April 5, 2024

The many disadvantages of an increase in hourly minimum wages

An hourly minimum wage law theoretically guarantees a baseline level of compensation designed to avoid exploitation of labor in the short run but inflation eventually reduces this advantage and unfortunately does not guarantee a minimum standard of l...

March 26, 2024

Ukraine can win if the West does not lose the political will to help

Ben Hodges, a retired former commander of the army in Europe, has an optimistic view of the Ukrainian eventual victory over the Russians if the West does not lose the political will to support Ukraine in its war effort. Hodges says that Russia has...

February 17, 2024

'Good' censorship

In an era of free speech, sexual freedom, and lax moral and ethical standards, it is no wonder that societal cohesion is rapidly declining. A return to a more structured and disciplined society is urgently needed or the descent into social c...

February 3, 2024

Impeachment and high crimes and misdemeanors

“High crimes and misdemeanors” is a term used in the context of impeachment in the United States. It refers to serious misconduct or unlawful activity by public officials, particularly those holding high office, including the presiden...

January 12, 2024

A Democratic Republic can only survive if the representatives and citizenry are moral and ethical

Article II, Section 4 in the constitution states this: The President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and mis...

January 5, 2024

Some criminal justice system reforms

There are some criminal justice system reforms which can be implemented without much additional cost but many reforms can be made at additional cost which may be prohibitive to many financially stressed communities. I will start with minimally costly...

January 2, 2024

We need to return to an emphasis on meritocracy

Meritocracy is a system for society in which individuals advance based on their abilities, achievements, and talents. Leftist DEI or diversity, equity, and inclusion, seeks to erase meritocracy with advancement based on race, gender, economic and...

December 27, 2023

Why AI can’t do complete investigative reporting

Artificial intelligence is often touted as something that will replace many lines of work, one of which is journalism, including investigative reporting.  In reality, this claim is overblown. Investigative reporting is time-consuming. It o...

November 30, 2023

There are still advantages to living in the United States

Despite the albatross of Bidenomics, the U.S. still offers a wide range of job opportunities and a dynamic economy. Yes, those opportunities may mean that you would have to relocate to another state for work, so job opportunities are more accessible ...

November 22, 2023

The educational system needs reform

There are a number of prevalent issues in today’s educational system, and they are being poorly addressed (if at all) due to a fear of change and an attempt to maintain the status quo, despite a yearly drop in standardized test results and an i...

November 20, 2023

The educational system needs a serious overhaul

There are at least 70 drawbacks that the educational system has today and they are being poorly addressed if at all due to a fear of change and an attempt to maintain the status quo despite a yearly drop in standardized test results. The long term re...

October 31, 2023

US government’s checks and balances are not working well

The system of checks and balances in the United States government was designed to prevent any one branch of government from becoming too powerful, and to ensure that the government operates in a way that is consistent with the Constitution and the wi...

October 29, 2023

Some core values and ideals which have made America great

In times of progressive dysfunctional ideas which degrade culture and family life, create political deadlock, and foster incompetence or corruption, it is important to reflect on some of the core values and ideals which made America great. These ...

October 23, 2023

The United States has a problem with elitism

The “elitist mentality” typically refers to the mindset and behaviors associated with a select group of privileged individuals who perceive themselves as superior in some way—and the United States has a big problem with this pseudo-...

October 18, 2023

Whatever happens, Gaza’s future remains bleak

Before Israel declared war on Gaza, Gaza was little more than one huge refugee camp with a population of about 2.3 million and about the size of Delaware. Gaza was never self-sufficient and greatly relied on an influx of money from other Arab sta...

October 10, 2023

A gander at Joe Biden’s executive orders tells us a lot about his presidency

A list of executive orders by Joe Biden is an excellent starting point to see how authoritarian executive orders can corrupt the political system and Constitution. Let’s look. As of May 9, 2023, President Biden has signed 115 ex...

September 29, 2023

Here's how we know that climate change hysteria is bunkum

Whenever the temperature rises or falls this is true climate change. When the sun rises in the morning, the temperature usually rises gradually and in the afternoon the temperature usually falls gradually and this is climate change. When the tempe...

September 25, 2023

5 possible war scenarios for Ukraine

The first and to me highly desirable  scenario is that Ukraine eventually takes back all or part of Russian-annexed Ukrainian territory. This currently seems like an unlikely scenario since the battlefront situation is basically a stalemate tren...

September 18, 2023

Look at the ways AI is changing national security

Naturally, the regulation and rule-setting of artificial intelligence will be seized by lawmaking bodies and bureaucracies, and the question stands, what will that look like regarding national security and the liberties of the individual? A.I. can...

