MAINSTREAM MEDIA COVERS FOR THE FAR-LEFT DSA

Posted on August 8, 2026 by Mike Russo

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moderate Democrat President John F. Kennedy

My book, “Proud to be American”, is on sale, on-line, for $17.95 from Amazon and also can be ordered from any bookstore. It contains 70 articles in nine categories and has 70 pictures. The book analyzes national, international and domestic problems and also critiques main- stream media and the far-left of the Democrat Party. It also has a provocative introduction and conclusion.

Without the Main Stream Media (MSM) the Democrat Party would be doing much better than it is as well as the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). How? Why? That’s what this post is all about.

For whatever reason, the Mainstream Media protects the far left of the Democrat Party. It does this by 1)not reporting on those unpopular things that Democrat politicians may say or do, by 2)misreporting a story or facts to cover for a Democrat politician or to demonize a Republican politician, and by 3)creating false stories

If MSM did the job it is supposed to do, it would force our politicians to be much more honest than they are because the media would expose them. For example, President Trump and the Republican Party are much stronger today because of the constant criticism from the media. The Democrat Party and its DSA does not receive serious criticism from the media and is consequently much weaker. Now, of course, the Party is paying the price as the truth about past cover-ups by the media become clear…one of the biggest is the fake Trump-Russia collusion as documented in the previously-classified annex to the Durham Report.

Democrats cannot win national elections with their far-left policies because those policies are unpopular with most Americans, including most Democrats. I’m talking about “men in women’s sports.” sex-change surgeries on children,” “open borders,” etc. If the Media simply did its job well, Democrat politicians would know how bad their far-left policies are and would hopefully rethink their political positions on those issues.

So what should the Democrat Party do now? Find a moderate Democrat leader, such as the governor of Maryland, Wes Moore, former Chicago mayor, Rahm Emanuel, or Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro.. moderate Democrat politicians who can win elections. The Party can’t win with the crazies at the helm in their Party, with the possible exception of New York City. If the media really wants their Democrat allies to win, they need to start being honest in their reporting.

WAS THE U.S. 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION STOLEN?

Posted on July 25, 2026 by Mike Russo

My book, “Proud to be American”, is on sale at Amazon and also can be ordered at any bookstore for $17.95. It’s a 330-page paperback with 70 articles in nine categories and with 70 pictures. “Proud to be American” analyzes national, international and domestic problems and also critiques Main Stream Media and the far left of the Democrat Party. It also has a dynamic introduction and conclusion. # # # #

Was there substantial voter and election fraud in the 2020 Trump-Biden presidential election? Most Republicans say “yes,” Most Democrats say “no.” Who’s right? Of course, this is not simply a theoretical or intellectual question and it is not only important for the 2020 Presidential election but it’s also important for taking any necessary corrective actions so that future elections have less fraud.

On July 16, 2026, President Trump addressed the Nation on the massive fraud in American elections that the FBI found and directed people to the website, WhiteHouse.gov, to see the evidence. It’s impressive. Aside from the evidence presented there. the following is why I thought that the 2020 election was probably stolen.

FOUNDATION FOR VOTER FRAUD

The FBI spied on the 2016 Trump campaign and the Trump presidency. Then the DNC (Democrat National Committee) and Hillary paid for the phony Stihl-Russia Trump dozier that served as the foundation for the Mueller investigation. Moreover, they impeached President Trump based on a phone call (which thankfully was recorded) between President Trump and the President of Ukraine. Mainstream Media slanted and even fabricated stories about President Trump and did not report on any of Trump’s numerous achievements for the U.S., including his being nominated by four countries for the Nobel Peace Prize because of his getting three Middle-Eastern countries to make Peace agreements with Israel. Finally, the three giant Internet networks censored conservative speech, like the New York Post’s article about Joe Biden and his son and brother’s corruption. All of the above led half of the electorate in America to believe that President Trump was so bad that anything they did to defeat him was ethically justified (“the end justifies the means”). Check out “The Durham Report” if you doubt any of the aforementioned.

INDICATORS OF VOTER FRAUD

I know that President Trump won re-election because the metrics, other than the phony vote results, don’t make sense. Here’s a few of the many reasons how I know that Trump was re-elected. 1) in a Michigan county a glitch was found in its Electronic Voting System software that changed 6,000 Trump votes to 6,000 Biden votes…and in 47 other counties in Michigan this same software was used in the same way…as in 28 other States; 2) twelve of the “new” House of Representatives seats that were lost by Republicans in the 2018 Congressional elections were won back by them in the 2020 election (and only two by Democrats). This is telling because this phenomenon happens in presidential elections when the Presidential candidate wins big and carries the “down-ballot” races on his/her “coat-tails;” 3) Biden overperformed with votes in only those counties in the final battleground states that made a difference to whether the state went for Biden or Trump [using analyses via Benford’s Law]; 4) Attorney Sidney Powell on 11/8/20 “Sunday Morning Futures” said that they found 450,000 ballots with only “Joe Biden” marked; 5) large bags of ballots received and counted in the middle of the night without poll watchers present and all ballots for Joe Biden; 6) the number of votes far outnumber the number of registered voters in many counties; 7) 3.5% mail-in votes rejected in the 2016 election, 0.5% rejected in the 2020 election; 8) in Nevada, signature verification machines for mail-in ballots set at 40%; and 9) see my article on this blog if you think that stealing a presidential election is far-fetched…it’s called “Unethical, Corrupt, or Criminal Democrat Party.”

THE EVIDENCE OF VOTER FRAUD

Millions of votes were stolen in the 2020 presidential election. How do I or anyone know this for sure? The evidence of voter fraud is overwhelming. I listed the major categories of fraud below for which there is a thousand affidavits:

Thousands of dead people voting.
Mail-in ballots being counted even though they were received after the deadline.
Post Office employees illegally back-dating mail-in ballots so they could be counted.
Electronic Voting System vote-counting software used in 28 states, switching votes from Trump to Biden.
Hundreds of thousands of votes being unlawfully counted without a Republican poll watcher present.
Disparate treatment of the votes, like those from the 7 Democrat counties versus the 60 Republican counties in Pennsylvania.
Biden votes put through counting machines multiple times.
Mollie Hemingway’s book, “Rigged” details how Mark Zuckerberg spent $419 million on buying election offices in many States.
Mike Lindel presented about 10 hours on OAN TV depicting how China assisted the Democrat Party in stealing the Presidential election.
Dinesh D’Souza’s DVD movie, “2,000 Mules” showing video of official, ballot boxes being stuffed with illegal ballots.
Economic Advisor, Peter Navarro’s 3-part report on the election: 1) “The Immaculate Deception,” 2) “The Art of the Steal,” 3) “Yes, President Trump Won: The Case, Evidence, & Statistical Receipt.”

POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT IN VOTER/ELECTION FRAUD

Due to the history of stealing elections by the Democrat Party, starting farther back than Boss Tweed in Tammany Hall in 1850’s New York and continuing up to the present, it’s easy for those of us who follow politics closely and love our system of government, to believe that Joe Biden became President with massive voter fraud by his Party.

However, it is a fact that the Democrat Party facilitated 80 million plus ballots being mailed to voters without them being requested by voters. This was the heart of the fraud because mail-ins are easy to fabricate and difficult to verify. Many politicians said that they didn’t want to place an undue burden on their citizens by actually requiring that they appear in person and show a photo ID, such as a drivers license (which is even required of people of questionable age to buy a pack of cigarettes). Does any adult really believe that lax voting standards have any purpose other than facilitating fraudulent voting? It is important in a democracy for people to have faith in the process by which their leaders are elected, so care must be taken that it’s done honestly and that politicians are kept far away from the process. Voter fraud is not new, but dates back to the beginning of our Republic (see Troy E. Nehls’ 2002 book, The Big Fraud; Andrew Gumbel’s 2005 book, Steal This Vote; Eric Eggers 2018 book, Fraud; the 2004 book by Hugh Hewitt, If It’s Not Close They Can’t Cheat; and the 2008 book by John Fund, Stealing Elections…How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy).

THE SOLUTION

For the 2020 Presidential election, President Trump, every Republican leader/official, and every Trump voter, needs to do whatever they could to expose voter fraud and bring all of the perpetrators to justice. “Moving on,” like some people might advise, simply perpetuates voter fraud and Republicans will never win another presidential election, and America needs to have at least two strong and viable political parties. The evidence brought to light was overwhelming, but the courts didn’t even look at it.

All election officials must follow their State’s election laws or be penalized. Since presidential elections are of national importance, the Supreme Court should get involved and require that a photo ID, either in the form of a driver’s license or a State-issued photo ID should be mandatory in every state in order to vote. Later, perhaps also a slight revision and an addition could be made to the on-line E-Verify system created by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in concert with the Social Security Administration that is currently used by employers to ascertain whether someone is in the U.S. legally. A “Voter Photo Authentication” may be in order given the amount of massive voter fraud in the U.S. (millions/year). Something also must be done to prevent criminal politicians from continuing to corrupt our elections. Blanket mail ballots should be prohibited, requested absentee ballots are okay as long as there are Internal Controls in place to prevent abuse. Serious consideration should be given to the very simple but honest voting system that the U.S. military used in the Iraqi elections it administered. In that election, voters dipped their finger into indelible ink upon voting so that they could not vote again…using only paper ballots and all taking place in one day and counted that day. It’s government’s fault that our elections got to be this bad and it’s government’s responsibility to clean it up.

For further information check out www.truethevote.org, www.judicialwatch.org, and Thomas Moore Society’s Amistad Project.

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AFTERMATH

Because I watched, listened to, and taped over 20 hours of testimony documenting overwhelming fraud in the 2020 election, I know that President Trump was re-elected President of the United States. Those who disagree have not seen or heard the evidence but are simply basing their opinion on all of President Trump’s court challenges being defeated, not knowing that they were defeated based on procedural grounds and that the massive amount of evidence was not even heard. In addition to having the 2020 Presidential election stolen, the next consequence of overlooking the massive election fraud was the stealing of the January 5 run-off elections for both senators from Georgia using the corrupted vote-counting machines and its malicious software. However, Senate Majority leader, Mitch McConnel, also helped lose both Senate seats by not agreeing to give Americans $2,000 stimulus checks a week before the election, which President Trump advocated.

