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Eliminate some tax laws, not IRS funding, to avoid shutdowns

If you like this piece, email it to others.  And if you can, become a patron or make a one-time donation to help me reach others. – Thanks, Nick Republicans lean on government shutdowns as a strategic tool. This month, the federal government was once again threatened with another shutdown. From November 1995 until today, there have been five...

Israel Could Adopt an Immediate Ceasefire to Achieve Its War Objective 

If you like this piece, email it to others.  And if you can, become a patron or make a one-time donation to help me reach others. – Thanks, Nick It is counter-intuitive that any country winning a military struggle would initiate a call for an immediate ceasefire. But that is precisely what Israel needs to do to achieve...

The Hamas-Israel War Could Go Nuclear with Gaza Invasion

Hamas initiated the deadliest Middle Eastern war for Israel since its Independence War of 1948. The Muslim Hamas Party executed a massive missile attack and subsequent invasion of Israel on Oct 7. Israel responded with missiles bombarding Gaza, which, combined with the West Bank, is recognized as the country of...

Can the Ukrainian War be Won?

The answer to the question Can the Ukrainian War be Won? No ­— unless both sides settle for exercising less sway over the future of their country. The Ukraine and Russia war, at its core, is about nationalism. Each is defending their motherland against outside control. Put simply, the nationalist...

Do Radio Stations & Newspapers Push a Liberal Or Conservative Agenda?

Conservative commentators and politicians attack the reliability of the "media" since they believe the liberals control it. They often point to television and some social media like Facebook. Except for the New York Times and Washington Post, they have avoided attacking other printed media and radio.  While the liberals do...

Why did the Parties Switch as Conservative & Liberal?

Graffiti in Licata, Sicily, by N. Licata The Democratic and Republican parties have flipped their basic philosophies since being founded. Currently, we strongly associate each with being conservative or liberal. We often assume that conservatives are Republicans and Democrats are liberals. But it was the opposite for approximately the first 80 years...

Civil War – MAGA & the Abolitionists

Republican MAGA movement folks have been predicting another civil war. The federal government’s deep state is trampling upon their freedoms and those of former President Donald Trump.  Two days after Election Day in 2020, Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers armed extremist group, told his high-ranking members: “We aren’t getting...

Republicans Diminishing the Cruelty of Black Slavery is a Loser’s Play

If you like this piece, email it to others. And if you really like it, become a Patreon patron to help me reach others. - Thanks, Nick Florida Governor DeSantis is downplaying Black Slavery by orchestrating a new educational instructions plan, Florida’s State Academic Standards – Social Studies, 2023, prompted by a new law he...

Republicans Fear America Will Become Communist – Really?

The two Republican front runners for their party’s Presidential Candidate fear that communists could take over America if the Republicans don’t win in 2024.  In a speech after his indictment for mishandling classified documents, Donald Trump said, “At the end of the day, either the Communists destroy America, or we destroy the...

The Parties want the Constitution to Balance our Budget

Released July 1, 2023 Both parties provoked Federal debt crises for decades, yet they willfully deny the possibility of the US defaulting on future loan payments.  While all media focuses on former President Donald Trump's indictments, they have lost interest in any future economic catastrophe from not raising a debt ceiling....

Conservative Justices Save The Voters Rights Act by Describing Systemic Racism Conditions

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the three liberal Justices in Allen v. Milligan to reject Alabama’s Congressional district mapping. Their verdict upheld the District Court’s decision ordering the Alabama legislature to create a second Black voting opportunity district.  Black-led community and civil rights organizations had filed two lawsuits alleging...

The Debt Ceiling Settlement Dismantled Republican Demands

The leadership of both the Democrat progressive wing and the Republican reactionary wing voted against passing the legislation to allow the debt ceiling to be raised. However, most of the progressive D’s held back their votes until it was clear that the deal would pass. Their vote was a...

Yellen’s June 1 Deadline May Not be Real

There is a Strategy for Not Defaulting on Federal Loans Unfortunately, the media and both parties have tended to conflate a shutdown with defaulting. That has never happened with past shutdowns. Not even during the longest ones. If you liked this piece, email it to others. And if you really liked it, become...

What is the Federalist Society and what does it want from our courts?

If you liked this piece, email it to others. And if you really liked it, become a Patreon patron to help me reach other readers. The Federalist Society (FS) is the most successful activist group to shape, if not make, federal court decisions. How has that come about? Where did they come...

Banning Abortion Pills – Choosing between secularism and moralism

 If you liked this piece, email it to others. And if you really liked it, become a Patreon patron to help me reach other readers.   How a single federal judge could upend twenty years of science. Texas Federal District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk recently banned prescribing and distributing the abortion pill mifepristone as unsafe. However, after...