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A political chat with Richard Baehr

Silvio Canto, Jr.
12/5/2025 3:00:00 PM
        Guest:  Richard Baehr, co-founder of American Thinker.  We will discuss the Texas maps, the Rep. Cuellar pardon, the future of Obama Care & health care and other current events.               

I guess that the world is not ending soon

Silvio Canto, Jr.
12/5/2025 5:00:00 AM
I guess that the world is not ending soon: Have you noticed that the climate alarmists are not alarming anymore?  Go ahead and buy that property by the ocean because the water levels are not rising like they told us so many times before.  It wont be so bad after...  Click to read:    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/12/i_guess_that_the_world_is_not_ending_soon.html      Over the years, I had my share of conversations with climate alarmists. I always got the impression that they hated capitalism more than saving the environment. It was nothing more than U.S.-bashing because no one ever marched in front of the Chinese embassy calling on that— Silvio Canto. Jr.[...]

Full Stack Somalis

K T Cat
12/1/2025 2:52:22 PM

By now, news of the Somali piracy in Minnesota has spread far and wide.Our investigation shows what happens when a tribal mindset meets a bleeding-heart bureaucracy, when imported clan loyalties collide with a political class too timid to offend, and when accusations of racism are cynically deployed to shield criminal behavior. The predictable result is graft, with taxpayers left to foot the bill.If you were to design a welfare program to facilitate fraud, it would probably look a lot like Minnesotas Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services program. The HSS program, the first of its kind in the country, was launched with a noble goal: to help seniors, addicts, the disabled, and the mentally ill secure housing. It was designed[...]

A Little Bit On Trump's Ukrainian Peace Plan

K T Cat
11/24/2025 6:33:25 AM
I've heard all kinds of hand-wringing about Trump caving to Putin over the latest peace plan for the pointless bum fight between UKR and RUS. Allow me to suggest a historical analogy.What kind of peace plan would you have offered to France in early May 1940, just before the German breakout across the Meuse?    The Slavic bum fight between the two sclerotic, dying nations of UKR and RUS is an infantry / drone / artillery battle and in those, the side with the most young men to kill typically wins. What if the Ukrainians have exhausted all their reserves and their line is only thinly held with no reserves behind it? Given how long the meat grinder has been grinding, that's very likely. If that's the case, then any[...]

Inflation is always and everywhere a progressive phenomenon

W.C. Varones
11/13/2025 9:31:17 AM
Excerpt from a text conversation with a young "democratic socialist":DS: Every time the US has become progressive, the right wing and the centrists said the policies were too unrealistic, but the civil rights movement still passed, and FDR is currently looked at as one of the best presidents of the past hundred yearsWC: Some times the right wing and the centrists are right. LBJ's Great Society has trapped millions in multigenerational welfare dependency. Obamacare has made health care unaffordable and is bankrupting both families and the US governmentLBJ's Great Society (and the Vietnam War) was what forced the US government to break the gold standard under Nixon, leading to all subsequent inflation crises. Inflation and all[...]

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.

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[...]

FDA Moves to Curb Monkey Testing for Monoclonal Antibody Products 

Leslie Eastman

In addition to benefitting Americans by lowering the cost to develop new pharmaceuticals, the move will also help make the US more competitive with China.The post FDA Moves to Curb Monkey Testing for Monoclonal Antibody Products first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

Chinese and Japanese Boats Have Standoff Near Disputed Islands as Tensions Increase 

Leslie Eastman

Earlier this year, Chinese cutters ram and use water cannons against Philippine fishery vessels near the Spratly Islands.The post Chinese and Japanese Boats Have Standoff Near Disputed Islands as Tensions Increase first appeared on Legal Insurrection.