On January 6 there was a Trump rally in Washington where president Trump spoke. Hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters attended it at the Ellipse across from the White House.. Meanwhile, about a mile away, hundreds of right- and left-wing fringe rioters, previously planned (according to the FBI) and got positioned at the Capitol by 12:45 pm, which was before the President finished his speech at 1:11 pm. They then broke into the Capital building, which interrupted Congressional election-fraud debate and certification. Debate resumed hours later and Congress certified the Electoral College votes. The media coverage of the “Stop the Steal” rally, Congress’ election-fraud debate, and the violence in the Capitol building was pitiful. It exploited the violence by accusing President Trump of inciting it. He did not, but asked rally attendees to “walk down to the Capitol to…cheer on our brave senators and congressmen to peacefully and patriotically make our voices heard.” However, as I mentioned, the violent Left- and Right-Wing protesters were already there with the intention of breaking in and disrupting the Congressional debate on election fraud.

President Trump pleaded with all after the violence began at the Capitol to go home. Nancy Pelosi asked that the 25th Amendment be invoked to throw President Trump out of office, otherwise the House would impeach him. The days following, President Trump appeared on T.V. and said that he was focusing on the peaceful upcoming transition. Later, the President tweeted that he would not be attending Joe Biden’s inauguration…President Trump is not a hypocrite politician. Incidentally, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts was more responsible than any other government official for the violence by not at least giving a fair hearing to Texas’s lawsuit joined by twenty-two other states and the President because they (allegedly) did not have “standing.” In other words, it manufactured “lack-of-standing” as the pretext for avoiding doing its job as the court of last resort and gave no recourse to 75 million Americans who knew the election was stolen.

On January 20, 2021, Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States and was a disaster. Now, what will Trump supporters do with the massive evidence of voter fraud? I taped over 20 hours of it and I know tens of thousands of other Americans did as well. I predict that this issue will not go away…and may eventually even lead to violence. It needs to be fully investigated before most people will be placated. To add insult to injury and continuing to inflame emotions, big tech companies and other large corporations penalized anyone that said that the 2020 Presidential election was stolen, which it was. God help us.

HOW IS PRESIDENT TRUMP GOVERNING? PROS & CONS

Posted on May 30, 2026 by Mike Russo

My book, “Proud to be American”, can be purchased at Amazon or ordered at any bookstore for $17.95. It’s a 330-page paperback book with 70 articles in nine categories and with 70 pictures. “Proud to be American” analyzes national, international, and domestic problems and has a provocative introduction and conclusion and critiques Mainstream Media and the far-left of the Democrat Party. # # # #

Some believe President Trump is the greatest president since George Washington. Others believe he is the worst since Jimmy Carter. As someone schooled in government (Fels Government Center, Wharton School, U of Penn) and with over 40 years of working with the Federal government and few years work with a State government and a large city government, I thought I’d use my perspective on the Trump presidency as a 1/2 conservative, 1/2 classic liberal and look at the pros and cons of Trump’s governing.

To be perfectly fair, it’s difficult for a multi-billionaire, President, married a wonderful woman, and having raised 5 successful children, to be humble. Therefore, when Trump goes overboard with bragging about his accomplishments, I understand (but do not condone) his style.

One negative about President Trump is that he is thin-skinned and rebuts or comments on every criticism directed at him. He gives his enemies credibility by even bothering to comment on the absurd criticisms which they repeat from Mainstream Media. He strongly believes in hitting back, which he thinks will stifle more attacks. President Trump’s sometimes inarticulateness and lack of precision and specificity is another one of his negatives. A good example is his claim of millions of fraudulent votes in the 2016 presidential election. He should have immediately followed his comment up with citations to about half-dozen studies showing that he was right and then cited specific examples that people can better relate to, such as comedian Al Franken stealing the Minnesota Senatorial election from Norm Coleman in 2008.

Trump’s critics accuse him of lying but he and his supporters often do not provide enough specifics to counter their spurious claims. Their claims can easily be demolished in a few minutes so I know it’s possible. I’ll cite just one example, President Trump’s first-term inaugural swearing in crowd-size disagreement: the Obama photo of his inauguration crowd size and the Trump photo were obviously taken from different vantage points, Obama’s from a low height looking out over the podium, Trump’s from the high top of the Washington monument, looking from the back of the crowd. In addition, the photos were taken at different times of day: the Obama photo at noon when he was sworn in, the Trump photo at about 11 am, about an hour prior to Trump’s swearing in when the crowd wasn’t all there yet. I know this to be true because I watched the proceedings all inaugural morning. However, I believe President Trump should have simply brushed it off by saying something, “no big deal, we had a lot of people and so did President Obama.”

All of the negative “cons” concern President Trump’s personal shortcomings, as well as things that he said or did’nt say. Now let’s look at the “pros,” those positive features of President Trump’s presidency. He has done more in his time as President than any other President in American history that I know of. The Sunday morning political shows are pitiful in explaining this, only looking at legislative accomplishments. His tax cuts and jobs act in his first term stimulated the economy to unbelievable highs and unemployment to new lows. The Big, Beautiful Bill in his second term made permanent the tax cuts that were to expire on January 1, 2026.

Within a few weeks of beginning his second term, President Trump stopped all of the illegal immigration coming into the U.S. from our southern border. He also used Executive Actions, mostly Executive Orders, to get many things done, like temporary immigration bans from countries that have poor records of vetting citizens, of reversing duplicative regulations that kill jobs and hamper job creation, of enforcing immigration laws, etc., etc., etc. In addition, President Trump has persuaded many large corporations to pledge billions for new plants and jobs in America. Moreover, due to his Reagan-like economic plan and pledges from many business leaders, the stock market has hugely increased in value since the day Trump was elected president.

But his most important achievement is his confronting Iran and removing its lunatic leaders from developing nuclear weapons. Both African-American and Hispanic-American employment is highest in history and female employment is the highest since the 1950’s. President Trump has earned the reputation of sleeping only a few hours/night…of being an unbelievably hard-worker. Were it not for fake news on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, New York Times and the Washington Post, I believe the President’s approval would be about 65%. Instead of what it is today.

In evaluating President Trump, it is most important to separate his words from his deeds. Whether you agree or disagree with what President Trump is doing, he has already fulfilled many of his campaign promises and has pledged to fulfill them all.

IS CAPITALISM ETHICAL? DOES SOCIALISM WORK?

Posted on May 16, 2026 by Mike Russo

My book, “Proud to be American,” is on sale at Amazon and also can be ordered from any bookstore for $17.95. It’s a 330-page paperback book with 70 articles in nine categories and with 70 pictures. The book analyzes national, international, and domestic issues and also critiques main stream media and the far-left of the Democrat Party. Finally, it contains a provocative introduction and conclusion.
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Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and many other politicians, as. well as academia, advocate Socialism.

Let’s take a close look, first with very brief definitions of Capitalism and Socialism so we’re clear as to what we’re talking about. From the book, ‘isms and ‘ologies by Arthur Goldwag, Capitalism is the “free exchange of goods in a competitive marketplace.” Also, in that book, “Socialism” is defined as the opposite of “Capitalism.” Further, “In socialist economies, the means of production are either controlled by or directly owned by the state…” European and Nordic countries are not socialist, but simply are capitalist countries with many welfare benefits, free healthcare, and very high taxes.

Capitalism is fueled by a motive to make profits and it does this by providing goods and services that consumers want and at a price that can beat competitors’ prices who also provide similar goods and services. This forces capitalists to constantly improve quality and undercut competitors’ prices. Socialism eliminates the profit motive and therefore satisfies some people’s altruistic side and also attempts to redistribute wealth from the “haves” to the “have-nots,” satisfying some people’s idea of fairness. Because in Socialism there is no continuous need to improve efficiency and effectiveness, there usually is significant waste and inefficiencies. Capitalists would argue that they earn their profits, attending college for many years and then working 70-80-hour workweeks… and it’s their taxed profits that enables government to have the money to help others.

Capitalism creates wealth, which then is taxed and used to help the poor and needy. Socialism makes equality of outcomes most important, consequently leading to everyone being equally poor with no large sums of funds available for government and charities to help those in need. Socialism takes away the incentive for people to work hard and excel to provide for themselves and their families. In 2019, the top 50% of taxpayers paid 96% of all Federal taxes. The bottom 50% of taxpayers paid 3.6% of Federal income taxes.

Government is usually the culprit behind much fraud, unemployment, and economic downturns and was responsible for our recent past economic woes. Loans to people unable to repay them was the precipitating event that caused the 2007-8 economic downturn. Quasi-government Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac forced banks, with threats of lawsuits, to make those bad loans. Therefore, to have the government fully control the economy is insanity. Most government officials usually do not understand business, do not understand how jobs are created, do not realize how the unintended consequences of many of its regulations seriously hurt people and the economy.

The Dodd-Frank Bill, proposed by and named after two of the most significant initiators of the 2008 economic downturn (Congressman Barney Frank and Senator Chris Dodd), was absurd. For all of its harm to small banks and to the economy, it didn’t even address the cause of the downturn, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

So, let’s answer our two basic questions, “Is Capitalism Ethical”, “Does Socialism Work?” Capitalism is a huge engine for job creation and wealth to the extent that the Pacific Rim countries have embraced it, as well as China (and they are all becoming wealthy fast)…and there’s nothing unethical about making a reasonable profit for providing goods or services. Socialism, on the other hand, has never successfully worked though it could be forced to work, but at the cost of civil liberties, prosperity, unemployment, and political interference in all aspects of our lives.

