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    ByJames Butler

    A tariff is a form of financial self-mutilation in which one country delights in punishing another to force them to raise their import prices. In the 1930’s, the over 900 tariffs levied by U.S. Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act worsened The Great Depression. During The Great Depression 44 percent of the U.S. population lived on farms. Today’s…

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    The Press Conference: “No Truth for You!”

    ByJames Butler

    “Say it!! America is DOGEland!” And if you go chasing rabbitsAnd you know you’re going to fallTell ’em a hookah-smoking caterpillarHas given you the callCall AliceWhen she was just small -“White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane. “Meet ‘Hannibal!,’ Your New Gatekeeper“ Girl, you really got me goin’You got me so I don’t know what I’m doin’Yeah,…

  • The Crosswalk

    ByJames Butler

    We spoke of a walk to school through miles of snow; our children will speak of their trauma crossing the school parking lot. “The Crosswalk” “Assault on Education” “Not Tardy Today” Of Such is the Kingdom of God, Pastor Jim Postscript See also CBS’s Story FSU Student and Parkland Survivor Describes Experiencing A Second School…

  • “Move Fast … and Break Things:” The Game Played in the Devil’s Basement

    ByJames Butler

    While a sitting President’s adoption of “Move Fast and Break Things” might work for teenage savants in Silicon Valley, this process does not work for a Nation which lacks the shelter of a parent’s basement. Bulldozing government agencies and enterprises, citing that Advanced AI will save us, actually forces us into the servitude of AI….

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    Coins of Truth: The Need for Good Faith Truth-Telling

    ByJames Butler

    In the midst of a U.S. Government shutdown with no end in sight, the Treasury Department floated the idea of minting a $1 dollar coin in the likeness of Donald Trump: My Two Cents: The Scarcity of Good Faith We live at a time when the U.S. faces a scarcity of good faith dealings by…