“What is a think tank?” is a question I get asked all the time.
The job of a think tank is to generate the ideas that politicians implement in office. If politics were the movie industry, those we elect would be the stars on the big screen; think tanks help write the script.
The fact that inflation is not necessarily caused by the money supply was proven in the 1970s, and economists did not notice. It was proven again during President Obama’s tenure.
Milton Friedman is my idol. However, if he said, “Inflation is always a monetary phenomenon,” that is a white lie. Read on to learn why he would have said that.
Last week, a Minnesota jury convicted Shiloh Hendrix of disorderly conduct for using a racial slur against a Somali man who was harassing and recording her. The “crime” occurred in a public park last year after Hendrix caught a Somali child stealing from her handbag. Hendrix had her hands full with her own toddler at the time, and her protective maternal instincts kicked in.
The multi-billion-dollar political consulting industry is running on borrowed time. For decades, the playbook for seeking public office barely changed: raise an eye-watering sum of money, hire beltway strategists, flood mailboxes with glossy cards that go straight into the trash, and buy airbrushed 30-second TV spots that no one under fifty ever sees.
At a time of an ever-increasing popularity of redistributive measures of income and wealth, Arthur Laffer’s tax rate theory, comes in handy more than ever. The United States and China are competing for global hegemony, and the Left’s high tax rates proposals make the U.S. uncompetitive in the global economy.
In early December 2025, the Trump administration officially rebranded the U.S. Institute of Peace, a congressionally created agency, with Trump’s name prominently displayed on its headquarters in Washington, D.C. The State Department described Trump as “the greatest dealmaker in our nation’s history” and said the renaming reflects his role in brokering peace agreements. The change coincided with Trump hosting leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo at the building for a U.S.-brokered peace deal.
In the whimsical yet cautionary world of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Veruca Salt storms through Willy Wonka’s factory like a spoiled brat on steroids, demanding golden geese, trained squirrels, and every shiny trinket that catches her eye. “I want it now!” she screeches, her petulance sealing her fate down the garbage chute. Fast-forward to 2025 Washington, and one can’t help but see echoes of Veruca in Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG)—once the bleach-blonde firebrand of MAGA, now morphing into the “Blonde AOC,” trading principled conservatism for performative tantrums because President Trump didn’t hand her a Senate endorsement on a silver platter.
From Wikimedia Commons: The Village Church (Benjamin Williams Leader, 1894)
A philosopher and cultural warrior, Roger Scruton (1944–2020) dedicated his life to defending the principles of liberty, beauty, and tradition against the high tide of revolutionary ideology. In a modern world seduced by utilitarian and utopian doctrines, he stood firm, rooted in the conservative tradition of Edmund Burke and emphasizing the importance of continuity, moral order, and the transcendent value of culture.
The mask is off. The deep state operatives in Pennsylvania – that battleground fortress we fought tooth and nail to reclaim – have finally confessed to a treasonous betrayal that reeks of the swamp's foulest underbelly.
For decades, non-citizens, including illegals flooding our borders like an unchecked invasion, have been handed the keys to our sacred ballot box.
On Tuesday, Dec. 9, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker confirmed the status of Illinois as a state in open rebellion against the United States of America, by signing a bill passed by the state legislature during the recent veto session (HB 1312), forbidding federal authorities from enforcing federal law – including but not limited to immigration law – at a host of locations in Illinois, including hospitals, courthouses, universities and daycares, even to the extent of forbidding such entities from sharing information such as immigration status with federal law enforcement.
American actions involving Venezuela have stirred up a flurry of theories and narratives around the United States’ strategic intentions. Some theories highlight apparent contradictions between rhetoric and policy, such as President Trump’s pardons of major drug-traffickers despite his public anti-drug stance. Others frame potential U.S. military threats against Venezuela as being driven primarily by America’s dependence on oil. Additional narratives have revived allegations of Venezuelan interference in U.S. elections, including claims from a former Maduro regime official about a “narco-terrorist war” against the United States.
Renewable energy really means anti-establishment energy, or politically correct energy. The energy is usually electricity that is distributed via the electric grid. The source of energy has to be “natural.”
Solar and wind are the most popular types of renewable energy. Hydroelectric energy derived from a big dam on a river might seem ideal, except that the promoters of renewable energy don’t like dams. If you can figure out how to generate hydroelectricity without a dam, you can call it renewable. Nuclear energy might seem like a good candidate except that nuclear energy is too scary and too good a fundraising tool to accept as renewable.
