JOHN W. WHITEHEAD “All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”― Frank Herbert Power corrupts. Worse, as 19th-century historian […]
Solutions abound, but they require the retirement of obsolete systems that defend entrenched interests and soul-crushing inequalities. It turns out Nero wasn’t fiddling as Rome burned–he was 60 km away at the time. Did Nero Really […]
Bill Holter is back and like he told us at the beginning of the year, 2017 will be the year of the truth bomb, and so far the year has not been a disappointment. From […]
Three ways the deck will always be stacked against you. By ALISON ACOSTA WINTERS gary718 / Shutterstock.com Philosopher George Santayana warned decades ago that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, and […]
We are looking more and more like France on the eve of its revolution in 1789. Our classes are distributed differently, but the inequity is just as sharp. America’s “aristocracy,” once based strictly on bank […]
By Michael Snyder It looks like the effort to repeal Obamacare is completely dead, and that says a lot about the current state of the Republican Party. For decades, RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) have […]
by Raúl Ilargi Meijer Hieronymus Bosch Ascent of the Blessed c1510 Reading the news on America should scare everyone, and every day, but it doesn’t. We’re immune, largely. Take this morning. The US Republican party can’t get its […]
Several weeks ago I had to drive west on the Pennsylvania Turnpike to pick up my son after his sophomore year at Penn State. I’ve made this trip a dozen times over the last few […]
Amid the constant media outrage over everything Trump, Trump, Trump, some might have forgotten that in the political rollercoaster over the past 12 months, there were numerous other high-profile individuals involved, including not only former DOJ head […]
CHARLES HUGH SMITH When the parties do finally implode, the general mood will be: good riddance. History informs us that once something is obsolete, it can disappear far faster than anyone expected. While we generally think […]
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