Evita was a warning about how a beautiful “voice of the people” can sell a hard edged state. AOC is not Eva Perón, but the style she embodies, and the power grabs her movement normalizes, may be writing America’s own soft on ramp to illiberal rule.
California’s housing crisis is no accident. Sacramento rigs the rules to keep homes scarce and prices high, then turns “affordability” programs like Dream For All into a way to skim your equity while staying financially dependent on inflated values.
Political purists win arguments while the country loses ground. This piece makes the case for judging candidates by one standard: do they actually move the Overton window toward liberty in the real world, or just polish their reputation with perfect “no” votes?
A defense industry veteran told me the Strait of Hormuz was a guaranteed nuclear flashpoint. His wargames said so. Two decades of classified modeling backed it up. He's probably right about 2005. What he hasn't updated is the board. And the board has moved.
The blowback theory assumed the enemy was reacting to what we did. It never asked what happens when they're acting on what they believe — and have been telling us so for 45 years.
A labor union's proposed wealth tax hasn't even made the ballot—but it's already triggered a $1T billionaire exodus from CA. The math shows every remaining household could absorb $576–$1,742/yr in higher taxes and cuts. The Laffer Curve isn't theory. It's happening in real time.
The 17th Amendment broke America's federalist system by eliminating state representation in the Senate. Direct election of senators destroyed the constitutional check on federal power, fueling executive expansion, partisan gridlock, and the administrative state. Time to fix what Progressives broke.
Chamath Palihapitiya proposes a $300–500B tax equity fund leveraging OBBBA incentives to put solar-plus-storage on 50–100M U.S. homes, slashing power bills while adding 400–800 GW of distributed capacity and shifting grid room to AI and industry.
California: $24B on homelessness, 53% increase. $15B on rail, zero miles built. Wealth tax triggered $1T billionaire exodus. Top 1% pay 50% of income taxes—when they leave, you pay. Demand a forensic audit before California gets another dollar.
Lincoln warned America could only die by suicide. Today, revolutionary frameworks taught in universities—Alinsky, Cloward-Piven, The Coming Insurrection—are being applied as official policy by governors and DAs. This isn't governance failing. It's revolution succeeding.
Wilson promised peace, Truman promised order—we got an $18B collective hostility. Lodge warned in 1919 that surrendering sovereignty would fetter American power. He was right. Time to defund this farce.
Maduro arrest: the right call—legally, strategically, morally. The foreign policy establishment is melting down because Trump proved everything they believed about American power was wrong. The Monroe Doctrine isn't dead. America has spine again without endless wars.