Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Republicans let's get back to Basics... ECON 103...

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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

The results when ANY government tries to manage an economy...

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Monday, April 28, 2025

Not an SNL skit...

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Susan Rice and the Hidden Resistance...

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Sunday, April 27, 2025

Republicans let's get back to Basics... ECON 102...

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Friday, April 25, 2025

Trusting Democrats at this point is like showing hospitality to a burglar...

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Republicans let's get back to Basics... Econ 101...

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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Free citizens of America every day adds to our grievances...

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Understanding national fiscal & monetary policy plus how to actually curb inflation to save the productive middle class... Included great discussion with former Fed & German national bank heads... The Reagan Boom took note... DJT please return to these sensible policies...

Americans First! Not the American government!

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Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Oops...

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Not far-fetched...

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End the Fed!

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Americans First! Not the American government! There is no Capitalism without Free trade! Marxists & Collectivists must be defeated! The American people making decisions not bureaucrats! Neocons must be educated! Try to understand floating exchange rates before you destroy all our lives...

 

Friedman was a strong advocate for floating exchange rates throughout the entire Bretton-Woods period. He argued that a flexible exchange rate would make external adjustment possible and allow countries to avoid balance of payments crises. He saw fixed exchange rates as an undesirable form of government intervention. The case was articulated in an influential 1953 paper, "The Case for Flexible Exchange Rates", at a time when most commentators regarded the possibility of floating exchange rates as a fantasy.






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Sunday, April 20, 2025

Free & Enlightened Republicans do not be decoyed and deceived into disgraceful alliances...

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Saturday, April 19, 2025

Frogmarch them! Make an example!

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Friday, April 18, 2025

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In honor of WSD Saturday: HOLLYWOOD'S NOBLE INDIANS ARE WE DANCING WITH MYTHS?

 


Today's Opinions newsletter

Opinion: HOLLYWOOD'S NOBLE INDIANS ARE WE DANCING WITH MYTHS?

By Paul W. Valentine

March 30, 1991 at 7:00 p.m.

    AFTER MONTHS of acclaim, topped by last week's Oscars, Kevin Costner's film "Dances with Wolves" has become an important psychological purgative for white America. We have finally expelled from our imagery the traditional Hollywood Indian -- the shiftless savage who can't hold his liquor -- and replaced him with the more complex and authentic characters of Costner's story.

    Yet in our guilt-laden rush to embrace the new images, we risk creating a new stereotype prompted at least in part by the Costner film, a sort of romanticized flip side caricature of the native American as all nobility, wisdom and oneness with the earth.

    History suggests that that vision, like all stereotypes, is oversimplified. It lumps all Native Americans into a monolithic whole, rather than distinguishing among their rich, varied and sometimes not so pretty parts.

    The temptation to exalt the Indian nevertheless is great, given the Euro-American depredations against him over the last 500 years and the instinct to compensate for our sins. Indeed, for the last several years (and well before Costner's film was conceived), Indians have enjoyed a resurgence in cultural pride and received support from a wide range of white activists, authors, politicians, environmentalists and back-to-nature advocates. To varying degrees, these advocates have made three assertions about the American Indian: that he is endowed with a unique reverence for the earth and its ecological systems; that his social conduct, buttressed by an ancient wisdom, is universally guided by humane and egalitarian instincts; and that he has an immutable ancestral claim to every acre of America.

Listen to the voices:

    The Indian feels a "sacred attachment to the land and a reverence for nature that is incomprehensible to most whites," wrote Alvin M. Josephy Jr., noted historian and editor, in his book "The Indian Heritage of America."

    He is a "virile, structured, unafraid, truly noble personality," said John Collier, a former (white) Commissioner of Indian Affairs in the Interior Department. Before the white man arrived in the New World, Collier said, the Indian lived in "perfect ecological balance with the forest, the plain, the desert, the waters and the animal life."

    Vine Deloria Jr., a Standing Rock Sioux and respected spokesman on matters Indian, wrote in "Custer Died for Your Sins": "Most mysterious was the Indian reverence for the land . . . . Earth, they believed, was mother of all."

    But history tells us that Indians, like all other groups on the face of the earth, are a mixed lot with an enormous and varied capacity for both good and evil.

    It is well documented, for example, that while many tribes prior to the Europeans' arrival carefully husbanded the land and hunted animals selectively, others, such as the Arapaho of eastern Colorado, stampeded herds of bison into death traps by igniting uncontrolled grass fires on the prairies. Only the best animals were butchered. The rest were left for the vultures or the Utes and other tribal competitors.

    "For many years afterward, animals could not find food in such burned-over areas, and starvation would finish the destruction," wrote historian Elizabeth Beaty in "Americans Before Columbus."

