“If You Don’t Stand for Something…

…You’ll Fall for Anything”.  Thus goes the quote from Alexander Hamilton.  I am not sure what Hamilton had in mind when he said this; some say he meant it to encourage a moral compass and a path of conviction.  I would like to apply it to a recent political phenomenon.  We have all known people in our lives that have no principles, exhibit no core beliefs, and tend to go wherever the wind blows them.  These same groups of people are typically the ones who seldom choose to make the hard decisions when situations demand such…but are always the first in line to bitch and moan when the decisions that are made begin to be implemented.  Surrendering to this type of defeatist mindset is what the Democrat Party and their cohorts have resorted to when dealing with Donald Trump.  Their favorite road these days is the “path of least resistance”.

 

Another aspect of hollow and disloyal political opposition is when one party hunts and pursues an opportunity…any opportunity…to stand up and shout “Gotcha”…or to snidely snicker and say “I told you so” at every drop of the hat.  You know what I am talking about here…the type of personality that spends most its existence looking foolish, inept, and impotent.  Yet when that perfect storm arrives and they bask in the moment of making a correct prediction or choice…they prance around like it is perfectly normal for them to be omnipotent, wise beyond description, and sooo much better than everyone else.  They act like this one success story is business as usual, when it is as rare as bipartisan legislation. 

 

You often see this type of behavior in sports…mostly at the professional level.  It rears its ridiculous head when a linebacker makes a good, clean, routine tackle…but it happens to occur eight yards past the line of scrimmage.  Yeah, you made a great tackle…but why are you styling and posterizing when you gave up an eight yard gain?  Openly celebrating normal, expected, or even subpar performance is not a great leadership quality; nor is it a great character trait.  What this type of “me first behavior” fosters is a lowering of standards.  It makes a mockery of truly great performances or actions and it pushes qualitative standards towards mediocrity.

 

The recent nonsensical and looney tunes actions by the liberal and progressive elements in our culture, society, and government are graphic examples of these behavioral demonstrations.  Unable to satisfy themselves with attacking Donald Trump on his many legitimate flaws and poor decisions, they repeatedly persist in going completely over the top and excessively ravage him on grounds that effectively remove any legitimacy in their criticisms.  They are like little liberal chicken littles or overly-emotional boys who are constantly crying wolf.  Their continual and predictable irrational rhetoric erodes their credibility and essentially makes them caricatures of their most foolish selves.  I’m talking about dark woke and the notion that filling up their public commentary with coarse and vile cursing will somehow make them authentic.  I’m talking about making an MS13 hood who just happens to be an illegal alien a poster child for your due process campaign.  I’m talking about insisting on inserting naked male adolescents into girl’s locker rooms and showers and then pretending that you are the party of women’s rights.  I’m talking about the rank hypocrisy of a dual-justice system…one for Democrats and one for everybody else.  The Democrat Party we are witnessing today is quite reliable; unfortunately, it is reliably stupid.

 

I am a big fan of University of Kentucky football; but that entails a high component of long suffering, requires the ability to repeatedly cope with crushing defeats, and fosters the eternal optimism that despite no concrete reason to believe such…the next season will be so much better than the last one.  The UK Wildcat’s football program has for decades enjoyed a preeminent position in the state of Kentucky.  There is no professional football in Kentucky.  And while it is true that the University of Louisville has had its moments of national success and brief dominance over UK, the simple fact is the clear majority of state fans support UK football over all others.  University of Kentucky football has long taken this support for granted.  Oh sure, they acknowledge the fan base and make a big show of how the program is progressing from year to year and coach to coach; but that does not change the fact that after all this time, they still remain a very mediocre college football program.  And yet so many football fans in Kentucky continue to support them with their loyalty, their time, and their money.

