Take a look at the size of the defense budget in America today as a percentage of federal spending.
In 2015 it accounted for 53.71% of the entire budget. Now try to image what would happen to our economy if that spending was stopped and not immedi
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According to the physicists at the University of California, Riverside Occam's (or Ockham's) razor is a principle attributed to the 14th century logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. Ockham was the village in the En
Read more…Over the years in this column I have written about the American Empire. I have advocated jettisoning the Empire to save the Republic. This topic has sparked debate and controversy even among the most dedicated readers. Usually the argument runs li
Read more…Most of us, even those of us who are the products of America’s collapsed public education system have heard of the fall of Rome. The greatest of ancient western empires began to fall as soon as the vigorous Republic which had created it was replaced
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