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It's not wrong to control your own destiny or to give your children a promising future. It's your right as an individual, as a free person, and as an American Ann Rand’s classic novel, Atlas Shrugged, opens with the question “Who is John Galt?” It’s a question often repeated amid an ongoing quest to discover the answer. John Galt is a man who opts out of a failed society, who rejects a nation near collapse, an eroding economy, escalating crime, and an authoritarian government for a better life. Galt then recruits society’s producers, smart, inventive people, the best of the...

Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has some advice for Hillary Clinton: Tax fossil fuels. Stiglitz, who is an adviser to Clinton, says taxing carbon would be the best way to address climate change -- and boost the U.S. economy. The move would immediately lead to higher prices for oil, gas and coal. It would also hike the cost of anything that uses those fuels such as electricity and transportation. The goal is to force Americans to find alternatives that are cheaper and better for the planet. Taxes typically hinder the economy, but Stiglitz believes this one would help. "I...

Today, Trump took a risk and won. He traveled to Mexico and gave a joint press conference with President Enrique Peña Nieto in which both parties appeared respectful of each other despite some obvious differences. “Mr. Trump and I had an open and constructive discussion,” President Peña Nieto said. He added, “The purpose of our meeting was to get to know each other and to exchange ideas and visions about bilateral relations of our countries.” For his part, Trump described his visit to Mexico as “a great honor.” One of the obvious areas of disagreement is how to handle the...

Take a moment to watch this report. It is done very well. Lots of her own emails shown and discussed. At the very least it is easy to conclude she has serious problems, her own staff thinks and knows so. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8W0AeXkNU0

Farmington Public Schools is expected to save $1.4 million this year after privatizing its custodial services for the first time. The district is one of several public school districts that have recently turned to privatizing noninstructional services, joining others that have used the practice for years. Farmington estimates the district will save $4.2 million over three years because of the move. The district reported its findings to the Mackinac Center for Public Policy for its “Michigan School Privatization Survey 2016.” “Over the past several years,” the report said, “there has been a slow and steady increase in the number of...

The Clinton 2016 campaign machine consists of around 1,000 people. The pace and expectations are unforgiving. A single mistake can get you booted in a nanosecond. According to a report at TruePundit, one well-placed staff who worked with Clinton on a daily basis made just such an error and came forward to reveal what's really going on in the campaign: Only a small group of people running her campaign know the specifics of Hillary’s health issues. But she is suffering from something. She sleeps approximately 18 hours a day. And some days, she sleeps more. I’m serious. This is why...

Chicago is wrapping up its most deadly month on record since the mid-90s, with more than 480 people shot and 78 dead, almost all of them ascribed to gang violence. (Plus any that they manage to sneak in before midnight tonight.) The total number of murders for the year is nearing 500 – well on track for a record – and there’s still a full four months to go. This grim milestone adds up to more murders than New York City and Los Angeles combined. We’ve pretty much run out of awful adjectives to describe what’s going on in the...

With the latest guns, scopes, and laser rangefinders, well-practiced hunters are able to confidently take game at over 1,000 yards. If you are looking to break into the long range hunting arena, or are trying to improve your long range accuracy, listen to what the experts at Red Rock Precision Rifles feel are the best cartridges for long range hunting. Shooters sensitive to recoil should choose a 28 Nosler and those looking for more power should choose a .300 Remington Ultra Mag. However, that’s just one man’s opinion. If it's deer or deer-sized game you’re chasing, you can’t go wrong...

After the Flint water crisis came to light, multiple state employees in the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality were reassigned out of the department, which oversees water quality. We were interested in finding out more: Where were these employees reassigned and were they being punished for malpractice? So on March 30, the Mackinac Center filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the department to find out. And then we waited. And then we waited some more. And then we waited more still. People and the press have a right to public information, even if it’s inconvenient to a government...

They don’t have the issue set that favors them" and thus they resort to name-calling, Conway said. "And I have to say, look, politics is not a tea party. It’s rough and tumble. We all get that, Brian. But to go out there and do guilt by association and to accuse people of having malice in their heart towards other people with no evidence, and then to do exactly what the American Psychological Association has asked people not to do, which is to, which is to certify somebody as mentally unfit or a psychopath. It’s just beyond the pale, and...

