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In 1951 President Harry Truman ignored the advice of General Douglas MacArthur who rightly perceived that it was China that was the real threat. Truman fired MacArthur and doomed American troops to a limited war which dragged on for two more years.
Read more…In many ways I have always been a dystopian believing that the inevitable rise of a future technology enhanced totalitarian state will regiment and control a society that is as dehumanizing and as unpleasant as possible. I was influenced by early an
Read more…One of America’s greatest philosophers once quipped, "A nickel isn't worth a dime today" and the inverse logic of that still holds true.
On Sept. 22, 2011 in a speech to business executives Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Read more…Marching out of Yorktown to surrender the British Army played the song “The World Turned Upside Down.” As I drive to Meg Lo Mart to make my latest deposit of monopoly money in a Chinese savings account all I can do is mumble the final tag-line of th
Read more…The movement to legalize the illegal will never stop until the untold millions of undocumented democrats have the right to vote. Eternally shopping for the a perpetual majority so they can finish the work of fundamentally transforming America the Pr
Read more…In America today just like in Lake Woebegone every child is above average and every child gets a trophy. We may score low in international grade comparisons but we rank number one in self-esteem. In other words American students may not be doing we
Read more…Numerous times the President has said in his opinion the Republicans should let Obamacare alone for a year or two. Let it implode (as it was designed to do) while the Democrats still own it.
When President Trump gave his well-received speech at CPAC
Read more…The recount in Wisconsin and the coming ones in Michigan and Pennsylvania will not change the outcomes in any of those states. Even though the party of Mayor Daley, Boss Tweed, and their big city machines are famous for winning recounts by finding b
Read more…An old joke goes like this, “How do you know when a politician is lying?” answered by, “When their lips are moving.” One of my favorite Chicago post-construction philosophers puts it this way, “All politicians lie. The good ones do it convincingly.
Read more…Gridlock is one of the greatest blessings bestowed upon us by the Framers. It is a natural result of the checks and balances built into the system to stop any temporary majority from fundamentally changing the country. If it wasn’t for the checks a
Read more…In the long and dismal History of human bondage an unbroken chain of command economies and tyrants has kept their boot on the neck of humanity.Then came the American experiment, the spirit of 76, the miracle at Philadelphia, and for brief moment in t
Read more…I have taught the history of Western Civilization for many years. I praise God that I have taught at institutions that allowed me to teach this history without the disdain that is often heaped upon what some call Eurocentric culture. Personally I b
Read more…***CALL TO ACTION!*** THE SENATE IS SET TO VOTE TOMORROW, Monday June 20, 2016 THEY ARE READY TO ELIMINATE THE "Due Process" GRANTED US BY THE BILL OF RIGHTS DO THIS NOW, TOMORROW MAY BE TOO LATE! The presumptive GOP nominee for President, is jumpi
Read more…I have often said in the pages of these Dispatches from the past to the future that nations are not judged by the sin that is in them for the same sin is within all of us. Neither are societies judged by the sins that are committed by those who form
Read more…America is suffering through a leadership crisis that threatens to swamp the Ship of State in the shoals of collectivism, cronyism, and corruption. Our leaders dither around acting as if they use Dilbert as a leadership manual destroying the present
Read more…The author calls it Totalitarianism. A Wisconsin District Attorney uses police forces with battering rams to Bust in to houses in the middle of the night. Are we seeing a shift to an era of Jackbooted Thuggery in America? Well we had better be alert
Read more…We see that Cuba is still the thug of the hemisphere. We have an example here provided by Investor's Business Daily. (IBD)
And this happens regularly in Cuba. A Cuban protest was met with similar reprisal in Washington, DC in the past in the face o
Read more…No one gets to live in the world they grew up in, it moves too fast.
It wasn’t always like this. My father grew up plowing with mules as had his father and his father and his father back and back into the mist of time. Things changed slowly until t
The Progressives in both parties may be the establishment now but they have always been and continue to be revolutionaries seeking to turn the American dream into a socialist nightmare.
Since the 1890s the Progressives have worked to change our Americ
Read more…America was founded upon the principles of Natural Law. The Progressives led us into the realms of Legal Positivism. The vast government apparatus they have constructed has progressed into a dystopian fantasy land beyond law where faceless bureaucr
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