 

Part of this fan-based longevity can be attributed to that rare occurrence when a perfect storm strikes and UK football wins a game that they had no expectation of winning.  They upset a much better team and the joy from that single victory is parlayed into many seasons of fund raising, program promotion, and flag waving.  It is very much like the excessive celebrations of the mediocre plays I mentioned earlier in this piece.  In September of 2024, UK defeated an Ole Miss team that was ranked no. 6 nationally and was likely headed for the College Football Playoffs.  It took a perfect combination of selected great plays, selected poor plays, arrogant attitude by a superior team, and pure dumb luck for UK to pull off this upset.  But they did it…and that win helped to take the bitter edge off of a 2024 season record with an overall line of 4 wins and 8 losses; an SEC record of 1 and 7.  Somehow…someway…this one win was sufficient for the university to claim progress and growth in their football program and look to the coming season with optimism.  Blind loyalty is easily sustained with thin gruel.

 

The Democrat Party is desperately looking for their Ole Miss victory.  They are looking in fake news hoaxes; they are looking in character assassinations of Trump appointees; they are looking in cringe-worthy posturing for voter support; and they are looking for lawfare victories in the judicial system.  They cannot resist their knee-jerk condemnations of anything Trumpian, be it positive or negative.  Trump is inside their heads, he is living there rent-free, and they are playing on his home field.  What they need to be looking for is first, a moderate leader who can recapture the common sense of some past Blue-Dog Democrat policy ideals and secondly, the discretion to condemn Trump when he deserves it and yet co-operate with him in word and deed when what he does is clearly and practically positive. 

 

Today’s Democrat Party and liberal/progressives in general stand for nothing that is substantial, reasonable, nor seriously thought-provoking.  Thus, they are falling for the lunacy of its radical members such as the crude ravings of Jasmine Crockett, the bizarre nationwide Bernie/AOC tour, and the public infantile display of blue state governors and progressively-rogue federal judges.  Only a fool would predict any kind of long-term political outcomes; but I feel pretty confident in saying that if this bunch of radicals keeps looking for their Ole Miss win in these places…they are going to be sorely disappointed.   

 

The SEC is the Murderer’s Row of college football; it ain’t beanbag.  Look…UK football fans don’t mind losing the games we are supposed to lose; that is talent speaking.  What creates the heartburn is consistently losing the games we are supposed to win; that is bad coaching.  The Democrat Party is experiencing both a shortage of talent and bad coaching/leadership.  That is one mixed-up political recipe.  But the truly pathetic aspect of the whole deal is the occasional realization that we are being played for fools and we simply go along with it.  Hey Democrats…does that sound familiar?  Now…onto the news.

 

The Russia-Ukraine war is an historic tragedy unfolding before our eyes on a daily basis.  Trying to strike the balance between fairness, legality, reality, and emotion is a very high bar indeed.  We can only hope and pray for a solution soon.

 

https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/russia-ukraine-peace-talks-will-end-if-no-progress-made

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/ending-the-russia-ukraine-war.php

 

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/north-america/how-europe-can-deter-russia

 

https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/ukraine-war-russia/2025/04/26/id/1208405/

 

Joe Biden left Donald Trump and the world a dumpster fire of foreign policy and global conflict.  There are many areas of concern and all are important.  The challenge will be prioritizing them and tending to them all simultaneously.

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/25/trumps-bold-diplomacy-on-the-ukraine-war-and-iranian-nuclear-program/

 

I suspect this might be the end game for this issue: https://freebeacon.com/national-security/waste-that-s-t-in-interview-with-free-beacon-fetterman-tells-trump-to-dump-iran-talks-and-destroy-tehrans-nuclear-facilities/

 

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/a-communist-islamist-axis-puts-india-and-america-in-its-crosshairs/

 

As if foreign policy and global challenges weren’t enough, the Trump Administration has a myriad of domestic issues that it is grappling with. 

 

https://nypost.com/2025/04/22/opinion/trump-hit-the-ground-running-but-a-botched-deportation-and-several-other-missteps-will-test-his-leadership/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/carnival-of-fools/its-easy-to-wing-it-until-you-actually-have-to-fly/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/04/defunding-of-pbs-and-npr-is-long-overdue/

 

https://mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/three-pronged-plan-compel-npr-pbs-cpb-audits-provided-legislators-coalition

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/the-supreme-court-wades-in.php

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2025/04/24/npr-abrego-garcia-was-living-quietly-in-maryland-before-he-was-deported/#more-231097

 

There is a strong and powerful contingent in this world that aggressively supports censorship.  It is here in America, it is pervasive in Europe, it exists in England, and there are pockets of it all across the planet.  It is a movement that must be opposed.

