Federal Government

Five Shots of Optimism for Freedom-Lovers

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federal governmentJ. B. Shurk – Allow me to state three personal beliefs:

  1. I see no truth in the political left’s insistence that history marches inexorably toward some Marxist utopia.  Those who most often resort to ludicrous claims that their opponents are “on the wrong side of history” usually have little to no understanding of anything that has taken place before their adolescence.

I do believe there is an uncanny repetition throughout human history in which many of the same ideas and conflicts emerge, burn brightly, and rudely disappear until they are made new again.  The fight for human freedom is a fundamental part of this cycle, and the political left continues to be on the wrong side of liberty. Continue reading →

Make the United States Plural Again

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united statesJ.B. Shurk – Make the “United States” plural again. Is that so much to ask? Up until the Civil War, that was the customary grammatical construction. “The United States of America are committed to…” “The United States of America have declared war upon…” “The United States of America stand together…”

Ah, there’s the rub. These United States of ours do not really stand together anymore on anything, and only the linguistic shrewdness of treating the “United States” as a singular entity provides the fictitious veneer of national unity. In a world filled with fake news, fake markets, and fake elections, ignoring proper grammatical rules to pretend the states are united in purpose as one nation is just par for the course.

The story has been told to schoolchildren since the nineteenth century (all the way to the near present, when American history was abandoned in public schools altogether) that the change from plural to singular reflected the significance of the Civil War. Before that conflagration, there was much constitutional disagreement as to whether individual states had the sovereign power to decide for themselves whether they would continue to consent to the authority and jurisdiction of a national government. Continue reading →

When “To the victor belong the spoils” is defied

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TrumpSartre – Partisan politics has operated under the maxim that no matter which party wins the election, they replace the top leadership positions with their own people. New appointees exchange holdovers from the previous administration with loyalists who can be entrusted to organize the revamped policies, carry out to reforms of agencies and oversees personal selections in order to implement the direction of the winning party.

The underlying premise is that the establishment attains an orderly transfer of power and has the means to reward their dedicated inner circle. But what happens to this model of sharing the loot when the elected candidate does not have the support of a substantial percentage of their own party?

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11th Hour: Globalists 10 v People 0

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Michael Noonan – At the proverbial 11th hour, the globalists have a shut out going for themselves with people unable to mount any meaningful opposition.  While the word “hour” is referenced, the time could be measured in months, even a few more years.  Whatever the duration is, the time frame continues to shorten.

Rather than provide supply/demand facts for gold and silver, amply illustrated with lots of graphs and charts, provide information on Commitment of Traders data, and so much more, we prefer to engage in other situations that may be having more of an effect as to why gold and silver prices are not rallying to price levels that would reflect the true supply/ demand circumstances.  These are the more pragmatic reasons for owning and holding either or both physical metals.

Unseen and unacknowledged forces are keeping a manipulated lid on gold and silver, the US being the primary instigator, [always acting was the behest of the globalists that are actually in charge].  So we point to other areas most people do not associate with why gold and silver are the only commodities that have not  been price adjusted for so many decades to account for changes that would otherwise impact both metals.

The word patriot is not defined in Black’s Law Dictionary, but pauper is.

Moneychangers have no interest in patriots but paupers are grist for keeping the masses suppressed, used as examples for those considering acting in one’s own best interest, which, of course, can only mean acting against government interest.

The last well-known patriot in the United States was Edward Snowden, a notion that may shock the senses of those who choose not to think for themselves.  A patriot is one who both supports and defends his/her country against enemies. Who, or what has done more harm to this country than the federal government? Snowden made public, and did an immense public service, by exposing the unprecedented and totally kept secret mass surveillance of  every American that has a computer, cell phone, e-mail, to the extent that there is no privacy whatsoever, none!

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Victims of the Federal Bootprint

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corpsWilliam F. Jasper – America’s farmers and ranchers, the people who grow the food that magically appears on our grocery store shelves, are under siege. Like swarms of locusts, federal regulators from the EPA, BLM, USFS, etc. are driving these hardworking producers who feed America into the ground. A relentless bombardment of threats, fines, regulatory takings, lawsuits, and other means of perpetual harassment is killing what remains of our family-owned farms. It is not only America’s food supply that is imperiled by this onslaught; equally important (if not more so) is the threat that these rogue federal regulators pose to justice, to the rule of law, to the very idea of limited government, and to the freedom of each and every one of us. The profiles of the victims provided here represent only a tiny sample of the thousands of our fellow citizens who have heroically fought, or are currently fighting, against a federal leviathan that is trampling their rights and taking their property.

John Duarte — Plow Your Field, Go to Jail

In December of 2012, John Duarte did what thousands of other farmers do: He planted wheat. Specifically, he planted wheat on 450 acres he owns in California’s central valley near Red Bluff, a couple hours north of Sacramento. Little did he know that this simple act would place him in jeopardy of fines as high as $50,000 per day and a possible prison sentence. Matthew Kelley, an employee of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, happened to drive by and take notice of the plowing activity on Duarte’s land in preparation for the planting. Kelley reported to his superiors that Duarte’s plowing operations were a “big violation” of the federal Clean Water Act, in that they were, allegedly, destroying a “wetland.” Continue reading →