What if We Could Rewrite the Constitution To Fix the Republic

By Rich Kozlovich

Culture is a universally accepted set of foundational beliefs and perceptions that lead to the formation of a society, presumably, and hopefully, a stable society.  We now have an issue with what’s universally accepted. So, what if we could rewrite the Constitution? There’s a lot of talk about an Article V Convention to fix all the issues confounding America today.

Well, that’s interesting because we no longer have a universally accepted cultural foundation as the left has undermined all the traditional values that created the nation by infiltrating the nation's institutions, including religion, education, unions, entertainment, the media, big corporations, and the departments of the federal government working surreptitiously behind the scenes to destroy the American identity, the American culture, the American economy, and the Constitution.    While many were aware of this for decades, we're now discovering just how bad the corruption has been with all these DOGE exposures, and how bad the federal judiciary has been contaminated.  

Also, we don’t really know what would happen if an Article V convention was convened. While I’ve read conflicting opinions, I’m convinced once the states decide the Constitution needs serious adjustment via an Article V Convention, that Convention can pretty much go wherever and do whatever it darn well pleases. Just because it may start out with just wanting a balanced budget, there’s nothing preventing them from going way beyond that.

There is absolutely no outline, rules, or restrictions in the Constitution for what an Article V Convention may do, but it was the clear intent of the Founding Fathers that neither the Congress, the President of the United States, nor the courts can interfere, in any way by simply not saying they could interfere, or make rules up to control the Convention.  Since the Constitution failed to outline any restrictions, there are no restrictions.

But what would everyone want in a new Constitution?  It’s hard to say, but make no mistake, without conservatives taking strong stands, willing to be rocks in the current and bravely facing the slings and arrows from the left, the left would go full Marxist, and the Pravda media would beat their drums 24/7 in support of the worst possible outcome, and many so-called conservatives would fold like the invertebrates they are.   But here’s what I think should be done.

For years I’ve been saying we need a 28th Amendment to fix the biggest mistake the Founding Fathers made. Lifetime appointments to the federal judiciary, and while giving the Congress the right to determine the jurisdiction of the courts, they failed to define boundaries for the courts.

Of course, at that time, the only federal court was the Supreme Court of the U.S., but that’s changed dramatically over the years. Now there are 94 district courts, 13 circuit courts, and one Supreme Court, and each and every one of them is shot full of not very bright, incompetent political hacks, including SCOTUS, the only Constitutionally mandated federal court.

All the rest are creations of Congress, and any one of them can be eliminated by Congress, which Congress did in the 19th century. Believe it or not, once again, the Constitution gives Congress the authority to determine the jurisdiction of the federal judiciary, not federal jurists, nor SCOTUS.   My position has been since Congress refuses to put the federal judiciary in its place, it’s my view has been there needs to be a 28th Amendment creating term and age limits for the federal judiciary, and done so in this manner:

There are three levels of the federal judiciary: The District level, the Appeals level, and the Supreme Court. Each level should have a ten-year limit, with a review after five years requiring a majority approval by the Senate. At each level, each nominee would have to go through the same process, even if nominated to a higher court, before they finish their term in a lower court. If their term runs out and they’re not nominated to a higher court, they may be nominated at some point in the future. No jurist can return to a lower court if their term runs its course at a higher level, and no jurist can ever be appointed to a court if their nomination to any court has ever been rejected by the Senate.

No jurist may serve after the age of seventy. Make 9 Justices a Constitutionally fixed number to avoid the kind of court packing FDR attempted to do, and Joe Biden and the Democrats are attempting to do now.

But as time has gone by, I realized that wasn’t nearly enough to fix the nation.   Do not be deluded, the nation is in the midst of a third revolution, and the courts are part of that insurrection.  

You know those commercials that spout, “But wait. There’s more!” Well, I decided what’s needed is “a lot more” in an all “New and Improved” 28th Amendment. An all-new and improved omnibus Amendment addressing a host of Constitutional issues in order to fix the nation. I’ve added seventeen sections to this amendment.

My new and improved 28th Amendment:

1. I would not only fix the judiciary with term and age limits, and fix the number of SCOTUS members at nine, and given some of the rulings now coming from the judiciary from some who were foreign born, require all federal judges to be natural born citizens.  It should also include term limits for all federally elected officials. Three two-year terms for the House of Representatives. 
2. Repeal the 17th Amendment, and give Senators one six-year term.   The Founding Fathers created the House to represent the people, which is why all tax bills must originate in the House.   The Senate was to represent the states. Senators were appointed by the states to be de facto ambassadors to the central government in order to prevent what we’re seeing right now, a federal government that's out of control.
3. All federally elected officials may be recalled by their states. The House members by public vote by whatever margin the states may choose, and Senators by agreement between their state legislatures and their governors.
4. Repeal the 16th Amendment. End income tax.
5. Eliminate the Federal Reserve and return the nation’s financial responsibilities to the Legislative and Executive branches, in order to make them accountable.
6. Repeal the 26th Amendment that gave 18-year-olds the right to vote in federal elections, and raise the voting age to 30. The right to vote should be earned, and that can only be done with time. By age 30, people’s brains start to work properly.
7. Create sunset mandates that cover all laws, regulations, taxes, and government agencies. And these sunset clauses should include all departments of the federal government except State, Treasury, Justice, Interior, and Defense.
8. Congress shall define in the clearest possible terms the five permanent departments must recognize the Constitution is the law governing government, and state all regulations are in fact de facto laws that must be approved by Congress, or face charges of treason, or sedition,
9. Every budget the House of Representatives and the Senate send to the President must be balanced, and the Congress must present a yearly budget to the President, by a specified date. If they fail to do so, they will cease being paid until it’s approved.
10. Retire the national debt, with a hard debt limit. A debt limit that can only be overturned by approval of three-fifths of each of the houses of Congress and the President of the United States.
11. These five departments should be eliminated entirely:  the Department of Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, Education, Energy, and Labor. All others can be folded into the five permanent departments, or preferably become agencies, bureaus, etc, all with five year sunset reviews.
12. Make all federally elected officials, and their staffs, employees of their state's government ending their federal employee status. The states shall determine the size of their staff, and fund employment benefits for all.  All federal retirement funds for these personnel shall be sent to the states for appropriate distribution and definition. Security and office space shall be provided by the Federal government.
13. Strengthen the First Amendment, and specifically end New York Times v. Sullivan where the Supreme Court gave the media the right to lie without consequence.
    
14. Strengthen the Second Amendment preventing local or state authorities from passing gun laws without the approval of Congress and the President of the United States.
15. Washington D.C. is a city that shall be totally governed by the federal government and cannot have representatives in Congress, as was originally intended by the founding fathers.
16. No state may change the Electoral College system requiring all their electoral votes to go to the popular vote winner.
17. Strengthen immigration restrictions, stating immigration into America is not a right, it's a privilege, and end birthright citizenship.  Only children born of legal immigrants who become citizens can have citizenship via birth, and that right will automatically be bestowed when legal immigrants become citizens.