 

https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/16/rubio-to-protect-free-speech-the-censorship-industrial-complex-must-be-dismantled/

 

https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/23/trumps-next-target-in-dismantling-the-censorship-complex-is-cisa/

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2025/04/23/back-with-a-vengeance-former-biden-disinformation-governance-board-chief-chief-nina-jankowicz-tells-european-union-to-oppose-the-united-states/

 

The Trump Administration wants to move our national education system away from DEI, progressive/liberal social engineering, and increasing political activism.  This is a battle that they must win.  American education must return to its basic purpose and essential learning principles.

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/21/do-elite-universities-really-wish-to-fight-the-federal-government/

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/harvard-meet-bob-jones.php

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/trump-vs-harvard-a-negotiated-solution/

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2025/04/21/crimson-chide-harvard-makes-the-case-against-itself/#more-230923

 

https://reason.com/2025/04/23/harvard-university-should-emulate-hillsdale-college-and-cut-ties-with-the-government/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/17/will-harvard-go-full-hillsdale/

 

The memory capacity of Democrats is extremely limited and they seem to think that condition applies to all other Americans.  They are hypocrites to the max, especially when it comes to law and order.  The essential element to constitutional law and order is equal treatment for all citizens…period.  The liberal/progressive elements in our society and culture either do not understand this or simply refuse to accept it.

 

https://www.city-journal.org/article/trump-memo-federal-agencies-supreme-court-rulings

 

http://jewishworldreview.com/0425/hanson042525.php

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/our-rogue-judges.php

 

https://mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/dems-demand-due-process-illegals-obama-deported-83-without-judge

 

The rumor is that this woman is going to run a third time for Georgia governor.  Why not when it pays so well…

 

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/04/16/the_remarkable_rags-to-riches_story_of_stacey_abrams_1103954.html

 

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/04/16/epa_mega-grant_has_stacey_abrams_fingerprints_all_over_it_1104253.html

 

https://nypost.com/2025/04/24/opinion/minnesota-das-woke-two-tier-justice-prizes-tesla-violence/?utm_campaign=nypost_opinion

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/diverted.php

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/tesla-vandal-blowback.php

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2025/04/20/triggered-by-teslas-the-left-rationalizes-political-violence-as-the-fault-of-the-right/#more-230959

 

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/convicted-fbi-lawyer-who-boasberg-let-skate-more-deeply-involved-crossfire

 

Four quick hits on the way out the door; things that make you go hmmmm…

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/19/the-failure-of-the-expert-classagain/

 

https://jamesgmartin.center/2025/04/is-trump-destroying-science-or-saving-it/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/20/tariffs-an-economic-tool-and-a-reality-check/

 

https://reason.com/2025/04/17/in-12-years-this-40-billion-high-speed-rail-line-in-texas-has-not-laid-a-single-foot-of-track/

 

 

He Is Risen

 You want hope?  You want change?  You want redemption for this messed up world that we all live in?

 

Look not to WDC.  Look not to your state capitals.  Look not to the UN or the various alliances of different global nations.  Look not to your President, your Congress, your Judicial, your Governor, your Mayor, or your neighbors.

 

Look inside yourself.  Look to the heavens.  Look to God.  

Therein lays the solution.  The Power that conquered even death and promises total forgiveness and eternal salvation.  Believe in something larger than yourself; embrace the vitality of faith; live a life that is worthy of the blessings you receive.

What is worse than “All Hat and No Cowboy” ?

Answer: All Hat and Crazy Cowboy.  Unfortunately, this is the role being projected by President Donald Trump.  Hard times call for hard actions.  Unclear direction calls for clear leadership.  Nonsensical government calls for common sense in practice.  These are the challenges that lay before Trump when he came into office like a hurricane.  But if you want to be the badass…if you want to be the gunslinger…you best have your target zeroed, your guns fully loaded, and have a clear, confident, and committed intention to follow through after drawing your gun.  Trump has demonstrated some of these with his rhetorical and blustery attack on the ridiculous four-year reign of foolishness foisted upon us by the Biden Administration.  But he has yet to put them all in play cohesively.