(When Europeans introduced the horse to the New World in the 16th century, plains Indians began hunting more selectively, using swift riders to cull only the best bison for meat and hides, while letting the rest go. The white man continued to slaughter, often shooting the animals only for hides and assorted trophies, leaving the carcasses behind.)

    Agricultural Indians in New England cleared land by slash-and-burn technique, while more nomadic hunters and gatherers moved from spot to spot seeking food, and strewing refuse in their wake. While such despoliation was modest compared to the industrial pollution of late 20th century America, in the scale of the times, it was considerable. The second assertion -- that the Indian enshrined the virtues of brotherhood and egalitarianism -- also finds spotty support in history.

    Indeed, while there were tribes that were free, open, peaceful and humane, others were totalitarian, warlike and extremely brutal. Some practiced slavery, torture, human sacrifice and cannibalism and imposed rigid social dictatorships.

The Tahltans of western Canada, who fought constantly with their neighbors, killed male prisoners and enslaved the women. Many Choctaws, Creeks and Cherokees in the southeastern United States in the 19th century owned African slaves, just like their white neighbors.

    Among some tribes of the famed Iroquois Confederacy, the punishment for murder was death to the perpetrator or, if he fled, to a male member of his family. Adultery was also sometimes punishable by death, but more frequently the offender had his ears or lips cropped or the end of his nose cut off.

    The Iroquois and some other groups, Josephy acknowledges, "were extremely cruel, torturing captives to test their courage and indulging occasionally in cannibalism."

    Until the 19th century, he noted, the Pawnee Indians observed an annual Morning Star ceremony "in which a captured maiden was sacrificed and her heart cut out . . . ."

    While tribes as diverse as the Hopis of the Southwest and the Slaves of subarctic Canada were known for their gentle ways and humane treatment of the old and infirm, other groups were brutal in the extreme. The Crees and Chipewyans of central Canada killed or abandoned their old people who could not keep up with tribal migrations.

    There was sexism aplenty. Women in some subarctic groups did most of the heavy work and ate after the men had finished. Carrier Indians were so named because they required widows to carry their husbands' bones on their backs.

(Women were the beneficiaries of another change wrought by the arrival of the horse: The animal replaced women in hauling the clumsy two-stick travois used to transport a family's belongings on the nomadic seasonal treks).

    Many Indian societies were highly stratified and ruled by authoritarian tribal elders. The Natchez, for example, were dominated by a small elite of Great Sun's relatives, nobles and honored men. The riff-raff, that is, almost everyone else, were called stinkards. The Weeden Island people along the Gulf Coast lived under an intricately stratified theocracy whose leaders claimed divine kinship to a sun god. Privileges and rank were hereditary among the Hopewellians of the Midwest.

    Tribes usually held one another in contempt, referring to themselves in lofty phrases such as "We the People" and designating their neighbors as "barbarians" or "sons of she-dog."

    There were exceptions. There were peaceful and even timid tribes that kept to themselves, especially in the harsh environment of northern Canada. The great Iroquois Confederacy embraced some democratic institutions for determining individual and tribal rights among its members. But inter-tribal violence, mutual contempt and social domination prevailed over much of the land -- patterns not unlike those found today in the Mideast. Which brings us to the third and greatest assertion: that the American Indian has clear and unsullied title from time immemorial to the land now occupied by whites.

    Let there be no doubt: Invading Europeans since the 16th century literally took America, much of it by force or subterfuge. But in the millenia before the white arrival, the Indians were doing precisely the same thing to each other.

    The history of Indian migrations into the New World from Asia is the history of group after group displacing one another, fighting over land, water and hunting grounds, redrawing the lines, making temporary alliances and often remaining in one spot only briefly before moving on.

    Large inhospitable chunks of North America were never settled at all or only so sparsely and erratically that human occupation was in name only. Some tribes like the Hopis, Slaves and Hares were peaceful, but many others were not only warlike but actively imperialist. "The Papagos regarded war as a form of insanity, the Comanches gloried in it," noted author William T. Hagan in "American Indians." The Ojibways, Crees and Tlingits of Canada constantly expanded their frontiers, pushing less aggressive neighbors to the periphery of usable land.

    As Josephy observed, even the Iroquois Confederacy, with its avowed ideas of unity and conciliation, was "almost constantly engaged in wars with Algonquians or with other Iroquoian peoples." Such tribal boundaries as existed were constantly being realigned or overrun.

    The entry of Europeans onto this scene 500 years ago was thus, in an historic sense, simply an elaboration, an extension, of what had been occurring during the millenia before their arrival -- expropriation, war, imperialism. But the new imperialists had the horse, the wheel and the gun. Their influence, thus, was more pervasive and more lasting.

