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“Economic Facts and Fallacies” by Thomas Sowell came out in 2008, but like many of Thomas Sowell’s other books on economics, it remains a classic. What are the strengths and weaknesses of this book? How does it compare to his other major works?

Since lots of you seemed to enjoy the last Donald trump best moments video I made, I decided to make another one! This video is about 12 minutes long and extremely funny! There are many more like it on the rest of my youtube page also. Here is the link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGAvWqq6pGU

U.S. HERD IMMUNITY ACHIEVED By Nostradumbass August 21, 2020 For immediate release Statistical analysis shows that the U.S. has reached herd immunity for Covid-19. Consequently, the current downtrends in daily new cases and deaths is sustainable. The downward trajectory of daily new deaths will now continue toward zero. Herd immunity was always inevitable. Social distancing flattened the curve but also lengthened the curve. When social distancing relaxed, the curve became distorted with the so-called “second wave”. The second wave was really just the first wave in the three most populated states - California, Texas, and Florida - which had not...

You are the frog, and they are slowly boiling you. – In March, the CDC, along with doctors Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx, assured President Trump that we could control the viral gift from China if we just had everyone stay at home for two weeks. “Two weeks to flatten the curve,” they said. Remember that? I do. Then, when that didn’t work, the CDC, along with doctors Fauci and Birx, assured us all that we could control the Wuhan virus if we all stayed home for another month, washed our hands 32 times a day and practiced something called...

‘My pronouns are she, her, and hers’

Patrick Rooney, Founder of Old School™(Natural Health / Success / Freedom), interviews businessman and experienced gold investor Joe Grande about the reasons people should consider investing in gold and silver, and how to get started.

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored" -Adoux Housley "The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but building the new." -Socrates "The Secret of Freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant" -Maximilien Robespierre

"indefinite leave of absence" Part of the statement late today from Liberty University, a Conservative Christian institution, regarding its President and Chancellor, Jerry Falwell Jr........ A US counterintelligence official says that China, Russia and Iran will try to interfere in the 2020 presidential election..... An Air India Express plane repatriating people stranded by the coronavirus crash landing in southern India..... The Russian military mission in Syria says it retains the right to strike back..... The US Special Envoy for Iran, Brian Hook, is leaving his post....His replacement is the current US Envoy to Venezuela Elliot Abrams... The presumptive Democrat Presidential...

Patrick Rooney, Founder of Old School™, laments the slide of heroic white, conservative men into "grumpy old men." Meanwhile, it is often taking black men, black women, and black woman IMMIGRANTS to inspire new blood into the movement, too often leaving "grumpy old men" in the dust. One of the reasons for the existence of Old School™ is to "teach old dogs new tricks"—to re-inspire "grumpy old men" to return to being the "happy warriors" of old. It is not too late—for grumpy old men or America!

After our assignment to West Germany in the mid '80's., my husband was assigned to the First Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas. We were living in Harker Heights, Texas. During that period of military build up President Reagan the waiting list for on-post quarters was rather long, so we were renting a mobile home. I found out I was pregnant with our third child. My husband had to go to a NCO training school. When the trailer park manager learned that I was pregnant he told that we would have to find another place to live because the park...

Something strange seems to be going on with Newsweek. Although few are still aware it even exists and even fewer actually read it, they sometimes publish stories that diverge drastically from its usual liberal orthodoxy. Perhaps they are willing to sometimes commit such heresy simply to draw attention. And in the case of their op-ed column by a Yale professor of epidemiology on Thursday, they sure got the attention of anyone reading it since it utterly shattered the media taboo against hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19. The liberals say we "must listen to the experts" and it is hard...

Patrick Rooney, Founder of Old School™, explains in a simple fashion how meditation actually works--that there is a REASON for each component, and how essential it is that we find a counterbalance to the mind-control techniques of mass media that pull us further and further away from the center of our common sense.

Fox News reports Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was called “unprofessional,” “childish” and “pathetic” by the city’s president of the Fraternal Order of Police, John Catanzara, who was in turn responding to her sharp criticism of him. Catanzara appeared Tuesday night on “The Ingraham Angle,” where he also reacted to breaking news that at least a dozen people had been shot outside a funeral home. Lightfoot had referred to Catanzara as “unhinged” and attention-seeking after the union leader wrote a letter to President Trump asking for federal assistance amid Chicago’s continuing crime wave. Lightfoot called the prospect of federal intervention “chaos”...

Some thoughts on Joe Biden's description of Islam as a "great confessional faith," and belief that it should be taught in our public schools.

The woman is a cancer-breeding and cancer-killing machine. – Think about it: How many people have you ever heard of who have had lung cancer, stomach cancer, pancreatic cancer and liver cancer over a span of less than a decade and lived to tell about it? That’s the record that the extraordinarily enduring Ruth Bader Ginsburg has now racked up in recent years. Today, she announced that she has been receiving treatments for liver cancer since May and the Supreme Court has managed to cover that little fact up until now. She also claimed that her hospitalization earlier this week...

We need each other. That is being forgotten. PC fear is dominating discourse and too many people are forgetting to be kind. Hiding in a basement to win more votes? Some people remember to connect.

While ABC’s, CBS’s, and NBC’s evening news shows were busy hawking psychologist Mary Trump’s anti-Trump book July 7, they ignored a glaring bias. Mary Trump had been a Democrat donor for years, donating to the party, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

VIDEO Wouldn't you love to play poker with Mary Trump? Her tell is so obvious it practically screams at you.

Patrick Rooney, Founder of Old School™, discusses the nerve of many Americans sitting on their backsides and expecting Jesus will come down to save them.

VIDEO ADDRESS: https://twitter.com/i/status/1278468643681112065 Never look a gift horse in the mouth, or the rear—OUCH! When a lefty communist agitator tried to sneak up on a horse-mounted cop with seeming animal cruelty up her sleeve, his horse took matters into his own hooves and sent the commie sailing. Two police officers were on their horses with their backs to a woman. She ran up and appeared to intentionally hit the police horse. She got a kick out of her behavior, and it must really be physically painful as well as highly embarrassing. The horse hit her back, much harder, and actually...