Finally, what about some people becoming billionaires? Is it ethical for anyone becoming that wealthy? Huge wealth is certainly a possibility and a reality under Capitalism. However, the top ten percent of the wealthiest people pay over 71 percent of Federal taxes and also eventually give away much of their wealth, after providing for their families and to charities, which use it much more wisely than the government ever will. Finally, if you still have a problem with Capitalism, then call it “free enterprise” which means the same thing but is more descriptive and uncontroversial. And if you’re still unconvinced if socialism works or has ever worked, just check out what’s happening in Cuba and has happened until recently in Venezuela; and if you still think Socialism is great, then continue to vote for National Democrats (who are quickly becoming socialists) and be prepared for the decline of the United States. Margaret Thatcher said it best, “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”

WHAT’S BEHIND FAR-LEFT POLICIES?

Posted on May 9, 2026 by Mike Russo

My book, “Proud to be American, is available at Amazon and also can be ordered at any bookstore for $17.95. It’s a 330-page paperback book with 70 articles in nine categories and 70 pictures. My book analyzes national, international, and domestic problems and also critiques main stream media and the far-left of the Democrat Party. It also has a provocative introduction and conclusion. # # # #

“Many believe that the policies championed and supported by the political Far-Left are crazy because they make all Americans worse off. I also find Far-Left policies difficult to understand in terms of making people’s lives better, so I thought it useful to attempt to discover why the Left adopts them, especially since the entire Democrat Party is adhering to them and they have (predictably) adversely affected most Americans. I sincerely believe that Far-Left policies will destroy the Democrat Party.

1.IMMIGRATION: As promised during his Presidential campaign, Joe Biden pursued open borders, especially along the U.S.’ southern border. Most Americans, though very compassionate, did not approve because drugs and many criminals were sneaking across with the help of Mexican cartels. Biden and the Democrat Party facilitated this with the pretext of compassion, but the real reason I believe is because they know that at least 3/4 of them will eventually vote Democrat and that the children of illegal immigrants will automatically be U.S. citizens who, of course, could vote (and will probably vote Democrat).

2. ECONOMY: Inflation became as high as 9.1% in June of 2022. Many necessary products (like baby formula) were not readily available in parts of the U.S. The economy was technically in a recession. These phenomena were all the fault of President Biden and Democrat Party policies, mostly from multi-Trillion-dollar legislative bills that were voted into law or, in the case of baby formula shortages, from incompetence (like shutting down the largest producer [Abbott] on flimsy suspicion without devising a plan to replace it). Biden’s pretext(s) were numerous, like the Ukraine War, stopping Russian oil purchases, climate change, compassion, President Trump, etc. The real reasons are: 1) the political far-Left wants it, and 2) incompetence.

3.CLIMATE CHANGE: The Left is anti-fossil fuels (gas, oil, coal). It has shut down pipelines and oil and gas leases, raised prices for permits, and discouraged institutions to loan money for oil and gas exploration and drilling. All of these policies have resulted in decreased oil and gas production which in turn resulted in much higher prices for oil, gas and the 6,000 products made from them. A significant percentage of the very high inflation under President Biden was largely due to Biden and the Democrat Party, using the pretext for their policies as “concern about climate change”; the most significant threats to the U.S. are actually China, Russia, Iran and North Korea and the concern about climate change was absurd, given these real threats, because America will likely be bombed into the Stone Age with three EMP (electro-magnetic pulse) nuclear bombs exploded far above the atmosphere in the U.S. long before climate change has any effects, which appear to be minor. The real reason for the Left’s climate change policy is that it serves as a pretext for trying to destroy capitalism in the U.S. (by banning fossil fuels which are currently necessary to the American economy).

4.GUN CONTROL: The Left’s solution for preventing mass shootings is to ban guns from mentally-healthy, law-abiding citizens, despite the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing this right. The fact that there are currently about 400 million handguns owned by Americans make’s this rationale ridiculous. Also, criminals do not follow the law and have no problem getting guns no matter what the law says. The real reason I believe is that if and when the Left is ready, it will take control of the U.S. and citizens would not have the weapons to fight back. Sounds crazy? This “craziness” is the reason the Founding Fathers had for including the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights (to help keep government from becoming a dictatorship…[see the Federalist Papers]).

5. ELECTION FRAUD: There has been some cheating at elections ever since elections have been held. The fraudsters have continually improved their tactics to the point now that they can win any election they want to win. Recently, the massive onslaught of mail-in ballots, using the pretext of fear of Covid, enabled Joe Biden to become President of the United States. The movie, “2,000 Mules” and the book, “Rigged” provides sufficient evidence, though there’s a lot more available, which I have seen and written about in another post on my blog.

6.ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Vehemently supported by the Left, their pretext for pushing expensive electric vehicles is to get off of fossil fuels because they increase carbon emissions in the atmosphere. However, the electricity needed to charge the batteries in electric vehicles is also generated by the burning of coal and natural gas. Also, electric vehicles are more vulnerable to EMPs (Electro-Magnetic Pulses) compared to gas and diesel-powered vehicles. Finally, electric vehicles require about 19 or so “rare-earth” minerals, which are mostly produced in or controlled by China. Of course, this means that the U.S. would be dependent on China, our strongest adversary, to get the rare-earth minerals it needs to build cars. The subsidies to new companies and their kick-backs to the Left for electric vehicles and their batteries I believe is the real reason for those vehicles, not climate change.

7.RACE: The Left has used race almost since its inception in 1828. It was pro-slavery, then pro-Ku Klux Klan, then pro-Jim Crow laws, then pro-Eugenics (Margaret Sanger and her “Planned Parenthood”). Consequently, African-Americans voted Republican from Emancipation in 1863 to about 1960, at which time they voted mostly Democrat with as much as 96% in Presidential elections. The Democrat Party’s very poor performance in helping African-Americans is turning many to vote Republican. The Democrat Party’s constant emphasis and focus on race has seriously hurt race relations. The pretext is “concern for people of color.” The real reason is they have had enormous election success using race and want to continue to use it. I believe that it is behind most of the racial division in the U.S.

8.CRIME: The Left is much more concerned about the rights of criminals rather than the rights of victims, possibly for the prison vote since more States are allowing prisoners to vote. The pretext is that over 50% of prisoners are black, though their percent of the population is only 13%, and this “unfairness” can be corrected by not prosecuting crimes. While President Biden and the Democrat Party initially supported the “Defund the Police” movement, his vice-president, Kamala Harris (while still just a Senator) actually paid to bail-out rioters in some of the 574 riots held by Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA during the summer of 2020. Mega-donor and Far-Left billionaire, George Soros, funded the campaigns of many big-city district attorneys that stopped prosecuting most crimes in their cities, which of course led to the huge increases in crime in those cities.

9.THE MILITARY: President Biden gave small increases to the Defense Department (now called the Department of War) budget which were too small to even keep up with inflation. Most Democrat presidents are either neutral or anti-military, which results in a weaker military. With the military, the Far-Left doesn’t usually hide its disdain except that it doesn’t want a strong America, because it believes we are racist and don’t deserve it. However, the U.S. needs a strong military to counter China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran. Democrat-appointed military leaders focused on teaching CRT (Critical Race Theory), and other non-military issues that were politically-motivated and consequently weakened our forces.

CONCLUSION

I only listed nine areas above but there are many others, such as education in the public schools which the Left is destroying. The Left used to hide their motives and beliefs, but increasingly it is coming out with simplistic (and ridiculous) solutions to complex problems. A good way to see what they are really up to is to watch what they do, not say, because they know the right words to say. Moreover, Main Stream Media, as well as CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, Washington Post, etc. are all “in-the-tank” with the Left, so they can’t be trusted to just accurately report the news. Great books that provide evidence on what the Left and most of the Media are up to is Mark Levin’s, “The Democrat Party Hates America”, “American Marxism,” “Unfreedom of the Press”, and Pete Hegseth’s “Battle for the American Mind.”

BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP WAS FOR FREED SLAVES

Posted on May 2, 2026 by Mike Russo

My book, “Proud to be American”, is on sale at Amazon and can be ordered at any bookstore for $17.95. It’s a 330-page paperback book with 70 articles organized in nine categories and with 70 photos. It has a provocative introduction and conclusion, provides well-researched information to combat fake news, and critiques the far left of the Democrat Party. # # # #

Much of the information in this post came from brilliant constitutional lawyer and best-selling author, Mark Levin, in his “Life, Liberty, and Levin” TV program on January 25, 2025.

President Trump issued an Executive Order, dated 1/20/25, banning “birthright citizenship”. In the past, anyone born on U.S. soil was automatically a citizen. The authority for this was said to be the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. However, birthright citizenship has been abused with women from countries all over the world coming to the U.S. in their eighth month of pregnancy and having their babies on U.S. soil and thereby instantly becoming U.S. citizens. Let’s take a look and see how this situation evolves.

According to Mark Levin, it all began with the Dred Scott v. Sanford Supreme Court decision in 1857 which contained an opinion from the presiding judge that freed slaves were not U.S. citizens. In response, the Civil Rights Act of 1866 was passed by Congress shortly after the end of the Civil War giving birthright citizenship to the freed slaves. However, this was not deemed good enough so the 14th amendment to the constitution was passed in 1868 to reiterate what was in the Civil Rights Act. It contained two measures: 1) being born in the U.S. and 2) being subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. However, you need to see for yourself. Here’s the exact wording of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment:

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

Interpretation of this provision has historically been unimpressive and has never been reviewed by the Supreme Court so the issue needs to be clarified by it. Many political activists ignore the second measure and therefore arrive at an erroneous conclusion. We’ll see what the U.S. Supreme Court decides.

HOW TO RECOGNIZE FAKE NEWS

Posted on April 28, 2026 by Mike Russo

My book, “Proud to be American,” is on sale now at Amazon and also can be ordered at any bookstore for $17.95. It’s a 330-page paperback book with 70 articles in nine categories and with 70 pictures. It analyzes national, international, and domestic problems and critiques Main Stream media and the far left of the Democrat Party. it also has a provocative introduction and conclusion. # # # #

How do you know if news i.s fake? This question was especially important in following the Kyle Rittenhouse trial where the mainstream news media as well as CNN and MSNBC were atrocious in continuously misstating the facts. I know this because I watched some of the trial and heard the facts. What’s to be done? Over the years I originated the following:

First, you need to consider the source of the news and ask yourself, “how does the journalist know what s/he is telling us?” Many sources are simply someone’s conjecture being stated as fact. If journalists were completely honest, they would begin many of their opinion pieces with something like, “I believe,” or “I think,” rather than stating what they think as fact.

