Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
We cannot advance until we dump the Technocrat Class and decentralize the power that the Liberal Establishment happily concentrated into the hands of corporate cartels and the central state.
Those who don't yet understand our centrally-planned cartel-state system will benefit from reading How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul (The Atlantic). I've presented related analyses in three recent essays:
Submitted by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,
Donald Trump named Neil Gorsuch to succeed Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.
The leading candidates for the job all had strong conservative credentials.
Gorsuch, 49, joined an opinion in 2013 saying that owners of private companies could object on religious grounds to a provision of the Obamacare health insurance law requiring employers to provide coverage for birth control for women.
During this morning's U.S. Steel earnings conference call, CEO Mario Longhi said he was optimistic that tubular steel had bottomed and that trade issues were improving thanks to tighter controls by US regulators to make sure Chinese companies weren't circumventing the law and dumping government subsidized steel on American shores.
Submitted by Nonie Darwish via The Gatestone Institute,
Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,
“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.”
-Ayn Rand
The torch has been passed to a new president.