And that’s the way I see it. What say you?

Here's What I Believe, What I Don't Believe, and The Fix

By Rich Kozlovich 

Editor's Note: I originally ran this on May 19, 2022, with a couple of comments worth viewing. For some reason it's been hit a lot in the last 48 hours, and as I re-read it I thought, given what's going on, this needed to be republished with some updates. Enjoy! RK 

The insanity I've seen displayed over the last sixty years years has been mind boggling. I wish I could have said things have improved.  While we have great technology and advancement, plenty of food, at least until now, good medical care, until now, and longer lives, we have to consider what's happening to the American culture.  Conclusion?  It hasn't improved.  I wish was completely wrong.  I'm not!  

Here are the things I believe. 

 

I believe the left hates Trump even when he does things they like, just like they hated Nixon, who promulgated more far left policies that impact our culture and economy than most 20th century presidents, including the EPA, OSHA and more, much more.  And they hated him.  Why?  Because he was an anti-communist, and that's what tells the tale about who the left really is.

 

The mental gymnastics leftists and RINO's must go though to criticize Trump, and conservatives, has been remarkable.  The media's irrational rantings have been so outrageous you can't help but laugh.  The lies, misdirection, logical fallacies Democrats spew out about conservatives is so obviously false I wonder how their mind became so twisted.  Whether they believe what they're saying it or not. 

 

I can honestly say I didn't like Trump yesterday, I don't like him today nor will I like him tomorrow, as a person.  When I say that to my conservative friends they respond:  Who does?  But we all agree, he's a leader!  And as President of the United States, I believe he may possibly be one of the greatest Presidents this nation has ever had, even with a split Presidency.

 

I believe the RINO's and Neo-Cons hate Trump because he wants to dismantle a system that's made they and their friends powerful and wealthy.  In that regard, the left and the RINO/Neo-Cons, are in harmony and explains why they've been so cozy hoping to even now destroy Trump in order to keep him from running for President again.  

This has exposed the RINO/Neo-Cons, like Liz Chaney and others, for who and what they are.   That will help define who and what the Republican party is and will be.  They're the reason the Republican party has been consistently called, and acted like, the Stupid Party.  

 

Here's what defines a Republican as a RINO. 

1. They are totally out of touch with their base.  A base that subscribe to traditional American Judaic/Christian values.
2. They're actually more in harmony with the Democrat left.  
3. They have no sense of loyalty or justice and are totally self-serving.
   
4. They take actions that are clearly detrimental to the nation for political or financial gain. 

There's a lot of talk about draining the swamp and fixing the Deep State, but that would take a lot more than rolling back a few liberal left wing initiatives.  It requires an entire restructuring of the liberal/leftist/progressive vision and central power governing structure, and the initiatives they've insidiously imposed on the nation through regulations, spending and taxes. That can't be done without restructuring government by eliminating whole departments of the federal government. 

To fix it you must shrink it, and that must be done on a massive scale, and that includes eliminating the Departments of Labor, Energy, Education, Commerce, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development and Transportation.  Combine Home Land Security and Veterans Departments with the Department of Defense.  Combine Agriculture and Interior.   Remember, the Post Office once was a Department, and now it's not, and it should be joined by those I've listed here, and that includes the frighteningly large number of agencies that work for those departments.   

 

Let's take the Department of Agriculture which is a massive and expensive self serving boondoggle.  A vast bureaucracy with a budget of some $130 billion.  That's larger than the farmer's net income.  It redistributes funds according to formulas created decades ago and is a massive hog trough of federal funding.

• $20 billion in various crop “supports” to the nation’s wealthiest farmers
• $5 billion in ethanol subsidies 
• Grants that amount to welfare to the wealthy, and food stamps to the poor.  

While the department does good things that need to be retained we have to recognize their real mission!  Mostly to provide cash to political constituents.  It needs purged. As it is now:

• Too many "Americans" think government is the answer and not the problem. 
• Too many Americans don't think they're Americans.
• Too many Americans hate America.
• Too many Americans are remarkably ignorant of American history.
• Too many Americans fail to realize how unique American style republican democracy is in all of world history.
• Too many Americans graduate from school semi-illiterate, and amazingly ignorant.
  
• Too many Americans graduate from college filled with false information and assumptions about how the world works, or should work, and are arrogant in their ignorance.
• Too many Americans no longer are people of faith, and as a result have no moral foundation other than the latest philosophical flavor of the day, and that's a foundation of shifting sand.
  

Is it any wonder society is being washed back and forth like waves crashing against the rocks to its destruction?  

Here's what I don't believe:

• I don’t believe Social Security will there for my children and it may not be there for me for much longer. Social Security was supposed to stop being self-funding by 2020 and bankrupt by 2030, and it will go bankrupt with the federal government owing the Social Security fund trillions of dollars they borrowed with non-redeemable bonds.  (Here's the  Summary of the 2021 Annual Reports, Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees)
  
• I don't believe our children and grandchildren will have a better life than we did.
• I don’t believe Medicare and Medicaid can survive the decade.
• I don’t believe crony capitalism will be less but more – especially since this pattern goes back to the Whiskey Act of 1791.
• I don’t believe those who left California because they made a mess of it won’t attempt to make a mess of the states they moved to. Currently residents of Democrat run states are fleeing in droves to Republican run states, but they're probably going to take the ideas that destroyed the states they're leaving and vote for them in the states they're moving to. 
  
• I don't believe spending billions will end poverty.  Colorado is a perfect example.
  
• I don't believe spending billions will fix homelessness.  California spent billions to fix homelessness and it only dropped one percent.  Even if those billions amounted to only "two billion that would come to 1.3 million to get one person off the street".
• I don't believe you can convince liberals their leftist philosophy has been the most irrational, misanthropic and morally defective belief system in all of world history.  In spite of the most recent and ongoing human disaster leftists imposed on Venezuela.  Millennials all want us to still "Feel the Bern."
• I don’t believe the national debt can be paid unless the government sells its assets - which amounts to 150 trillion dollars – and they won’t.
  
• I don't believe diversity and multiculturalism, is anything more than a leftist scheme to undermine and destroy the American identity, the American culture, the American economy and overturn the U.S. Constitution.   Diversity without accomplishment is incompetence without consequence. 
  
• I don't believe the world's economy is stable.  The unending amount of debt the world's nations has accumulated, and continues to accumulate, is going to cause a worldwide economic depression.
• I don't believe the EU can survive to 2025, but certainly by 2030. 
  
• I don't believe Europeans can tolerate the Muslim invasion much longer without civil war breaking out all over Europe if Europe wishes to be European.
  
