Low Interest Rates Don’t Have the Stimulus the Economy Craves

Low Interest Rates Don’t Have the Stimulus the Economy Craves

In the 2006 Mike Judge movie Idiocracy, the dumbed-down human population five-hundred years into the future have replaced water in drinking fountains with the salty sports drink “Brawndo,” and have even begun to water farm crops with Brawndo. Facing a nationwide famine as a result of repeatedly salting the crop fields, time-traveling twenty-first century slacker Joe Bauers suggests that the future-world dimwits use water for the crops rather than Brawndo. “But Brawndo’s got what plants crave,” the dimwitted White House advisors reply, echoing the official corporate marketing line repeatedly,...

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‘Culture’ Is the Weakest Argument for Immigration Controls

‘Culture’ Is the Weakest Argument for Immigration Controls

To hear border hawks tell it, European countries like Ireland are “overrun” with immigrants and have torched the culture. “We won’t even have a country any more,” people will tell you in a panicked voice about immigration, as if Ireland is one example of how the United States will somehow magically cease to exist because of immigration. It’s as if the mostly Polish and Ukrainian immigrants to Ireland have stolen the Blarney Stone, banned jigs and reels on the radio, and put both Guinness and Jameson out of business. Border hawks seem to be under the delusion that Ireland’s wealth is...

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Europe’s Fake ‘Immigrant Crime Wave’ Narrative and Its Salesmen

Europe’s Fake ‘Immigrant Crime Wave’ Narrative and Its Salesmen

If you could be shown that you were being lied into a narrative about an immigrant crime wave in Britain, would that make you more skeptical of the wider narrative of a refugee crime wave across both Europe and America? Migration Central, one of Britain’s immigration skeptic organizations, reports, “There were 16,771 convictions for sexual offences, with a known nationality, between 2021 and 2023 and migrants accounted for 2,500 of these. This is 15% of sexual offence convictions during this time period.” Eek! These immigrants are barbarians! But then, once you realize that immigrants are...

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Charlie Kirk and ‘Cancel Culture’

Charlie Kirk and ‘Cancel Culture’

The right is calling for revenge in the form of firing every leftist who talked out of turn over Charlie Kirk’s assassination last week. This mentality does threaten to tear the country apart. Already, there are firefighters, publicists, teachers, and a whole host of others who have lost, or are in the process of losing, their primary occupations. Three teachers right here in my home state of Massachusetts alone are in danger of losing their jobs over comments they made on social media. Elon Musk has gone on record as saying, “The left is the party of murder, and celebrating murder,” even...

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America’s Vestigial Constitution

America’s Vestigial Constitution

Does the United States Constitution grant President Donald Trump the power to unilaterally blow up boats of alleged drug smugglers on the high seas? No. “The Congress shall have Power To... To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations” reads Article 1, Section 8. Does the Constitution grant Trump the power to bomb other countries when they may harbor terrorists or have a nuclear weapons program? No. “The Congress shall have Power To...To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on...

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The Federal Reserve Cuts Growth, Increases Economic Chaos

The Federal Reserve Cuts Growth, Increases Economic Chaos

The same cohort of Democrats who championed the slogan “save democracy” this past year, fresh from having their national party tank the process of "fair" primaries for the third presidential election in a row, are now in a snit over Donald Trump trying to impair the “independence” of the Federal Reserve Bank.  Federal Reserve “independence” has these days taken on an almost religious fervor in some sectors, as if creating an unconstitutional fourth branch of government immune from the voters and the officials they elect was a mandate of heaven. A lot of this is driven by zombie partisan...

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How the Economy is Rigged Against You

How the Economy is Rigged Against You

Young middle class workers are struggling financially, while everyone knows the billionaire class is doing quite well. The reason is because Washington has insidiously and thoroughly rigged the tax and regulatory system against the working poor and middle class, top-to-bottom, secretly taking and transferring almost all of their economic gains for the past five decades to the billionaire class. And the transfer of wealth begins before working people even see their paychecks in their checking accounts.  The first way government impoverishes the middle class is through racking up a huge...

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If We Taxed Billionaires, Could We Balance the Budget?

If We Taxed Billionaires, Could We Balance the Budget?

Everyone who has heard a Democratic politician speak in the last decade has heard the mantra, “We can balance the budget (or fund a pet new social program) if we just make the billionaires pay their fair share of taxes.”  So let’s see what it would look like. Let’s balance the budget―not even taking the extreme of creating and paying for any new social programs―with higher taxes on billionaires. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) baseline budget predicts a deficit of nearly $1.851 trillion in fiscal year 2026 (which begins October 1, 2025)―without President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful...

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