The author of “Bidenomics” and chairman of Brandon’s Council of Economic Advisors.

New on the War, Economy, and State podcast from the Mises Institute:

Washington Post conservative George Will trots out every tired slogan and bromide in the book to claim that Putin is Hitler and the Ukraine war is a fight for civilization.

Zachary Yost and I talk about why Republicans and conservatives keep ignoring their own voters to keep spending billions on the welfare-warfare state.

Opinions are not crimes. They are thoughts. Once government attempts to turn opinions into crimes, it opens the door for any thought that they don’t like to become a crime. The best way to counter distasteful opinions is with free speech, so that the truth can shine a light on them. Opinions can change. Opinions are always changing. But allow the idea of “hate speech” and government can make it a crime anytime you open your mouth in opposition to them.

Dr. Brion McClanahan is an amazing teacher. A prolific author of many specialized books focusing upon American history, particularly of the Founding and Early National Periods up to the War for Southern Independence. His online McClanahan Academy offers over twenty courses on American History (most of which I have purchased and highly relish.)  Several times each week he provides extremely informative podcasts on contemporary and historical subjects in an engaging and personalized manner. In reply to one of his listener/viewers he composed the one above on How to Teach Jacksonian  America.

I was amazed and astounded how similar his outline of how he taught this period was to how I did so, particularly with my AP U. S. History students in the late 1990s and early 2000s (before students became obsessively dependent on cell phones and the Internet. I prepared several brief summary handout articles on the principal figures of the period, John C. Calhoun: From Nationalism to Nullification, Nationalism: From Hamilton to Clay, Republicanism: Jefferson to Van Buren, and had students view specialized documentaries on Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall and Aaron Burr. I provided pre-Internet photocopied handouts from The Annals of America of the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification, Andrew Jackson’s Proclamation to the People of South Carolina, and the Reply to Jackson’s Proclamation. I also included Jackson’s Veto of the Re-chartering of the 2nd National Bank. As with the manner McClanahan does in his online courses, utilization and emphasis upon primary documents was the key. Years later I put together the articles below for LewRockwell.com incorporating some of these elements. Here are later versions of these articles:

Republicanism: From Jefferson to Van Buren

Who Rules America: Power Elite Analysis, the Deep State, and American History

I particularly want to emphasize the content from the second article which focuses upon this specific area of concern:

Who Rules America: Power Elite Analysis, the Deep State, and American History

Part Two

1. Early American Historical Overview

Theme of Liberty Versus Power –  (Ivan Jankovic, The American Counter-Revolution in Favor of Liberty: How Americans Resisted Modern State, 1765–1850); The Country Party Versus Court Party: The Declaration of Independence and the Revolution (Bernard Bailyn, The Origins of American Politics; The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution; Murray N. Rothbard, Conceived in Liberty, Volumes 1-4; Angelo M. Codevilla, The Ruling Class: How They Corrupted America and What We Can Do About it); Luigi Marco Bassani, Chaining Down Leviathan: The American Dream of Self-Government 1776-1865; and Patrick Newman, Cronyism: Liberty versus Power in Early America, 1607–1849 .

