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Can we sell the “Trump is a traitor” lie, saying he collaborated with Putin to steal the election? Can we say that he is “Putin’s Puppet”? Can we continue to sell that lie even after a 40 million dollar investigation found that it was false? Can we sell the lie that borders for a country are racist, and that Trump and his supporters are racist for wanting a secure border? Can we sell the lies that Trump refuses to condemn neo-Nazis – that he said “they are good people” – that Trump and his followers are white supremacists? Will this...

There has never been a day in the Trump Presidency when he has not been attacked with lies. Big lies. Media complicit lies. The standard for a ‘news’ story is simply this: “Will this story hurt President Trump”. Truth has nothing to do with it. So we have been told that: Trump is Putin’s puppet, Trump says white supremacists are good people, Trump is a racist because he wants a secure border, Trump started a policy of putting kids in cages, Trump says inject bleach in your veins, Trump has done nothing about the virus, Trump’s Supreme Court nominee organized...

If you live in Michigan, and you or a loved one is infected with this potentially lethal disease, you’re out of luck. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs literally threatened all doctors and pharmacists in the state who prescribe or dispense hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19. The agency’s March 24 letter warns physicians and pharmacists of professional consequences for the prescribing of hydroxychloroquine (and chloroquine). Beyond the rational recommendation against hoarding as production of this medication needs to be ramped up, the letter deviates into open threats of “administrative action” against the licenses of doctors that prescribe hydroxychloroquine....

Governments can create money, but creating money does not create wealth. Wealth comes from productivity. Putting ink on small pieces of paper does not make wealth. You can visualize this fact quite easily. Imagine that our government officials keep businesses closed "to protect us from the virus," but they send everyone large checks every month. Our benevolent leaders made sure we had lots of money, so we are all taken care of, right? Without productive people, the true engine of wealth, Atlas would shrug, and the world would fall into its natural state, which is poverty. Anything that destroys productivity...

Profit seeking companies have cured cancer, reversed heart disease, and caused every other advance you can name for the past 100 years of medicine. A tiny fraction of innovation comes out of the NIH or non-profit society grants – and those ideas that are generated would invariably sit on the shelf without the work and investment of profit-seeking venture capitalists and companies guiding the idea through clinical trials, regulatory hurdles, and production. The majority of the profits that provide the incentive for innovators worldwide come from the US, and other healthcare systems piggyback (and rip off) our system to take...

"Most of the big ‘investigations’ in the news in recent years have not been at all what they pretended to be. The sham investigations of Hillary’s email, or the Clinton Foundation, or Weiner’s laptop, or Uranium One, or Mueller’s witch hunt, or Huber’s big nothing, or the IG’s whitewash, or the Schiff-Pelosi charades, have all been premeditated deceptions." The investigations are political theater. The column explores three types of fake investigations.

In his last report, Horowitz protected the Deep State. This column suggests that he may do that again. Excerpts: "Inspector General Michael Horowitz is examining one tiny part of the huge elephant that is Spygate. He is examining the fraudulent FISA applications that were part of the carefully planned and executed attempt to destroy Donald Trump’s candidacy for President, and, if the plotters failed at that, to provide an “insurance policy” to destroy him as President..... Horowitz clearly demonstrated that he was a blind man when he delivered his report on the Hillary Clinton investigation. For anyone who can see,...

The anti-Trump movement can be divided into two primary categories: (1) the leaders who sell the daily narrative and (2) the "useful idiots" who form the army of haters. The leaders include the Deep State criminals and media who protected Hillary and continue to collaborate on anti-Trump propaganda. The leaders understand Eric Hoffer's statement that "hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil." I am not arguing that the useful idiot sheep do not hate. There is...

More information is supporting the theory that the current big Justice Department "investigations" are actually functioning as big cover-up operations. Robert Mueller's team is effectively hiding key evidence related to serious crimes committed by government officials. Mueller has nearly complete control over what the public or any investigator can see. He has control over what witnesses can talk about. This means that the Huber and Horowitz investigations exist to make you think something is being investigated when it is not. " The column gives many examples of Mueller and others hiding evidence to protect government criminals and ends this way:...

Those of us who have been paying attention know that serious crimes were committed at the highest levels of government in an attempt to exonerate Hillary Clinton and frame Donald Trump. There was collusion between government agencies, including collusion with foreign agents, to illegally influence the 2016 Presidential election. There is enough evidence on the table to be confident of these claims. And those of us who care about rule of law, who want to see justice done to the criminals in this conspiracy, have been waiting for years to see that happen. We hear that these serious matters are...

