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Game 6 is a matter of inches, the shutdown and other stories

Silvio Canto, Jr.
11/1/2025 12:00:00 PM
      Game 6 is a matter of inches, Senator Schumer, the shutdown and other stories     

Primary or treat, Chuck

Silvio Canto, Jr.
11/1/2025 5:00:00 AM
Primary or treat, Chuck: Maybe Senator Chuck Schumer is so busy these days that he forgot about the election in New York City. Things can get hectic for the Democrat Senate leader in the middle of explaining a shutdown. So maybe we should cut the senator a little slack and  Click to read:    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/11/primary_or_treat_chuck.html      Now, the offspring of the radicals are running for mayor in New York City and other places. They are now knocking on Chuck's door saying trick or treat. The trick in this case is a primary and no one knows that better than Chuck himself.Primary or treat, Chuck - American— Silvio Canto. Jr. (silvio_canto) November 1, 2025

The Synod Perfectly Encapsulates The Left

K T Cat
11/1/2025 7:19:48 AM

In our parish, we are participating in the second round of the synodal process which is being hyped by Catholic leadership. It's like dying, only without the good parts.The synodal process is just that - a process. We have been told not to set goals or look for outcomes, but participate in the process of listening and understanding. To illustrate this, we've been given a 20-page booklet with helpful guidance and real-world examples. Ohioan will recognize this immediately as symptomatic of the very worst of the strategic planning teams we ever had the misfortune to join at work.In one of these examples, a priest in our diocese wrote about a decision he and some leading members of the parish made to use parish buildings to[...]

God Speaks To Me In Prayer

K T Cat
10/26/2025 1:02:19 PM

 ... for real, I am sure of it. But those conversations, I believe, are limited to those things about which I have direct, personal knowledge.A good friend of mine, we'll call him Andy, recently fell while hiking a local, canyon trail. The trails can be uneven and steep. My friend is in his mid-60s. He braced himself with his hands and when he fell, he badly injured both shoulders, possibly damaging his rotator cuffs. He's been in pain since then.Andy's life is defined by active service for others. He is the ultimate handyman having worked as a mechanic for decades and, through enforced frugality, having repaired, rebuilt or constructed everything in his house and his children's houses. He, with family help, recently did[...]

Consider this

W.C. Varones
10/9/2025 10:07:25 PM
There are already 25 times more millionaires in the US than people who will ever be able to own one Bitcoin.

How do I love SPBC? Let me count the ways

W.C. Varones
10/2/2025 4:46:11 PM

     SPBC is the Simplify US Equity Plus Bitcoin ETF. Simplify is stock market genius Michael Green's (profplum99) place of business.SPBC was launched in 2021, near a Bitcoin peak with $100 million in assets. in the ensuing Bitcoin winter, SPBC was largely forgotten and dwindled down to a few million in assets. But it shouldn't have been. SPBC has outperformed just about every asset class except gold (by a nose) since its launch.The concept is simple and beautifully elegant. It's designed to give you 100% of the return of the S&P 500, plus 10% of Bitcoin. I love Bitcoin, and I love stocks. But like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, this is two great tastes that taste great together. The kicker is in the[...]

What Ails Us - But First Some Background

B-Daddy
4/6/2025 5:10:10 PM
Someone close to me asked me to give an overall take on the current state of politics and the prospects for our future. I thought to answer, but first want to explain how I analyze the political landscape.Here are some key principles that are worth repeating because we seem to forget them.1. A chicken is an eggs way of making another egg.      To influence the the size and numbers of your chickens, manage egg production and consumption. Demographics are destiny.2. Eggs are rare, sperm is plentiful.      Combined with 1 above, the most important variable component of demographic destiny is female reproductive behavior and strategies.3. Testosterone confers greater strength and aggression[...]

Bezos vs Burnham - Robber Baron vs Managers

B-Daddy
1/26/2022 8:32:44 PM
 Well not really; and not just because Burnham isn't a household name. James Burnham authored key insights on "managerialism" and predicted its eventual triumph over capitalism in his 1941 book "The Managerial Revolution," summarized here, but skip ahead 5 minutes (this is a great podcast). George Orwell provided this summary in 1943.Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralized society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production: that is, business executives, technicians, bureaucrats and soldiers,[...]

Natural Born Citizen Definition

Doo Doo Econ
1/19/2016 6:08:58 PM

    Once again Americans are facing questions about the definition of a Natural Born Citizen (NBC).This is the simple and indisputable definition: Two citizens who have a child, naturally create a new citizen. This is a Natural Born Citizen.There is absolutely no expert either legal or historical who will argue to the contrary. They may argue to include additional citizens, but this is the core of the definition.Two people who have a child in a location, have a citizen who is native to that land. This is a Native Born Citizen. Thus, terms like "Native American" which imply a location and not an allegiance to a country.A person can be both Natural Born and Native Born, or in the United States we also have Naturalized[...]

Obama Fuels Eternal Islamic War on America

Doo Doo Econ
8/5/2015 5:00:00 AM

                Do you remember the headlines when Obama apparently declared America a Muslim country on French television?    Taken from an Islamic perspective this statement is dangerous. It sounds as if the President of the United States sees America is a Muslim nation. When you consider translations, this may presented to the masses as exactly that, American President Hussein (an exclusively Islamic name)  Obama declares America to be Islamic. Thus America would be "al-Islam", or territory which may never be ceded to non-Muslims.Semantics, right? Over-reaction, right?Except, this is a long standing meme from not only the President, but also his staffers.   [...]

And Where a Salon Scribe Gets a Tad Out of His Swim Lane

Dean
11/11/2015 9:22:09 AM
Over the weekend, Salon writer, DAVID MASCIOTRA, caused quite a dust-up on social media with his own salute to the troops ahead of Veterans Day . Here is the headline, followed by the sub-headline and then followed by the first paragraph of the piece:You dont protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracyIt's been 70 years since we fought a war about freedom. Forced troop worship and compulsory patriotism must endPut a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as heroes.If you desire, you can read it[...]

Football rules changes...? You've come to the right place

Dean
1/31/2015 2:04:56 PM

    Theres no denying that over the last few decades most all on-field rules changes made by the NFL have been exercises in increasing offense and scoring. This has created an arms race in a sense where the pendulum swings back and forth between the NFL offenses and NFL defenses whereby the offenses get aided by rules changes and the defenses counter with a combination of innovative schemes and superior athletes. To wit, for years, its been conventional wisdom that the best athletes in the world were in the NBA. Now days, we would add NFL defensive backs and possibly outside linebackers/rush ends into that mix (you dont think dudes like Richard Sherman, Darrelle Revis and J.J. Watt can ball a little?).But[...]

Texas AG Sues Makers of Tylenol, Claiming They Hid Alleged Links to Autism 

Leslie Eastman

RFKJr recently encouraged caution when using acetaminophen during pregnancy, while underscoring there is not "sufficient" evidence to link Tylenol to autism, but rather "suggestive".The post Texas AG Sues Makers of Tylenol, Claiming They Hid Alleged Links to Autism first appeared on Legal Insurrection.