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PAYNE: The High Cost of Tyranny

October 7, 2025 Russ Payne

The enemies of the U.S. Constitution label its nature to be living and breathing. However, political Marxism is opposed to the Founders’ original intent. To magnify the distance American politicians have traveled from the original intent of the Constitution, here I quote words from Frederic Bastiat, a French legislator of the 1840s, mentioned in Ezra … Read more

MacDonald: America Can’t Afford Another Shaheen in Congress

June 5, 2025May 31, 2025 Steve MacDonald

As Jeanne Shaheen fights to grow the national debt just a bit larger before she “retires,” her daughter Stefany has announced she wants to replace Chris Pappas in New Hampshire Congressional District one. The ink has barely dried on her announcement, and Stefany Shaheen is already demonstrating her capacity to lie about where she stands. … Read more

Don’t Pay Down the National Debt. Just Stop the Deficit Spending

April 21, 2025 Ryan McMaken

We often read of a variety of schemes put forward by pundits and politicians as a good way to pay down the national debt, even while ignoring the fact the federal government continues to rack up trillions more in debt every year. For example, Jonathan Russo at The Hill last year insisted that it is very important to pay … Read more

Can We Really Cut Half of The Military Budget? You Bet!

February 21, 2025 Ron Paul

The wailing sound you heard last Thursday was the chorus of the Beltway warmongers shrieking in despair at President Trump’s suggestion that there was no reason for the United States to be spending one trillion dollars on “defense.” “…[O]ne of the first meetings I want to have is with President Xi of China and President … Read more

Slash Military Spending: “Defense” Budgets are Bigger than Ever Before

December 7, 2024 Ryan McMaken

It should go without saying that asking generals and other Pentagon bureaucrats about defense spending is like asking your barber if you need a haircut. They are hardly disinterested observers. So, it’s not surprising at all that the usual pentagon uniformed technocrats, after failing their audit for the seventh time in a row, remain unrepentant. … Read more

‘Guns and Butter’ Is Back

October 7, 2024 Douglas French

Sabrina Carpenter has been a star since she was 12, starring on Disney’s Girl Meets World. Now she’s a singer and, I’ve heard, she has broken records set by the Beatles. She’s recorded a catchy cover of Nancy Sinatra‘s 1965 hit “These Boots Are Made For Walking.” ”I want to feel as confident as humanly possible … Read more

It’s Time To Deal With The Debt

September 20, 2024 Terence P. Jeffrey

The median age in the United States in 2023 was 39.1 years, according to the Census Bureau. That means that approximately half the people in this country were born in 1984 or later. What was happening four decades ago when about half America’s current population started coming into the world? In 1984, then-President Ronald Reagan was reelected. … Read more

How About a Legislators Tax?

August 7, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Bureaucracies don’t bloat themselves, so the more progressive locales across the increasingly fruitless plain like to spend other people’s money with such abandon that they are always looking for new things to tax, like the rain. It happens to be raining where I am, and as I write this. It is unlike what they’ve seen … Read more

America Reaches a Sad Milestone

August 7, 2024 Op-Ed

Last week the national debt reached 35 trillion dollars, a mere seven months after the debt reached 34 trillion dollars. To put this in perspective, the national debt first reached one trillion dollars in October of 1981, almost 200 years after the Constitution’s ratification! The fact that the government was adding one trillion dollars in … Read more

Usury Clashes with the Laws of Nature and Christianity

July 9, 2024 Op-Ed

As most Americans with half a brain cell know, the United States’ modern-day banking and financial system is not what the founders envisioned—far from it. There are many truthful arguments to make. In a way, usury is the nucleus of its operation.

Night Cap: The Eclipse of Common Sense

April 5, 2024 Steve MacDonald

A few days from now, beheaded mythical creatures, absent a body, will swallow the Sun only to have it reappear shortly after. Roughly three minutes, give or take.

Jeanne Shaheen Votes Yes For More Debt More Pork, and That $2.5 Million for Franklin

March 26, 2024 Ray Cardello

The Senate passed an emergency appropriations bill on Friday night to avoid a government shutdown. This $1.2 trillion appropriations minibus includes $825 billion for the U.S. Department of Defense and $62 billion for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Senate Republicans Help Dems Bloat National Debt – Pass $95 Billion for Endless Wars

February 13, 2024 Steve MacDonald

The state of your dollar just took another kick to the McNuggets. The US Senate has passed a 95 billion dollar “aid” package to the Military-industrial complex under the guise of supporting wars in Ukraine and Israel, planned war in Southeast Asia, and nothing for US Border Security.

Think The Debt Clock Is No Big Deal, Think Again

January 30, 2024 Ray Cardello

The Debt Clock does not have much impact on Americans and appears to not have much effect on politicians. The digits keep spinning, the numbers keep climbing, and there seems to be no number large enough to garner concern.

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There’s Only One Way To Tame The Runaway Federal Debt

October 6, 2023 Op-Ed

Balancing the budget is like getting to heaven—most folks know what to do to get there. It’s just that they don’t want to do it. That’s probably unfair to the faithfully upright who actually walk the walk, but the analogy is a perfect fit for Washington politicians who put the federal budget over the family budget.

It’s Not like I Haven’t Been Warning People for Decades…

July 8, 2023 Skip

I started on this kick back in the late 1990s as I became more politically aware and conscious of how politicians were always on the hunt for my wallet – and there’s nothing wrong with my sense of self-interest in protecting that private property.

Republicans Fiscally Irresponsible Act

June 6, 2023 Op-Ed

The political and financial class breathed a sigh of relief when Congress passed the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023. The bill suspends the debt ceiling for two years, thus avoiding the establishment’s nightmare of a government default on its debt. Rather, it allows the government to continue adding trillions of dollars of debt that will … Read more

To Raise or Not to Raise the Debt Ceiling

May 16, 2023May 15, 2023 Op-Ed

Let’s see if we can break down the debt ceiling issue. So once upon a time, well, back in 1917, America bought the Virgin Islands for about $25 million in gold, Babe Ruth, at 22, was pitching for Boston, and the United States entered WWI. There were also some significant changes going on in D.C.

I Was Only 10 Years Ahead of Time On This: Interest Payment on Nation Debt Now > Defense Spending

May 15, 2023 Skip

I’ve said that unless the Federal Govt finally got its act together and kept spending down to the level we could afford, this was going to happen:

The Chickens Have Come Home To Roost; It Just Took a Decade+ Longer Than We Thought

April 14, 2023 Skip

While I was on my town’s Budget Committee, I warned the town and school board against taking “free money” that the Feds were giving out like the candy thrown out by Old Home Day marchers. The analogy was apt.