• I don't believe the Middle East or anywhere in the world that's dominated by Islam is fixable.
• I don't believe Russia or China can withstand an international economic down turn, let alone a collapse.
• I don't believe a nation that abandoned the moral foundations that made them great can survive. 
• I don't believe large corporations are concerned about anything except the next quarterly report, and in no way will they support anything considered conservative, in their views, their actions or their philosophy, even if it impacts their profit margins. 
• I don't believe any of the problems listed above can be fixed until public education is fixed.
• I don't believe public education can be fixed until the federal government is forced out of it.  
• I don't believe public education can be fixed unless the states follow Governor Ron DeSantis' lead and pass legislation to teach the truth about communism and all the other leftist clabber.  
• I don’t believe academia can be purged of its far left Frankfurt School aficionados unless we stop funding these universities with taxpayer dollars and student loans. They can't be fixed until they have to become self supporting "for profit" institutions.
• I don't believe there is such a thing as man made climate change.
• I don't believe green activists aren't anything but dishonest, irrational, misanthropic and morally defective misfits.
  
• I don't believe spending can be brought under control without repealing the 16th Amendment. 
• I don't believe you can reduce corruption in government without repealing the 17th Amendment. 
• I don't believe the federal government can be fixed without passing a 28th Amendment creating term and age limits for Congress, and the federal judiciary, nor do I believe the judiciary will remember it's proper role until age and term limits are imposed.
• I don't believe government can be fixed without passage of a 29th Amendment creating sundown laws for all federal  departments, agencies, bureaus and any official agency of the federal government, and all federal laws and regulations, with the goal of reducing the size and scope of the federal government.

So what is it that I really believe?  I believe leftism is like rust.  It never sleeps.

Big Government and Big Business: Corruption That Can Be Fixed!

Definition leads to clarity. Clarity lead to understanding.  Understanding leads to good decision making. 

By Rich Kozlovich

It's long overdue for the nation to define what our massive and intrusive government has wrought on the nation.  If the founders were alive, they'd be aghast at the corruption and collusion between powerful entities in what can only be called an anti Constitution cabal.  Some might even call it treason.

 On August 14, 2024 J.B. Shurk published this article, Deep State Plutocrats Have Nowhere to Hide saying: 

The worst mistake the Deep State ever made was to turn conservatives against Big Business.  Traditionally, fighting corporate power was the purview of the political left.  Conservatives have generally backed “free markets” because they despise socialism’s predilection for choosing economic winners and losers.  Conservative voters have long seen government regulation as more of a threat than Wall Street wheeling and dealing.  

He went on to say:

Times are changing, though.  Over the last forty years, middle-class Americans who put their faith in “free markets” have gotten smacked upside the head by corporate interests time and again.  The savings and loan scandal, pension scams, derivatives-juiced market crashes, the housing collapse, the offshoring of good jobs, tech bubbles, predatory lending, reverse mortgages, and countless other corporate schemes have left working-class Americans in dire straits.  All of these various gut punches have produced a kind of “awakening” among “live free or die” Americans: “free markets” are an illusion, and the economic game is rigged.

He also makes this cogent observation:

  The president and Congress are nothing more than the organ grinder’s dancing monkey — there to distract the public while doing the bidding of those with real power.  When their influence extends to international institutions such as the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, or the World Bank, we call these Deep State shell games the “rules-based international order.”  It is all farce. 

No wonder the plutocrats call President Trump an “authoritarian.”  He wants to be president, rather than play president.  He’s a direct threat to their unaccountable and unconstitutional Deep State.  And now that they’ve exposed themselves, there is nowhere left for them to hide.

I'm now a retired former owner of a pest control company, and I was heavily involved in my industry's affairs serving actively on four industry trade association boards in my state.

One of the things I tell owners is if they don't involve themselves in their industry's trade association, they don't have a clue what's going on, and one of the things one learns is there's a serious difference in the views of small business owners and large corporations.  

Large corporate entities like regulations and taxes because it impacts small business owners far more than large corporations, helping to eliminate competition, and that goes back in America to 1791 with the passage of the Whiskey Act. 

The tendency to think large corporations are fundamentally conservative in their values and business philosophy is a serious error in judgement. As allies I found the chemical manufacturers to be ...at best... leaky vessels, appeasers who threw us under the bus regularly to appease activists in and out of government, especially the activists who infest the EPA bureaucracy.  These large corporations even corrupt the trade associations that were created to protect their industry, many times turning them into catspaws for big government intrusion and abuse.   And that's true for all industries, especially the legal profession in this nation with the bar associations being not much more than kangaroo courts trying to destroy anyone who's not on board with leftist insanity, and the has some issues that should concern everyone. 

If we want a fix, we must heavily purge the federal bureaucracy, and the recent SCOTUS helps to do that, including eliminating entire departments such as the Department of Education, another Jimmy Carter disaster, which is what Trump wants to do because it has wasted billions of dollars failing to properly educate American children, to the tune of over 260 billion dollar in 2021 alone.  The court may wish to undertake eliminating another unconstitutional decision called the

Personally, I think a really good start would be the elimination of the EPA. Here's my now passed friend Dr. Jay Lehr's five year plan to do so.   Jay undertook this effort because he was one of the founders of EPA and said it hasn't done anything worthwhile since 1980.

As a side bar, recently Trump and Musk had a sit down discussion that just about broke the internet, one the left on both sides of the pond demanded not be shown by the way, because they want to "save democracy".   Imagine that.

Musk is all into this global warming idiocy, and Trump made it clear he wasn't.  When Trump abandoned the Paris Treaty on climate change the White House called Jay and said the President decided to take his advice on that.  Here's my

If failure to perform is the criteria for eliminating Departments, bureaus, agencies, etc., then it's my view we can dump over 80% of the federal government, and the only consequence is we'll save an enormous amount of money.  No one could possibly convince me the nation needs 438 agencies and sub-agencies in the federal government.  We need to "massively" cut their funding in the budget.  

One of the readers named Eric commented saying, and I think he said it well, from my perspective, the corporations seem to be in the same boat that every western nations finds itself in. Western governments are NO LONGER acting in the best interests of their nations or its inhabitants and corporations seem to be doing the same. Their blanket support for the left’s political parties/policies/social agendas etc isn’t in the best interests of the corporations or its shareholders. In fact, in most cases, it’s directly the opposite.

The government mandated EV transition is destroying the automobile industry. Pushing Woke nonsense has destroyed seemingly unstoppable corporate behemoths like Disney & Bud Light and alienated the consumer base of countless more. Soft on crime policies are destroying brick/mortar business throughout America and costing corporations billions in “shrinkage.” 

Social media’s efforts to censor us on behalf of the USG, has made them enemies of the people. The mainstream news media’s decision to ONLY push propaganda, cover up government crimes/corruption, lie, gaslight etc has practically bankrupted the whole industry- WaPo, NYT, CNN, MSNBC etc have all become a shell of their former self.

