Paul E. Scates

Paul E. Scates


  • January 14, 2024

    Govt waste in one year: Just a glimpse

    In 2021, your federal government spent $6 million every single minute.  That’s $9 billion every day, almost $3 trillion per year. For just a glimpse of that insanity, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the enormous ...

  • January 11, 2024

    ‘If You’re a Hammer…’

    Decades ago, as a pipefitter and welder in nuclear plant construction, I worked alongside many of the local union’s plumbers (the skill sets overlap).  It’ll probably come as a surprise to most that plumbers actually hold their profe...

  • December 21, 2023

    The Globalist ‘Final Solution’

    The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks. —C.S. Lewis  From 1933 to 1945, Germany’s Nazis killed 17 million people, six million of them Jews. ...

  • December 15, 2023

    GOP Betrays Voters… Again

    On a U.S. Treasury Department website is this opening statement: “The U.S. government has spent $1.06 trillion in fiscal year 2024 to ensure the well-being of the people of the United States.” (italics mine)  That...

  • December 13, 2023

    The Totalitarian Three-Step

    For at least half a century, the Left has been luring this nation into a deadly dance. Like the sirens of Greek myth, their music hits all the right notes: true equality, fairness, justice for all, health, peace, etc. Because the music is so beautifu...

  • December 3, 2023

    Why the U.S. is broke…your tax dollars at ‘work’

    A November 22 article on the Judicial Watch website reveals exactly why the U.S. is over $30 trillion in debt. Sadly, Judicial Watch had to file a Freedom of Information request to obtain the 25 pages of information on this project. Remember the g...

  • June 24, 2023

    Chattanooga Goes Brave New World

    Imagine, if you will (tip of the hat to Rod Serling), a small American town in the mid-South, located on the banks of a major river in a valley surrounded by beautiful mountains.  Two major interstate highways pass through the town, making it th...

  • January 17, 2023

    Watch Out for the WEF

    As long as I can remember, there have been conspiracy theories about organizations bent on "taking over the world" — The John Birch Society...the Council on Foreign Relations...The Trilateral Commission.  After a tour in Vie...

  • January 7, 2023

    Truth and the Foundations of a Free Republic

    The philosophy of relativism claims that all truth is relative, and that there is no such thing as absolute truth.  (Of course, if relativism is true, then based on its own principle it can be dismissed as merely “relative truth,...

  • January 3, 2023

    The House Speaker Vote -- Embarrassment, Indeed

    Yesterday the NY Times printed an op-ed by communications consultant Brendan Buck, who previously worked for former Speakers of the House John Boehner and Paul Ryan.  You think Mr. Buck has a vested interest in seeing Kevin McCarthy named speake...

  • December 27, 2022

    The Omnibus Spending Bill Scam

    The Founding Fathers didn’t include a provision in the Constitution for the removal of federal office-holders once they are elected.  They assumed an informed electorate would ensure they didn’t elect such people.  But when the ...

  • December 7, 2022

    'A Long Train of Abuses'

    After over two centuries, the Declaration of Independence remains the most perfect instrument of human government ever devised by mankind.  Its foundation (that our rights come from God, not men), its principles (that men only consent to be gove...

  • November 4, 2022

    Will Lucy Move the Football Again?

    Most Americans over the age of thirty are familiar with the long-running Charles Schultz comic strip Peanuts, depicting the everyday experiences of Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Snoopy, Peppermint Patty, et al.  One of the recurring skit...

  • October 24, 2022

    The Democrats’ Bizarro World

    In the early 1960s, DC Comics introduced a storyline so fanciful that it piqued my interest: it started with Bizarro Superman, then was fleshed out with his Bizarro World, where every part of life was exactly the opposite of life on earth. ...

  • October 9, 2022

    Are ‘Good Americans’ to Join Russians and Germans in Infamy?

    One of the most troubling questions in all of human history is, “Where were the ‘good Germans’ while Hitler and the Nazis were taking over their country?” In 1933 there were only about 2 million Nazis in Germany; by 1939 th...