National Blog - page 12
Americans Suffer from Natural and Government-Created Disasters
Last week Congress passed a continuing resolution and then adjourned until after the election. When Congress reconvenes, it will almost certainly pass a multi-billion dollars aid package for those impacted by Hurricane Ian. This spending will [...]
School Shutdowns Leave Children Behind
A new report from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a program of the US Department of Education, confirms what most parents already knew: shutting down the schools because of the panic over covid was a disaster for American [...]
Congress is Coming for Your Currency
Congress is working to implement a "Central Bank Digital Currency" (CBDC) scheme to destroy what little is left of your financial privacy. A CBDC would give the government unprecedented control over your money and your freedom. They want a [...]
Supersized IRS Will Shrink Liberty
West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin recently claimed the 15 percent corporate minimum tax contained in the Inflation Reduction Act, which should be called the Inflation Creation Act, is not a tax increase. Instead, he claimed, the bill simply [...]
Inflation Reduction Act: Another DC Lie
The Affordable Care Act, No Child Left Behind, and the USA PATRIOT Act received new competition for the title of Most Inappropriately Named Bill when Senate Democrats unveiled the Inflation Reduction Act. This bill will not only increase [...]
Will Italy’s Election Foreshadow US Midterms?
Sunday was an historic election day for Italy. A conservative alliance with a populist flair absolutely trounced the technocrats who had been running the country into the ground for the past several years. The previous prime minister, former [...]
Europe Commits Suicide-by-Sanctions
A Swiss billboard is making the rounds on social media depicting a young woman on the telephone. The caption reads, "Does the neighbor heat the apartment to over 19 degrees (66F)? Please inform us." While the Swiss government has dismissed the [...]
More Billions to Ukraine as America Falls Apart
There is a video clip making the rounds showing President Biden speaking at a recent NATO summit about the seven billion dollars the US government had - at that time - provided to Ukraine. Attached to that is another clip showing the horrific [...]
Pelosi’s Taiwan Trip Exposes Foolishness of Interventionism
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “surprise” trip to Taiwan last week should be “Exhibit A” as to why interventionism is dangerous, deadly, and dumb. Though she claimed her visit won some sort of victory for democracy over autocracy, the [...]
Inflation Even Hurts the Penguins
A recent video shows penguins at a Japanese aquarium rejecting the cheap fish the aquarium has substituted for the higher quality fish the penguins are used to receiving. The reason the aquarium switched fish is because rampant inflation has made [...]