Which brings us to the heart of the matter:

1. If western civilization and its major corporations are no longer operating in their best interests, whose interests are they operating in? 
2. When corporations (almost universally) stop pursuing profits, are they still capitalist in nature?

The sooner the people charged with managing our countries and corporations we’ve founded are forced to answer these questions, the sooner the madness ends.

Fix the Budget: We're Almost Out of Time

By Rich Kozlovich

I'm going to start with something I've been saying for years.  My grandfather was one of the world's great economists.  He said if you spend more than you make, you'll go broke.  What did he do for a living? He was a coal miner and a farmer.  Economics isn't all that difficult, unless you're an economist.

Every Saturday I receive John Mauldin's free newsletter dealing with economics called Thoughts From the Frontline.  I recommend subscribing.  As I've said in the past, I like his analysis, even when I'm in disagreement, I like his offerings because it's not presented in arcane verbiage.  The problem all these professional economists have is they all are part and parcel of a culture, and as Herodotus noted, culture is king, and it's difficult for them to see or think entirely outside the box of their culture.

Economics and economists make my eyes roll up into my head.  Statistics has often been called an 'arcane' science.  I'm a firm believe economics and statistics share that definition.  Both can turn reality into a pits of doom, or paradise, depending on which side of the street they're walking on.  Most importantly, depending on who's it is paying for their analysis and predictions, and if ever there was evidence of that, listen to the Biden administration talking heads, who claim "your" bad attitude is the only thing wrong with the economy.  Otherwise, according to them, everything is just as rosy as can be. 

In his December 8, 2023, Thoughts From the Frontline, Fair Shares of Debt piece today Mauldin John he breaks down just who it is who actually is paying all the federal taxes in America, and he starts with this old saw:

Don’t Tax You. Don’t Tax Me. Tax That Fellow Behind the Tree - Attributed to Senator Russell B. Long, Louisiana ~1930s

He follows that up with this statement, which I think is right on:

One thing you learn when writing about the debt problem, as I have been in recent weeks, is that many people think it’s not a problem at all. They believe we could easily balance the budget by .........(insert simplistic idea here)..............In my October 27 Debt Catharsis letter, I talked about the difficulty of balancing the federal budget with only spending cuts or only tax increases. Those paths are closed now. That’s one consequence of waiting too long; the available options grow narrower and more difficult.

 

I agree the actions of Congress and the Administration have been so extreme, they've destroyed some "paths" to fix this creating fewer options which will be "narrower and more difficult."  

 

I'll tell you what, we'll come back to that, but in the meantime, let's look at what's being presented as the "go to" solutions, starting with taxing the rich, and making them pay their fair share!  According to the IRS the bottom fifty percent only pay 9% of all federal taxes.  

 

In this year (which is typical), the top 1% of taxpayers collectively earned 22% of the total adjusted gross income and paid 42% of the total taxes. The next 4% had 16% of AGI and paid 20% of the taxes. Below that, tax paid is proportionately the same or less than earnings.......For those who think the wealthy should pay more, I invite you to get specific. Should the top 10% of taxpayers bear 80% of the tax burden? 90%? 100%? If the current 73% isn’t fair, what would be?.....

As things are going right now, the national debt is allegedly at $32 trillion, which is projected to be $52 trillion by 2033.  But those a false figures, as it doesn't include all the obligations of the federal government, such as government retirement programs, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, all which may be in the 50 trillion dollar range.    There are those who claim the real number of debt, including borrowed many and government obligations, is in the 120 trillion dollar range, right now!  Is that true?  I have no idea, and truthfully, the numbers are so massive, I don't think anyone knows for sure.  

 

What we do know is it's massive, and growing so rapidly taxes alone will not fix it.  We're taking in over 4 trillion dollars a year and spending almost six trillion dollars.  Where does the money come from?  Printing presses.  The fact is more taxes would make it worse as more taxes will have a negative effect on the economy.  That's especially true for the VAX taxers, all of which he states.  He goes on to cite CRFB, claiming they're:

 

"about as dedicated to fiscal rectitude as any organization in Washington. Its bipartisan board includes names like Erskine Bowles, John Kasich, Alan Simpson, and David Stockman. This is a serious group that knows the stakes. Yet earlier this year, CRFB published what I can only call a note of frustration."....

 

But as I read their suggestions, it's clear what they support is nothing more than schemes to kick the can down the road, and having John Kasich on their board is in no way reassuring.  I've met him and find him to be weird and arrogant beyond belief, and his idea of conservatism is almost as far left as any Democrat in Congress.  

 

When he was the Chairman of the Budget Committee in Congress he was responsible for balancing the budget.  How did he do that?  Higher revenue from new taxes passed by Bill Clinton.  It wasn't done by massive spending cuts, and in fact spending went up.  When he was governor of Ohio, while claiming he cut taxes, what he did was shift those taxes he cut from one group and put the burden on another, Ohio businesses.  All smoke and mirrors. 

There is one solution, and one solution only.  Stop borrowing, and stop spending, and do it now! Not spread out over time, as that can and will be curtailed by some future Congress, and do it massively!!!!! 

 

Where to start?  Start with eliminating the number of federal employees, massively, all of whom are making more than those in the private sector.  Eliminate 80% of the 438 agencies and sub-agencies of the federal government, and do that by "massively" cutting their funding in the budget.   

 

Remember, culture is king, and when you read what economists say they're not really talking to you. They're talking to their peers, and most of them will not say anything that will get them kicked out of their peer group, i.e., their culture.   I like John, but he's one of them, just a little better than the rest, but, he's still not a coal miner and a farmer.   

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Here's What I Believe, What I Don't Believe, and The Fix

By Rich Kozlovich

The insanity I've seen displayed over the last sixty years years has been mind boggling. I wish I could have said things have improved.  While we have great technology and advancement, plenty of food, at least until now, good medical care, until now, and longer lives, we have to consider what's happening to the American culture.  Conclusion?  It hasn't improved.  I wish was completely wrong.  I'm not!  

 

Here are the things I believe. 

 

I believe the left hates Trump even when he does things they like, just like they hated Nixon, who promulgated more far left policies that impact our culture and economy than most 20th century presidents, including the EPA, OSHA and more, much more.  And they hated him.  Why?  Because he was an anti-communist, and that's what tells the tale about who the left really is.

 

The mental gymnastics leftists and RINO's must go though to criticize Trump, and conservatives, has been remarkable.  The media's irrational rantings have been so outrageous you can't help but laugh.  The lies, misdirection, logical fallacies Democrats spew out about conservatives is so obviously false I wonder how their mind became so twisted.  Whether they believe what they're saying it or not. 