Second, you need to look at access. Most of the time you hear journalists, with no special access to the President, report on what the President is thinking. Once again, you need to ask yourself, ” how did they get their information?” It usually is speculation stated as fact or some anonymous unreliable source.

Third, you need to look at the track record of the journalist for reporting factually. After observing a potential source of information for accuracy, I decide whether to continue to use that source, because it’s very time-consuming to double and triple-check every fact (so I need to know who I can believe). Fox News’ Brit Hume, Shannon Bream and Laura Ingraham are three of the many sources I trust. Mainstream media, such as ABC, CBS, and NBC simply could not be trusted for reporting accurate information about anything involving President Trump. Cable channels CNN and MSNBC are even worse to the extent that they are simply left-wing propaganda channels. OAN (One America News) was mostly straight reporting of the news and reported about four times more news that any other TV channel, but of course it has been taken off the air.

Fourth, I avoid journalists who also are not truthful. Being partisan is O.K. as long as the reporting is accurate and truthful. For example, MSNBC’s Rachel Madow is very partisan and is not truthful, while Fox News’s partisan Sean Hannity is truthful, so I can trust Hannity but not Madow for accurate information.

Fifth, there are many other sources, including bloggers and radio talk-show hosts, who are great sources of solid information. Radio talk-show host, Rush Limbaugh, now deceased, immediately comes to mind as someone who was a reliable source of accurate information. Washington Examiner’s investigative journalist and chief correspondent, Byron York, is a great source.

Sixth, the very best source is the original, real, actual source of information, the kind you see on CSPAN-1, 2, or 3, not most journalists or reporters. Subject-matter experts, like Gordon Chang and Michael Pillsbury, are great sources for information on China. The best source for what President Trump said is President Trump himself.

Seventh, Mark Levin’s book, Unfreedom of the Press, Bernard Goldberg’s books, Bias and Arrogance, and Bob Kohn’s book, Journalistic Fraud, are but a few of the books that document how biased the news media is. Everyone should be extremely careful taking anything from the mainstream media as factual and accurate. The very best source to check on what sources are accurate is the Media Research Center (MRC). Most “Factcheckers” are worthless, or even worse, misleading.

CONCLUSION

Critical thinking is essential to determining whether a piece of news is real or fake. If you are extremely partisan or are emotionally engaged for either side, looking at the news objectively is very difficult, but is possible if you really want to know the truth. You need to take shortcuts for determining fake vs. real news because thoroughly going through an analysis each time you hear a news story takes too much time that most people do not have. My shortcuts are essentially watching and listening to credible, accurate and truthful sources. With Kyle Rittenhouse I watched some of his trial and concluded that it was clearly a matter of self-defense, though it was imprudent of Kyle to go to the Black Lives Matter riot. On the other hand, if you simply watched the reporting of the trial instead of the trial itself, you probably think that Rittenhouse was guilty.

Finally, be cautious in quickly accepting as fact anything you hear, read, or even see. If it sounds crazy, it probably is. The media has an agenda and usually doesn’t even report those things that don’t fit into its agenda (censorship by omission). It is disheartening to see but it’s today’s reality. Eternal vigilance in scrutinizing the media is necessary to keep it honest at simply reporting the news rather than fabricating or twisting it; our decisions are based on the facts we believe to be true; therefore, it’s very important to determine which news is real and which is fake.

FINDING RELIABLE POLITICAL POLLS

Posted on April 18, 2026 by Mike Russo

My book, “Proud to be American,” is on sale at Amazon and also can be ordered at any bookstore for $17.95. It’s a 330-page paperback book with 70 articles in nine categories, 70 pictures, and a provocative introduction and conclusion. It analyzes national, international and domestic problems and also critiques Mainstream Media and the far left of the Democrat Party.

My quest for reliable polls began with the presidential polls used for the 2016 presidential election. With only two exceptions, they were completely wrong. If you knew those two exceptions in advance, you could have predicted the outcome of the election. I did so and therefore was 75% certain that Donald J. Trump would become our next President. It was really simple: I looked at the polls that accurately predicted the previous (2012) presidential election. There were only two, one of which polled daily, the Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll. Therefore, I only believed the Rasmussen poll.

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I initially thought that the reason for the poor poll results was simply the biased media funding fake polls in order to create a bandwagon effect (“push polls”) for their politician. However, I decided to examine polls and find out why they differed so much. The following is what I learned:

a) The design of a poll can easily create any outcome the pollster wants. For example, the pollster determines what percentage of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents to use in his or her polls. These percentages largely determine the results of a poll. Most of the recent polls used 24% of Republicans although the 2016 and 2018 election exit polls showed 33% of Republicans voted…which explains why the polls were so wrong.

b) Whether a poll is of: a) all adults, b) registered voters, or c) likely voters, is the next most important factor in determining the results of a poll. Only half of all adults vote, 80% of registered voters, and over 90% of likely voters vote. The most accurate poll of Presidential elections has been the Rasmussen daily presidential tracking poll which polls “likely” voters.

c) The way in which poll questions are worded can significantly influence the results of the poll. For example, a question can be worded: 1) do you approve of the President? OR 2) do you approve of the President’s job performance? OR 3) do you like the President? OR 4) etc., etc., etc. Often poll questions are deliberately ambiguous and therefore the results can’t be trusted.

d) How many people you poll is very important in order to get a representative sample. Nothing under a 1000-person-poll is very reliable.

e) How you select the people to be polled is very important. For example, only selecting people from the inner city would result in an overwhelming number of people favoring a Democrat and would not be a representative sample. Same is true for a poll conducted of New Yorkers only.

f) Who is sponsoring the poll is extremely important. A poll funded by the New York Times, Washington Post, or CNN will not depict a Republican President favorably because those newspapers and that TV station have a partisan agenda and are therefore unreliable.

CONCLUSION

I’ve attempted to show how polls can be manipulated to shape public opinion rather that gauge it. I believe that most political polls are seriously and deliberately flawed and therefore I don’t believe them to be reliable. Past performance is the best way to judge a poll. For example, the Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll I used to believe to be the best of all of the Presidential polls, based on its past performance in both the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections. In 2020, the Trafalgar poll was very accurate. In 2024, the “Insider Advantage” and the “Trafalgar” polls were the most accurate. . Looking at past performance, therefore, is the quickest and easiest way to determine how accurate or misleading a poll is.

UNDERSTANDING DEMOCRAT PROGRESSIVE POLITICS (interview w. David Horowitz)

Posted on April 11, 2026 by Mike Russo

My book, “Proud to be American,” is on sale at Amazon and also can be ordered from any bookstore for $17.95. The 330-page paperback book contains analyses of 70 national, international and domestic problems in nine categories and with 70 pictures. It also critiques Mainstream Media and the far left of the Democrat Party and includes a provocative introduction and conclusion. # # # #

The Democrat Party is still attempting to understand why it was beaten so badly in the 2024 election. The Progressive Left wants to keep its control of the Party though for most Democrats it’s too extreme. David Horowitz provides keen insights into the far left of the Party. He (to listen to my 26-minute interview with him, if you’re reading this on my website, click on the blue “play” icon below and if the sound doesn’t begin, then click on the loudspeaker icon alongside) is a prolific author, speaker and political activist. His latest book is America Betrayed. Mr. Horowitz currently is the director of “The Freedom Center” which he created in 1988. He went to Columbia University as well as the University of California at Berkeley and was the editor of the Left’s leading magazine, “Ramparts.” I believe Mr. Horowitz’ greatest asset is his insight into Leftist politics.

In my interview, he explains why he changed from being a revered and high-level, Leftist Socialist from 1956 to 1975 to a Conservative in the late 70’s, especially considering that his parents were members of The American Communist Party. Mr. Horowitz tells his spell-binding and compelling story with names, dates, and places. He tells what motivates the Left and gives his views on Leftist positions.

In the interview, Mr. Horowitz explains:

Why and what the Left hates.
The anti-war activists’ change in their protests against the Vietnam war once the draft was ended in 1974, why many Left leaders of the 70’s (John Kerry) have ”blood on their hands,” and much more.
How and why he knows that the Black Panthers killed his accountant, Betty.

If you want to learn more about Left politics, you should enjoy this 26-minute interview. Click on the blue “play” icon below and if the sound doesn’t begin, then click on the loudspeaker icon that is or will appear alongside of it. My website is www.mikerussoexpose.com.

David Horowitz – Political Left Audio

Interview by Mike Russo

Donald J. Trump: A TOUGH PRESIDENT FOR TOUGH TIMES?

Posted on February 21, 2026 by Mike Russo

My book, “Proud to be American” is on sale now at Amazon or can be ordered at any bookstore for $17.95. It’s a 330-page paperback with 70 articles in nine categories and with 70 photos. The book analyzes national, international, and domestic problems and also critiques Main stream Media and the far left of the Democrat Party. # # # #

Today’s world is tough, real tough, with China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea constantly attempting to do harm to the U.S. and its allies. A tough President is needed to deal with these threats but many politicians are very weak and are not capable of handling them effectively. On the other hand, President Trump has demonstrated that he stood up to any country that tried to take advantage of the U.S., including China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, as well as Europe and NATO.

To continue examining Donald Trump…he’s a “street fighter”. “Turning-the-other-cheek” is not for successful politicians in our tough world. On being elected President, Trump improved his messaging and appointed impressive people to help him develop his policies and lead his Cabinet. He had a resounding electoral victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016, thanks to his strong backbone and outworking her by far. Upon becoming President, he implemented policies that he advocated during the election, including the strongest economy in 50 years and the lowest unemployment rates ever for African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans. If he had been re-elected in 2020, he would have gone down in history as being one of our greatest presidents, and possibly would have even taught Republican Senators how to fight hard for what they believe in. In other words, to be tough when warranted.

