Author: John Seiler

The Voice of America is part of the U.S. government’s Ministry of Truth. The Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 prohibited it from directly broadcasting to the American people. It did some good during the Cold War, with programs aimed at those behind the Iron Curtain and elsewhere. With the end of the Cold War in 1991 and the rise of the Web c. 1994, it should have been abolished. But as Milton Friedman said, there’s nothing so permanent as a temporary government agency. The National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 gave the VOA the OK to broadcast directly to Americans, supposedly...

For some reason Judge Andrew Napolitano is obsessed with pushing flimsy reasons to impeach President Trump. He gave Reason mag a list of five reasons to do so. But that’s “Loserthink,” as Scott Adams explains in his new book of that name. If you can’t come up with one good reason for something, such as impeachment, then it’s just a “laundry list,” with every item weak.  The judge even started out saying “three or four” reasons, then ended up with five. He’s a self-parody out of the old Monty Python “Spanish Inquisition” sketch, in which the inquisitors kept increasing the...

I’ve learned much from Judge Andrew Napolitano from his many years of Constitution-based commentaries on current events. But he’s wrong in backing the Democrats’ impeachment hearings on President Trump.  Napolitano wrote this week in a column titled, “Is Ignorance of the Constitution Trump’s Defense?” that the charges against Trump are “solicitation, bribery and obstruction” relating to Ukraine, specifically the May 25 call with the country’s President Zelinsky.  Well, we’ve all read the transcript. To me, it’s obvious Trump was just checking on possible bribery involving Hunter Biden when his father was vice president, in the most corrupt country in Europe,...

Give it to Bernie Sanders for pushing policies almost all top Democrats now advocate. He also did that in 2016, when Hillary stole the nomination from him.  Now it’s immigration. The Nation’s article put it well, from the Left’s perspective, with the subhead a summary: “Bernie’s Immigration Plan Is Good: The senator’s newly released plan—to halt deportations, abolish ICE, create a path to citizenship, and boost worker protections—marks a shift not only in Democratic policy but even from his own prior positions.” Just a couple years ago, Bernie still was an old worker-oriented Marxist, like a 1930s Wobblie. As the...

A president in office can do only two main things; any more, and he divides his attention and gets nothing done, like Jimmy Carter, who corrected the grammar of the papers submitted to him. For example, Reagan revived the economy and stared down the Soviet Union in the Cold War Endgame. Trump’s two things are ending, or at least reducing, the foreign wars and expensive global empire; and getting control of our borders. The Deep State doesn’t want either.

President Trump’s opponents in the military are using the classic language of military strongmen who overthrow republican government.

Now we have the spectacle of an unknown “whistleblower” from the CIA trying to take out the president of the United States over the whole Ukraine nonsense. Which isn’t surprising, given that the intelligence services were taken over in the Obama years by far-left democrats, including John “Red” Brennan, James Comey and James Clapper. When their beloved Hillary lost the election, the became enraged, along with their factotums in the media, and have launched multiple assaults on Trump.

Poor kid. I feel sorry for Greta, the Swedish girl brainwashed into shilling for the globalist scam known as “climate change,” screeching how we’re all gonna die. When she should be worried about the Scandinavian equivalent of high-school proms. And it’s not because I’m 1/8th Swedish.