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by: Brent Smith On CNN last Sunday, one of Washington's senior Democrat scumbags, Richard Blumenthal, said with a straight face, that one good thing that hiring 87,000 more agents will do is, "the IRS will have resources it needs to go after the 1%." I guess that's to go along with the three quarters of $1 million they just spent on guns and ammo. Building an army are they? Now really Richard. Is that what is going to happen you weasel? I mean, we now have to believe that the IRS has wanted to go after the evil one percent forever, but just hasn't had the resources. Really? That's what we are supposed to believe? And less I forget to mention that the IRS budget is now going to balloon by an additional $80 billion. But only to crack down on "wealthy tax evaders."

Decades ago, during an interview, Dr. Thomas Sowell said that there are no real solutions – only a system of trade offs. And he’s right. In life, every solution is just that. However, there are trade-offs grounded in logic and reason, and others based purely on emotion and the passions of the day. A problem has arisen. Then a decision on how to solve said problem must be formed. And with every decision, there are trade offs. You’ve seen it done - done it yourself. You make a list of pros and cons, actually or just mentally, regarding a decision you must make. These pros and cons are the system of trade-offs. When one column, pro or con, sufficiently eclipses the other, logically, that’s the path that should be taken. We do this in our personal and professional lives all the time, often without even realizing. This is substantive, or real problem solving...

by: Brent Smith Unless you’ve been on an interstellar journey, you know that Ukraine has been at war with Russia for quite some time now. And for some reason, which escapes me, our genius political class here in the U.S. has decided to be the major benefactor of the Ukrainian defense effort against the evil Putin. I believe our federal “public servants” have pledged/donated upwards of $53 billion to the cause thus far. Times like these I kind of almost wish we were what most Americans claim we are – a democracy. If we were, maybe we would get to vote on how much graft to continue sending overseas, with no oversight and accountability whatsoever. I vote zero dollars...

by: Brent Smith If anything, I would classify it more as … let me see … reality, or maybe tough love. For those unfamiliar, Deadnaming, is calling a confused person, sometimes called a trans-person, by their given name. Like referring that disgrace to the Navy uniform Rachel Levine, and Babylon Bee’s Man of the Year, by her actual “given” name, Richard. Apparently this is a no-no. The Cleveland Clinic (of all places) writes that, “The person who they once were is dead, but the new person is alive, so their current name should be used.” ...

by: Brent Smith We’ve been told for a year now, maybe more, that a Republican “Wave” election is coming in 2022. Yes, a great mid-term red wave will wash ashore and clear the beach of blue stained sand. We on the right are so excited at this prospect. But to all you who are so exited, I say to slow our collective roll. This is far from in the bag. We still have a two-front battle on our hands. First, we must sure up our side. You, me, everyone on the right must be sure of who we support. The time for the endorsement of RINOs because, “they can win” must be over. And ditto to the spineless Republicans who only act conservative during an election year....

by: Brent Smith A little over a year ago, I penned an article for World Net Daily asking who is really in charge of the Biden White House. By now it should painfully obvious to anyone with eyes, ears and a functioning brain that is sure as heck isn’t Lunch Box Joe. I postulated, agreeing with Rick Grenell, that it is likely Susan Rice. We remember Susan Rice, of Benghazi fame, where she ran cover for Obama and Hillary by repeating the lie, over and over, that the attack on the compound grew out of a protest against an online video. The only thing missing from the bullcrap explanation was that it was a “mostly peaceful” protest. She may have been, and still may be Obama’s number one confidant. Uncle Joe also knew her well. And now she’s part of the Biden administration, and an integral part of the “Build Back Better” plan...

by: Brent Smith In their ruling in favor of Mississippi's ban on abortion after 15 weeks and the overturning Roe v. Wade, a 6-3 majority of Supreme Court justices declared that “the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion.” Finally we have an affirmation that the 1973 supreme Court decision was bullcrap all along. This was a great day, and should be celebrated by not only those who value human life at any age, but also for us Constitutional originalists. Justice Samuel Alito wrote the 6-3 majority opinion. The fact that there were any dissenters shows how pitifully unqualified justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan are...

by: Brent Smith I’ve recently been reading and watching some videos on the Second Amendment and the absolute right (yes Joe, I said absolute) of the individual to keep and bear arms. For those unfamiliar with the term, “to keep and bear arms;” to keep is to have or accumulate, to own. To bear – well I’ll let one of the founders, Noah Webster define it. In his dictionary first published in 1828, he defined “bear” as, “to wear; to bear a mark of authority or distinction; as to bear a sword…” So the Second Amendment affirms the absolute right to own and carry arms, openly or concealed, without a license or permit, or any other governmental interference. One of the videos was a “Ted” talk, entitled, “The Much Misunderstood Second Amendment,” by, attorney William Harwood, that took place in Portland, Maine, 2018...