I believe that most Trump supporters like him for the same reason that I like him: he has a stiff spine, is not timid, and fights for America first. When he’s criticized by the Press or political opponents, he doubles-down and fights back even harder. In addition, Trump’s focus on illegal immigration, the military, healthcare, war on terror, the economy, the China and the North Korean threats, Iran, law and order, etc., touched a nerve with the electorate and he consequently took numerous actions to address all of these.

Failed weak recent Presidential candidates include Mitt Romney, who lost the 2012 Presidential election to President Obama. He was more than capable, as evidenced by his outstanding performance in his first debate with President Obama. When viciously attacked by the Obama campaign, he refused to fight back. Governor Romney’s poor performance came on the heels of Senator John McCain’s poor performance in his 2008 Presidential campaign. Moreover, it also followed President Bush’s unwillingness to fight back when constantly fraudulently accused by the Left that, “Bush lied, people died” about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Other failed recent weak Presidents include Joe Biden and Barack Obama.

I’m not advocating that the President of the United States engage in foolish struggles on matters that can’t be won, but I also believe in not backing off when Democrats and the Main Stream Media make false allegations or when other countries threaten us. For example, President Trump imposed tariffs on Chinese products, placed sanctions on Iran after getting out of the insane Iran deal, got the U.S. out of the ridiculous Paris Climate Accords and the job-killing TPP, and frequently legitimately called fake news (ABC,CBS,NBC, CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, Washington Post, etc.), “fake news”.

America needs Donald Trump to prevent a major war; to stop the massive illegal immigration; to get the price of oil drastically reduced so as to financially hurt U.S. enemies, like Russia and Iran, as well as to drastically reduce inflation. The time for “Sugar Lips” presidents is over. The U.S. needs a President who puts fear in the hearts of its enemies, especially Xi and Putin.

CRITERIA/STANDARDS FOR CHOOSING A PRESIDENT

Posted on February 7, 2026 by Mike Russo

My book, “Proud to be American” is on sale now at Amazon for $17.95 and can also be ordered from any bookstore. It’s a 330-page paperback book that contains 70 of the best articles on my blog in 9 categories with 70 pictures. My book analyzes national, international, and domestic problems and also critiques Main-Stream Media and the far left of the Democrat Party.

Many believe that politics is stupid because of all of the partisan bickering that goes on. That may or may not be true, but it’s irrelevant…our President makes decisions that affect not only us, but our children, grandchildren, and many other countries around the world.

Based on the controversy of the previous Presidential elections, I developed the following non-partisan criteria for selecting a President. I came up with them after looking at everyone else’s and concluding that they were inadequate. My qualifications for doing this are: 1) I followed politics since 1960, 2) my Masters degree from the University of Pennsylvania is in Government Administration, 3) my graduate courses in program analysis and evaluation and law, and 4) working for the Federal, State and local governments for 44 years. My seven criteria for choosing a President are listed below and are prioritized and listed in the order of their importance:

1. POSITIONS ON ISSUES: this criterium is by far the most important reason why one should select one presidential candidate over another.

2. EXPERIENCE: there is no job exactly like the presidency but there are some jobs that provide relevant experience. It’s not a coincidence that seventeen of our U.S. Presidents have been Governors of a State. Being a Governor provides the best experience for the presidency, however any executive or managerial experience is relevant and useful. High-level military experience is also good. Legislative and legal experience is useful but not ideal. Check out the accomplishments of the candidate.

3. EDUCATION: A masters degree in either Government or Business Administration is probably the most relevant education a President could have. A law degree is helpful. Business education is also helpful.

4. OPEN-MINDEDNESS: In U.S. politics, the politician is either on the left or the right and this ideology can be constraining at times for finding the best solutions to a problem or dilemma, so willingness to “go-across-the-aisle” and being a good listener can be a great asset for a president.

5. INTEGRITY: one of the important qualities but not so common in many politicians. This is important because the President may ask the Country to go to war or to make some other sacrifice, so we need to be able to trust him or her and not think that whatever is being done is for political purposes.

6. PUBLIC SPEAKING and CHARISMA: for his “bully pulpit” duties, a President would be well-served by being a master of the spoken word, and if he or she is charismatic as well, so much the better.

7. HEALTH (physical & mental): sufficient physical health to travel around the world and throughout the U.S., as well as adequate mental health to make good decisions.

CONCLUSION

You may agree or disagree with my seven criteria or perhaps you simply may want to add a few more. Whatever…but it is important to have criteria (or standards) to use, otherwise you’ might do what many people do: vote solely by political party, vote because of something irrelevant like age, gender, physical appearance, ethnicity, race, or emotions. While most elections don’t matter that much, the 2016 Presidential election was one of the most important in U.S. history, and the 2020 Presidential election was also very important, but in a negative way because it reversed many of the great achievements of former President Trump. It appears that a majority of voters used valid and good criteria in voting in the 2024 Presidential election..

It used to be relatively easy to carefully consider my aforementioned seven criteria in judging presidential candidates. With today’s partisan media, it’s difficult to get accurate information, but it can be done with effort. The fate of the U.S. depends on who you vote for.

ARE ELECTRIC VEHICLES BAD FOR AMERICA?

Posted on January 24, 2026 by Mike Russo

My book, “Proud to be American”, is available at Amazon or can be ordered from any bookstore for $17.95. It’s a 330-page paperback book with 70 articles in 9 categories and with 70 pictures. My book analyzes national, international, and domestic problems and also critiques Mainstream Media and the far-left of the Democrat Party.

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Auto companies are making electric vehicles, using the environment and government incentives and regulations as their justification…but Americans aren’t buying them. Journalists haven’t even questioned the numerous assumptions in our government’s decision and have displayed an unbelievable amount of incuriousness. Therefore, let’s ask a few basic questions that have not been asked by so-called “professional journalists”.

o Fossil fuels are burned somewhere to generate the electricity that fuels electric vehicles. Are the pollutants created by the fuel burned by automobile gas engines greater than the amount created by burning the fuel necessary for producing the electricity needed to power electric vehicles?

o Are electric vehicles more susceptible to EMP (electric magnetic pulse) attacks than gas-fueled automobiles. Aren’t the high-voltage transmission lines that carry the electricity from the power plants to the gas stations extremely vulnerable to an EMP attack?

o The batteries used by electric vehicles require rare-earth minerals (Neodymium, Dysprosium, Cobalt, Nickel, etc.), most of which come from or are controlled by China whereas the U.S. could produce enough oil to fuel all of the cars on the road, and even have plenty to export. Isn’t this a serious national security problem?

o The motivation of the younger generation for supporting electric vehicles is cleaner air; the motivation of government leaders appears to be massive under-the-table cash from “kickbacks”. Think of the one-billion-dollar, government-funded, battery-factory boondoggle, “Solyndra,” as a great example (where the funds it received disappeared).

o Electric vehicles can eventually have a “kill switch” that can immediately disable them. This has serious ramifications for tyrannical government officials because government can shut down anyone, anytime.

o Because electric vehicles are limited in the distances they can travel due to lack of recharging stations and how long it takes to recharge batteries, they limit freedom to go wherever you want, whenever you want.

CONCLUSION

The United States has huge gas, oil and coal reserves. In fact, it developed them to the extent that it exported oil and gas during Donald Trump’s first term as President. Under President Biden, it paid its enemies for oil, having shut down leasing Federal lands for oil and gas, as well as stopping construction of the Keystone XL and the Dakota pipelines, stopping drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, and significantly raising fees for drilling. These policies made the U.S. more dependent on Russian and mid-East oil, enriching those countries and giving them the funds they needed to cause mischief around the world. With the advent of electric vehicles, China had a great deal of control over most developed countries due to its possession of over 90% of the world’s Cobalt, Nickel, and other rare-earth minerals that are necessary to make the batteries that are used in electric vehicles. In the event of a war, America’s power plants would probably be destroyed very quickly, leaving those Americans with electric vehicles stranded. Electric Vehicles do have a place and of course should be available to anyone that wants one but the United States should therefore think twice before going “all-in” with electric vehicles

UNDERSTANDING AFRICAN-AMERICAN POLITICS (audio interview w. author Kevin Jackson)

Posted on January 10, 2026 by Mike Russo

My book, “Proud to be American,” is available from Amazon and can also be ordered from any bookstore for $16.95. It’s a 300-page paperback with 68 articles in nine categories and 70 photos. The book analyzes national, international, and domestic problems and also critiques Main stream Media and the far left of the Democrat Party. # # # #

I decided to interview Mr. Jackson, author of the books, The Big Black Lie, How I Learned the Truth about the Democrat Party; Race Pimping; and Sexy Brilliance; (25-minute audio of interview…click on the blue play icon below) because he is rare indeed…an unabashed African-American conservative. Moreover, one won’t hear his views from traditional black leaders or the mainstream media but his views are worth listening to.

Mr. Jackson has degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, was a management consultant for some of the world’s largest companies, ran his own sales organization, and has his own Blog and talk radio show. He is a dynamic and elegant speaker who is in high demand for his clarity of thought and expression.

The interview with Mr. Jackson focuses on African-American politics and explores why Mr. Jackson holds the views that he does. He has been on MSNBC, O’Reilly, and Cavuto, among many others, and has a clear and studied loud message for African-Americans, as well as anyone else interested in the welfare of that community.

In the interview, Mr. Jackson tells us about:

How blacks were sold out by the Democrat party
How to criticize former President Obama without being considered a racist
How the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was far more supported by Republican Congressmen than Democrat Congressmen
Why the Democrat Congress failed to revise welfare law even after Democrat Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan reported on how its “no man in the house rule” was destroying black families
The origins of the 2008 financial meltdown, and much more.

To listen to my interview with Mr. Jackson’s, please click on the blue play icon below and then the hyperlink under them.

Kevin Jackson-African Americans Audio

Interview by Mike Russo.

