Your Survival Guy’s 2024 Super States is in, and I wonder: Is it time to flee? Because this is the beginning stages of a tectonic shift in America. You and I know the moving vans are gassed up and running. They’re ready to leave the big, blue-blob states on both coasts and elsewhere. No longer […]
The Benefits of Secession
At the Mises Institute, Ryan McMaken discusses the benefits of secession, which include lower taxes and more trade. He writes: When we hear of political movements in favor of decentralization and secession, the word “nationalist” is often used to describe them. We have seen the word used in both the Scottish and Catalonian secession movements, […]
Texas Economy Roars with Record Jobs
In Governor Greg Abbott’s state of Texas, total jobs hit a new all-time high in October by adding 49,500 new positions. Bethany Blankley reports for the Washington Examiner: Texas in October again broke an all-time record for job gains. Texas also had the fastest annual jobs growth rate from October 2021 to October 2022, according […]
Super States: Your Future May Depend on Where You Live
If you’re looking for a place to live in your retirement years where your sovereignty is respected, then understand, the future may just depend on states’ rights. Take a look at this 2021 Map: Republicans to Have Full Control of 23 States, Democrats 15, courtesy of Americans for Tax Reform. 2021 Map: Republicans to Have […]
Secession: Elected Officials Are Protecting Themselves From You
How much information do you want big tech to have on you? With big data forming a virtual Panopticon, how much of your life is for sale? Probably not any of it as far as you’re concerned. Isn’t the foundation of our Republic all about keeping big government and others out of our lives? Of […]
In an Age of Radical Politics, Do the Founders Have the Answer?
At The American Spectator, Stephen Moore reminds readers that in their deep wisdom, America’s founders provided her citizens with the perfect mechanism with which to resolve many of the most contentious political problems that could arise – states’ rights. Moore writes (abridged): The last several weeks and months Democrats have demonstrated for all to see what a […]
Could the “Left Coast” Challenge Trump’s Washington?
Rod Dreher wonders just how “nervy” the left leaning West Coast will become when faced with federal dictates coming out of the Trump administration. The constitution gives the federal government the power to regulate commerce, but might that be challenged by the Pacific states, which are increasingly charting their own regulatory and legal paths? Dreher […]
This is What Happens When Entitlements Go Crazy
An astonishing 18.3% of Americans are on Medicaid today. Spending on the program has reached nearly 2% of GDP. Dan Mitchell outlines how utterly depressing this is, and how bad it will be for America if such conditions continue. Let’s look at just one piece of that puzzle. James Capretta of the American Enterprise Institute […]
Is America’s Ironclad Unity in Jeopardy?
Since the end of the post-Civil War Reconstruction effort, America has been, for the most part a united country with the solid allegiance of a strong majority of the population. But Pat Buchanan writes that “given the divisions among us, deeper and wider than ever, it is an open question as to how, and how […]
Is Your State Pension Really about to Explode?
Don’t look now, but many of the nation’s states are in deep financial trouble. Pensions around the country have been underfunded, and Ohio is one of the worst offenders. By 2037, there’s only a 25% chance Ohio’s fire fighters and police officers will have their pensions fulfilled by the current system. Economists Erick Elder and […]