    In the never ending see-saw of land grabbing and political deal cutting, Indians frequently allied themselves with whites against other whites or other Indians. There was no sacred loyalty or unity among them. "The Anglicans and Catholics who came to found Maryland in 1634," wrote historian Roy Harvey Pearce, "encountered peacably disposed Indians, eager to welcome them. As a matter of fact, the local Indians, the Patuxents, hoped for English aid against the raids of their fierce neighbors, the Susquehannocks," and a treaty was struck.

    These patterns challenge the idea that specific Indian groups have possessed specific tracts of land for millenia and their claims are thus inviolate. Even though many tribes came to possess their lands by brute force or treachery, the Europeans' use of the same tactics is somehow viewed as far more heinous.

    The best example of contemporary Indian claims to ancestral lands is the claim by segments of the Sioux Indian nation to the Black Hills area of South Dakota and Wyoming.

    In a narrow legalistic sense, the Sioux's claim is correct. The whites took the land illegally, by force, and the U.S. Supreme Court has so ruled. But in a broader, moral sense, the Sioux are on less firm ground. The truth is that they came into possession of the Black Hills in the same way -- by main force -- as the white man, and their claim is just as tenuous.

    The Sioux in fact are relative newcomers to the Black Hills, arriving only in the mid-17th century, and then driving out the Kiowa and Cheyenne tribes. The Sioux, in turn, had been forced from Minnesota and southern Ontario by the hostile Ojibways. That is documented history. Less reliable oral history and archeological evidence indicate that the Crows occupied the Black Hills prior to the Kiowas and Cheyennes, and before them, nearly 1,000 years ago, the Arapaho were there. One thing is certain: No single group lived in the Black Hills permanently from the mists of time. Rather, tribe after tribe, all culturally disparate, speaking different languages, praying to different gods, squabbled over the land.

The only difference is that some of the later tribesmen had white faces.

Paul Valentine is a Washington Post reporter.

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Thursday, April 17, 2025

Minister Fauci is not protected by Joe's autopen!

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Wednesday, April 16, 2025

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Watch listen & learn Marxists, Collectivists, & Neocons... Dr. Friedman outshines them all as usual... "The invisible foot of government!"

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Typical Leftist reaction after getting caught red-handed...

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Disarm these rogues...

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Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Amazing quite a ton of economic growth in last 75 years with low to no tariffs...

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Democrats, miscreants of despotism...

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Monday, April 14, 2025

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We like to say frogmarch...

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Sunday, April 13, 2025

😅😂🤣

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Entrenched Leftist parasites...

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Saturday, April 12, 2025

Can't he just say the Fed... 😅

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Friday, April 11, 2025

America was not built by Sisyphism... Smart labor not inefficient labor... Infinite labor produces nothing!

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Thursday, April 10, 2025

Boom! 👏👏 your namesake would be proud!

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The Left: with all their systems of terror, bribery, & deceit...

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Good ole JK...

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Wednesday, April 9, 2025

😅🤣😂 ... They are right better keep those Communist sweatshops going...

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Enemies in the fold?

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Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Free & Fair trade better be the ultimate goal!

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Steve Moore TRP guest ripped off Frank...

Steve Moore TRP Interview! (5/20/20) "The DJT economic miracle!"
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Correct Lawrence Wong! Remove the 10% tariff on Singapore immediately!

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Neocon scum...

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Let's focus gentlemen...

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Monday, April 7, 2025

Freedom & competition will always win out over Marxist controls... Abundance over scarcity... always a good thing for any society!

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Sunday, April 6, 2025

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Relive the incredible TRP forum from 2018!!!

Included a discussion on today's hot topic: tariffs and protectionism!!!

TRP light years ahead of the mainstream as usual!!!

The long awaited "Objectivist Panel" takes to the TRP stage!!! ...John From Conn, George the Atheist, and Bob from Stony Point join John & Frank for an enthralling 60 minute discussion that you simply don't want to miss!!!  

"The meeting of the minds..." (None of the 3 are affiliated with an "official" Objectivist organization but they consider themselves "Objectivists.")

It's a great compliment to TRP that three regular listeners and callers are "Objectivists!"

