Who Gets to Decide?

Energy might be the single largest factor in a progressing civilization.  Most people pass through their daily lives without giving it much thought.  It's a real testament to how advanced our economy has become.  The more advanced we become, the less we seem to know about the source of that advancement.  Energy development, production, and use definitely fall into this category...

From the time man first discovered fire, we have progressed society by increasing our march toward higher and higher levels of energy density to support a massive increase in human life on the planet.  Today, we have somehow allowed the political environment to convince the entire world that moving to wind and solar is both human "progress" and "clean" for the planet, whatever that means. &nb...

The mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas has unleashed a firestorm of politicians and pundits metaphorically beating us with the "outlaw guns" stick without any regard to why the 2nd Amendment exists or why our founders decided to codify these rights to guns in the "Bill of Rights" of the U.S. Constitution.  Emotional pleas abound from pundits, politicians, and even famous actors.  It seems th...

We all think we know what cops should or should not be doing in society, but most people agree that they should protect us if we're in danger!  Obviously, we are outraged when they neglect to do their job and tend to ask questions about why and how this happened?  Join me today as we not only ask these questions, but we explore the possibility that the cops are NOT there to SAVE US at al...

The Libertarian Party has been in a state of flux since at least 2020, and some might argue since 2016.  The 2022 Libertarian National Convention should go down as a historic, and possibly the beginning of something important!  Join me today as we discuss the origins of the Mises Caucus movement and the significance of some of the votes taken on the convention floor.

Donald J. Trump's entire presidency was basically stollen by people who believed that they were more qualified to lead the country.  Well, so much for democracy!  The people that supposedly care the most about democracy are those undermining it at every turn.  The FBI either led the charge in the plot against the president, or they were the useful idiots.  Either way, they shou...

The economic wreckage that was created by the government's response to COVID-19 is but a glimpse of what is coming as a result of ESG, the Energy Transition, and our changing supply chains.  These interventions into our global markets are going to have seismic and far-reaching consequences on our collective standard of living and could, in effect, push us back into a dark ages type period. &n...

Many on the side of liberty are quick to mention that guns don't kill people in the same way that cars don't kill people, however, on the liberal side of the aisle they are constantly telling us that guns are the problem.  Getting guns out of the hands of people who should not have them is our goal.  "We don't want to impact law-abiding gun owners", they say.  However, the policy pr...

Trade and Tariffs have been a part of commerce for as long as people have been trading with one another.  Even with all this history, there is still an impulse to raise tariffs to protect industries and their so-called capitalist.  Paul Krugman himself, never short on seeing the state's point of view, is clearly in the camp of free trade as a means of raising the standard of living of ev...

We often criticize our government as broken and almost always blame the other side for why governments fall short in accommodating citizens with reasonable solutions.  This is primarily a false understanding of the way in which government works on behalf of its constituents.  Join me today as we look at three separate hot button issues where solidly Democratic governments do not actually...

Jeremy Grantham is one of the most successful investors of all time, and most people have never heard of him.  That's because he's good and he doesn't have to appear on CNBC to let everybody know it!  He is warning of a pretty desperate time coming to America just beyond the horizon and is making a rare public appearance to warn those that will listen.  Join me today as we dissect M...

Now that the pandemic is more or less over, we are finally getting a glimpse into what "health officials" meant when they assured us that the mRNA vaccines were "safe and effective".  More than 42,000 adverse events and 1,223 deaths in just the first 3 months of vaccine delivery.  Dr. Faucci and Dr. Birx consistently promoted these vaccines to the public convincing millions of Americans...

The election of Donald J. Trump forever changed the elite's view on free speech.  In their minds, this result was so catastrophic that it can never again be allowed to happen even if it means infringing on the first amendment!  The "Ends" justify the "Means"!  The Biden Administration's Disinformation Board is the latest effort in a long list of nefarious plans to control dissent an...

The Russia Hoax perpetrated on former President Trump by the Clinton Campaign and Deep State actors dominated the news and culture for the entire Presidency of Donald J. Trump.  It was a story so ridiculous, and yet vast resources of the Justice Department were directed at this effort.  We were told that this was so grave a threat that the very existence of our democracy was at risk, and...

The drumbeat of Climate Change is constantly with us. Therefore there is no shortage of liberal busybodies coming up with ideas to combat its "effects on our planet".  There must be some governing law that causes a prosperous country like the United States to increasingly invent dumb ideas to solve imaginary problems.  Imaginary problems in the sense that these ideas are not born in coun...

The United States Supreme Court has been a battleground for some time in America challenging rights found in the Constitution and creating rights where none can be found.  With the technical use of clauses to assert some governmental authority while using other clauses to shrink from its constitutional duty, the court has been at the epicenter of the so-called counter-revolution before the in...

Now that COVID is really over for the vast majority of Americans, people have once again turned their attention inward and are asking, "Why it's so hard to get ahead and stay ahead in our society?" There is no shortage of answers to this question and yet these answers somehow seem unsatisfactory. As Kamala Harris likes to say, "We need to get to the root causes." The root cause is money, or what o...

Now that COVID is really over for the vast majority of Americans, people have once again turned their attention inward and are asking, "Why it's so hard to get ahead and stay ahead in our society?"  There is no shortage of answers to this question and yet these answers somehow seem unsatisfactory.  As Kamala Harris likes to say, "We need to get to the root causes."  The root cause i...

Historically, liberals were staunch supporters of all civil liberties, free speech being the one they would fight for the hardest.  What has happened?  Now liberals are some of the worst violators of free speech in American society and few say anything at all, much less utter criticism.  Elon Musk's take over of Twitter could be changing that?  For one prominent liberal, it see...

As a follow-up to the previous episode, we really zoom in on the US Dollar and its importance to every American's standard of living.  Most Americans are not aware of this critical connection to the very structure of our economy and how fragile this privilege is of having the global reserve currency status.  Losing this status will lead to a permanent shift in the structure of our econom...

With global US dollar-denominated debt at all-time highs and congress' excessive spending, we could be on the precipice of a financial calamity.  Stock markets are very sensitive to these changing financial conditions and seem to be signaling trouble ahead.  High to low ranges on the S&P 500 have been in excess of 100 points and the 10-yield is rising rapidly.  Join me today as...

For years progressives have owned the Twitter town square and now that Elon Musk has stepped in to buy the company and take it private, they are losing their collective minds and framing the discussion on free speech Elon Musk style means, "white free speech".  Progressives are mostly concerned that their control of the narrative in the media will be eroded, but they dress it up as attacks on...

Like Bernie Sanders, Senator Elizabeth Warren is an unlimited source of bad economic policy that is wildly popular with voters.  She offers something for nothing and who doesn't like that deal?  But in a world of unlimited wants and finite resources, Senator Warren's ideas fail to deliver by creating a disease that is an order magnitude worse than the systems she's identified.  Join...

For years corporations have been lobbying the government for interventions in the free market system to benefit themselves at the expense of the masses. This time they may have overplayed their hand.  Join me today as we examine Disney's latest effort to weigh in on the culture war and discuss how this is much different than than normal economic interventions that they have come to master.

Like so many things, the election of Donald Trump set into motion forces of those willing to use the state in a way to make sure that such an election could never happen again!  The very voters that elected him to office had to be marginalized, discredited, and made evil in the eyes of the public so that "civil" people could get back to "running the country".  This of course has had an u...