Articles & Blog Posts by James Longstreet

• Confederate Monuments and the Destruction of a Nation's History
• A sanctuary within a sanctuary
• The government and the stock market are yin and yang
• Disinformation is driving us all crazy
• What's in a name?
• Goodbye, history: No brown wrapper required
• Leave the Rebel Battle Flag at home
• Orwell was never more correct
• In His Own Image: How to 'Flip' a Country
• Richard Dreyfus and Tucker Carlson: Six minutes with two real American thinkers
• Debating trade deficits
• ‘Super’ Federal Reserve moves inflation goalposts
• Think Obama's sycophants remember all his 'transparency' promises?
• Wouldn't you like the answer to these questions?
• Take that, Barry. Turnabout is fair play.
• The folly of proving a negative
• University money machines
• If these things were in a movie, no one would believe them
• When does bureaucratic sabotage border sedition?
• The Steady and Inexplicable Theft by the Federal Reserve and Its Violation of Mission
• Is the feeding trough empty at the University of California?
• The California twins: Feinstein and Pelosi
• Sen. Schumer's fake tears for a fake issue
• A poem has never been immigration policy
• If not America First, who or what should be first?
• George Will dumps on Trump’s inaugural speech
• Disrupting the disruptors
• Whose cars would you flip? Tucker Carlson engages the left
• Bill Clinton’s trifecta
• As Trump forms his cabinet, compare and contrast Obama’s approach
• Inflation, tariffs, and the Federal Reserve
• Campus revolutionaries warping words
• They’re not ‘liberals’ anymore, so it’s time to deny them that label
• Crying and lying: Hysteria and repeated false claims showered upon us by the left
• The left is ‘projecting’ its own evil onto conservatives
• Assange: ‘Trump will not be allowed to win’
• A Contrast of Justice: Sheriff Joe won’t get the Hillary Treatment
• We Have Come to This
• Why isn’t Trump driving home these points?
• Why are out-of-state Charlotte rioters not being prosecuted for crossing state lines to engage in destruction and rioting?
• They attack us, and we aren’t supposed to notice
• The cyber-peep hole: How our government really operates
• Why is Obama insulated from the disaster that was his State Department under Hillary Clinton?
• Who Seeks the Truth?
• Whose State Department is that?
• In 1995, Bill Clinton channeled Donald Trump
• The Higher Education Racket at Chicago State University
• The supply of truth always exceeds the demand
• Hillary: ‘Don’t let anyone tell you corporations create jobs’
• James Comey must rebut Hillary
• The buck stops where?
• Hillary’s lying about lying
• News to mainstream media: Russia must relinquish emails by law
• If the 33K emails still exist: the scenarios
• The attorney general impeachment quinella
• 'We reserve the right...'
• Outrageous violence against Trump rally attendees in San Jose
• Give us your tired, your poor, your unassimilated masses yearning for a handout
• It’s Too Late Hillary -- We Already Have Had a Female President.
• The guidelines for federal coercion
• A Recasting of Our Currency to Promote a ‘New’ History
• 28 pages. And why not the truth?
• Still waiting…the 'I'll look into that' game
• The closed loop economy: Washington, DC and Wall Street
• Fining the Banks
• Goldman Sachs pays Federal Government to Keep Its Partners from Jail
• Today's central banker is the medieval barber of yore
• Illegal alien criminals must be released after 6 months?
• Trump could pre-empt the field by filling his ticket and cabinet
• The turning point of a nation? Socialist state count startling
• Trump’s Muslim Immigration Suspension Suggestion Not Without Precedent
• One month and counting on Hillary’s Goldman Sachs transcripts
• Brace yourself for the greatest prosecutorial discretion event in history
• If San Bernardino had been an Apple Store...
• Scandal at the Federal Reserve?
• Suddenly, law professors weighing in on presidential powers post-Scalia
• The left cares not to understand originalism
• How poetic!
• Hillary email scandal: Feinstein moves the goal posts, raises many questions
• No, Bernie: The State Department emails are not 'personal'; they are 'national'
• Negative interest rates resemble theft.
• An answer every conservative candidate should have at the ready
• For some, the bank bailouts were a wonderful success
• Juxtaposing Hillary’s Antics to the Reality of National Security
• Robert Gates confirms Obama’s hubris and conceit
• Bowe Bergdahl's bondsman
• Some Common Sense I Need to Hear From My Candidate
• A remarkable provision of the omnibus bill
• The San Bernardino shooting is America's fault, according to Obama
• Poetry does not an immigration policy make
• Ralph Nader scolds the Federal Reserve
• Loretta Lynch: Abuse of prosecutorial discretion and evasion of duty
• Obama ties another crowd to the leash
• Hillary's nightmare. Bernie, what will it take?