September 16, 2023

Look at all the ways AI is changing transportation and health care

Artificial intelligence, now subject to congressional scrutiny and billionaire powwows in recent news stories, is changing everything, it seems, and in ways that may surprise us. Perhaps the most noticeable way that A.I. will change how we do thin...

September 11, 2023

Drawbacks of three progressive ideas

Progressives have long called for certain policy solutions as the only alternatives to alleviate human problems. Universal health care or health care for all is one such idealistic idea, which may seem desirable at first, but in the long run,...

September 4, 2023

Improving the political system

There are several potential changes that could make the political system a little more responsive to voter’s concerns, but we must realize that it is an uphill battle to try and reduce the power that big money, special interests, and entrenched...

September 4, 2023

Transgenderism—a tragic money-making scam

Historically, a girl who physically looked male like and was more interested in male activities and behaviors was called a tomboy. Boys who looked a little like girls physically and were interested in female activities and behaviors were called effem...

August 22, 2023

What are the types of political fraud?

In an era of quite a few political lies, deceptions, and misinformation, it is reasonable to ask oneself, what constitutes political fraud?  Political fraud refers to deceptive or dishonest actions carried out within the context of politics...

August 15, 2023

Lost without math

What many humans don’t realize is how math illiteracy will impact one's ability to lead a successful life in the modern world. Math is essential for managing personal finances. Many Americans are living paycheck to paycheck...

August 14, 2023

How the internet has affected mass media

The internet has had a profound and transformative impact on mass media in various ways. Ideally, mass media by definition must approach over 50% of the potential national audience on a regular basis.  This is now possible only in n...

July 18, 2023

The Ukraine counteroffensive is a dud so far

On June 9, Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, officially announced that the long-awaited Ukraine counteroffensive against invading Russia had begun. So far the results have not been very impressive with the Ukrainians making c...

July 17, 2023

What factors encourage the breakdown of family life?

Shifting cultural attitudes and values impact traditional family values the most.  Most of the world still has a basic patriarchal classical view of marriage, where a good male role model is one who is not only a good provider, but also a p...

July 4, 2023

The dysfunctions of society basically stem from a lack of trust

Whom do you trust?  We generally consider a human to be trustworthy if he is moral or ethical, is honest, dependable, competent, and friendly and can communicate well.  Take away some or most of these personality traits, and a hum...

May 3, 2023

The Russian Military Stumbles in Ukraine

Initially the goal of the Russian military was to strategically take over all of Ukraine by focusing on taking over the capital Kiev, installing a puppet government sympathetic to Russia, and occupying all of Ukraine as needed. Logistic cha...

April 24, 2023

The many weaknesses of the Chinese economy

A major weakness for the economy of China is centralized planning by its communist party, such as the one-child policy and "four modernizations" in 1978, which led to short-term prosperity and an industrialized China, but also led...

April 21, 2023

The many disadvantages of electric cars

It is a myth that electric cars are green because they have no exhaust emissions.  The fact is that, depending on the region, most electric grid power stations use fossil fuels such as dirty coal, gas, and petroleum.  So electric ...

April 9, 2023

How dangerous is artificial intelligence or AI?

Currently, artificial intelligence, or AI, is in the news. ChatGPT, a written form of AI, figures prominently. People in the tech industry are warning that humans are not ready for the latest developments and may be shocked by future ones coming ...

March 17, 2023

Incompetence rewarded, throughout the US government

Perhaps the greatest incompetence on the U.S. political scene is in the military, which spent $9 trillion in the Afghanistan war on terror over a period of 20 years and failed miserably to train the Afghan military to defend its t...

February 23, 2023

A year after Russia's invasion, what now for Ukraine?

Friday, February 24, 2023 marks a year of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Russian president Vladimir Putin thought Ukraine would be easily subdued and a puppet regime would be installed in about three days.  He also probably be...

February 15, 2023

Suggestions for a Republican conservative agenda

What should conservative Republicans stand for? Here are some of my suggestions: Education reform: “Educating the mind without educating for character is incomplete education.” Education is in terrible shape, especially in poor ...

January 15, 2023

Why basic morality or ethical principles are vital for group survival

In order for an individual or group of individuals to peacefully survive and interact in society, basic morality or ethical principles are critical. This is especially true in groups which can include whole nations. Not following basic morality i...

January 1, 2023

Why China will not be admired, trusted, and respected in the long run

As long as China remains under the strict control of the Communist Party of China, or an elite group of rich, censorious oligarchs, China will never be trusted by most of the world as a nation which abides by any treaty or economic agreemen...

December 12, 2022

Why Ukraine matters

I cringe a little when I read articles that we should not be supporting Ukraine because their soldiers have also committed war crimes on Russian soldiers or have killed some civilians.  Let's get real.  Violent war waged on a ...

