our record is impeccable. Few nations in history have been better at leader removal than the United States. Regime change—overt or discreet—is something we understand down to the checklist.

Little Pacific Co, Washington Has Its Own Deep State: Corrupt Politicians, Bureaucrats

Little Pacific Co, Washington Has Its Own Deep State: Corrupt Politicians & Bureaucrats

The Washington State Supreme Court found a commissioner guilty of violating the Open Public Meetings Act (OPMA) but, oops, she didn’t know she was breaking it. Based upon their ruling, from now on, all elected officials and bureaucrats are above the law.

228 Years Ago, John Adams Warned Us — And We’re Proving Him Right

John Adams didn’t write the Constitution like a motivational poster. He wrote it like an engineer handing over a machine with a warning label: this will fail if misused. When he said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other,” he wasn’t sermonizing. He was stating a design limitation.

Living Behind Enemy Lines, Tale #77: “White Privilege” Died When Merit-Hiring Was Outlawed

Living Behind Enemy Lines, Tale #77: "White Privilege" Died When Merit-Hiring Was Outlawed

Americans must not let a young black surgeon operate on him/herself. It isn’t racism on the part of the patient that guides such a decision. It is racism on the part of colleges, medical schools, residency programs, et al which places way too many black Americans in classrooms & training programs where they don’t belong.

250 Years of Free Speech in America: Endowed, Not Granted

For most of human history, speech was a permission, not a right. Kings, emperors, churches, and councils decided what could be said, written, or taught—and dissent was treated as disorder. The idea that ordinary people could openly criticize power was not just discouraged; it was dangerous.

They Promised Us the Right to Hunt. Then They Took It Back.

Hunters were promised respect. We were promised constitutional protection. Instead, we got a regulatory maze where normal behavior is criminalized, enforcement is arbitrary, and tradition is treated as a threat. The same system that sells hunting licenses now treats hunters like suspects. The same agency that depends on hunter dollars increasingly acts as if it knows better than the people who live on and manage the land year-round.

Two Moral Operating Systems, One Broken State

Historically, America understood this. Immigration was not just about crossing an ocean. It was about assimilation. Italians, Irish, Poles, Germans—none arrived culturally identical to Anglo-Protestant America. But the expectation was clear: you adopt the civic moral framework of the country you’re entering. Loyalty to tribe yields to loyalty to law. Institutions outrank kin networks. No exceptions, no special carve-outs.