“What do the JFK assassination files and an obscure booklet called ‘The Adam and Eve Story’ have in common? Both are examples of how the CIA and other Deep State actors keep us guessing and in the dark: by over-classification. A ‘sanitized’ copy of Chan Thomas’s immortal classic of seeming ultra-nuttery, the aforementioned ‘Adam and Eve Story,’ was de-classified in 2013. Now on the CIA’s website, it floats a wild theory about human history and life on this planet, complete with repeated global, world-turned-on-end catastrophes. Most people had never heard of the work until de-classified and placed on the website. The Wikipedia entry mentions the de-classification of the document but not why it was classified as secret in the first place. Here’s a theory: to confuse us.” (03/20/25)
“Charles E. Schumer, the top Senate Democrat since 2017, is facing calls for a primary challenge. The proximate cause? Progressive fury at Schumer’s decision to back a Republican budget bill to keep the government open. But the Democratic dissension runs deeper. It is starting to resemble the strife that afflicted Republicans 15 years ago during the tea party era. But the tea party did not solve Republicans’ problems, and following a similar path is unlikely to lead Democrats somewhere better.” (03/20/25)
“San Juan Capistrano has swallows, Provincetown has whales, and spring doesn’t arrive in Washington until the cherry blossoms do. Mobs of tourists and locals will descend on the sublime white-and-pink cherry trees that circle the Tidal Basin below the Jefferson Memorial for an annual event rivaled only by the Fourth of July. It’s no small exercise to deploy the staff, volunteers, police, and cleanup crews necessary to pull together the festival that pumps millions into the District of Columbia economy. And yet after historic and sudden federal budget cuts were signed into law last week, it would be easy to come up with a dark side to Washington’s countdown to the peak blooms expected at the end of March.” (03/20/25)
“Biden was an ideological cold warrior who presented the façade of a foreign policy based on democracy versus autocracy; Trump is transactional pragmatist who has ripped away the façade and appears to interfere in democracy or defend it in pursuit of partners who advance, not the American ideal of democracy, but American interest.” (03/20/25)
“To fix Social Security, we need to think outside the box. Tweaking the retirement age, tax rates, and/or benefits won’t do. We don’t need ‘reform’ so much as an escape hatch. If we can wean a relatively small number of people off of Social Security, we can preserve the substance of the program for those who truly need or desire it. What we need is a buyout.” (03/19/25)
“‘A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.’ — Milton Friedman … Friedman’s quote is a succinct and wholly accurate analysis of freedom vs. tyranny, capitalism vs. socialism, the Right vs. the Left, conservatism vs. (current) liberalism, (some) Republicans vs. (all) Democrats. Tyrants don’t want you to be free. If you are free, then obviously they cannot control you, and modern Leftism is about nothing if not controlling the lives of as many people as possible and shooting or starving those whom they can’t control.” (03/20/25)
“Regardless of what side you fall on with this story, it is clear that gangs like MS-13 and Tren de Aragua exist – and they are dangerous. Both gangs make the bulk of their income from human smuggling and trafficking, extortion, and illicit drug distribution. It is believed that most of their funds come from drugs, meaning that the War on Drugs is essentially helping these organizations terrorize the communities they infest. Indeed, the War on Drugs has always been a boon to organized crime. Since the government began treating drug users and sellers as criminals, these gangs have cultivated lucrative black markets that cartels and other gangs eagerly exploit.” (03/19/25)
“With the action now in the Senate, only the resistance of Senate Democrats could produce a government shutdown. But instead of having the leverage they sought to gain, they faced two choices, both painful. They could approve the Republicans’ one big spending bill that would support President Trump’s agenda, or they could vote against it and shut the government down. But wait, there’s more. If the spending bill passed, it would open the door for the Senate to proceed with spending rescission bills. These bills only require the approval of a simple majority of Senators …. spending cuts identified by DOGE could now easily be given the force of law through simple votes of Congress. Votes that would proceed without any possibility of filibuster by the minority Democrats. However, with a government shutdown, President Trump’s team would be able to achieve spending cuts immediately.” (03/19/25)
“The bird flu program has been run by cruel dolts. One of its effects is to normalize animal genocide, and to cull birds in particularly horrible and painful ways. Some methods being used are banned for culling livestock, but somehow birds were not included in the law for livestock.” (03/19/25)