UNDERSTANDING PRESIDENT TRUMP

Posted on December 20, 2025 by Mike Russo

for further reading…

My book, “Proud to be American,” is on sale for $16.95 at Amazon or can be ordered from any bookstore. It’s a 300-page paperback with 68 articles in nine categories. It analyzes national, international and domestic problems and also critiques Mainstream Media and the Far Left of the Democrat Party. # # # #

All of his adult life Donald Trump followed important issues and donated to both Democrats and Republicans (see Trump’s book, “The America we Deserve”). He was not ideological or partisan. He was a super-patriot and eventually thought he could use his business acumen to turn America around, which he believed had become very weak, militarily, economically, and culturally. After thoroughly checking with political experts, he decided to run for the Republican presidential nominee. Not being a polished politician, his blunt talk won over many Americans who were tired of slick-talking, do-nothing politicians. His goal as President really was to “Make America Great Again”! Donald Trump is “old school”.

With Republican majorities in both the House and Senate for the first two years of his first term as president, President Trump was able to pass significant tax rate cuts for almost everyone which led to the economy doing extremely well for all of its sectors. Many of his accomplishments resulted from his abolishing numerous counterproductive Obama regulations that had put a “wet blanket” over the economy (former GE CEO Jack Welsh’s description). In addition, President Trump used his negotiating skills to deal with the huge trade imbalances the U.S. had with China, Japan, Mexico, etc. Moreover, because of his blunt talk, unpredictability, and decisiveness, adversary countries took his threats seriously and were much more accommodating to him than to previous U.S. presidents.

Everything in this article up to this point has been positive, so why did so many people have an intense hatred of President Trump? My belief is that it’s mostly because President Trump hits back very hard when attacked. His opponents, the Democrat Party, the Mainstream Media, Hollywood, and Academia are not used to any Republican fighting back when attacked. Republican leadership is infamous for being timid. Another major reason why so many hated President Trump is due to the incessant criticism Main Stream Media spouted off every hour of every day, almost all of it phony. Finally, although President Trump really had made America great again through his numerous accomplishments, he had a few annoying personal mannerisms that turned off many people, including me (though I still admire him for how he helped the U.S.).

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I would characterize these annoying personal mannerisms as shortcomings in emotional intelligence. Here’s some examples of what I mean: 1) “punching down” like calling Jeff Sessions “stupid” and Stormy Daniels “horseface”; 2) having his “child” hooked by Joe Biden during their first 2020 election debate and consequently reacting emotionally instead of intelligently to other debate questions, like “Do you denounce white supremist groups…?” The best answer would have been a simple, “Yes, of course I denounce them,” instead of his confusing reply); 3) focusing his 2020 campaigning on Biden’s shortcomings, instead of what he would do if he were re-elected (including reducing annual budget deficits and total national debt); and 4) the disrespectful manner in which he criticized Joe Biden personally. These shortcomings (as well as unprecedented massive election fraud by the Democrat Party) helped cause President Trump to lose re-election despite all of his outstanding accomplishments for America.

President Trump had turned around so many failing national endeavors and every single day made even more progress for America. If he had been re-elected and continued at his “Trump Speed,” I believe he would have become our greatest president. He did win the 2024 Presidential election and is on his way to become one of our greatest presidents. Don’t believe me? Wait one year after all of his policies have had time to take effect.

WHY AMERICA’S HUGE INCREASE IN CRIME (from 2021 thru 2024)?

Posted on December 6, 2025 by Mike Russo

My book, “Proud to be American,” is on sale at Amazon and also can be ordered from bookstores for $16.95. It’s a 300-page paperback book with 68 articles in nine categories and with 70 pictures. My book analyzes national, international and domestic problems and also critiques Mainstream Media and the far left of the Democrat Party. # # # #

Crime increased dramatically during Biden’s four years in America’s large cities and even spilled over to the suburbs and towns (Federal statistics, however, showed a decline because many municipalities did not report). In order to stop the increase and even reverse it, one must understand what caused it. Politicians say it’s the frustration caused by the Covid pandemic; others look at where the crime is occurring and the policies being pursued in those localities and conclude it stems from bad policies that were enacted in the past year that encouraged crime. This post attempts to find the root causes of the crime-wave.

To begin, we need to see just how much crime there was in prior years to determine if it’s as bad (or as good) as the press says it was. Of the sixteen American cities where homicides have vastly escalated, 15 were run by Democrat mayors and city councils. This is important because those policies affecting the criminal justice system in the15 were very similar and therefore may be the cause of the very large spike in homicides. The policies I’m referring to are: 1) defunding the police, 2) not prosecuting robberies where the dollar amount of the stolen merchandise is under a specified amount, 3) city district attorneys not requiring cash bail for criminals who are then let free until their court date, 4) double standards for not prosecuting crimes against some groups (BLM, Antifa), 5) allowing illegal migrants into the U.S. who were criminals in their own countries, 6) etc..

The aforementioned policies and practices are absurd, however, for those that believe they are good, I submit the following:

Defunding the police does not make police more careful about not violating civil rights. Prosecuting bad policemen is part of the answer. Training is another part. Less police mean less enforcement. Less enforcement means more crime.
Not prosecuting robberies of under a certain cost inevitably leads to many more robberies because criminals know that will get away with it.
District attorneys not requiring cash bail leads to many more criminals being free and on the street until their court dates.
When some groups (BLM, Antifa) get away with rioting and destruction of businesses, but other groups are held to a much higher standard (January 6 protesters), faith in the fairness of American Justice is lost (and tells people on the Left that they can get away with arson, looting, and mugging).
Allowing illegal migrants into the U.S. is obviously illegal; allowing known foreign criminals into the U.S. is crazy so President Trump ended it as soon as he became the President.

All of the above seem self-evident…it’s not rocket science to conclude what I concluded. Therefore, why would such policies ever be adopted? There are some people that believe our justice system is unfair to minorities and the poor; however, courts offer free legal representation to anyone who can’t afford it. While it may not be ideal, it does significantly help. The criminal justice system policies being advocated and used by the Far-left have unintended consequences for law-abiding citizens that are intolerable. Politicians and District Attorneys that advocate such policies need to be voted out of office and their destructive policies reversed.

OBAMACARE EQUALS NO HEALTH INSURANCE (unless it’s subsidized)

Posted on November 8, 2025 by Mike Russo

My book, “Proud to be American,” is on sale for $16.95 at Amazon and also online from most bookstores. It’s a 300-page paperback book with 68 articles in nine categories and with 70 pictures. The book analyzes national, international, and domestic problems and critiques the far-left of the Democrat Party and the Propaganda Media. # # # #

The Federal Government shutdown was basically about the Democrat Congress insisting that the Republican Congress budget $1.4 trillion to continue the extra subsidies to Obamacare that were provided during the Covid epidemic (and Trump and the Republican Congress refusing to do so but it is very expensive pitiful insurance and the epidemic has been over). Because it’s controversial, you really need to know something about it.

As of November 2025 Obamacare remains in effect. As of early 2025, approximately 45 million Americans were covered by Obamacare-supported medical insurance coverage. Without subsidies, Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unaffordable for most people. Because it is so bad, many looked to President Trump in his first term to repeal and replace it with something much better and much less expensive. Because employers were not required to provide heath insurance for part-time workers, for some time after the passage of Obamacare, most new jobs employers created in the U.S. under Obamacare were part-time.

I’ve been a supporter of universal healthcare since the year 2000 and, although I did not vote for President Obama in 2008 and 2012, I was hopeful that he would make good-healthcare-for-all a reality. It did not cross my mind that Obama would promulgate legislation that would destroy healthcare for many more Americans than it might help. It also did not occur to me that healthcare premiums for the unsubsidized would double, triple, or even quadruple because of Obamacare…and that deductibles would be as expensive as four to twelve thousand dollars/year and co-pays double for the unsubsidized what they had been pre-Obamacare…and that all of these consequences combined would have the cumulative effect of destroying healthcare for tens of millions Americans.

Let’s give the creators of Obamacare the benefit of the doubt and assume that their hearts were in the right place, and that the passage of the ACA was not simply an attempt of government takeover of 1/6 of the U.S. economy (with healthcare). The Affordable Care Act demonstrated that it was not affordable and was pitiful health insurance…it was poorly and incompetently designed and executed. It reminds me of the homily that “an elephant is a mouse designed by committee,” but in the case of the ACA, it was designed by one political party in Congress.

But wasn’t Obamacare designed to be like Romney-care, which was passed by Mitt Romney when he was a Republican governor of Massachusetts? That’s what politicians said to justify Obamacare, but that’s not true. Romney-care only affected about 8% of the Massachusetts population. Obamacare affected everyone except those exempted by the President. Romney-care did not have penalties or mandates that Obamacare did until it was repealed by President Trump in his tax-rate-cuts law during his first term. The very few good aspects of Obamacare, pre-existing conditions and coverage by parents’ insurance until age 26, could have been simply added in new health insurance Federal legislation.

Although Obamacare is clearly very bad and expensive health insurance, except for those receiving significant subsidies or exemptions, the U.S. may be stuck with it. The reason is totally political. One sixth of the economy is healthcare. The ACA or “Obamacare” is a politician’s dream come true but the average American’s nightmare. With thousands of dollars required for deductibles before reimbursement by insurance companies kicks in, Obamacare for most ends up basically being only catastrophic health-care insurance, which is important and necessary, but not something one should pay a lot of money for.

An opportunity for Obamacare to be either repealed and replaced came with the 2016 Presidential election. Only if Republicans controlled the Presidency, the Senate and the House of Representatives could Obamacare be replaced with healthcare that was affordable without massive Federal subsidies. Legislation failed in 2017 because of Senator John McCain, who promised to vote for a Bill in the Senate to overturn it and then, last minute without informing anyone in advance, did not vote to overturn it.

It’s time for President Trump and both the Democrats and Republicans in Congress to jointly create an inexpensive but great health care insurance system that doesn’t require massive government subsidies. America deserves no less!

WORSING DEMOCRAT vs. REPUBLICAN DIVIDE BECAUSE OF THE NEWSMEDIA

Posted on November 1, 2025 by Mike Russo

Nixon-Kennedy TV debates in 1960

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It’s the Newsmedia’s fault! For what? For all of the political insanity, for the assassination of Charlie Kirk, for the hype surrounding Jimmy Kimmel’s firing, for threats to ICE agents increasing by 8,000 percent, etc.