Someone recently asked if the Streets miss Trump. In fact it was Doc Rich, a popular black YouTuber. He recently posted two reaction videos on this topic. Both were “street” interview videos, where the interviewers spoke with random black Americans. One, the aforementioned, “Do the streets miss Trump?,” featured black comedian, David Lucas. The other entitled, “Black People Want Trump Back,” featured Savannah Hernandez. Thank you Doc for posting these.

by: Brent Smith Earlier this week I watched a short Fox News video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9WG26WhlvQ entitled: “Biden admin holding school lunch money 'hostage' to force transgender policies.” Well, I must admit, I was unfamiliar but certainly not surprised by anything these government oligarchs do. So far, Biden’s first term, aka, Obama’s third term (and it is), is changing America faster than the lung flying out of a body due to a hit from a high-powered 9mm lethal projectile shot from a fully automatic AR-15 handgun weapon of war bought illegally at gun show. And this change is most rapid when it comes to the woke left’s shiny new rainbow-clad toy...

Prepping has always gotten a bad rap – undeservedly so, in my humble opinion. Many claim it’s only done by ultra-right wing nuts that are convinced the end of civilization is right over the next horizon. If you’re unfamiliar with prepping, it’s merely short for or slang for preparation or preparing – collecting various items, food, water, emergency supplies, etc., in preparation of disruption or disaster – natural or man-caused. Some are casual preppers – others may be more hardcore, dystopian preppers. Now I don’t know about the end of civilization, but if your paying attention, it certainly appears that hard times may in fact be just over the horizon. And by horizon, I mean potentially within the next couple months...

by: Brent Smith The other day, I ran across an article from 2019 entitled, https://www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/Human-compost-Seattle-Washington-law-bill-legal-13786587.php “After death: Washington State set to become the first to allow human composting.” It passed the State legislature in April, 2019, and in May of that same year, it was signed into law by Governor Jay Inslee. That’s right. “Seattleites will likely soon have a unique option to remember their loved ones after they die. Washington state is set to become the first to allow "natural organic reduction" as a burial alternative -- commonly referred to as human composting…,” wrote Seattlepi...

by: Brent Smith Do you ever tire of hearing that we on the right, conservatives, are called right wing extremists, but then also called Nazis? Well I do. I’ve been called a Nazi on occasion. It cuts me to the quick. Actually it doesn’t. It doesn’t bother me because those who say such things couldn’t be more wrong and just demonstrate their historical ignorance. So wrong in fact, that it is quite literally the opposite of these ignoramuses understanding of what a Nazi is and who Hitler was. First let’s put the obvious aside, that we on the right have nothing in common with Hitler or the Nazis. They were, after all, socialists. Hitler himself joined the socialist “German Workers Party” in 1919. He later changed the name to “The National Socialist German Workers Party” – the Nazi Party. When was the last time you heard anyone on the right being called a socialist? Answer – never...

Let the Left be Stuck with Joe Biden by: Brent Smith The drum beat has begun. What drum beat would that be? Well the 25th Amendment drum beat. For those unfamiliar and don’t have a pocket Constitution (shame on you) here’s the gist of the 25th Amendment. Without getting into the minutia, if the President resigns or kicks the bucket, the Vice President becomes President, as well as a case where the President decides, or it’s decided for him, that he can’t do the job. It’s more complicated than that, but that’s the gist. As Biden continues to cognitively slip away, many on the right have been hinting that the 25th Amendment may have to be invoked, and sooner than later. At first the left just sloughed it off as sour grapes. But with it becoming painfully and publically obvious that he appears to be fading fast, the left is beginning to also come around.

by: Brent Smith So Elon Musk has (all but) purchased Twitter with the intent to take it private and open up the platform to actual free speech for about everyone. I say about everyone, because it remains to be seen whether president Trump and others will be allowed back in, regardless of whether Trump wishes to re-up now that he’s begun Truth Social. The left is positively apoplectic over the Musk “hostile takeover,” despite it being decidedly NOT a hostile takeover. Simultaneously, the right is positively giddy over this huge “WIN” over the left. But is it? And more importantly, should Musk be trusted, and treated as if he’s the second coming of Calvin Coolidge...

by: Brent Smith Now that the Covid nonsense is mostly winding down, despite the best efforts of the fearmongering left, it’s likely time to start ramping up the fear of the greatest threat to mankind again. No, it’s not hyper-inflation or potential worldwide food shortages. Nope. According to those like the haughty John Kerry (h/t: Rush Limbaugh), it’s climate change, or global warming as we knew it until relatively recently. Sure the term climate change has been used, although quite sparingly, since about 1854, but it only began creeping into the modern lexicon in 1988. And now it has eclipsed and virtually replaced global warming...

