“You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”—Bob Dylan A water main breaks every two minutes somewhere in the U.S., resulting in contaminated drinking supplies and boil water notices. One out of three bridges in the U.S. needs...
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Oct 2, 2024 | Featured Articles
“You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”—Bob Dylan A water main breaks every two minutes somewhere in the U.S., resulting in contaminated drinking supplies and boil water notices. One out of three bridges in the U.S. needs...
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Sep 25, 2024 | Featured Articles
he government wants your money. It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way it can get it. The government’s schemes to swindle, cheat, scam, and generally defraud taxpayers of their hard-earned dollars have run the gamut from wasteful...
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Sep 18, 2024 | Featured Articles
Public trust in the government to “do what is right” understandably remains at an all-time low. After all, how do you trust a government that continuously sidesteps the Constitution and undermines our rights? You can’t. When you consider all the ways “we the...
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Sep 5, 2024 | Featured Articles
It’s not easy being a child in the American police state. Danger lurks around every corner and comes at you from every direction, especially when Big Brother is involved. Out on the streets, you’ve got the menace posed by police officers who shoot first and ask...
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Aug 29, 2024 | Featured Articles
“Internet platforms have a powerful incentive to please important federal officials, and the record in this case shows that high-ranking officials skillfully exploited Facebook’s vulnerability... Not surprisingly these efforts bore fruit. Facebook adopted new rules...
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Aug 22, 2024 | Featured Articles
What you smell is the stench of a dying republic. Our dying republic. We are trapped in a political matrix intended to sustain the illusion that we are citizens of a constitutional republic. In reality, we are caught somewhere between a kleptocracy (a...
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Aug 8, 2024 | Featured Articles
“You shall have no other gods before me.”—The Ten Commandments “Christians, get out and vote, just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore.”—Donald Trump...
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Jul 31, 2024 | Featured Articles
Q: “How can you tell if a politician is lying?”A: “When his lips are moving.” The First Amendment assures us of a right to free speech. It does not, unfortunately, explicitly assure us of a right to not be lied to by our government and its various officials. Any hope...
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Jul 16, 2024 | Featured Articles
“Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily—whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence—whenever we tear at the...
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Jun 5, 2024 | Featured Articles
“I did not know Israel was capturing or recording my face. [But Israel has] been watching us for years from the sky with their drones. They have been watching us gardening and going to schools and kissing our wives. I feel like I have been watched for so...
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | May 22, 2024 | Featured Articles
The police state does not want citizens who know their rights. Nor does the police state want citizens prepared to exercise those rights. This year’s graduates are a prime example of this master class in compliance. Their time in college has been set against a...
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | May 15, 2024 | Featured Articles
We are caught in a vicious cycle of too many laws, too many cops, and too little freedom. It’s hard to say whether we’re dealing with a kleptocracy (a government ruled by thieves), a kakistocracy (a government run by unprincipled career...
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | May 1, 2024 | Featured Articles
The American governmental scheme is sliding ever closer towards a pervasive authoritarianism. The American people, the permanent underclass in America, have allowed themselves to be so distracted and divided that they have failed to notice the building blocks of...
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Apr 24, 2024 | Featured Articles
“Nothing is real,” observed John Lennon, and that’s especially true of politics. Much like the fabricated universe in Peter Weir’s 1998 film The Truman Show, in which a man’s life is the basis for an elaborately staged television show aimed at selling products...
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Apr 18, 2024 | Featured Articles
The government long ago sold us out to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, by the way, has always been the Deep State. What’s playing out now with the highly politicized tug-of-war over whether Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act gets...
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Apr 10, 2024 | Featured Articles
The government wants your money. It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way it can get it. This is what comes of those $1.2 trillion spending bills: someone’s got to foot the bill for the government’s fiscal insanity, and that...
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Apr 3, 2024 | Featured Articles
The government wants to play god. It wants the power to decide who lives or dies and whose rights are worthy of protection. Abortion may still be front and center in the power struggle between the Left and the Right over who has the right to decide—the government or...
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Mar 6, 2024 | Featured Articles
The U.S. Supreme Court was right to keep President Trump’s name on the ballot. The high court’s decree that the power to remove a federal candidate from the ballot under the Constitution’s “insurrectionist ban” rests with Congress, not the states,...
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Feb 21, 2024 | Featured Articles
The government never cedes power willingly. Neither should we. If the COVID-19 debacle taught us one thing it is that, as Justice Neil Gorsuch acknowledged, “Rule by indefinite emergency edict risks leaving all of us with a shell of a democracy and civil...
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Feb 14, 2024 | Featured Articles
The debate over U.S. foreign aid is a distraction. That’s not to say that the amount of taxpayer money flowing to foreign countries in the form of military and economic assistance is insignificant. Even at less than 1% of the federal budget, the United...
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