“The fact that [the Secret Service] allowed a rifle armed shooter within 150 yds to a preplanned event is either malice or massive incompetence.” — Security expert Erik Prince, Navy Seal and founder of Blackwater One of the most puzzling aspects of the near assassination of Donald Trump on the Secret Service’s watch is the shooter’s expectation to …
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The Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump degrades the whole nation: When It Comes to Political Violence, We All Lose
There’s a subtext to this assassination attempt on former President Trump that must not be ignored, and it is simply this: America is being pushed to the brink of a national nervous breakdown. More than 50 years after John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated, America has become a ticking time bomb of political …
Read More »State Power and Totalitarianism: Why Self-Righteousness is a Danger
There are two ways of getting things done: persuasion or coercion. You either convince someone of the value of your ideas or you hold a (literal or metaphorical) gun to their head. The latter has been the norm throughout human history. Most of what we value about the contemporary West is a shift toward the former occurring over the last …
Read More »The United States at war with itself: The majority now justify violence to combat their agenda
A recent startling poll shows that a majority of voters not only view the opposing party as a threat to the nation but justifying violence to combat their agenda. The poll captures a crisis of faith that I have been writing about for over a decade as an academic and a commentator. The United States at war with itself: Many now …
Read More »America has become a source of hatred at home and abroad
Today our country is far more divided that it was in 1860. Identity Politics has taught Americans to hate each other. In America there is nothing on the horizon but hate. Everywhere you look in America you see nothing but hate. Russia is hated. Muslims are hated. Venezuela is hated. Assad is hated. Iran is hated. Julian Assange is …
Read More »The Civil War was never about Slavery: History is twisted to fit Identity Politics?
Here is a “civil war” lesson for the uneducated. In response to my short essay, a reader sent me a link to secession documents that implicated slavery, not the tariff, as the reason for Southern secession. It is typical for the uneducated to come across a document of which they have no understanding and to send it off with …
Read More »America is finished says Glenn Beck: Trump indictment, end of PetroDollar marks moment of the end of American Hegemony
Today marks the first time in the history of the United States that a President has been criminally indicted. “By 2025 we are going to be at war, we will have a currency collapse and live in a virtual police state. The Bill of Rights is gone. This is insanity,” Glenn Beck says to Tucker Carlson Tonight, reacting to …
Read More »The Continuing American Collapse
Herland Report: American Collapse: Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi are America’s best journalists. They are not talking heads on CNN or voices on NPR and they are not permitted to write for the New York Times. Moreover, they are both men of the left, so how can they be America’s best journalists? The answer is that they are honest. …
Read More »Coercive governments and righteousness: How a Gun to the Head silences the People
Herland Report: There are two ways of getting things done: persuasion or coercion. You either convince someone of the value of your ideas or you hold a (literal or metaphorical) gun to their head. The latter has been the norm throughout human history. Most of what we value about the contemporary West is a shift toward the former occurring over the …
Read More »End of the U.S.? 52 % Republicans and 41 % Democrats want to secede from Union
Herland Report: End of the U.S.? The political division in the United States is rapidly deteriorating towards ‘red’ states seceding from the union, according to a University of Virginia Center for Politics report. It found that more than half of Republicans and nearly half of Democrats wanted to secede from the Union. The new initiative explored deep, divide between Biden and …
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