November 25, 2022

The suffering of Ukraine

At the start of the war, millions of terrorized Ukrainians, mostly women and children fled Ukraine into neighboring nations. Largely because Putin thought the invasion would be a cakewalk, he hoped to quickly install a puppet regime and have the infr...

September 8, 2022

A world ruled by oligarchs

Russia and Ukraine are ruled by oligarchs, and so is China, whose most powerful oligarchs are members of the CCP.  The United States is also ruled by big-money oligarchs who control Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Bloomberg, etc....

August 23, 2022

Will the Ukraine War stalemate ever end?

The Ukraine war is entering its seventh month on the 24th.  One obvious thing is that there are no longer any dynamic aggressive strategic military moves by either the Russians or the Ukrainians.  Russia, the consummate ...

June 18, 2022

In Ukraine, precision vs. bulk warfare offers lesson in what wins wars now

Before its war in Ukraine, Russia, at least on paper, was the second greatest military power in the world. Russia far outnumbered Ukraine in tanks, artillery, rockets, cruise missiles, helicopters, airplanes, and bulk military hardware in general....

June 5, 2022

What should be taught in public schools

The purpose of education is twofold: To teach students useful skills needed in life, but just as important, to teach students how to live which is what good character is all about. Public education is failing miserably on both counts. T...

May 31, 2022

The Ukraine war could end in two ways...

The war in Ukraine may end in one of two ways. The first possibility is a ceasefire while Russian president Vladimir Putin is still in power.  That would be followed by an agreement to make currently held or annexed U...

May 16, 2022

The lessons of the Ukraine War

A government tyranny with top-down leadership and a state-controlled propaganda machine can create an illusion of a powerful military force despite the fact that in other ways, the country is a third-world country with a corrupt leadership that rules...

May 9, 2022

Ukraine war stalemate or a slow war of attrition

The May 9 military celebration and parade commemorating Russian victory over Nazi Germany in World War II has come and gone with no new Russian stated aims in Ukraine by Putin.  For over a month now, there have been no major breakthrou...

April 18, 2022

Ukraine: Putin's humiliation

Putin's plan A and seemingly only plan was to invade Ukraine in two to three days, kill Zelensky and replace him with a Russian puppet, and expect the Ukrainians to welcome his tanks and poorly trained troops with open arms.  Well, plan...

March 17, 2022

Ukraine war: Putin's folly

The Ukraine war is turning out to be a big headache for Russia's leader, Vladimir Putin, because he greatly overestimated his ability to easily replace the Ukrainian government with his own puppet administration under Russian control. After th...

February 18, 2022

China no longer has a monopoly on anything

One of the biggest fears about China has been that it will monopolize an industry, technical expertise, capital, or mineral wealth and then extort concessions from other countries in the world.  China tried to dominate the steel industry with...

February 5, 2022

An optimistic look at 2022

It seems that lockdowns and mandates for vaccines and masks are on the way out, and we will learn to live with the risks of COVID as just another slightly more deadly disease than the flu.  Big Pharma will no longer make unreasonable p...

January 30, 2022

Why Putin’s Ukraine bluff will probably fail

If Russia's President Vladimir Putin invades Ukraine, he will become a pariah to the Western world and a new cold war will descend on his relationships with European nations. NATO will be strengthened with Finland joining in and unconquered p...

January 23, 2022

Why Putin wants to invade Ukraine

Ukraine may be a poor nation if you just look at the GDP per capita, but it is a nation rich in natural resources like mineral wealth and agricultural land, which is the breadbasket of Europe.  Ukraine has 30% of the world's r...

January 8, 2022

There is a sensible, easy way to help small businesses recover

There are approximately 5.5 million family-owned businesses in the United States.  These businesses have long been the engine for growth and job creation.  While some family-owned businesses are billion-dollar behemoths ...

December 26, 2021

China is in deep trouble

China is currently in a state of stagflation where prices are going up for everything and unemployment is rising, which is a harbinger of little economic growth in the foreseeable future. Xi Jinping’s crackdown on almost everything in C...

December 24, 2021

Is society becoming too individualized?

In humanity, individuals are the fundamental building blocks of families, organizations, communities, and nations. An individualizing society is a process where extended families are first reduced to nuclear families.  Then further disin...

December 17, 2021

So whom can you trust?

Without trust, a healthy relationship is not possible, and if such a relationship exists, then it is a highly dysfunctional one. A trustworthy individual is usually one who is honest, moral or ethical, dependable, competent, and friendly ...

December 9, 2021

When is 'hate speech' really about hate?

When you hate, then you intensely or passionately dislike things. So how do you determine if someone hates or merely dislikes something or someone?  Well, if someone says, "I hate Joe," "I hate whites," "I hate b...