• Boehner, Yellen, and bigger government
• A Nation's Demise by its Own Design
• GOP candidates should lock onto this topic
• Ask Hillary about a Muslim president, and more
• The Federal Reserve redefines itself, subtly
• Frozen Fed
• Democrats once again place party before country and duty
• Obama dismissing the real reality
• Should Government Employees be Allowed the Fifth Amendment Plea?
• Time to resurrect 'Un-American Activities'?
• A simple question for all the amnesty proponents
• A few questions for Jorge Ramos
• Federal Reserve foolishness coming due
• Hillary's email scandal will head for the bone yard, right there with the others
• The Illusion of Inspection: Iran <em>and</em> our Department of Justice
• Is Playing Stupid a Good Tactic for a Candidate?
• Strange doings at the University of Illinois (updated)
• Loretta Lynch's Black Panther Moment
• A seminal moment. Wasserman Schultz dumbfounded when asked about the difference between Democrats and Socialists
• Force Obama to veto a bill prohibiting sanctuary cities
• Contempt of Congress a new national pastime
• Cognitive dissonance of the highest order
• China's support for its markets and the Federal Reserve's lead
• Governments, monopolies, and power
• A Winning Quinella in a Bad Horse Race
• Considering last week at the SCOTUS, George Mason would look good on a sawbuck
• The tiny region that dominates
• Churches and their schools next target of the left
• Elon Musk and SpaceX poor substitute for strong NASA
• States lose big this week
• The Supreme Court and the Self Expanding Powers of the Unelected
• Jim Webb gets it right as he breaks ranks with the fashion of the moment
• Three nails in the middle-income family coffin
• Like cattle before a thunderstorm
• Two for one: Higher inflation and higher unemployment from higher minimum wage
• Public 'servants' insulate themselves from the ill effects from that which they insist for others
• Federal Reserve Implies Indirect Tax on Savings
• John Locke, the Fed, and the Constitution
• Federal Reserve is pushing on a string with a bulldozer
• The debt binge and the reckoning ahead
• More Clinton word games
• The ominous push to federalize local police
• The news cycle saveth
• Janet Yellen, meet Isaac Newton
• Since the house is on fire, let us warm ourselves
• You can't take it with you, or leave it
• In bed with the Fed: The 'unholy nexus'
• Hobgoblins and little statesmen
• Senate majority leader admits lying to sway a presidential election
• Rahm's airports, battleships, and favorite son blunders
• Janet Yellen: The Chairwoman frozen in the headlights
• Taking interest rates to less than zero would create a run on the banks.
• Shame on the Chicago Tribune for printing this 'cartoon'
• Will auditing the Federal Reserve 'politicize' it?
• A former Virginia governor failed to follow the Clinton model
• A Fair Question
• DHS shuns the label 'Islamic' extremists but is okay with 'Christian' extremists
• Holder the 'Coward' redux
• Whose history and whose talking points are these?
• The Bridge on the River Potomac
• A general holds another Obama military umbrella
• There is just something creepy about this administration and a certain religion
• Where will the next price implosion be?
• A White Al Sharpton?
• Justice for terrorists must be swift and sure
• France and its 'fundamental transformation': indications of a country lost.
• Hey, central banker: got a match?
• No Rush for a Zero Corporate Tax
• What should we expect from a lame-duck liberal president?
• Numerology for the central planners
• The Cost of Race Hustling
• The most powerful woman in the world without an army
• Beyonce now free to travel Cuba
• An Excuse for Russian Bellicosity from Oil Cartel Collapse
• Elizabeth Warren's broken clock
• While We Are at It
• Senator Warren and President Obama, Meet John Steinbeck
• Gruber and group identification 101
• 18 and 18: Coincidence?
• All Cartels Eventually Fail
• Al Sharpton and the next AG
• Where are the Law Departments of the 'great' Universities?
• Deflationary Effects of Illegal Immigration
• Janet Yellen Can See the Future if She Dare to Look
• Illinois' Last Chance?