1. Counter-Revolution
   1. U.S. Constitution (Sheldon Richman, America’s Counter Revolution: The Constitution Revisited; Murray N. Rothbard, Conceived in Liberty, Volume 5: The New Republic; John Taylor, New Views of the Constitution of the United States; Charles A. Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States; Saul Cornell, The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism & the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828; What The Antifederalists Were For)
   2. Alexander Hamilton and the Plutocratic Federalists: “The Funding Fathers” (John McConaughy, Who Rules America: A Century of Invisible Government; Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Hamilton’s Curse: How Jefferson’s Archenemy Betrayed the American Revolution – and What It Means for America Today; Brion McClanahan, How Alexander Hamilton Screwed Up America)
   3. The Early Nationalist Period (Stanley Elkins & Eric McKitrick, The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800; Gordon Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815; Phillip H. Burch, Elites in American History: The Federalist Years to the Civil War)
   4. Republicanism: From Jefferson to Van Buren
2. Jeffersonian Drive to Roll Back the Federalist Program and Rid America of its Powerful Ruling Elite (Lance Banning, The Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party Ideology)
3. Failure of Jefferson/Madison Regimes and the Rise of the Old Republicans or “Tertium Quids” (Norman K. Risjord, The Old Republicans: Southern Conservatism in the Age of Jefferson)
   1. John Taylor of Caroline County, Virginia (John Taylor, Tyranny Unmasked)
   2. John Randolph of Roanoke, Virginia
   3. The Panic of 1819, James Monroe, and the “Era of Good Feelings“
4. Martin Van Buren and the Founding of the Democratic Party (Robert V. Remini, Martin Van Buren and the Making of the Democratic Party)
   1. After Visiting his Hero Jefferson, Van Buren Prompted to Found the Democratic Party to Reinvigorate the Two Party System
   2. The Election of 1824 and “the Corrupt Bargain:” After the Defeat of William H. Crawford, Van Buren Puts His Organizing Skills to Winning the Presidency for Andrew Jackson (Harry L. Watson, Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America)
   3. Ideological Focus of the Democratic Party
      1. Anti-Central Bank
      2. Hard Money: “Gold is the People’s Money”
      3. Free Trade and Anti-Monopoly
   4. The Twenty Four Year Plan
      1. Eight Years of Andrew Jackson of Tennessee
      2. Eight Years of Martin Van Buren of New York
      3. Eight Years of Thomas Hart (“Old Bullion”) Benton of Missouri
   5. The Rise of the Whig Party: Rebirth of the Hamiltonian Consolidationists
      1. Pro-Central Bank: Opposition to the Separation of Banking and State Proposed by Jackson and Van Buren – the Independent Sub-Treasury
      2. High Protective Tariff: Anti-Free Trade
      3. Corporate Welfare: The “Internal Improvements” System
   6. Civil War: Reconsolidation of the Yankee Mercantile Elite (Thomas DiLorenzo, The Real Lincoln; Joseph R. Stromberg, “The War for Southern Independence: A Radical Libertarian Perspective;” Murray N. Rothbard, “The Civil War and Its Legacy”)
      1. High Protective Tariffs
      2. Abraham Lincoln’s “Pro-Slavery” 13th Amendment
      3. Income Tax
      4. Conscription: Led to Widespread Anti-Draft Riots and Protests
      5. Paper Money: Greenbacks
      6. National Banking Act of 1863: Eliminated Competing Currencies
      7. Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus
      8. Mass Arrests of Opponents of Lincoln and the War in the North
      9. Reconstruction: Military Government and Occupation of the South

War crimes:  Good or bad?

ANSWER:  Good and Bad.  Good if committed by the government of Israel (Not by “Jews” but by the government of Israel).  Bad if committed by anyone else.

At the University of Alabama.  

You might be secretly filmed in the restroom and the video uploaded to a porn site. The Navy is investigating more than 100 secretly shot sexual videos of US troops that were uploaded to Pornhub.com. Some of the videos appeared to depict various U.S. military members masturbating to porn in bathroom stalls. Some of the videos contained the names and ranks of the person being secretly filmed. The military is an open sewer. Young men and women cannot enlist without being corrupted.

Running for president against a member of the Demo-Bolshevik party.  They want to do a Putin on him and throw him in prison for the crime of being a Republican candidate for president — or worse.

I highly recommend you listen to this interview of Drs Sam and Mark Bailey on the Wise Traditions Podcast.

From the introduction:

Animals Climate Change. Wuhan Lab. Germs. Viruses. 

All of these are convenient scapegoats when looking to blame something/anything for sickness and disease. 

But what if they’re not to blame? 

Is it possible that the mainstream narratives are leading us in the wrong direction? 

Drs. Samantha and Mark Bailey are physicians and the authors of “The Final Pandemic“.

In their book and in today’s interview, they point to flaws in our understanding of viruses and disease.

Sam and Mark once held the mainstream beliefs about sickness and viruses. 

After all, they were educated about germs and diseases in medical school. 

But the events of 2020 led them to do a deep dive into virology, where they found no proof that viruses exist or that they cause illness. 

They then scoured the history books and found a pandemic playbook of sorts that had been used repeatedly throughout history, to “create pandemics” and then present the so-called solution of “necessary” vaccines to eradicate them. 

Their findings are startling and may lead many to question the virus narrative, as they have.

Please listen to the interview HERE. (37min)

I recently had dinner sitting at the bar at an Auburn, Alabama restaurant when U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville, the former Auburn football coach, and his wife sat down next to me.  The response of the patrons was interesting and informative.  Prior to the senator’s appearance the mood there was festive, the bartenders and wait staff were super pleasant and efficient (they are tip maximizers, after all), and patrons were full of praise of the great food being served.  Alcohol consumption no doubt added to the festive Friday evening atmosphere.

