The Pain They Won’t Pay For, Part 2
For years, I’ve lived with pain that doesn’t sleep. It settles in my spine, joints, and muscles, relentless and merciless.
Government
Sniper Rifles: When Bambi’s Rifle Becomes a Weapon of Mass Panic
Take a rifle, slap on a bipod and a scope big enough to see into next Tuesday, and suddenly it’s not a hunting rifle anymore. No sir, now it’s a “sniper rifle.”
Rogue Judges Declare Lawfare Against Trump
U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg is, without doubt, pushing the limits of judicial authority in issuing a temporary restraining order halting the government’s deportation of Venezuelan Tren de Aragua members.
The Trouble With Tariffs
Focused, temporary tariffs designed to level the playing field may or may not work as designed. Permanent tariffs kill capital which kills jobs.
The Private Sector. They Expect Results. So Should The Public.
As bureaucrats in the US and elsewhere, are being required to work and justify their existence, they are upset. Welcome to the real world.
DOGE and Billions Lost… within Local Governments
DOGE is just scratching the surface. Perhaps we need to start delving deeply into the budgets of local and state government.
Revival & Reverence, Returning To God
I’d like to begin today with a couple of verses of Scripture. From Isaiah 30, “For they are a rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to hear the instruction of the Lord; who say to the seers, ‘Do not see,’ and to the prophets, ‘Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us …
Federal Land, Affordable Housing…Affordable Food?
On March 18th, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner announced their collaboration in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.
Petulant Democrats in an All-out Favorability Freefall
In a recent NBC News and Hart Research poll, just 27 percent of Americans view the Democratic Party favorably. A CNN poll revealed that only 29 percent of the respondents had a favorable outlook toward the Democrats.
A DC Whodunit: Who added Goldberg?
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) might be the happiest man in Washington this week. Jeffrey Goldberg’s shocking exposé about his inexplicable inclusion in a Signal chat with 18 senior national security officials has completely overshadowed calls for Schumer to step down from his leadership role in the Democratic Party. Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The …
Trump Unleashes The Crossfire Hurricane
Like Don Corleone, they own the judges and Justice Roberts, who appointed Boasberg as the chief of the secret FISA courts which gave Obama and Hillary 17 warrants to spy on their top political opponent.
Part II: A Nation of Riflemen: Roosevelt, the DCM, and a Culture of Shooting
President Theodore Roosevelt brought moral clarity and public enthusiasm to the growing marksmanship movement.
Sen. Tom Coburn (Doctor of the Budget Before DOGE)
So the GAO team strolls into Sen. Coburn conference room. One woman and three men. The Director of the team was a forty-something East Indian with an accent. He did not appear to be an American which raised my curiousity. More on that later.
Why Don’t We Return to Charitable Giving? Why Must Everything Go Through the Government?
It was back in 2023 that one of my fellow parishioners at St Elizabeth of Hungary Catholic Church told us that the Estill County Community Food Bank was losing the ‘extra’ money coming from the federal government in COVID-19 ’emergency’ money was ending. The parish council then decided that we would take up a quarterly …
Download or Lose Your Farm: How the Canadian Government is Now Punishing You for Being Amish
Imagine this: you live a peaceful, self-sufficient life. You raise livestock, grow food, worship freely, and ride a horse-drawn buggy into town for flour and fence nails. You don’t own a smartphone -Then one day, the Canadian federal government says, “Download this app or we’re putting a lien on your farm.”
An actual insurrection; Employees at the Institute of Peace went to war.
The Daily Caller reported that the Department of Justice may prosecute the mutineers at the U.S. Institute of Peace, foolishly founded by President Reagan.
When Does an Energy Source Really Work?
When you do the math – the real math, the “big picture” math – you find that wind and solar energy cost about seven times as much as traditional sources like gas, coal, oil and nuclear power plants.
Dear Elon: Please DOGE Federal Deposit Insurance Redundancies
President Donald Trump’s Chief Tech Support Officer Elon Musk has done a remarkable amount of very good work in the less than two months Trump has actually been in office.
The Modern American Teacher
Her classroom was out of control. Had been for a while. The kids in her “at-risk” fourth-grade class were about as organized as a prison riot. That’s what we call them in today’s world. “At-risk youth.”
Counting the Uncountable: My Adventures in Contractor Accounting in Iraq
It was the year 2010, and I was a Major in Iraq, knee-deep in PowerPoint slides and tasked with one of the great mysteries of the modern military-industrial complex: how many contractors were in the theater of operations? Simple question, right?