The moral sentiments of the population determine what political leaders are willing to do. The moral sentiments of a country may be consistent with reality or may be based on Utopian *fantasies, but, either way, they control public policy. To illustrate, lets examine the concepts “earn” and “deserve”. In reality, material products and human services are the product of human labor. Food and shelter, for example, do not exist in nature ready for your use. Medical care does not exist in nature. Humans must work to create these things. This is not a situation that was devised by mean people....

Seeing current events for what they are - this article first quotes black "leaders" intentionally mis-characterizing the Michael Brown death. What is the game? It’s different things for different players and it has nothing to do with honestly addressing the real problems of the black underclass. It’s about power, money and the march toward leftist utopian dreams. Most of the people on the streets are “useful idiots” who are pawns in the game. Notice how easily the lies of demagogues can arouse a mob. Think of them as the Alinsky Army in training. Those who are directing the show are...

Consider the following 20 beliefs from the imaginary world where liberals live.  The “Affordable Care Act” will reduce the cost and increase the quality of health care, because if you want something done efficiently and economically, then you want unionized government bureaucracies to handle it.  We don’t have a spending problem  It is morally acceptable to borrow massive amounts of money from our grandchildren to support our own current consumption.  The 22 trillion dollars spent on the War on Poverty was quite successful in reducing the number of people in poverty.  The Social Security Program...

We constantly hear that conservatives need to compromise. We just can’t “move forward” unless conservatives compromise. There will not be “progress”, we are told, unless conservatives “reach across the aisle” and work with the liberals. [Clip – including interesting graphs that visually show the results of conservative compromise] For at least 50 years, when a liberal says “Let’s compromise”, he means, “Let’s move left…. let’s move in the direction of larger government. “ [some examples below of many in the article.] When mainstream media reporters say, “The conservatives are unwilling to compromise and this extremist position is slowing the progress...

The Obamacare rollout is a world-class failure. The most expensive website in history doesn’t work and those who battle through the website to get to the cost of the policies are most often shocked to see expensive policies with very high deductibles. So it’s time for the well-used Obama Excuse Machine to start pumping out excuses. Consider the following stories we have heard from Democrats: 1. Our problems are caused by the fact that Republicans said our plan would not work. They said government could not manage this gigantic health care takeover in an efficient or inexpensive fashion. That’s the...

The Battered Public Syndrome Bryce Buchanan The battered wife syndrome is a well-known psychological malady in which an abused partner stays with her abuser, thinking things would be worse without him. They think the separation would be more painful than the beatings and can't really imagine life without their man. For some victims, there finally comes a time when they have had enough and they face the reality that this man is not good for them. He lies to them. He hurts them. Eventually, even his sweet talk falls on deaf ears. Watching the news this week, I have seen...

In the interest of helping Team Obamacare, I have compiled a list of talking points that they could use to explain the real-world effects of this law: *If you like your Doctor, you may not be able to keep your Doctor, *If you like your insurance plan, you may not be able to keep your insurance plan, *If you like more expensive premiums, you will be happy to know that for the vast majority of people, your premiums will go up — for most people way, way up. *If you like high deductibles, many of you will find that your...

These recently leaked letters from Ben and Barry shed some light on our President’s secret strategy - Dear Mr. President, I am ever more worried about the path we are taking in dealing with the nation’s debt and our money supply. As we have discussed on several occasions, creating money in massive quantities, which we are doing every month, is like giving drugs to a drug addict. The world has never seen debt at the levels we are creating it. Honestly, Mr. President, if you just do the math you will see that our current unfunded liabilities cannot be paid....

“It’s not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967 Today is the 50th anniversary of the great “I Have a Dream” speech by Martin Luther King Jr.. This should be a day of uplifting speeches about self-empowerment and personal achievement. We should hear speakers expand on King’s dream of a colorblind society where people are judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. We should hear speeches about the character traits that lead to success and we should hear warnings...

If you want to see a succinct presentation of underreported evidence of a very serious problem in the US, you need to see this entire article. Tiny Excerpt: Even though we donÂ’t speak much about this violence, and even though the press works to cover it up, we all understand that we have a huge problem with a violent, racist, uncivilized underclass. We are taught, incorrectly, that it is not appropriate to talk honestly about it. But ignoring or denying the problem is the most foolish approach of all. We must acknowledge it and we must talk about it. Consider...