 

The Good Lord knows that the wreckage left in the wake of his predecessor was a target-rich environment for shrinking, reforming, and refocusing our government on its pure constitutional purpose.  But as I have written before…simply being right about something does not give one the leeway to go about the rectification in any fashion they choose.  To put it bluntly…Trump is not only killing flies with a sledgehammer; he is creating serious collateral damage with his wild swings and is oftentimes missing the intended target.  Now some of these flies are bad characters and need killing; but the table is set for Trump to go after them in a clear, concise, and reasonable fashion that solves the fundamental problem without creating a swarm of new ones.

 

A leader with conviction and courage is to be admired…and that admiration will flow accordingly when the leader demonstrates those qualities in a consistent and reasonable way.  But when the conviction changes from day to day and when the courage is repeatedly adjusted by moving the bar up and down, then the true quality of the courage and conviction is understandably questioned.  There can be order in controlled chaos; but there is only disorder in uncontrolled chaos.

 

It is abundantly clear that Donald Trump spent the four years following his first term thinking seriously about what he would do if he were to regain the presidency.  Not only did he think about it, he actually developed a list of people he wanted to recruit into that mission.  Many of the individuals that he has taken into his Administration are thoughtful, intelligent, competent, and honorable men and women who fully understand the wrongs that need to be righted and how to develop an approach to that process.  But many of them are also thoughtful, intelligent, not so competent, and not so honorable men and women whose primary attribute was their willingness to kiss the ring of the president.  Come on, Donald…do not repeat the Biden shame of never firing anyone no matter how incompetent they are.  When things go south with an appointee…man up, admit your mistake, and fire them.  There are too many good ones out there and available to put up with duds.

 

Break the china.  Shatter the glass ceilings.  Shake up the status quo.  Rethink old and outdated attitudes and practices.  Bring onto your team people you can trust and who share your vision.  Seize the opportunity and authority that you have been given to deliver the promises you have made.  But for heaven’s sake…think about how to do this.  Taking sloppy, questionably-legal, and sometimes slapstick approaches to solving problems that clearly need fixing does not accomplish that which is necessary.  Sending out mixed messages on a daily basis only confuses the citizens that support the effort.  Putting multiple people forth as your messenger who are not coherent and who sometimes openly disagree with each other does not promote your policies.  It only provides those who are invested in opposing you at all costs with the openings they need to slow down the game, run out the clock, sabotage the mission, and distort the image of what should be a clear and honest effort to fix what ails our great nation.

 

In no area has this type of behavior been more damaging to Trump than in the chaotic implementation of his tariffs.  What was introduced as a cogent and sensible new approach to fair and free trade has morphed into a shifting set of principles built on the sands of uncertainty…sands that blow in different directions each day depending on the source of the winds.  Because he is limited to one term in office, it is understandable that Trump feels immense pressure to do as much as he can as quickly as possible.  But he must soon come to terms with the fact that he cannot change everything that is wrong with our government in the time he has left in office.  He must begin to prioritize which issues are most important; take a calculated and legal approach to that effort using not only his Executive authority but also his Legislative support; and take every precaution possible that the fixes are accomplished in a way that are as quick and efficient as possible, yet will endure because they were done within the parameters of our Judicial branch.  If he does not soon come to terms with these realities, not only will he fail to accomplish a great deal of good works…but the good works that he does manage to accomplish will fall prey to those who oppose him today…and in the future. 

 

I support Trump’s basic approach to fair trade, reciprocal tariffs, and the use of economic leverage for worthy foreign policy.  But for the life of me, I cannot fully grasp the logic in his “let’s throw it all against the wall and see what sticks” tariff policy that he is unfolding before us.

 

Our largest and oldest trading partners have become far too comfortable with the entitlement they presume when taking advantage of our decades-old and lax free trade policies.  That dynamic certainly needs to be reset.  But shoving them into the arms of China will only result in a brief sugar-high…followed by witnessing the tragic results of these conceited globalists’ poor decision to climb into bed with the PRC.  Then, all too soon, the whole world would have to deal with the foreign policy and global/national security concerns that would naturally flow from that catastrophic development.  We should all keep in mind that the entire tariff brouhaha is a subtext to the larger challenge of heading off the global domination ambitions of China.  Therein lays the true threat.