Then enters the politician.  He was immediately approached by fanboys who wanted to shake his hand, and not just because he was once the Auburn football coach. I overheard two of them talking politics.  But then the woman seated on the other side of me began muttering snide and not very flattering remarks about the senator and one man actually got up in a huff and walked out, mumbling something about “that ____ politician” loudly enough for the senator to have heard him.  The Tubervilles seemed to be very pleasant people but the mere fact that he is a politician created an immediate atmosphere of conflict in the relatively small bar area that had a negative effect on the previously festive and pleasant atmosphere there.

Politics and politicians create nothing but conflict and chaos everywhere they go and with everything they do, from visiting a small hometown bar to voting to fund the carpet bombing of civilians in some faraway country where they have never been.

On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with Joe Rogan, and why he’s right about America’s dangerous “security” agencies.

Last evening I received this email from reader, Mr JB:

To save the dolphins from bird flu.

I honestly can’t take much more of this nonsense.

JB

Believe me Sir, I feel ya.

You can read this latest fear-porn HERE.

To understand how ridiculous fearing Bird Flu is AT ALL please watch this short video by Dr Sam Bailey, HERE.

Sam definitively takes down the fraud of the so-called Avian Flu.

Please watch

Attorney Robert Barnes Begins This Powerful Discussion of the Egregious Tyranny in Contemporary Pennsylvania, And Later Outlines the Global Assault on Free Speech and Personal Freedom.

That will apparently be the number one chant at both the Demo-Bolshevik and Republican Party conventions this summer.  Ten more years of “military aid” to the criminal, Christian-hating, civil rights-and-election-abolishing Nazi-Zionist Ukrainian oligarchs.

PBS on William F. Buckley: Not quite getting it ‘right’

A new documentary leaves out his shifting post-Cold War views, particularly on the Iraq War and neocons.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/william-buckley-foreign-policy/

The Phony Legacy of William F. Buckley, Jr.

The Phony Legacy of William F. Buckley, Jr.

“I’m Convinced That The Whole National Review Is A CIA Operation” — Murray Rothbard

“I’m Convinced That The Whole National Review Is A CIA Operation” — Murray Rothbard

How the CIA Bamboozled The Public For 70 Years

How the CIA Bamboozled The Public For 70 Years

How The National Review Sold Its Soul to Google

How The National Review Sold Its Soul to Google

A friend sent me a YouTube of his minister, Dr. Anthony George, pastor of the First Baptist of Atlanta, spending a considerable amount of time in today’s service discussing my book, The Problem With Socialism.  He said he’s read ALL of my books and even mentioned that I am now the president of the Mises Institute.  His discussion of me starts around 1:23:00.

An oxymoron is a contradiction in terms such as “jumbo shrimp,” “military intelligence,” and “student-athlete.”  But the biggest oxymoron of all is:  “Christian Zionist.”  You can be a Christian, and you can be a Zionist, but you can’t be both at the same time no matter what you call yourself.

Freedom of Speech was included as the First Amendment for a reason. It’s that important! Without the ability to speak freely and protest against the government, liberty is lost. Unfortunately, as with so many things when government power expands too far, freedom of speech becomes politicized. “Free speech for me, but not for thee.” Both Left & Right will embrace censorship and cracking down on peaceful protests, if they believe it will help them “win.” But once freedom of speech is sacrificed, the only “winner” is government power. Both the Left & the Right lose their liberties.

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In a powerful address to his senatorial collogues, Ohio US Senator J. D. Vance makes the courageous case for prudential reason and reflection, for diplomacy and foresight in crafting America’s foreign policy in regard to Ukraine. Listen to his careful, measured words of common sense and constitutional adherence to the traditional non-interventionist stance of his forbearers in the chamber such as “Mr. Republican,” Senator Robert Taft of Ohio. Taft served as the mentor or model statesman for the most distinguished and principled person to ever serve in the Halls of Congress, the heroic Ron Paul.  Vance’s remarks echo those of Ron Paul.

It is indeed a short thoughtful step of reason and reflection on current events for the American people to finally grasp the unspoken forbidden truth, that of the very illegitimacy of the American nation-state, which has betrayed its core existential foundational principles of that of a limited, decentralized republic, a sovereign union of independent sovereign states, joined together for mutual security and defense, and the American people’s repudiation of the criminal elites which reign over them in their name. The people never wanted this war, funded and prosecuted in their name.