The Saudis counted them out. So did the Russians, even many domestic analysts said North American shale and tight oil and gas production would decline in the face of low prices and that investment would dry up and output would fall. Well, guess what? They have all been proven wrong. Sure, rig counts have dropped and there have been painful layoffs of workers, but the industry is surviving and against all the “experts” advice, production of natural gas from the Marcellus and Utica shales of the U.S. Northeast is averaging 22.63 billion cubic feet per day in August,

Alternate headline: Something remains very wrong with 41 percent of America Maybe more than that, because chances are some of the 59 percent of registered voters who have an unfavorable view of Hillary will vote for her anyway, if only because they’ve bought the nonsense that Trump is a racist, a robber baron or whatever else he’s supposed to be. Or they’ve bought the idea that while Hillary is corrupt and dishonest, she’s somehow competent and thus a passable alternative to the wild-eye lunatic Trump - even though the track records of the two candidates support neither of those characterizations....

What could possibly go wrong? Even after almost eight long years in office, the Obama administration has failed to learn that you can’t blow and whistle at the same time. Obama intel organizations like the FBI speculate that the Big Bad Russian Bear is the perp that should be blamed for hacking into both the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign. Vladimir Putin is a Communist. Russian intel is Communist. It goes without saying that the Communist Party is hardline Communist.

“The people who cast the votes don’t decide an election, the people who count the votes do.” – Joseph Stalin What could go wrong? Paul Bedard: Even before the FBI identified new cyber attacks on two separate state election boards, the Department of Homeland Security began considering declaring the election a “critical infrastructure,” giving it the same control over security it has over Wall Street and and the electric power grid. The latest admissions of attacks could speed up that effort possibly including the upcoming presidential election, according to officials. “We should carefully consider whether our election system, our election...

You will not see this reported by the Democrat, puppet media. The American Renewal Project (ARP) is very serious about seeing that Donald Trump is elected our next president. The ARP’s leader, David Lane, reports raising $10 million in just the first week of the Project’s effort to get this job done. The Evangelical community across America has a very clear preference for the team of Trump and his running mate Mike Pence, the governor of Indiana who is a member of their community. Lane wants to harness that power to elect these men. From the earliest days of this...

The FBI found them, and they're not about yoga routines Remember Hillary’s excuse for why she went ahead and deleted more than 30,000 e-mails from her schlock, homebrew e-mail server? Why, they weren’t work-related! They were about yoga routines, recipes and Chelsea’s wedding. That’s what she said. The FBI, which couldn’t bring itself to recommend criminal prosecution because of Hillary’s last name and the fact that she’s running for president, already told us that many of these were work-related. Now, thanks to the dogged efforts of Judicial Watch in doing the media’s job for them, we find out that at...

Target is using deceptive language to make Americans think it has their best interests at heart. But Target has not changed this dangerous policy The boycott of Target stores led by those outraged that the retail chain encourages men who “identify” as women to use women’s restrooms is working—but victory is not yet complete. Business Insider reports: The boycott started in April after Target announced that it would welcome transgender customers to use any bathroom or fitting room that matched their gender identity. The announcement triggered an immediate backlash. Critics said the policy opened the door for sexual predators to...

BLM whiners and all racial bigots, black and white, disgust me. Your arrogant refusal to sense the divine spark in us all contributes to the thickening shadows spreading around the world. Screw you all, and the horses you rode in on “Black Lives Matter.” At first blush, it seems difficult to imagine anyone taking issue with the obvious, self-evident truth articulated by those three simple words. But when we peel away the veneer of deception, we find that Black Lives Matter (BLM) is in fact one of the most destructive, hateful, racist movements in living memory.—John Perazzo “The Profound Racism...

Some days future possibilities are just too grim to contemplate. For example, what if Hillary wins? I am quite sure that, out of necessity, I  would be promoted from FLOTUS MOTUS to POTUS MOTUS. Some promotions are just not worth it.Honestly, what difference at this point does it make?I’m going back to bed with a sick headache. Please carry on as you see fit.Posted from: Michelle Obama’s Mirror

MATTHEW BRACKEN is a former Navy SEAL (BUD/S Class 105), a Constitutionalist, and a self-described “freedomista”. He’s the author of several books, including Enemies Foreign and Domestic. This is the first part in a series of different author’s thoughts on the next civil war. Here’s what Bracken sees as a potential scenario for the next American Civil War. The Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights does not “grant” Americans the right to armed self-defense, it simply recognizes and affirms this God-given human right. The Constitution, including the Bill or Rights, is a very succinct document that was written in...