Changing the rules of the game to suit your own needs is never a good idea. I remember vividly in 2013 Senator Mitch McConnell warning Senate Majority Harry Reid, that the elimination of the filibuster for judicial appointments would come back to haunt the Democrats. They did it anyway. Sure enough, in 2018 when the GOP recaptured the majority, McConnell returned the favor by extending Reid’s new rules to Supreme Court justices, which elevated Neil Gorsuch to the highest court in the land. Thanks to the new rules, President Trump was able to appoint an unprecedented 3 justices during his term thereby creating a solid conservative majority on the court. What goes around, comes around.

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A deep dive into potential solutions for the century old Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

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If you're a conservative wanting to win in 2024, vote in GOP primary for one of the several qualified candidates not named Trump. If you're a liberal who wants to win, vote in the Democrat party primary for anyone not named Biden. If it does end up being Trump vs. Biden in 2024, consider the No Labels bi-partisan ticket because anyone is better than Trump for liberals and Biden for conservatives.

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For many years, I supported PBS and NPR financially. I just loved their music, movies and documentaries and their news and opinion programs, that while left leaning, were conducted in a civil tone. They at least made token attempts to cover both sides of a debate but things have changed and they are now peddling activism as journalism. Listen as I unpack this for you in great fact-based detail.

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“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.”  63 years ago, a great American, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. called out injustice and held America accountable to its constitutional principles. Now there’s a new ideology permeating all corners of our society that demands we judge “not by the contents of character, but by the color of skin.”

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Inflation and interest rates are inflicting painful damage today. Yet seemingly without notice the national debt is working like a cancer sapping the nation’s long-term economic vitality. Whether we reach the “doom loop,” or just become mired in stagflation, unchecked government spending and mounting national debt will drain all growth potential from the national economy sooner rather than later. This is everyone’s problem.

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The #4 spot on the NYT Bestseller list is a book I just finished reading and will explore in more detail here. Like Ray Dalio, I have been following Peter Zeihan’s blog for several years. He has spent his career as a top-notch geopolitical consultant to some of the largest companies in the world, especially those in the shipping and energy industries. His latest book, The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization, argues that the world is headed for serious trouble as it deglobalizes due to the United States pulling back from its 75 year commitment to ensuring free and open trade on the high seas.

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It’s been a month since my last podcast where we spoke with Florida Congressman Bill Posey. I’ve had a lot of family stuff to deal with which I will get to later. But I wanted to get this out by Memorial Day because it is such a powerful transitional holiday, and I am definitely in a transitional point in my life.

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Ultimately, our freedoms and rights power the innovative culture that makes the United States the most successful political experiment in history. Even with its historical warts, America has improved the living standards of its citizens more than any human culture that has ever existed. Democracy, protection of individual freedoms, harnessing the power of diversity while creating a strong collective identity. These are strengths that China and Russia will never have without a revolution. This makes me optimistic that we still have what it takes to win The New Cold War. We just need the right leaders, united in mission, to galvanize the public into believing in the power of a United States of America. It’s been said that politicians only act when there’s fire in the living room. Guess what? There is fire in the living room. We can do this!

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Russia’s war against Ukraine shows that America and the West must disengage economically from both Russia and China because not doing so will enrich and embolden further aggression. We are playing a long-game and a cold war is better than a hot one. Until there is durable regime change in Russia and China, western economies and markets will have to painfully recalibrate to the new world order.

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This article focuses on strategies to eliminate teachers’ unions or at least diminish their influence in our public K-12 schools. There are important improvements we need to make in our public schools, but the unions stand in the way of most of them, which makes the first step to improving our public schools pretty clear.

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The definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results. Much of recent American federal government policy seems to fit into this paradigm. Like let’s print a whole lot of money then act surprised when you get inflation. And so it is with our education policy. Our public schools seem to be getting worse, or at least not better. But the cost of the bad performance has outpaced inflation for decades. Why would we let the same crew responsible for our diminishing public schools, be the ones to fix them?

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History repeats and unfortunately and we are on the downhill run of the latest cycle. But remain optimistic because we have a system with a demonstrated track record of success. China has emerged as a powerful rival, but its authoritarian system will remain its Achilles Heel. Remain vigilant and start thinking about what happens after we get through the coming hard times.

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The fact is that middle ground in America is to the Right of where we are now, not further Left. The pendulum swings back and forth in politics but a razor thin Democrat majority in the House and an equally divided Senate, is NOT a mandate to discard the Constitution and re-do America as a socialist utopia. At best this is going to continue to alienate a least half the country and that is not unity by any definition. Doing what I say, or else, is not a negotiation. I pray that Joe Biden shakes off his obvious cognitive decline long enough to resist his party’s worst impulses.

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Anti-discrimination laws have historically targeted a company’s intent but in 2015, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that allowed certain types of outcomes to be considered discrimination even if there was no explicit intent to discriminate. This is called disparate impact and we think this is a really bad policy. It will have the opposite affect of what our government intends. Read on to see why systemic racism isn’t the problem and ways to do a better job of raising up all poor folks, including those that are minorities.

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As of this writing, Bitcoin is at $52,314 and is the best performing asset class over the last decade, rising over 9 million percent. We are seeing an increasing amount of buying by large financial institutions and billionaire investors who see it as a great hedge against our corrupt political class and profligate money printing by the Federal Reserve.

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Joseph McCarthy was a Republican Senator from Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, he became the public face of anti-Communism in the midst of the Cold War by using his position as the chairman of the Senate Committee on Government Operations to identify communists, Soviet spies and sympathizers that had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities, film industry, and elsewhere. Ultimately, the smear tactics that he used led him to be censured by the U.S. Senate. Today, the term "McCarthyism", is used broadly to mean demagogic, reckless, and unsubstantiated accusations, as well as public attacks on the character and patriotism of political opponents.

Unfortunately, It seems we are at the beginning of another era of persecution of political opponents, except this time it is a different group of ruling class elites practicing McCarthyism.

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The great state of Georgia is the subject of several great tunes over the years, mostly from blues artists with southern roots crooning about coming home to enjoy the peaches and great weather. Tunes like “Georgia” by Ray Charles and “Midnight Train to Georgia” evoke the importance of getting home when you’ve been away for a while. Today, Georgia is the subject of one of the most important Senate elections in American history. Because of their peculiar election rules, which requires winners to get at least 50.1% of the vote, we now have a runoff for the two seats currently held by Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler.

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Protests are a form of protected free speech that is vital to our nation. Our founding documents were designed specifically to protect us from an government over reach and tyranny and ultimately recognized the power and duty of the people to resist and overturn that government when it fails to us. In his timeless essay "Civil Disobedience", American philosopher Henry David Thoreau exhorts us to get up off our butts and speak out lest we lose our precious liberty. America has a great tradition of using music as a form of civil disobedience. As a child of the 1970's, I appreciated those songs that spoke about injustice and immorality, whether it was classic rockers like The Who or the punk music of The Sex Pistols and The Clash. Our country finds itself once again in dangerous times and I think a little Civil Disobedience might be in order.

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