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  • America Used to Elect its Presidents Way Differently

    America Used to Elect its Presidents Way Differently0

    For the last year and a half, Americans have watched political contenders fly around the country explaining why he or she should be president of the United States. But it was not always done this way (and I’m not talking about airplanes). For the first half-century of our republic’s existence, one was not supposed to

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  • America Under Biden—Thoughts From an Old Hand at Propaganda

    America Under Biden—Thoughts From an Old Hand at Propaganda0

    I know the propaganda game as well as anyone who lived and worked through the tail-end of the Cold War. I worked for the amply-funded propaganda arms of the two most propaganda-minded governments in the world, first as a broadcaster and newsroom subeditor with the BBC World Service in Bush House, London (1980-1986), and more

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  • America Suffers Under the Iron Law of Bureaucracy

    America Suffers Under the Iron Law of Bureaucracy0

    America is entangled in a net of its government’s own making, one which blocks innovation, tramples individual rights, and costs taxpayers billions of dollars. This cursed net goes by one name: bureaucracy. At the beginning of the 19th century, the U.S. federal government had just five departments: State, Treasury, War, Navy, and Post Office, the last

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  • America Steps Back Into the Syrian Quagmire

    America Steps Back Into the Syrian Quagmire0

    It didn’t take long. Barely five weeks after assuming control, the new foreign policy team in Washington confirmed its interventionist credentials by bombing “Iran-backed militias” in Syria. The “defensive precision strike” on Feb. 26, according to the Pentagon statement, was supposed to send “an unambiguous message” that, acting to protect American and Coalition personnel, “we have acted in

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  • America Needs the ‘Rough-and-Ready Democracy of Boy Life’

    America Needs the ‘Rough-and-Ready Democracy of Boy Life’0

    I often file things that I read in my growing collection of 100-year-old magazines – in bound volumes, six months apiece, 1,000 large pages in small font – under the category, “Different World.” Such is an article from The Century Magazine, January 1900, called “Fellow-Feeling as a Political Factor.” Its author knew a lot about political warfare, having long fought the

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  • America Needs More of These Skilled Workers

    America Needs More of These Skilled Workers0

    • September 9, 2015

    Do you know the median hourly wage for an entry level welder? According to Salary.com, it’s $18 per hour, but judging by a recent article from NPR, that wage may be set to skyrocket due to an increasing welder shortage. “America needs more welders — and soon. Baby boomers with the skill are retiring and

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