The point should be driven home over and over that the original American Revolution was based on the idea of government by consent by the governed, and that today this concept has been twisted and perverted beyond any meaning. Instead of the founders’ constitutional republic we have tyrannical extraconstitutional governance by the deep state.

The deep state is beyond the Constitution. It is separate from the American government which we all learned about in school, composed of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. The deep state has no restrictions on its extra-constitutional actions, no separation of powers, no checks and balances, no transparency or open accounting for its egregious and invasive behavior.

Since after World War II, in the name of fighting the Cold War, this welfare-warfare State monstrosity has been grafted covertly upon the backs of Americans, and is the primal source of all the misery, devastation, and destruction of our once great and noble republic.

So who makes up the deep state? This satanic alliance is composed of three primary elements. First, the “too big to fail” Wall Street banksters who profit by the billions from taxpayer bailouts stolen from the US treasury and the Fed, who fuel with their plunder the corruption of our political process by their Super Pacs’ funding of their complacent and compliant shills and political puppets in Congress.

Next, it is composed of the corrupt crony corporatists who again benefit at the public’s expense from their phony “free trade” deals (such as NAFTA and TPP) deindustrializing and destroying by millions the livelihood and jobs of American workers and their families.

Lastly, and most importantly, the deep state is made up of the military-industrial / security complex comprised of pentagon profiteers, sub-contractors and the imperial National Security State it sustains, with seemingly endless no win wars which have murdered millions of hapless victims across the planet, generating terrorism as blowback from its decades of unconstitutional covert actions and preemptive wars of aggression.

We have come to see that the deep state/Democratic establishment/”fake news” regime media Russiagate/Spygate coup attempt and impeachments thoroughly discredited.

We followed the damning chain of evidence and culpability. Google was conceived, funded and directed by the CIA, and Google funded Crowdstrike, the so-called “experts” behind the Russian hackers’ story.

The top echelons of the CIA and FBI were complicit in this series of lies and duplicity in fomenting the attempted coup against Donald Trump. They are now putting forth phony “whistleblowers” and Lawfare in order to strike yet again another mortal blow against Trump.

But the primary issue isn’t Donald J. Trump. It is the criminal nature of the state and the renegade seditionists who sustain its power.

There was a vitally important article on the Main Page of LewRockwell.com yesterday, April 22, 2024 by Dr Mercola titled, Improve Your Physical and Psychological Health With This Simple Lymphatic Drainage Routine, which can be found HERE.

If you’ve not yet read this article about this BIG 6 LYMPH FLOW PROTOCOL I urge you to do so.

More importantly, please view the two videos offered and please try this simple protocol for a couple of weeks.

It will only take you – literally – a minute or so to do each day once you get the hang of it and results are profound.

My wife and I discovered this Big 6 Protocol many months ago and since then have been recommending it to everyone we know.

Our fellow health practitioner friends have also been recommending it to the people in their care – and we have all seen excellent results from it.

Some have reported their digestion improved, others their thinking has become more clear, one lady reported her cellulite vanished.

I’m a very active person who exercises virtually every day – but I also sit at a desk for many hours at a time. In recent years my ankles would start to swell and I’d have to occasionally wear compression socks.

….Well, no more!

My ankles no longer swell and I credit that to my daily – one minute long – routine of doing the Big 6 Protocol which gets the lymph system to FLOW more efficiently.

Here’s a tidbit of the terrific article by Dr Mercola on why lymph drainage is so essential to our health – physical and mental.

“The lymphatic system is a crucial part of your body’s immune and waste removal systems, and as such play a significant role in your overall health and well-being.

“Its proper functioning affects physical, mental, and emotional health through its network of vessels and nodes that transport lymph, a fluid containing white blood cells and waste products.

[MM COMMENT: Stuck Non-Flowing waste creates a stagnant polluted swamp in the body.]

“Your lymphatic system helps remove toxins and waste, supports the immune system, and aids in the absorption and transport of fats and vitamins.

“The lymphatic system of your brain is called the glymphatic system, and it’s essential for removing waste products from your brain.

“When either of these systems gets congested, sluggish or blocked, it can have severe effects on your physical and mental/neurological health.”

This very simple protocol will serve you very well.

Please give the Big 6 Protocol a try.

And please share this post with everyone you care about. Thank you.

Only they call it “Earth Day.”  (By the way, CCCP also stands for “Central Committee of the Communist Party).