Baltimore is what it is because it is a haven of crony capitalism and corruption. Trump was right to call it out. The middle class is going deep into debt to stay in the middle class. But how long can this go on? Colleges love easy student debt. They spend the money. The students are saddled. Ocasio Cortez's COS has left. A million dollars in his pocket from small donors?

Trump is looking like the moderate to many voters right now as the Democrats increasingly embrace radical positions to out "woke"  one another. Tulsi takes Kamala Harris apart. Kamala may not recover. __________________________________________________________________________________

It is interesting to me that so many of the “woke”, the hyper-politically correct, marxist apologists (and straight up marxists) that seem to inhabit so many parents basements and Reddit subreddits these days are so fearful of President Trump and his “authoritarian” tendencies. To be sure Trump represents a Berlusconi type of big government conservatism. To be sure he has no problem with the power of the state. He moves on instinct and is all over the place on many issues. Hi

One of the chief reasons the "progressive" left is (appears) so whacky is because it is largely city centered. - Humans are not meant to live in massive cities. We are not engineered to live that way. We are supposed to see the sun, and trees, and flowers. But many live in crowded urban landscapes where humans are pressed up next to one another and where human interaction is often seen as of little value. (Because so much of it is forced.) As such, many urbanites choose to ou

Nigel isn't done. In fact it looks like he may - may, be getting something big rolling. (From Zerohedge) The Brexit Party Continues to Surge in the polls for the European elections as Change UK fall behind Lib Dems. Nigel Farage is continuing to smile after the latest polls for the EU elections continue to show the Brexit Party leading the way. Despite only being launched last month, the Brexit Party quickly stormed to the top of the polls - and the latest set of figures show

Posted on May 8, 2017 by Nick Sorrentino If Hollywood wanted an actual authentic candidate there would be no reason for quotes, despite the word being pulled from the following article. No, what Hollywood wants is someone who looks “authentic” in their eyes and as such can fool middle America into voting for him or her. Hollywood is the most vacuous place on earth. The folks there have no interest in actual authenticity. That’s why they are in entertainment for crying out lou

This was originally run at AC2News.com, August 28, 2017 by Nick Sorrentino This is key. People don’t like lots of levers and pulleys in their legislation. You know who DOES like the Rube Goldberg machines that pass for laws in this country? Lobbyists. (And their crony sponsors.) The more complex the bill – witness Obamacare – the more opportunities there are for cronies to carve out deals for themselves. The taxpayer is usually the one who loses. Actually the taxpayer is alwa

Socialism benefits those who know how to "work the system". We all knew these kids in school. Some of you WERE those kids. More on this breaking story. (From The Washington Examiner) Two political action committees founded by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s top aide funneled over $1 million in political donations into two of his own private companies, according to a complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission on Monday. The cash transfers from the PACs — overseen by

(From The Daily Caller) Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti obtained majority control of Justice Democrats PAC in December 2017, according to archived copies of the group’s website, and the two appear to retain their control of the group, according to corporate filings obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. If the Federal Election Commission (FEC) finds that the New York Democrat’s campaign operated in affiliation with the

1. In 2020 battleground state, looming Mueller report could hold dangers for Democrats 2. Defiant U.S. sheriffs push gun sanctuaries, imitating liberals on immigration 3. Rand Paul to vote against Trump's national emergency declaration 4. New York City Experienced Worst Decline in Restaurant Jobs since 9/11 After $15 Minimum Wage Win 5. The Lingering Stench of Marijuana Prohibition

This is coming from a generally Trump skeptical libertarian organization (but not never-Trumper), and from no lesser libertarian that Nick Gillespie, one of the most interesting pundits kicking around Washington DC today. (Granted most DC pundits are schmucks and not terribly interesting. EJ Dion, we're looking at you.) Nick was, it sounds fair to say, impressed. (With all the necessary reservations.) (From Reason) There is simply no potential candidate in the Democratic Part

Many people who try to pretend like California isn't drifting into sub-first world status like to pretend like the state doesn't have a massive deficit. It does. However, for some reason California is allowed to keep its pension obligations off the books, so people who aren't paying attention don't understand the deal. California has a 1 TRILLION dollar pension shortfall. A shortfall the taxpayers of the state are on the hook for. (Unless they can get a bailout from the rest

The Clintonites, which is to say the Democratic Party establishment, still have a huge bone to pick with Bernie Sanders. They blame him, at least to some degree for Hillary's loss. After all, many of the issues that came to define the 2016 election, the email server, the Goldman Sachs speeches (which no one still seems to have a video of, huh), sprung from the fact that Hills didn't just walk into her nomination unblemished in the primaries. (Let's not forget Seth Rich.) It i

Not our headline. Frankly Americans know too little about India and Pakistan and their ongoing feud. If things ever got REALLY hot they'd learn a lot in a hurry. (From The Washington Examiner) To be abundantly clear, what follows isn't meant as a how-to guide advocating nuclear war as some sort of out-of-the box alternative solution to climate change. It's meant as a description of the science surrounding how a theoretical regional nuclear war could affect the Earth's atmosph

Growing up we were schooled early on political bias. This was before Fox News, and the WSJ was about the only outlet that bordered on 'mainstream" that wasn't "left leaning". The National Review was of course fringe. So the whole awakening to the media bias thing isn't really surprising to us. The mistrust has always been there, it's just that the bias is so obvious at this point that people who weren't looking for it can't help but notice it. (From The New York Post) It is a

We made the point recently that reasonable people have to be very wary of the "old" media these days. (At least in our estimation.) The Obama administration, when the old media ran interference for a president they collectively wanted to succeed, was the "jump the shark" moment. But then the old media doubled down with Clinton. CNN and MSNBC became infomercials 24/7 for the soon to be crowned Hillary. Then they fanned the flames of unfounded conspiracy theories in an effort

This article originally ran at AgainstCronyCapitalism.org 2-26-2014 Most people who read this website probably know where we land on this question. The two ideologies have the same father and are not really that different from one another. Both are collectivist dreams. Both venerate the state over the individual. Both are obsessed with works projects and managing the economy. Both see the ends as justifying the means. And yet by some bizarre accident (actually it’s not really

Hey, when you lose, cheat. If there is nothing else that we have learned from this era of Trump induced nuttiness it is that. Trump won and the Dems went to new tactics. Tactics that may not age well. FDR almost packed the court when the Supreme Court sought to keep FDR from expanding the government far beyond the parameters of the Constitution in the late 30s. In the end the Supreme Court capitulated to FDR and the old man got his way (for a time.) This is one of the reason