Critical Thinking and Policy: The Wars on Drugs and Poverty

Critical Thinking and Policy: The Wars on Drugs and Poverty In an effective government, the first rule of policy is to set goals and the implementing processes to accomplish them. Politicians and the bureaucracy, however, run the government. The first rule of politicians is to get re-elected. The first rule of bureaucrats is to perpetuate …

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Restore Liberty

Restore Liberty It’s Our Title, It’s Our Mission You would have thought I was crazy in January 2020. I started to build a nationwide network of people that was first and foremost grounded in faith in God and trust in each other. With the knowledge that something wasn’t right, and it would only get worse, …

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Biden’s Border

Biden's Border

During an interview on NBC News’ “Today Show” with co-host Craig Melvin, President Joe Biden said his administration “inherited one God-awful mess at the border.” He blames it on “the failure to have a real transition — cooperation from the last administration, like every other administration has done.” I think even most Democrats realize the …

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The Fed Finally Admits It: They Don’t Know What They Are Doing!

The Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors once again raises interest rates to try to fight inflation, but they’ve admitted what people who pay attention to economics already knew: the Board don’t really know what they are doing, or what effects their decisions will have. From The Wall Street Journal: Fed Approves Fourth 0.75-Point Rate Rise, …

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Troy Aikman Does Not Wear Combat Boots

Troy Aikman is an ESPN football commentator, former Dallas cowboy, and Hall of Fame quarterback. Last week he commented while on air about a lousy call by the officials in the Kansas City–Las Vegas game. Aikman was unhappy with the call because he felt the officials were being overprotective of the Las Vegas quarterback based …

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Is Hypocrisy the New Name of the Democrat Party?

Nancy Pelosi

As the nation prepares to vote in the upcoming midterm elections, I couldn’t help recalling a couple of years ago when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stormed around the Capitol building purging it of all things reminiscent of the Confederacy. That prompted House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to wonder if Pelosi should consider changing the name …

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Neocon Off The Deep End

As we have previously noted, the old ‘neo-conservatives‘ turned #NeverTrumpers like Bill Kristol, Max Boot, and Jennifer Rubin have shown themselves to be very much on the political left in the United States, moved to the Democrats due to their #TrumpDerangementSyndrome. Crime has shown up as one of the major issues in the upcoming election, …

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Social Nostalgia and Triggering Millennials

By John R. “Buck” Surdu Recently, I did some online searching to see if there is a word for being nostalgic for a time that one didn’t personally experience. There is no such word, but “social nostalgia” or “cultural nostalgia” are sometimes used to describe this feeling. As our once-great, disunited states are increasingly ripped …

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Brynn Bryan Tannehill and the American Left Love Them Some Freedom of Speech and of The Press . . . For Themselves. For Conservatives? Not So Much!

I will admit it: I had not heard of Brynn Tannehill before seeing this tweet from my good Twitter friend Robert Stacy McCain. Now I don’t know what Mr McCain tweeted to her that she found blockworthy — though blockworthy seems to have a pretty low threshold among many on the left — but, as …

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Ukraine Exposes China’s Green Lies

Ukraine Exposes China’s Green Lies; Carbon Neutrality is a Chinese Pipedream The 2015 Paris Agreement pushed communist China into a corner to some degree. While other nations grandly announced their nationally determined contributions to reducing greenhouse gases, China demurred on specifics until near the end of the time allotted for countries to develop their plans. The …

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