 

I can honestly say I didn't like Trump yesterday, I don't like him today nor will I like him tomorrow, as a person.  When I say that to my conservative friends they respond:  Who does?  But we all agree, he's a leader!  And as President of the United States, I believe he may possibly be one of the greatest Presidents this nation has ever had, even with a split Presidency.

 

I believe the RINO's and Neo-Cons hate Trump because he wants to dismantle a system that's made they and their friends powerful and wealthy.  In that regard, the left and the RINO/Neo-Cons, are in harmony and explains why they've been so cozy hoping to even now destroy Trump in order to keep him from running for President again.  

This has exposed the RINO/Neo-Cons, like Liz Chaney and others, for who and what they are.   That will help define who and what the Republican party is and will be.  They're the reason the Republican party has been consistently called, and acted like, the Stupid Party.  

 

Here's what defines a Republican as a RINO. 

1. They are totally out of touch with their base.  A base that subscribe to traditional American Judaic/Christian values.
2. They're actually more in harmony with the Democrat left.  
3. They have no sense of loyalty or justice and are totally self-serving.
   
4. They take actions that are clearly detrimental to the nation for political or financial gain. 

There's a lot of talk about draining the swamp and fixing the Deep State, but that would take a lot more than rolling back a few liberal left wing initiatives.  It requires an entire restructuring of the liberal/leftist/progressive vision and central power governing structure, and the initiatives they've insidiously imposed on the nation through regulations, spending and taxes. That can't be done without restructuring government by eliminating whole departments of the federal government. 

To fix it you must shrink it, and that must be done on a massive scale, and that includes eliminating the Departments of Labor, Energy, Education, Commerce, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development and Transportation.  Combine Home Land Security and Veterans Departments with the Department of Defense.  Combine Agriculture and Interior.   Remember, the Post Office once was a Department, and now it's not, and it should be joined by those I've listed here, and that includes the frighteningly large number of agencies that work for those departments.   

 

Let's take the Department of Agriculture which is a massive and expensive self serving boondoggle.  A vast bureaucracy with a budget of some $130 billion.  That's larger than the farmer's net income.  It redistributes funds according to formulas created decades ago and is a massive hog trough of federal funding.

• $20 billion in various crop “supports” to the nation’s wealthiest farmers
• $5 billion in ethanol subsidies 
• Grants that amount to welfare to the wealthy, and food stamps to the poor.  

While the department does good things that need to be retained we have to recognize their real mission!  Mostly to provide cash to political constituents.  It needs purged. As it is now:

• Too many "Americans" think government is the answer and not the problem. 
• Too many Americans don't think they're Americans.
• Too many Americans hate America.
• Too many Americans are remarkably ignorant of American history.
• Too many Americans fail to realize how unique American style republican democracy is in all of world history.
• Too many Americans graduate from school semi-illiterate, and amazingly ignorant.
  
• Too many Americans graduate from college filled with false information and assumptions about how the world works, or should work, and are arrogant in their ignorance.
• Too many Americans no longer are people of faith, and as a result have no moral foundation other than the latest philosophical flavor of the day, and that's a foundation of shifting sand.
  

Is it any wonder society is being washed back and forth like waves crashing against the rocks to its destruction?  

Here's what I don't believe:

• I don’t believe Social Security will there for my children and it may not be there for me for much longer. Social Security was supposed to stop being self-funding by 2020 and bankrupt by 2030, and it will go bankrupt with the federal government owing the Social Security fund trillions of dollars they borrowed with non-redeemable bonds.  (Here's the  Summary of the 2021 Annual Reports, Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees)
  
• I don't believe our children and grandchildren will have a better life than we did.
• I don’t believe Medicare and Medicaid can survive the decade.
• I don’t believe crony capitalism will be less but more – especially since this pattern goes back to the Whiskey Act of 1791.
• I don’t believe those who left California because they made a mess of it won’t attempt to make a mess of the states they moved to. Currently residents of Democrat run states are fleeing in droves to Republican run states, but they're probably going to take the ideas that destroyed the states they're leaving and vote for them in the states they're moving to. 
  
• I don't believe spending billions will end poverty.
• I don't believe spending billions will fix homelessness.  California spent billions to fix homelessness and it only dropped one percent.  Even if those billions amounted to only "two billion that would come to 1.3 million to get one person off the street".
• I don't believe you can convince liberals their leftist philosophy has been the most irrational, misanthropic and morally defective belief system in all of world history.  In spite of the most recent and ongoing human disaster leftists imposed on Venezuela.  Millennials all want us to still "Feel the Bern."
• I don’t believe the national debt can be paid unless the government sells its assets - which amounts to 150 trillion dollars – and they won’t.
  
• I don't believe diversity and multiculturalism, is anything more than a leftist scheme to undermine and destroy the American identity, the American culture, the American economy and overturn the U.S. Constitution.   Diversity without accomplishment is incompetence without consequence. 
  
• I don't believe the world's economy is stable.  The unending amount of debt the world's nations has accumulated, and continues to accumulate, is going to cause a worldwide economic depression.
• I don't believe the EU can survive to 2025, but certainly by 2030. 
  
• I don't believe Europeans can tolerate the Muslim invasion much longer without civil war breaking out all over Europe if Europe wishes to be European.
  
• I don't believe the Middle East or anywhere in the world that's dominated by Islam is fixable.
• I don't believe Russia or China can withstand an international economic down turn, let alone a collapse.
• I don't believe a nation that abandoned the moral foundations that made them great can survive. 
• I don't believe large corporations are concerned about anything except the next quarterly report, and in no way will they support anything considered conservative, in their views, their actions or their philosophy, even if it impacts their profit margins. 
• I don't believe any of the problems listed above can be fixed until public education is fixed.
• I don't believe public education can be fixed until the federal government is forced out of it.  
• I don't believe public education can be fixed unless the states follow Governor Ron DeSantis' lead and pass legislation to teach the truth about communism and all the other leftist clabber.  
• I don’t believe academia can be purged of its far left Frankfurt School aficionados unless we stop funding these universities with taxpayer dollars and student loans. They can't be fixed until they have to become self supporting "for profit" institutions.
• I don't believe there is such a thing as man made climate change.
• I don't believe green activists aren't anything but dishonest, irrational, misanthropic and morally defective misfits.
  
• I don't believe spending can be brought under control without repealing the 16th Amendment. 
• I don't believe you can reduce corruption in government without repealing the 17th Amendment. 
• I don't believe the federal government can be fixed without passing a 28th Amendment creating term and age limits for Congress, and the federal judiciary, nor do I believe the judiciary will remember it's proper role until age and term limits are imposed.
• I don't believe government can be fixed without passage of a 29th Amendment creating sundown laws for all federal  departments, agencies, bureaus and any official agency of the federal government, and all federal laws and regulations, with the goal of reducing the size and scope of the federal government.

So what is it that I really believe?  I believe leftism is like rust.  It never sleeps.

