Elections Won’t Fix This

Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, Americans have limitless faith in democracy. In the early 19th century, that charmed Alexis de Tocqueville. His book Democracy in America still rings true today because not much has changed. The entire country can be in ruins and even then, most people figure that it will all be improvedContinue reading “Elections Won’t Fix This”

Giraud Case Trimmer

by: Germán A. Salazar Doug Giraud has been making his patented case trimmer for the better part of a decade now.  I don’t remember the exact date but I do remember getting one of his earliest production models and immediately selling two other power trimmers that I had at the time.  The Giraud trimmer madeContinue reading “Giraud Case Trimmer”

Rapid Decline

“Normalcy bias is a psychological state of denial people enter in the event of a disaster, as a result of which they underestimate the possibility of the disaster actually happening, and its effects on their life and property. Their denial is based on the assumption that if the disaster has not occurred until now, itContinue reading “Rapid Decline”

America, Meet Your New Dictator-In-Chief: The President’s Secret, Unchecked Powers

Authored by John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness have given way to permanent crisis management: to policing the planet and fighting preventative wars of ideological containment, usually on terrain chosen by, and favorable to, our enemies. Limited government and constitutional accountability have been shoulderedContinue reading “America, Meet Your New Dictator-In-Chief: The President’s Secret, Unchecked Powers”