 

https://amgreatness.com/2019/05/19/the-china-problem-or-is-it-the-joe-biden-problem/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/14/china-would-lose-a-trade-war-with-the-us-gradually-then-suddenly/

 

https://jamestown.org/program/the-prc-sees-window-of-opportunity-with-europe/

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/trade-crisis-china-courts-eu-hedge-against-trump-2025-04-11/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/16/trump-confronts-economic-and-geopolitical-reality/

 

https://reason.com/2025/04/15/are-trumps-liberation-day-tariffs-illegal/

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-tariffs-could-eu-exactly-091640202.html

 

https://frontierview.com/insights/eu-china-trade-tensions/

 

https://policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/eu-trade-relationships-country-and-region/countries-and-regions/china_en

 

https://justthenews.com/world/melonioa

 

How important is this?  Educating the next generation of our leadership…

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/04/harvard-discovers-what-federal-money-costs/

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/harvard-says-no.php

 

https://www.city-journal.org/article/trump-harvard-funding-freeze-anti-semitism-race-dei

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/a-new-era-for-higher-education/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/north-carolinas-reach-act-a-big-step-forward/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/16/the-latest-school-funding-freakout/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/14/we-need-to-start-a-revolution-in-every-school-district/

 

Combine the “Deep State” with opposition party “Lawfare” and you have one very noxious…and stupid…creation.

 

https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/15/unsealed-crossfire-hurricane-docs-further-prove-russiagate-was-a-hoax-all-along/

 

https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/francey-hakes-kilmar-abrego-garcia-due-process/2025/04/15/id/1207054/

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2025/04/16/judge-to-trump-administration-i-feel-unfacilitated/#more-230834

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/an-interbranch-commitment-to-the-rule-of-law/

 

Hey DOGE…you keep hacking away.  But maybe think about getting a bigger axe?

 

https://americanmind.org/salvo/is-doge-enough/

 

Four quick notes on the world around us…

 

The Dems, the Media, and the Lib/Progressive collective keep screaming that the economic sky is falling.  Maybe so…maybe not…

 

https://mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/consumer-prices-fall-1st-time-trumps-1st-term

 

We have gone through four long years of disinformation and quasi-censorship.  It needs to stop.  But…we must be careful not to go over the top and unconstitutionally censor the bad actors…

 

https://reason.com/2025/04/12/neither-trump-nor-the-a-p-controls-our-words/

 

There is a good pathway to “partner” with Greenland and accomplish the dual goals of rare mineral production and international security.  But perhaps the Trump approach of putting a rhetorical gun to their heads is not the best way to accomplish these goals…

 

https://english.news.cn/20250329/d2de4fb229ea4b6fa826241ef1c16bfd/c.html

 

Boxing used to be a beautiful and classic sport; not so much today.  The greatest action of all oftentimes took place in the middle and lightweight divisions.  Here was one of the greatest…

 

Here is a good summary: https://sports.yahoo.com/article/40-years-later-hagler-hearns-003847050.html

 

Here is the fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq38ne7GTdI

 

 

 

Three Reasons to Consider All the Options

 

Reason 1: I do not believe that a higher level of incompetence in government can be achieved than that which we experienced under President Joe Biden.  He himself was asleep at the wheel.  His Administration was thoroughly saturated with simplistic ideologues that had either little or no experience in their assigned fields, a very tenuous grasp on common sense and reality, or perhaps both.  Without a doubt, the Biden Administration’s performance confirmed the occasional correctness of the old Henry David Thoreau-attributed theorem “that government is best that governs least”.  Donald Trump’s current Administration has the good fortune of entering into office with perhaps the lowest Executive Branch bar of performance ever established.

