Author Archives: bayouobservant

                For once, I am stymied to think of a great first sentence to catch the attention of readers. I would love to have some grandiose way of drawing you, my friend, into this article so strongly that you can’t help but read it through. Maybe I need a nap. I don’t know. Point is,Continue reading “The Government Is Not Our Friend”

                A new COVID “relief” bill has passed through the Senate and the House and is sitting on President Biden’s desk. This bill exceeds the omnibus bill from December with a $1.9 trillion price tag. In other words, between these two bills, and in less than three months, the government is earmarking roughly $3.3 trillionContinue reading “Burning Through Money”

Between 1922 and 1924, Benito Mussolini worked with his own administration to forcibly silence opposing political parties, free press, and trade unions, and has plenty of spies and secret police running around in Italy. In 1928, the Central Committee determined that the State had the right to effectively censor literature in the Soviet Union. LaterContinue reading “Oppression (Revisited)”

                On Monday, during the Great Conjunction, Capitol Hill was active in introducing and passing a new stimulus package for COVID relief. This relief was snuck into a simple omnibus deal for 2021, which was easy to do as the entire bill is an easy read at 5,593 pages. Total planned expenditures coming from thisContinue reading “Ludicrous Stimulus”