 

How to Restore Republic After It's Fallen into Corruption

By Rich Kozlovich

This quote by Mike Vanderboegh appeared on The Last Refuge saying: 

“This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can’t be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won’t be done. The Founders’ Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.”

“But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.” 

All that sounds great but what's it mean?  John Boehner once said, a leader without followers is a man taking a walk by himself.  Well, that's true, and then again, maybe it's not.  What I've found over the years is most leaders aren't really leaders.  They're managers who have been chosen to organize the direction everyone wants to go. 

What if everyone is going in the wrong direction, which we're seeing the consequence of that now?  Then the one going in the right direction all by himself is the actual leader, society merely has yet to come to grips with that.  But at some point, society reaches the apex of reality, and the tide changes.  Guess who's in the lead?  Unfortunately the managers often remain fouling the water with their appeasing ways.  We've seen a lot of that also, and it's continuing.

A leader can be a great manager, but can a manager be a great leader?  Yes, but in my experience, not often.  However, if a great leader isn't a good manager, he can hire a great manager.  A manager who fails at leadership can't hire a great leader.

These so-called leaders, who aren't, were chosen because they've been go along to get along all of their lives, and being a rock in the current totally alien to them.  Whereas real leaders are prepared to be the rock in the current.  Prepared to be unliked in order to accomplish their mission.  Prepared to stand up and say, you're all wrong, and I'm going to tell you why. 

Rhetoric can be high sounding but rhetoric needs a plan, because without a plan there's no substance.   So, let me outline a plan, and it's one I've touted in the past, a plan that must deal with the self perpetuating foundational flaws in the system.

First, eliminate the 16th, 17th, 26th and 27th Amendments.  Pass an amendment that puts age and term limits on Congress and the federal judiciary.  Other than the Departments of State, Treasure, Justice and Defense, place a sunshine clause on all Departments, agencies and bureaus, and eliminate the FED.  Place a sunshine clause on all taxes and regulations.   Let Congress deal with each of these as they occur and be on record for their actions.  And absolutely end public employee unions, especially the teacher's unions. 

Finally, all that corruption must be dealt with for what they are.  Crimes.   Investigations must be conducted, indictments must be served, trials must be held and criminals must go to prison.  If all that criminal corruption we've witnessed over these many years isn't dealt with, there can be no restoration. 

That's foundational.  That's The Basics.  

What We Need is a Fix. Let's Start with Clarity

Definition leads to clarity. Clarity leads to understanding. Understanding leads to good decision making.

By Rich Kozlovich 

It stuns me the idiotic things people think and say, and I absolutely include "journalists", academics and politicians who should know the facts, and yet, they spew out nonsense. Then there are the celebrities, many of whom have been amazingly successful, became famously rich and spout insane leftist nonsense, and the media quotes their stupidity with huge numbers of seemingly sane people listen to them as if they really have some to say that's worth listening to.

Let's try and get this.....just once.....please.

Most of these people were parking cars, pumping gas and waiting on tables before they became "stars". They didn't become stars for the immense knowledge of history, economics or geopolitics. They became stars because they look better than most, perform in some fashion better than most, and who are really good at memorizing lines they didn't write, saying those lines as directed by someone other than themselves, all the while portraying people who don't exist. Why would we think that makes them smarter than the rest of us? Especially since if America was the socialist society they're promoting, they wouldn't be either rich or allowed to shoot off their mouths about anything, let alone anything against the government.

However, I've concluded to be a leftist requires massive mental capacity. Why? Because to justify their hypocrisy, irrational views and twisted logic requires unparalleled and remarkable mental gymnastics. They must have twist their minds into such amazingly irrational shapes in order to ignore something that should be obvious to the most casual observer, and it's an overwhelming and patently obvious fact: Their stupidity is astonishing.  Do you doubt that?  Watch The View....just once!

Fortunately, they're so obviously nuts ordinary people, with ordinary mental capacity, can see through it all. But that's no deterrent to the left. Why? Because they lie,and they know they lie. We know they lie. They know we know they lie!And the brilliant conclusion these mental giants on the left come to? Since everyone knows it all a lie, it isn't really a lie, ergo, why stop lying?

Now that's The Produnova in mental gymnastics and equally dangerous in the long run. 

The only thing that should be politically correct is truth, and the right to defend that truth.  That starts with education.  We need the public to demand the end of all federal federal involvement in public education returning the power back to the local citizenry who fund it all.  Allowing vouchers for all state public education. End state and federal funding, of any kind including student loans, for "higher" education along with the right of recall for all elected officials, state, local and federal.

My fix for the nation is to pass a 28th Amendment. Originally I wrote for this to be an amendment for term limits for the federal judiciary, but I don't think that's enough. I'm calling it the Fix America Amendment. It would repeal the 16th Amendment (income tax), the17th Amendment (how Senators are chosen), eliminate the FED, create term limits for the federal judiciary and all members of Congress, including a right of recall by the citizens of their states. add sunset parameters for all agencies, departments, bureaus and all laws and regulations.

It would end all members of Congress status as federal employees, making them employees of their respective states putting them on their state's payroll with their state choosing their pay scale, level of staff, and choice of offices, etc. All members of Congress from each state would be in the same building as the rest of the members of their state's representatives, and the offices would be contiguous to each other, both House and Senate.

And each state should amend their Constitutions with this kind of fix in mind, especially giving all state legislatures the right to determine the jurisdiction of their state's judiciary, as Congress has over the federal judiciary.  That would be a good start, but certainly not the end of the fix.

Twelve Points of Light

By Rich Kozlovich

As most of my readers know, I think leftism is a vile multi-headed Hydra. Whether its socialism appearing in the form of communism, fascism, or feminism, environmentalism, or many other ism’s taken on by the left, all forms of leftism act like a metastasizing cancer.

Just as cancer insidiously spreads killing healthy cells until the body dies, leftism spreads through mendacious deception into our institutions contaminating all it touches, until it destroys the health and stability of humanity. We need to define things properly to have clarity, and clearly if society is to rid itself of this cancer we are in desperate need of solutions.

I believe those solutions begin by dismantling government as we know it. I believe the start of the solution is twelve fold.

1. Pass a 28th Amendment creating age and term limits for the federal judiciary and the Congress.
2. Repeal the 16th Amendment
3. Repeal the 17th Amendment
4. Eliminate the Department of Education and end all federal involvement in public education, returning control to local officials.
5. End all grants to universities and student loans for higher education and tax their endowments in the same manner as they would do for any capital gains.
6. Sell the land mass of the United States owned by the federal government, which is almost 25%, that's not filling any specific or real federal government need.
7. Along with the federal government's other under used or unused assets, it amounts to up to 150 trillion dollars, they must use that to pay off the national debt, refund the money stolen from Social Security.
8. Eliminate the EPA, Bureau of Land Management, Federal Fish and Wildlife Service, and put boundaries on the Corp of Army Engineers.
9. Repeal or seriously amend the Endangered Species Act.
10. Pass a bill that sunsets every tax, every federal law and every federal agency. If it turns out these taxes, laws and agencies actually are beneficial to the American public, Congress can go on record and vote to maintain them until their next "sunset" time comes up again.
11. Privatize Social Security.
12. Eliminate public service unions.

