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I was reading this Selena Zito piece on how the Baby Formula Shortage is affecting communities and how the politicians in charge of fixing it seem completely out of touch with the anxiety it’s causing out there in flyover country, and I was reminded of a time I was chatting with the owner of the… Continue reading Everyone has their blind spots

https://thecontinentalcongress.substack.com/p/westerns-and-the-concept-of-civic

Gangs of organized criminals loot high-end retail stores… diners at expensive L.A. restaurants are robbed at gun point… A monther with her baby in a stroller is stalked and robbed a couple blocks from the L.A. Mayor’s mansion… gangs engage in a running gun battle on a crowded Chicago street are are not charged because… Continue reading Decline is a Choice

Friends and Delegates… I’ve decided to move The Continental Congress over to the Substack platform. I think it’s the future of news and commentary and that it’s going to change both for the better. Also, it has an email function where if you put in your email the service will let you know that I’ve published… Continue reading George is headed to Substack… won’t you join him?

Ivy League grads who do nothing but bitch and whine about how they’ll never pay off their $44K in school loans… and graduates of schools like North Carolina A&T who call Dave Ramsey to tell him that they just paid off $120K in 19 months making $67K a year.

Just because a tool is popular, doesn’t mean it’s the best tool for the job. As I write this, we still don’t know what happened in Wakesha, WI nor why it happened. But if we’re paying attention, we do know something that gun rights advocates have been arguing for years… if your goal is to… Continue reading Waukesha and the Future of Terror in America?

First of all, and apropos of nothing, The Presidio was a terrible Mark Harmon movie released in 1988. Also… I’m pretty sure that’s the last time I heard the words “The Presidio”, until today. Hugh Hewitt has been talking all morning about a line item in the Build Back Brandon Bill that would send $200… Continue reading $200M for The Presidio?

Perhaps you have heard the news of a car bomb explosion outside a hospital in Liverpool over the weekend? Well… since the mainstream press no longer connects the dots when those dots lead to a conclusion they don’t want their audiences to see, I’m going to connect them for you here. Just after Joe Biden’s… Continue reading The next wave of Terrorism against the West has begun

Every Spring, the NCAA puts on March Madness, a single elimination tournament for the Nation’s best Men’s Basketball programs. The tournament features 64 teams split into 4 regions. Within each region, teams are ranked from #1 to #16. Now, while it is, techincally, possible for a 16 seed to win the entire tournament, it is… Continue reading It’s Time to Move On…

I haven’t published my usual number of essays over the last two weeks because I’ve been putting the finishing touches on a long and, I think, important essay that I’ve been working on for most of the year. And now that I can see the finish line, I’ve spent much of the time I should… Continue reading Programming Note