Main-stream news media is completely out of control to the extent that nothing it reports can be believed as factual. How could I possibly know that? Every day I spend a minimum of 5 hours listening to the news, mostly on TV but also in magazines, radio, and books. For years I spent about 15 hours/day monitoring national news, though I got my start slowly by following politics about 65 years ago when I was 16 years old and watched the Nixon-Kennedy presidential debates on TV. with my father.

How exactly does the Media get away with its sloppy work? Let’s take a look at how: 1) “Omission”…by simply not reporting stories that do not follow its pre-conceived notions; 2) reporting only one side of an issue; 3) reporting speculation as fact; and 4) by misreporting facts and figures.

The political divide in the U.S. is due mostly to the Propaganda media. Almost everything I hear said about issues are fabrications by the media and repeated by innocent Americans. An honest, unbiased media that accurately reports the news is desperately needed (but don’t hold your breath).

My interest in politics comes from my burning desire for good government but top government leaders are politicians (so I have no choice in following politics). I’d rather avoid politics because it can be sleazy. My Masters degree from U of Pennsylvania is in Government Administration and my 40+ yr. career was with the Federal government with a few years work with a large city and a state.

WHAT QUALIFIES ZOHRAN MAMDANI TO BE THE NEXT NYC MAYOR?

Posted on October 25, 2025 by Mike Russo

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“Each generation must learn anew” because when they don’t know the past, they are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past. If this were not true, candidate Zohran Mamdani’s polls would be in the toilet because the history of Socialism demonstrates that it always makes everything worse for everyone. Mamdani calls himself a Democratic Socialist rather than simply a Socialist, which is what he is (there’s nothing “democratic” about a socialist). Other than for political purposes, it doesn’t matter what you call it. To get a good look at Socialism, check out my article on this blog entitled, “Is Capitalism Ethical? Does Socialism Work?”

The policies Mamdani has pursued as a member of the NYC Council and as a candidate for mayor are disastrous. However, the Mamdani campaign focused on the unaffordability of living in New York City but offered unworkable Socialist solutions. Mamdani is young and good-looking and offers the appealing promise of everything being free. If you saw the mayoral debates, especially the final one, perhaps you changed you mind about voting for Mamdani. The other mayoral candidates, Cuomo and Sliwa took him to the woodshed but how many people even watched it because they already made up their minds.

Given the above, will Zohran Mamdani be elected mayor? The last poll showed he had a 47% approval with Andrew Cuomo at a distant 30% and Curtis Sliwa 16%. It looks like he will and because the present generations were not taught history. Experience is a harsh teacher but some don’t learn any other way.

Finally, what qualifies Mamdani to be the mayor of a large metropolitan city? Nothing!

WILL PRESIDENT TRUMP BECOME OUR GREATEST PRESIDENT?

Posted on October 18, 2025 by Mike Russo

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I believe that President Trump will become our greatest president. Let’s take a look…

George Washington was our greatest President…without him there would be no United States of America. Abraham Lincoln was our second greatest for ending slavery and preventing the South from seceding from the Union and therefore keeping the United States as one country. Ronald Reagan was our third greatest because America was in a huge mess after Jimmy Carter’s presidency and he turned it around by cutting taxes and Federal regulations which grew the economy, and by rebuilding our military to the extent that the Soviet Union collapsed. The Gross Domestic Product (which is the measure of the size of the economy) almost doubled in the ten-year period from the time Reagan’s cuts in tax rates went into effect (1983).

I believe that Donald Trump will become our greatest President: he already knows the best policies to pursue for the U.S. to prosper…how to create a great economy, eliminate Federal budget deficits, handle sticky international problems, and strengthening our military, including getting the last 20 Israeli hostages freed and ending illegal immigration into the U.S. He perhaps can improve his dealing with Democrat leadership and the Propaganda Media and be more careful in his choice of words to protect himself from the “Deep State” and the likes of Dick Durbin, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff, etc.

A few of the President’s major accomplishments in his first term include his initiating and signing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which stimulated the U.S. economy, big time. This came as President Trump terminated thousands job-killing useless regulations, initiating a huge increase (10 trillion dollars) in the Stock Market, creation of 7 million new jobs, low unemployment rate (3.5 %), increases in the Civilian Labor-Force Participation Rate, and growth in the Gross Domestic Product. Moreover, by giving the military more flexibility in fighting ISIS, areas formerly held by ISIS were recaptured. President Trump built an illegal-immigration-stopping wall on our southern border and attempted to end chain migration and VISA-lottery immigration. He also made huge increases in the military budgets for both FY 2018, ’19 and ’20, which significantly improved the military’s strength and readiness. He also negotiated great trade deals with China, Mexico, Canada, Japan, South Korea, etc. and cracked down on China’s intellectual theft from America. He created 9,000 economic opportunity zones in inner cities and other poor areas and passed prisoner reform legislation to help prisoners be treated more fairly. Despite massive resistance, President Trump also temporarily stopped travel from China to the United States on January 31, 2020, in order to slow down the spread of the Coronavirus from China to America. Finally, in his first term he appointed three excellent Supreme Court justices and creatively using financial incentives, had Covid-19 vaccines developed in record time.

What does President Trump still need to do in his second term to become the greatest President in U.S. history? I believe that Trump made America great again despite everything the mainstream media and the Democrat Party did to stop him, like four ridiculous indictments. I think that Trump’s political enemies will be somewhat responsible for how he becomes great. There is a simple Arab saying that makes it clearer, “the greater your enemy, the greater the victory over that enemy.” President Trump has many powerful enemies.

After seeing what President Trump has accomplished in his first term, and watching him make scores of more improvements at his “Trump Speed” what else does he still need to do? This is what I believe he should do:

Continue eliminating ineffective government programs and agencies and reducing the size of the Federal workforce, especially the IRS.
Eliminate annual budget deficits and make a plan to pay down the National Debt.
Continue rebuilding the military to be stronger than it ever has been to counter China and stop its intellectual theft from America.
Significantly reduce or eliminate the opioid crisis,
Expose and end election and voter fraud,
Continue revitalizing and making safe depressed inner cities,
Clean up corruption in government and political parties,
Continue appointing more conservative judges,
Be more congenial, criticize in private, praise in public.
Add more Middle Eastern countries to the Israel-Arab Abraham Accords, especially Saudi Arabia.
Deport the illegal immigrants who are rapists, murders, and other criminals and possibly all of the recent illegal immigrants.

In today’s partisan political climate, it’s difficult to get much accomplished without great effort, but President Trump has gotten many things done despite his many enemies. We’ll know in a few years just how great a president, President Trump was. He has significant headwinds from Mainstream Media which has become completely corrupt, and election fraud which has become massive and pervasive. Since Mainstream Media hasn’t changed, the outcome of the presidential election depended mostly on how much of the election fraud was prevented. Thank you Lara Trump and the 230,000 volunteers that stopped the steal enough in the 2024 presidential election for Donald J. Trump to become our 47th president.

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PRESIDENT TRUMP IS AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT…TO THE DEMOCRAT PARTY!

Posted on October 4, 2025 by Mike Russo

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The Left constantly accuses President Trump of being a “threat to democracy.” The President is a threat, but not to democracy, to the Democrat Party. Why? He is moving at his famous warp speed to make America greater than it has ever been and the Democrat Party is fighting him every step of the way. My proof? The most reliable and accurate polls in the U:S. for the past dozen years: “Insider Advantage, “Trafalgar,” and “Rasmussen,” all three of which has Trump’s approval rating at 54%.

One might wonder, “why would anyone not like Trump cleaning up Washington, DC?” Cleaning up crime with 1,000 arrests in a few weeks, taking 100 handguns from juveniles, many illegal aliens, large amounts of fentanyl, etc. I believe that the answer to that question is that Trump would get the credit and his detractors do not want that to happen. As a former Washington, DC resident for a dozen years while working for “Uncle Sugar” and having been mugged and stabbed while living there, I appreciate anyone cleaning up that city.

With the hundreds of billions that Trump’s tariffs are making for the U.S. Treasury and to be used to pay down the national debt and perhaps give rebates to taxpayers, President Trump’s popularity (and that of his Republican Party) should soar. The Democrat Party will obviously not like this and will create some half-baked reason why this great deal is actually bad for America. This is another threat to the Democrat Party.

There are at least another one hundred more threats to the Democrat Party from President Trump’s successes in making America great.

GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN FACTS

Posted on September 27, 2025 by Mike Russo

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The Federal budget for this fiscal year (FY 2025) expires on October 1. Since the new budget for the new fiscal year, which begins on October 1, won’t be ready by then, a Continuing Resolution (“CR”) is needed to continue funding the government until a new budget is ready. To date, a “clean” CR has been passed by the House of Representatives to fund the government for seven weeks at the same level that it was funded for the previous fiscal year. The passage by the House only required 50% of the Congressmen and Congresswomen. The House CR was characterized as “clean” because it did not contain any extraneous provisions. The Senate version of the CR requires approval by 60 Senators. There are only 53 Republican Senators (but only 52 voted for it) and Democratic Senators are asking for $1.5 trillion in new spending as their price for approving the CR and keeping the Federal government open. This new spending is mostly to provide for medical care for illegal immigrants. It is important to this issue to know that anyone, including illegal immigrants, receives free medical care (if they can’t afford to pay) in the Emergency Rooms in U.S. hospitals (so no one in America is left without medical care).

President Trump is hanging tough and has said he will not spend the $1.5 trillion that Senate Minority leader, Chuck Shumer, is demanding to approve the CR. What happens if the Federal government is shut down beginning on October 1? Here’s a list of the most important things that will happen come October 1 without a CR:

Federal government employees, including the military, do not get paid for the time that the Federal government is shut down but Congress usually pays them for all of their shutdown time off soon after the government opens back up.
During shutdowns, those employees deemed “essential” (about 2/3 of employees) are asked to continue to work without pay (though they eventually usually do get paid once the government re-opens).
Social Security checks continue to be mailed out uninterrupted.
The U.S. Post Office continues to deliver mail.
Medicare and Medicaid payments continue.

