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A Plan for Fixing the FBI

Published on July 16, 2023 By sirrahc

“One way or another, the time is now for Congress to do what’s needed to fix the FBI and end its trampling of Americans’ most precious civil liberties.” — Steven G. Bradbury, Distinguished Fellow in the Executive Vice President’s Office at The Heritage Foundation For a while now, there have been calls to revamp or […]

Project 2025: A Plan to Dismantle the Deep State

Published on June 25, 2023 By sirrahc

“The great challenge confronting a conservative president is the existential need for aggressive use of the vast powers of the executive branch to return power — including power currently held by the executive branch — to the American people.” — Russ Vought, former director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Donald Trump […]

Armed Citizens Save Lives

Published on May 28, 2023 By sirrahc

“I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.” — George Mason, co-author of the Second Amendment, during Virginia’s Convention to Ratify the Constitution, 1788 After nearly 250 years as a nation, Americans are still debating the actual […]

The U.S. Is Being Diplomatically Outmaneuvered by China

Published on December 4, 2022 By sirrahc

It’s not just China’s huge armies we have to be concerned about, or their technological know-how. To put it bluntly, we are losing the diplomacy game to Communist China. But, we don’t have to. I have posted before about the threat China poses not just to American dominance but to freedom and prosperity around the […]

Cops, Conservatives, and Christian Apologists

Published on November 28, 2021 By sirrahc

This is a slightly belated Thanksgiving post, but… it’s still the Thanksgiving Weekend, right? This year, I would like to take note of three things I am truly thankful for. Well, I guess I should say they are classes or categories of things. First, I want to acknowledge the U.S. military, intelligence services, and law […]

9/11 and Where We Go from Here

Published on September 12, 2021 By sirrahc

“Never forget.” — various The following is the better part of an email from Kay C. James, President of The Heritage Foundation, as she reflects on what happened on and as a result of 9/11/2001: “Every American felt the crippling anguish deep in our souls as we realized our nation was under attack and as […]

Unreasonable and Non-Centrist Infrastructure Compromise

Published on August 15, 2021 By sirrahc

The battle over infrastructure bills and what actually, fairly constitutes “infrastructure” continues. I wrote about this back in April when the $2.25 trillion bill was in play. The current $1.1 trillion federal infrastructure bill is being sold as a reasonable, centrist compromise. Yeah… right! (sarc) Here are a few quotes from an opinion-piece by Kay […]

Infrastructure

Published on April 25, 2021 By sirrahc

“It’s called infrastructure, but inside the Trojan horse it’s going to be more borrowed money, and massive tax increases on all the productive parts of our economy.” — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell As I am sure you are aware, the Biden administration working with the Democrats in Congress have proposed a huge “infrastructure” bill […]

Fundamental Conservative Principles

Published on March 28, 2021 By sirrahc

“A guide to building an America where freedom, opportunity, prosperity, and civil society flourish.” — summary statement from Heritage document What exactly does it mean to be truly politically conservative in America these days? Have you ever wondered that? I mean, are there just a couple essential beliefs one must have, and everything else is […]

Answering Common Questions Re U.S. Trade with China

Published on October 6, 2019 By sirrahc

I haven’t been keeping up on the topic of President Trump’s trade wars. I’m no economist, but I remember enough to know that the imposition of tariffs is generally not a good idea, as it’s the consumer that pays the (higher) price. So, this is one of those areas where I think Trump is making […]