 

Reason 2: Ever since Obama first assumed the presidency on January 20 of 2009, our government has been wandering in the wilderness.  It has relied upon notions, whimsy, foundationless principles, and shallow elected officials sans core values.  Upon that fateful day in January, 2009, our nation began a slow, painful, and shameful descent into dysfunction.  The descent culminated in what was, hopefully, the low point of the Biden presidency.  Be he wrong or be he right, Donald Trump in his second White House occupancy appears determined to take an approach to government that is distinctly different from what we have experienced over the last 16 years.  What we were doing was not working.  It is time for a change.

 

Reason 3: Through its relatively-short life in this world, America has relied upon the bedrock principles contained in its Constitution to survive trying and tumultuous times.  Beginning with the miraculous and successful fight for its initial freedom from its mother country; to the anguished cleaving of itself into two distinct parts during the Civil War; through feast, famine, epidemics, and global conflicts that exacted heavy personal wages; and taking us up to the poisonous political polarization that we find ourselves immersed in today…the United States of America has endured.  But let us be real…the chicken little dramatists that populate our government, our culture, and our society with their doomsday predictions of worst case scenarios every time Donald Trump offers a position or policy are little more than the clouds that have rolled across the skies of our nation since July 4, 1776.  They have always been with us and they always will be with us. 

 

And even though Trump oftentimes leads with his chin whilst doing battle with these critics, the folly of making long-term predictions on short-term policies should be ingrained upon our citizenry by this point in time.  Every four years, we will elect a President.  Every two years, we will elect approximately one-third of the Senate.  Every two years, we will turn the House of Representative over completely.  The one thing that is undeniably true about our nation’s government is that it will be transitory in nature.  Our democracy works in what is at times a painfully slow pace; but it nonetheless works.  Joe Biden was a terrible choice for president and we were saddled with that poor choice for four long years.  But the magnitude of that error led to the second election of Donald Trump…and a Republican Congress to support him.  As never before in my lifetime, the true test of this President and his Administration will not be the chaos displayed in the means, but rather the real-life consequences arrived at in the end.  

 

In the links below, there are some excellent pieces that take informed, deliberate, and thoughtful approaches to some of the major issues of our times.  In the context of the three aforementioned reasons, it is revealing to consider how these areas of our lives will play out over the next four years.

 

“THIS” is the Trump approach to governing…

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/06/actions-v-words/

 

https://americanmind.org/salvo/a-roadmap-to-independence/\

 

https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-border-crisis-is-over/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/10/ten-tariff-questions-never-asked/

 

https://reason.com/2025/04/07/the-trump-administration-should-focus-on-deregulation-not-tariffs/

 

https://reason.com/2025/04/07/trump-columbia-free-speech-obama-biden-title-ix/

 

https://americanmind.org/salvo/taking-on-iran/

 

And “THIS” is what Trump’s critics propose instead…

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/07/the-poverty-of-the-criticism-of-trumps-agenda/

 

The ongoing battle to reestablish the Proper Balance between Our Three Branches of government continues…

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2025/04/08/take-thyself-to-texas-the-supreme-court-rules-for-trump-administration-on-stay-and-jurisdiction-over-deportations/

 

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/tuescotus-slapdown-boasberg-sends-message-federal-judges-injunctions

 

https://justthenews.com/videos/sen-chuck-grassley-shares-his-plan-reigning-activist-federal-judges

 

The process of refocusing our National Education System on its primary and critical functions continues…

 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/09/why-schools-should-educate-for-citizenship/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/time-to-stop-university-mission-creep/

 

As Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” winds its way through Congress, the implications of its Tax Reform features will greatly influence the future economic…and general health of our nation.  Federal taxation is complex in its entirety, but rather simple in its individual parts.  I believe the secret to arriving at a good recipe is selecting the proper amounts of the essential elements.  If there is too much of this…too little of that…put this in…leave that out…then it just don’t work!  It is almost as much art as it is science. Every single piece has a targeted impact to varying degrees, but the combination of the pieces changes the entire dynamic.  Here is an illuminating perspective on the subject…

 

https://www.mercatus.org/research/policy-briefs/introduction-principled-approach-tax-expenditures

 

For all Americans, investing for the future is both a challenge and a necessity.  Here is a great article that briefly and succinctly examines the Wisdom of Gold as such an investment choice…

 

https://www.thefp.com/p/should-you-buy-gold