by: Brent Smith The Brooklyn Subway shooting will lead to more talk of stricter gun control/confiscation, despite the shooter being an angry black man. And here I thought that only white men were mass-shooters. Oh, you didn’t know he was black? Well, that’s understandable, if you only get your news from left leaning sources. I read at least a half a dozen posts through Wednesday and not once was race mentioned. Not that it should be, but … well … you know. And as far as I know, the shooter, Frank James is no relation to the infamous outlaw Frank James, brother of Jesse James. Although, the shooting did occur on a subway TRAIN, and the James gang were train robbers. I’m just saying...

by: Brent Smith Almost every pundit I’ve watched or heard has claimed that, whatever you feel about her personally, Ketanji Brown-Jackson is eminently qualified to be seated on the U.S. Supreme Court. According to what standard? Well, if you ask leftist Vox.com, you’ll get this glowing endorsement. “If confirmed, Judge Jackson will be the first Black woman ever to sit on the Supreme Court, and she enters the confirmation process with an impressive resume full of the kind of elite credentials typical for new justices.”

by: Brent Smith I’m not certain what prompted me to start down this path again. I’ve written about this in the past – the fact our nation is a representative republic – not a democracy. Yet how many times have we heard: “Our democracy is under attack.” Too many to count I would venture. We usually hear this from the left, quite literally, every time someone on the right complains about the state of our nation. But we also hear this more and more from those on the right – politicians and pundits alike. For many it may be a slip of the tongue. They meant to say republic, but out came democracy...

by: Brent Smith Now that Covid lockdowns/shutdowns are history, as are most mask and vaccine mandates, it got me to thinking. What’s next? From early on in the pandemic, it’s been the contention of many of us freedom loving constitutionalists, that there will be a next – that this whole scenario has been orchestrated, to an extent. No, I’m not denying that Covid was and is real and that the initial response seemed kind of necessary at the time. But those in charge of the response it seems, quickly understood what they had – the ability to control our behavior. And what was the magic pill with which they used to accomplish this? One word – FEAR. Fear, like no other emotion, can and will motivate people to say and do the otherwise unthinkable. And mass-fear is the worse kind...

by: Brent Smith The short answer is that it’s something more and quite unique as far as I can see. What we’re beginning to live is demand/supply destruction. We’ve seen demand destruction in the United States before and relatively recently, assuming you consider the 1970’s recent. As Glenn Beck reminded us recently, we saw demand destruction during the oil embargo of the early `70s. He spoke of the huge cars produced by the big three American companies – Lincolns, Cadillacs, Buicks, etc. Then the oil embargo hit, driving gas prices out of sight, forcing Americans to find smaller vehicles that got more 5 to 8 miles per gallon. The demand for big American cruisers was all but destroyed...

by: Brent Smith The problem with elected officials isn’t always the elected politician themselves, but their behind-the-scenes crew of so-called advisors, counselors and strategists. It’s been said, though not anymore, that “behind every great man is a great woman.” Oh, is that sexist? Well, too bad. Take, for example, one of our founding fathers and second president of the United States, John Adams. He would have never reached the heights he did with the intelligent counsel of his wife Abigail. But the opposite is also true. Behind every bad politician, or bad leaders of any kind, are often even worse advisors. Heck, even good leaders will often have bad advisors...

by: Brent Smith It used to be a certainty that the left-right pendulum would eventually swing so far left that it would have to snap back to the right. At least I thought so. Now I’m not so sure. I fear that when the time comes for the great swing, there will not be enough citizens, certainly not enough constitutionalists, to usher in the swing or even welcome it. So where does this leave us? Does it leave us at the point that Thomas Jefferson described in the Declaration of Independence? Well, not exactly, but maybe closer than we think...

by: Brent Smith I’m not feeling very positive lately about our United States. Oh I think we may prevail politically in the short run. And I say this with an abundance of trepidation. Fact is, all we constitutionalists should be worried about the direction of our country, and frankly whether we will be able to somehow reset (no, not the great reset) things or even roll things back a bit to a less nutty time. For decades we have been losing ground to liberalism and leftism. And when I say ground, I mean literal real estate. Cities, counties, whole States have been turned from solid red, to purple, then to solid blue...

by: Brent Smith I’ve been debating whether to write this or not. I guess maybe because I’m still so angry over what was done to president Trump by countless Deep State operators going all the way to the top of democrat food chain. And worse, because so few people came out to publically defend him. Even now, after all the proof has surfaced that president Trump did absolutely none of what he was accused of for so many years, so few are rallying around him, or simply apologizing to him. And we wonder why more good people don’t get into politics. We, who really thought we knew the president, knew that he would never have done what the left accused him of – namely the ridiculous Russia collusion nonsense. If nothing else, we know how much Trump loves America and would never do anything to undermine it...