We need to do a lot more, but that would be a good "start".

How to Fix Government:

By Rich Kozlovich

1. Repeal the 16th Amendment and replace the income tax with a national sales tax.
2. Repeal the 17th Amendment.
3. Pass a 28th Amendment to create term and age limits for the federal judiciary and term limits for Congress.
4. Reorganize the Federal Government by eliminating the following Cabinet Departments:

• Commerce
• Labor
• Energy
• Education
• Health and Human Services
• Housing and Urban Development
• Homeland Security and Veterans Administration under the Department of Defense.
• Make Agriculture and Transportation Departments agencies under the Department of the Interior.
• Eliminate the EPA, Fish and Wildlife Service and Bureau of Land Management, reduce the power and responsibilities of the Army Corp of Engineers.

3.The federal government has assets to the tune of 150 trillion dollars.  Make the federal government sell off all the land and property they own that's not being used for a specific purpose as presented in the Constitution and take that money to pay off the national debt and refund the trillions stolen by the government from Social Security .
4. Save America's Jews from corrupt false Jews and the Democrat Party.
5. Save America's blacks from their corrupt leaders and the Democrat Party.
6. Crush the environmental movement.
7. Sunset law on all bills, taxes, regulations, government departments, agencies, bureaus.
8. Stop funding higher education and eliminate student loan programs.
9. Overturn Roe vs. Wade.  Congress has the power and authority to determine the juristiction of all federal courts.    The Congress may order the federal judicary to not ajudicate a case, and it has in the past.  The Congress also has the power to overturn any decision made by any federal court, including the Supreme Court. 
10. Reinstitute the McCarran Walters Act, 1952, Prohibits the Immigration of Islamists.
11. Make all Members of Congress employees of the State they represent. The State they represent will then determine their pay, benefits, staff size and budget.
12.  Eliminate the FED.

Fixing the Federal Government

By Rich Kozlovich

(Editor's Note:  I originally published this on 11/20/2016, but time has shown this needs to said again.  So, with updates I'm republishing this today.  RK)

There are so many things wrong with government it's almost impossible to know where to start. I don't envy those in the new administration who've been tasked with that job.  The backlash from the leftists in all these environmental movement, government officials, left wing activist groups, along with their hand maidens in the media has been far worse than anything thrown against Reagan.

To start with we need clarity.  It must be realized any successful modern industrial society needs energy - lots of it - cheap energy - if that society wishes to remain modern and successful.  Although I absolutely share all the concerns regarding energy and it’s production as foundational to a strong economy and sound society, I’m mostly concerned with pesticide issues, which is foundational to the green movement.  Everything started there.

If you really want to get the ball rolling - overturn the ban on DDT. That issue is foundational to the environmental movement. That’s where they got their credibility and more money and power than they ever dreamt of. Even if no one uses it, if the ban on DDT is overturned, and shown to have been a fraudulent action, then everything they’ve said is legitimately called into question.  Their success in banning DDT led to all the other actions by the green movement.

EPA has been involved in all these corrupt sue and settle deals with the activists and the courts have been party to giving them powers the Congress never intended. Investigate and prosecute any government employee that was a party to such an action under RICO. Even if the statute of limitations has run out on such investigations - there is no statute of limitations on firing people for corruption. Prosecute people like graduate student Steven Arnold involving the fraudulent endocrine disruption study out of Tulane University.   And he may have been the fall guy for bigger fish. 

However, it’s impossible to fix them because currently the EPA is so thoroughly infiltrated with environmental activists they will merely wait out any efforts to stop their corrupt practises until the administration changes and then start all over again. Congress is, on any given day, a weak sister in this battle to stop this illegal dismantling of American's Constitutional rights by government agencies under the auspices of "environmental protection".

When it comes to environmental concerns and the federal government, I’m really of the opinion for any "clean up" to be effective requires a broad broom, encompassing the EPA, Fish and Wildlife Service, Army Corp of Engineers, and the Bureau of Land Management.  We could start with adopting Jay Lehr’s five year plan to dismantle the EPA.  Jay is one of the founders of EPA and the Science Director of the Heartland Institute. 

I would like to know where in the Constitution it gives the EPA, or any government agency, more power than all the state governments and the courts of those states combined? They’ve got to be thoroughly dismantled, or at the very least de-funded to the point they are toothless. No more grant money to corrupt "scientists" promoting fallacious environmental claims such as global warming and in my industry - IPM in structural pest control.

The Institute for Energy Research released a new study that inventories these "vastly underutilized" federal assets:

Federal real property totals over 900,000 assets with a combined area of over 3 billion square feet and more than 41 million acres of land. Additionally, the federal government owns over 600 million acres of lands and minerals onshore, and owns or manages a total of approximately 755 million acres of onshore subsurface mineral estate. Offshore, the federal government owns some 1.76 billion acres of lands and mineral estate, extending out 200 nautical miles from our shores. The federal government’s total mineral estate holdings are therefore about 2.515 billion acres of lands. Thus, the federal government’s mineral estate land holdings surpass the total surface land area of the nation of Canada.

In fiscal year 2009, federal agencies reported 45,190 underutilized buildings, an increase of 1,830 underutilized buildings from the previous fiscal year. In fiscal year 2009, these underutilized buildings accounted for $1.66 billion in annual operating costs, according to the General Accounting Office (GAO). The majority of federally owned and leased space is held by the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, the U.S. Postal Service, and the General Services Administration (GSA). For example, the federal government’s landlord, the GSA, owns or leases 9,600 assets with more than 362 million square feet of workspace. According to the GSA, in a 2009 report, almost 40 percent of its assets were under performing. In October 2010, a congressional study evaluated the savings that could occur based on better administration of the government’s above ground assets that totaled over several hundred billion dollars.

 How much is all this worth?

IER estimated the worth of the government’s oil and gas technically recoverable resources to the economy to be $128 trillion, about 8 times our national debt. Further, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that state and national coffers could generate almost $150 billion over a 10 year period from royalties, rents, and bonuses if these resources were immediately opened to oil and gas leasing. The CBO study estimates are considered to be conservative when compared to historical data and estimates by other analysts and do not consider the earnings from taxes paid by these industries. IER estimated the government’s coal resources in the lower 48 states to be worth $22.5 trillion for a total worth to the economy of fossil fuels on federal lands of $150.5 trillion, over 9 times our national debt. Most of the coal resources in Alaska are deemed to be federally owned and are estimated to be 60 percent higher than those in the entire lower 48 states but are not included in these estimates.