• Curious Calls for Help from Federal Reserve
• Liberalism just not up to the task anymore
• Pigs Go Airborne
• Isn't the CDC head Thomas Frieden supposed to be working on behalf of </em>Americans?</em>
• When the Fulcrum Collapses
• Dick Durbin's wife discovered to be a Lobbyist
• Are You Dumber than you were Four Years Ago?
• How Many Straws?
• The end of market rate interest
• The money in pro sports attracts the lawyers
• Centers for Disease Control Quiet about Open Border Policy. Why?
• United States Military Action in Syria. A Cocktail for Disaster? A Trap?
• Exactly how much 'training' does the Iraq military need?
• They aren't who they say they are, really.
• Cameron's Common Sense
• Rep. Luis Gutierrez keeps the low information voters misinformed
• Thanks for the Warning, Mr. President
• Stock Markets: A Managed Affair?
• Funding Terrorists via Bailouts
• The Anti Riot Act. One more law unenforced by this administration.
• Our Federal servants are sheltered from the effects of their own actions
• Christie, then Perry. But not Cuomo.
• Holder to the Supreme Court?
• Looting. Celebration or Protest?
• A Nameless Hero.
• Dragging the Country through Undesirable Territory.
• Fore Left! What goes around...and other ironies
• We have officially picked a side in a Religious War
• I guess you droned some 'folks' too, Mr. President
• Are you losing your state university? Illinois has
• Obama's synthetic victimhood
• A couple of questions for amnesty supporters
• Curious Imagery
• What Margaret Thatcher Missed
• Obama's Parthian Tactics
• Exporting Corporate Headquarters and Importing Broken Families
• Breaking decorum and procedure
• A Quick Stroll Down Memory Lane with Obama. Seven Lies in Two Minutes.
• The ramifications of an open border begin to hit home
• Rebutting Obama
• Illinois attempt to stop corruption short-circuited by DoJ
• Thief Sandy Berger emerges from his dungeon
• The attention getter regarding the recent eruption of illegal immigration? Money.
• There are 50 Stars on that flag, not just one big one
• Enough of the Obama as 'constitutional lawyer' schtick
• Cicero's 'great appealer', or Mencken's 'moron', or Both?
• 'Please don't rob a bank with a gun.' Obama's Illegal Immigration attitude revealed.
• Stripping disposable income from the middle class
• Is the Federal Reserve Directly Controlling the Stock Market?
• Countries Drawn Up on a Bar Napkin
• Feeding the Monster
• Propping up the Markets on the backs of Savers
• Obama Meets Congressional Resistance, Selectively Sulks
• Hypocrisy on Memorial Day
• 'You're a conservative, aren't you?'
• The Fed has Built a Bomb
• The Quiet Sesquicentennial of the War between the States
• Think Tank Question: Russia is to the Ukraine as China is to what?
• Punishing the Prudent. Rewarding the Irresponsible.
• Market Discipline and the Glaring Correlation that Bernanke and Yellen Ignore
• 'The world (that would be us) seems to disappoint him'
• Dems Anxious for the Truth yet Boycotting Congressional Investigatory Committee.
• Let Two More be 'Botched'
• Space programs: Relying on the Russians, a blind eye to the Chinese
• And When the Feds Lie To You?
• Laying open the soul of the NBA
• Swan Lake or Lake Michigan?
• Following the Setting Sun
• Yellen proposes taxing savings at 2% a year until further notice
• Putin's next gambit?
• The other currency, Food Stamps
• The Mendacity of the Fed and the Ruination of Capitalism
• 'Bad optics' for gun control advocates
• Is Yellen Howlin' mad?
• 60 Minutes details what everyone in the industry knew...except the SEC
• Bilingual Nations: Language as a pretense for invasion.
• College athletes and Unions
• The most powerful woman in the world
• Give us your 'Huddled Masses, Gangsters, and FSB'
• A Boneheaded Administration
• 'Change is Novelty'
• Free Lois Lerner!
• Putin's Gambit: A History Lesson.
• Half a League, Half a League, Half a League onward rode the Obama Foreign Policy Team.
• A Familiar Pattern
• Author of Deadlines, Keeper of None
• Ignoring Collective Wisdom
• An Executive Order that Hurts
• The Whimsical Application of the Supremacy Clause
• Bob Costas seeing Red. Or is it Dorian Gray?
• Hereditary Democracy?
• The Missing 43 Million
• Subsidies will set you free
• Putin's Cat and Mouse game...and he's not he Mouse.
• Failing to 'Sign Up' Part 2