10's of millions of Ayn Rand's books have sold and 100's of thousands more sell every year!
  • This is what "Right-wing atheism" looks like... people that believe in Free Enterprise, Individual Rights, & Reason!
  • "If something is to be believed to be true it's a good start if it's not invisible!" 😄
  • Steve Ditko, co-creator of Spider-man, is an Ayn Rand aficionado... He created Objectivist inspired comics in the early 70's... one called Avenging World...
  • Read Ayn Rand's very influential, Capitalism the Unknown Ideal...
  • Ayn Rand spoke before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 as a "friendly witness" speaking out against Communism...
  • Visit the official Ayn Rand site, The Ayn Rand Institute (ARI).
  • The Atlas Society is an "unofficial" site of note...
  • "Much of the modern Conservative & Libertarian movements have plagiarized and stolen from Ayn Rand without crediting her..."
  • Why it's moral and just to believe in Free Enterprise & Individual Rights!
  • Socialist Gene Roddenberry created the famous Spock character in an attempt to undercut logic... why he created a dichotomy between reason & emotions...
  • "Proof is the duty of the affirmative side... A negative cannot be positively proved!"
  • "Imagine for a minute if there was no afterlife... ...Would you waste your life? ...Wouldn't you be more apt to make the most out of it?"
  • Let's demand that Mattel come out with an "Ayn Rand doll" as a counterweight to their vile Left-wing "Frida Kahlo doll!" ..."Are the executives at Mattel crazy for promoting a committed Communist?!?" ..."What better inspiration for a young girl could there be than an Ayn Rand doll?!? ...Let there be a ground swell of support for it!!"
  • Why the Left is really against guns...
  • Ayn Rand on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (1967.)
  • The Ayn Rand Mike Wallace Interview (1959.)
  • Ayn Rand on Phil Donahue #1.
  • Ayn Rand on Phil Donahue #2 (1979.)
  • Milton Friedman on Phil Donahue #1 (1979.) (Famous "Libertarian" economist...)
  • Milton Friedman on Phil Donahue #2 (1980.)
  • The great men that built this country were the "Captains of Industry!" not "Robber Barons..."
  • "The Left's way of acquiring things is through force and coercion..." ..."They go after that innate human weakness... the desire of something for nothing..."
  • Experience the "sacred fire" of Liberty!
  • Frank & John From Conn debate the merits of "protectionist tariffs..." ...Read Frederic Bastiat's Sophisms of the Protectionists. 
  • Read The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution. 
  • Go on a Capitalist "vision quest"... Visit Oil Creek State Park in PA! 
  • There are no "billboards" in Vermont... Niagara Falls was a leader in the early American tourism industry...
  • George was first exposed to Ayn Rand at City College (CUNY) in the 60's ...The "Proletarian Harvard..."
  • The great "Jeffersonian," Justice Clarence Thomas, is also an Ayn Rand aficionado!
  • If you were on trial for your life... would you want the 12 jurors to deal reasonably on the facts or use emotions and faith??
  • Marxism is a religion... They have their irrational "holy trinity" of Marx, Lenin, & Engels... 
  • John From Conn shares a story about Thomas Jefferson's "holy trinity..." ...From 1791 when John Adams and Alexander Hamilton came to dinner!
  • The difference between the "Right-wing" & "Left-wing" founding fathers! ...Jefferson's "strict construction" vs. Hamilton's "living breathing document..." ...To understand fully read: Inquiry into the origin and course of political parties in the United States, by the great Martin Van Buren!
  • "The Left are not bird crap on the feet of Jefferson's statue!"
  • Why do we need philosophy?? ...Read Philosophy:Who needs it...
  • To understand the history of philosophy read The Ominous Parallels by Dr. Leonard Peikoff.
  • Robert Reich's new Lefty book is a waste of space... More Socialist drivel and Ayn Rand smearing...
  • Bob ends with a thought provoking quote, "We can ignore reality... But we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality!" Thank you!!
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Everything will be alright...

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Saturday, April 5, 2025

Citizens of America famed for our energy and freedom! Every friend of liberty & justice must pay attention with uncommon interest...

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One Neocon gets it... 👏👏👏

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Friday, April 4, 2025

The Ministry of Lies...

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Thursday, April 3, 2025

John Roberts & the elite... An obnoxious and malevolent combination...

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Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Read up Neocons & Marxists... Economic affirmative action does not work and never will! Lower taxes, Reduce inflation, eliminate regulations!

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Listen up Neocons & Marxists... Economic affirmative action does not work and never will! Lower taxes, Reduce inflation, eliminate regulations!

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Don't be fooled by the simplistic "buy American" BS. It is mainly about our freedom to buy what we want without government artificially raising prices across the board. Government should not choose winners and losers or exporters over importers...

But, be shocked and take a look at this list below of the "most American cars." Honda and many other foreign companies will be a huge beneficiary over "American companies" all at the expense of higher prices for the productive middle class. (Most "American cars" are made with Chinese parts, their prices will be going up just as much or more...)



Click here: The "Most American" car list!


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Tuesday, April 1, 2025

When it is a white minority that is brutally oppressed the Leftist world media could care a less... If they even notice they are likely to applaud...

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If we consult the lamentable anals of mankind, all governments however free in their origin have in the end degenerated into despotism. Vigilance is the price we must continually pay....

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