Think about that!  Selling off all federal lands and all underutilized properties would actually pay off the national debt and re-fund Social Security.  What a massive fix!

Up until - I think it was 1911 - the goal of the federal government was to get federal lands into the hands of America’s citizens as fast as possible, that’s why everything East of the Mississippi River is largely privately owned and huge tracts of land West of the Mississippi is largely in the hands of the federal government.  Sell that land and there's no need for such a large agencies, including the Fish and Wildlife Service with their own armies.

It was around that time progressives under Teddy Roosevelt began infesting government passing the 16th and 17th amendments and creating the FED, in 1913. All foundational to the efforts by progressives (socialists) wanting to dismantle the Constitution, which both Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson believed was outdated, unnecessary and an impediment to human progress - and should be replaced with "scientifically sound" administrative practises - as in Socialism,

After FDR became President he created vast government agencies under the New Deal, only it wasn't a New Deal at all - it as a re-institution of the fascist policies Woodrow Wilson imposed on the nation during WWI, which remained in effect for approximately two years after the war ended.  That didn't change until Harding became President in 1921. 

Those agencies created by FDR were run by many of the people who worked for Wilson, and were heavily infiltrated by Stalinist agents, communists, socialists and fellow travelers.  Although the Soviet Union and Stalin are gone, those people are still there.  They may have different bodies and different faces, but they're there with the same mentality, the same spirit and the same treasonous mentality.  They've got to be dismantled.

That can be initiated by reviewing all environment laws, starting with the National Environment Policy Act of 1969, but especially the Endangered Species Act. 

Review - defund - dismantle - return power to the states.  It's my opinion that can only be done if must repeal the 16th and 17th Amendments and add a 28th amendment to put age and term limits and restrictions on the federal judiciary, and the Congress. 

That's the only solution.

Observations From the Back Row: Agents of Shadow

By Rich Kozlovich

I don't know about anyone else, but even a newsie like me can hardly stand watching or reading the news lately. It's become patently obvious to me -  we've lost our minds.   We've abandoned any pretext at civilized behavior because we've abandoned traditional wisdom in favor of the latest philosophical flavor of the day, and that flavor is laced with the toxic compounds of leftism -hate, envy and greed. 

A friend of mine recently had dinner with a middle aged couple where the wife couldn't keep from letting them know she hoped Trump would be killed or die.  My friend and his wife are traditionalist conservatives, and I think this woman knew it.

Liberals are constantly whining and howling about compassion and inclusion when in reality everything they do or promote is filled with loathing of traditional values, including wanting to kill the President of the United States.  And they're saying it openly without one bit of condemnation from anyone on the left, including the media who would have howled like werewolves at a full moon if even one person had even mildly intimated they wanted Obama to die, let alone kill him.

Snoop Dogg made a video shooting Trump dead, and Madonna threatened to blow up the White House. And Dogg's trash son says he's going to "pimp out" the First Lady. Can you imagine what would have happened if that was said about Obama's wife? Where's the outrage?  Where are Obama and his wife in all of this?  Where's Oprah?  Where's Jesse Jackson?  Where's the NAACP?   I would think if they had an ounce of decency in them they would have stepped up and shot down this disgusting behavior.

Also, it's illegal to threaten the life of the President of the United States.  Why hasn't someone been charged?  Why hasn't there been so much moral outrage these lunatics are ostracized by civilized people?  How deep is this contaminated thinking?  More importantly - how deep is this contamination within government?

Recently we heard of a Secret Service agent who had her laptop stolen from a parked car.  In that computer was the floor plans for the personal home of the President of the United States and his family in Trump Tower - now in  unauthorized hands - thanks to the Secret Service.

We also now know the thief - having been caught on camera - knew exactly where to go, when to go and what he was looking for.  So I think these questions have to be asked:

• Was this theft allowed? 
• Was this theft planned?
• If this theft was planned, for what purpose? 
• Was this theft was allowed and planned was it part of a conspiracy by a Secret Service agent, or possibly agents, and with whom?

Is this irrational paranoia, or is this leftist contamination gone deep? 

The Secret Service agent in charge of the Denver office just couldn't help going on Facebook to tell the world how she would rather go to jail than take a bullet for the President. Well, I wouldn't be all that crazy about taking a bullet for anyone either.....but that's not my job.....it is hers, and it's a job she applied for. 

I'm sure they must have asked if she would be willing to sacrifice herself for the President during the interview process, and she must have said yes or she wouldn't have been hired.  Right?  But no matter, everyone who applies for that job knows that's part and parcel of the package.  For her to say what she's saying now is .....what? Treasonous? After all, why else would she post this online unless she wanted to encourage others to develop the same attitude - but not tell anyone - allowing the President to be killed.   Does that sound like treason to anyone besides me?  And she's still employed!

(Editor's Note:  Here's an update on Agent Kerry O'Grady, and the strange behavior of her bosses.  RK)

Then we have three intruders who entered the White House grounds and one made it to the White House.  Does this give anyone pause wondering just how seriously these people take their oaths of office - or worse yet - just exactly where their loyalties reside?

It's bad enough when the federal judiciary ignores their oath to uphold the Constitution, but what happens if the Secret Service becomes a part of a Soros funded and Obama orchestrated Shadow Government? 

Is this mere paranoia or just another conspiracy theory?  Of course we all know there's no such thing as a conspiracy unless it's a vast right wing conspiracy, but none the less, let's explore this for a minute.   

Most Presidents can't wait to leave Washington, but not Obama, who seems to think he's still the President, and is working to mobilize thousands of volunteers in a nationwide movement known as Organizing for Action (OFA), which adores anything that embraces Marxism.

'“Unbeknownst to most Americans, Barack Obama is the first ex-president in 228 years of U.S. history to structure and lead a political organization, a shadow government, for the explicit purpose of sabotaging his successor—duly elected President Donald Trump,” writes Scott S. Powell for American Thinker. Obama’s group, OFA, has been organizing with the Soros-linked Indivisible."'

And who exactly are these thousands of volunteers and what are they to do?  First, Scott Foval, National Field Director for Americans United for Change is quoted as saying,  “I’m saying we have mentally ill people, that we pay to do s–t, make no mistake”.  It's their job to protest continually in order to gain political clout and undermine the real President.  Protests which are being organized by members of the Workers World Party and Freedom Road Socialist Organization among others. 

It's almost surreal when reality starts to look and sound like an Avenger science fiction movie with the heroes fighting Hydra - a secret, subversive shadow government with tentacles reaching into every government agency, exerting influence and operating the levers of power to overthrow the legitimate government.    In this fiction movie it's easy to determine the moral imperative presented - they're the bad guys and they're committing treason and need to be defeated in order to save the nation and the world.  

So can someone explain to me why this is different?