November 16, 2021

China is destroying the world's fishing ecosystem

Not content with overfishing its own coastline in a non-sustainable way, China has now turned to unethical pirate fishing in the territorial waters of less powerful nations around the world.  Chinese fishermen turn off their GPS t...

October 28, 2021

In praise of Ben Shapiro

Humans yearn for heroes who are good role models for their children to imitate, and whom adults respect and admire.  Ben Shapiro, a good such role model, is a prolific conservative writer who has the courage to tell the truth despite an ons...

October 15, 2021

My pursuit of truth over falsity and why it matters

In an era of rampant misinformation, propaganda, and biased opinion in politics and society, you may have at least once asked yourself - what is the truth and how do I go about determining truth to save my sanity?       ...

October 7, 2021

About COVID: What does 'follow the science' really mean?

About COVID vaccinations, everyone should be "following the science" and not political opinion. Is this really a true statement and what science are we talking about? True science uses the scientific method which proposes a hypothesis, p...

September 30, 2021

What's right with America? A bright educational future

If you just narrowly focus on the media news, economics, human morality, and politics in general, then you may prematurely conclude that America is plunging into corrupt decadence, which also ended the Roman Empire, and that there is just too much wr...

September 13, 2021

China is in deep trouble and bound to get worse

Is China the next superpower? Is the media's depiction of the country as a ten-foot giant really accurate? That's dubious. For all its bluster on the global stage, China is a giant in trouble. Here are some of the reasons we know: Perha...

September 5, 2021

Most Globalists are power-hungry oligarch tyrants

Rich people and rich corporations including international banks rule the world and their primary goal is to make money the monopolistic capitalist way. Their ideology is not necessarily fascist or communist but most power-hungry oligarch tyrants basi...

June 28, 2021

Money in politics and its corrosive political gridlock

Money has always been important in political campaigns, but now huge money donations come from international or globalist corporations, and most congressional legislation is no longer benefiting the nation or the average American. There are politi...

May 9, 2021

Why China’s future does not look bright

Up until recently I felt that China’s economic growth was unstoppable and that it would indeed surpass the U.S. and keep going into a bright future. However, researching more, I concluded that healthy land use for agriculture (such as organ...

April 18, 2021

What if COVID-19 variants are like the many flu variants?

So far, documented COVID-19 variants are in the U.K., Brazil, South Africa, and Northern California, and I am sure there are others in India and China.  So COVID-19 is behaving much like the flu with mutations to new forms going on all the ...

April 7, 2021

What Janet Yellen's global corporate income tax proposal means

It is now blatantly obvious that Janet Yellen, former Federal Reserve chair and now the U.S. Treasury secretary, is a globalist who wants to impose financial rules upon all the nations of the world when it comes to corporate income taxes. In ...

March 11, 2021

Don't forget that there's still a lot that's good about America

Politics can be fearfully depressing if you mainly focus on the sensationalism of the tabloid-like media and view trivial news and trivial information too seriously and too often.  Stop and think a little about the many things going right i...

January 28, 2021

The CCP: An international thieving mafia

What is not obvious to most is that China is actually run by about 50 very rich families who own and control most of the choice properties and businesses in China.  The 91 million CCP members are effectively a total-control Mafia ruling app...

November 7, 2020

One man's list: Some worthy conservative sites worth reading

With a Biden win and censorship of some conservative viewpoints by the media and Big Tech, what alternative conservative news and content sources are there that one can go to for reliable information? One source is internet sites like america...

November 1, 2020

Trump: The perennial fighting underdog!

According to the polls, Donald Trump was an election underdog in 2016, and according to present day polls President Trump is again an election underdog in 2020. In 2016 Trump had a powerful message where he advocated a secure border, lowering taxe...

June 25, 2020

Mob mayhem without clear leadership

Historically, Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Ronald Reagan were charismatic leaders who were well educated, principled, with a gift for oratory an...

May 27, 2020

Re-evaluating China is long overdue

It started with Nixon in 1972, opening up harmonious diplomatic relations with China, including a reduction of trade restrictions.  Then, since President Reagan, the strategy was to integrate China into the liberal international order and, ...

April 4, 2020

Coronavirus vs. the economy, stupid!

Widely used N95 respirators filter out most airborne particles down to 0.3 microns in diameter. The coronavirus is .2 microns in diameter. So the coronavirus is smaller than .3 microns in diameter and can penetrate the N95 respirator filter. There is...

December 23, 2019

International corruption and transparency

It is an accepted truism that the most efficient way to weed out corruption is to follow the money.  It is hard enough trying to follow the money in national corporate and individual transactions, but how in the world do you follow the mone...

November 30, 2019

Trump: An Unconventional Fighting President

"Unconventional" describes Trump from the beginning. Trump is a real estate tycoon with TV celebrity status but no official political experience in running for or serving in local or state government. With his celebrity status, charismatic ...