Government shutdowns create needless pain. Currently, the Trump Administration is being held hostage because of the shutdown threat. There are proposals, as well as proposed legislation, to eliminate them. Let’s hope that happens, but don’t hold your breath. As a former Federal employee, I recall with nostalgia my wonderful fully-paid-for three-week government shutdown vacation in the mid-nineties.

DEFEAT THE RADICAL FAR-LEFT POLITICALLY

Posted on September 20, 2025 by Mike Russo

NY City Tammany Hall leader “Boss” Tweed, 1860’s-70’s

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Although I’m slightly more conservative than liberal, I try to be even-handed in my writing. However, the Left has become so radical, and even criminal at times, I think that one article that is not even-handed is in order and appropriate. The following is a brief summary of what I believe has and is happening to adversely affect U.S. politics:

1. Former President Biden used to be a moderate Democrat for most of his political career, but he governed as a far-left radical after becoming President of the United States. His policies were difficult to understand and appeared to be all geared to hurting Americans and the U.S. Examples of this include his dismantling of the myriad of immigration and border policies that kept the number of illegal immigrants entering the U.S. very low; putting America in huge debt and causing massive inflation by wasting trillions of dollars in allegedly helping Americans get over the pandemic; dividing America along racial lines by supporting and funding Critical Race Theory; weakening our military by not providing it with enough funds to even keep up with inflation; by removing economic sanctions from our adversaries such as Iran, China, and Russia.

2. Mainstream (“Propaganda”) Media has become so dishonest that absolutely nothing it says about President Trump can be believed. It is also guilty of “bias by omission” since it reports next to nothing that makes President Trump look good.

3. Democrat Party leaders refuse to debate issues but instead make “ad hominem” (personal) attacks against President Trump and Republicans. The reason for this is that their policies are absurd to the extent that they cannot be successfully defended from arguments against them.

4. Far-left Democrats should commend former Presidents Biden and Obama (I’m being facetious here) because they did their bidding by trying their very best to drastically weaken our military, economic system, and Healthcare in order to further their Socialist agenda and that of the Democrat Party (by furthering policies that would create a large permanent poverty class dependent on the government for basic subsidence). His political party allowed large numbers of illegal aliens into the U.S. since most will eventually vote Democrat, and Obama doubled the National debt (from $10 trillion to $20 trillion), coming close to bankrupting the country (and President Bide attempted to finish the job with massive deficit spending.

5. The Democrat Party, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden destroyed healthcare insurance for millions of Americans; only those receiving free medical insurance do well under Obamacare.

6. The far-left shouts down conservative speakers on college campuses, as well as destroys property in its demonstrations, thus demonstrating it does not believe in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on freedom of speech and it also cannot debate anyone that disagrees with them.

7. Many Democrat leaders, such as Democrat Congresswoman, Maxine Waters, and the House of Representatives Democrat “Squad,” have advocated violence while the Main-Stream Media falsely accuse President Trump of instigating violence (I taped Trump’s January 6 speech…to “peacefully and patriotically make you voices heard”).

8. Some Republican leaders are timid and cannot competently argue conservative policy positions though those positions are far better than liberal positions. Were it not for Fox News and Newsmax cable TV stations, talk radio, President Trump, Governor DeSantis, Ted Cruz, Tim Scott, Rand Paul, Jim Jorden, James Comer, etc., the Republican Party would be in bad shape. In other words, as ridiculous as most liberal positions are, the timidity of some Republican leaders really hurts the adoption of conservative policy positions.

9. I believe that the far-left wing of the Democrat Party is shaping and mentally preparing its followers to hate Republicans and take over the Federal government. We need to expose this criminality whenever we find evidence that it is happening’

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In conclusion, if and when the Democrat Party loyalists ever see what has happened to their Party and punish it by not supporting it (voting for it and contributing to it) until it changes, the Party should then clean itself up and consequently become more competitive and win many more elections. Let’s pray that everything remains peaceful as we go through the consequent political turmoil and do whatever we can to defeat the far-left politically.

WAS CHARLIE KIRK AND PRESIDENT TRUMP SET UP FOR ASSASSINATION?

Posted on September 13, 2025 by Mike Russo

Charlie Kirk

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“Trump is a dictator and a fascist! Charlie Kirk was a Nazi and hateful! Trump ordered the military to invade and occupy Washington, and is threatening to invade Chicago, Boston, etc.”

Why all of the hype and crazy-talk? Is it simply to persuade the simple-minded, uninformed, or misinformed to vote for anyone except President Trump’s political party? Is that all there is to it?

Attacks on ICE agents have gone up 1,000 percent because of all of the deliberate mischaracterization of what ICE is doing. President Trump has had two attempts on his life because of his demonization by the Democrat Party and Propaganda Media. We know now what the crazy-talk leads to so why isn’t it being toned down?

I contend that it appears to be deliberately done to get President Trump killed, but not because he’s a dictator (he’s not) but because he’s very effectively assisting the Democrat Party in destroying itself…and Charlie Kirk assassinated because he was very effective in combatting all of the nonsense indoctrination spued by far-left professors at most universities as well as leaders of the Democrat Party, and then endlessly repeated by Propaganda Media (CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC). I believe that Kirk’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, was probably radicalized to the Far Left during his brief stay at Utah State University as well as by social media on-line. We will find out.

I spot-checked Charlie Kirk’s campus rallies to see for myself if he was hateful, and found that he was a moral, ethical, and loving father and husband who loved America, all Americans and the Lord, but that the Far Left felt compelled to silence him for peacefully and Socratically asking people questions about their beliefs.

As Erika Kirk said in her September 12 tribute to her husband, “Turning Point USA will become bigger than ever”. Meanwhile, twenty-two-year-old Tyler Robinson will probably either spend the rest of his life in prison or be put to death by lethal injection.

To answer my question on whether Trump and Kirk were set up for assassination, it really doesn’t matter whether it was deliberate or not, the demonizing rhetoric by the Political Far Left and Propaganda Media is largely responsible for Kirk’s murder and Trump coming very close to being murdered.

May you rest in peace, Charlie Kirk, and may you be safe, President Trump.

TRUMP POLICIES WITHOUT TRUMP?

Posted on August 30, 2025 by Mike Russo

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Some politicians, as well as voters, say they love President Trump’s policies but do not like him personally. This is because President Trump, though he did more good for Americans than almost all other Presidents, do not like his blunt talk, demeanor, and temperament. Is it even possible to have Trump’s policies without him? Could DeSantis have successfully implemented Trump’s policies? That’s what this post is about.

I contend that you can’t separate Trump’s policies from Trump…that he is essential to implementing his policies. From dealing with China’s dictator Xi, to getting oil companies making the United States oil independent, and ending illegal immigration. As political pundit, Dick Morris, puts it in his 2020 book, Return, “his temperament and accomplishments are cause and effect. If you modulate his temperament, you won’t get the accomplishments.”

There are many people that vehemently do not like Donald Trump for many reasons, only a few of which have to do with politics. Instead, they fear his courage, his not being bribable, his wealth, his connections, his integrity, and his ability to take hit after hit and still get up and move forward to get things done for America (see my “Trump: a tough President for tough times” article). But do we really need Trump? I believe that we do, especially at this perilous time and for the reasons listed below.

The United States is at a crossroads. The Socialist-Marxists were radically changing America, beginning with indoctrinating our children in the schools (see Pete Hegseth’s 2022 book, Battle for the American Mind), winning any National election they really want through massive fraud (see my “Trump won Big!” article ion this blog), impoverishing our Nation through frivolously spending money the U.S. does not have by recklessly borrowing from the Federal Reserve who simply creates money (as well as the inflation that goes with it), by allowing illegal immigrants to enter the U.S. so their children will be American citizens and probably vote Democrat, by discouraging the use of our huge fossil fuel reserves, thus giving China a large edge in overtaking the U.S. economy, by making the U.S. more vulnerable to attack and intimidation by our adversaries (China, Russia, Iran, North Korea) by weakening our military, by wasting our SPR (Strategic Petroleum Reserve), by giving Ukraine much of our ammunition for our weapons and leaving us vulnerable to China, etc.

Former President Donald Trump has been battle-tested. We see what he can do, and do it despite all of the Crazies on the Left, which nowadays, unfortunately, is almost all of the Democrat Party, which used to be far different; and Main Stream media, which has become indoctrination centers for the Democrat Party. A Republican president needs much more than have great policies, s/he needs to be very courageous to even combat and win the Presidency given the massive election and voter fraud by the Democrat Party. America needs, and fortunately elected, President Donald Trump; very few politicians were strong enough or experienced enough for the “Final Battle” (the 2024 Presidential election). See David Horowitz’ book, Final Battle.

JANUARY 6 PROTEST OR INSURRECTION: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?

Posted on August 23, 2025 by Mike Russo

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One of the very first investigations of the January 6 protest was conducted by the FBI, which concluded there was no evidence that the January 6 protest into the Capitol was coordinated. The most recent “investigation” was conducted by the House of Representatives members, led by Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, and was totally political. Its only purpose was to smear former President Trump and Republicans to prevent Trump from running again for the presidency.

The January 6 protest was routinely called the “January 6 Insurrection” by the Democrat Party and its sympathizers, the Mainstream Media. However, there were no guns at this event. The one person killed by gunfire during the protest (Ashli Babbitt) was a protester who was an unarmed non-violent female Air Force veteran killed by Capitol policeman Michael Bird, who didn’t even see Babbit’s unarmed hands when he shot and killed her.

Wanting to appear bi-partisan, Speaker Pelosi appointed two RINOs (“Republicans in Name Only”), Liz Cheyney, Adam Kinzinger to the January 6 Congressional Committee. President Trump authorized between 10-20,000 National Guard troops to protect the U.S. Capitol on January 6 but Nancy Pelosi and Washington, DC mayor, Muriel Bowser, would not approve it (and their approval was necessary). A suspected FBI informant, Ray Epps, led and directed protesters to enter the Capitol building but the FBI never even questioned him. Moreover, left-wing activist, John Sullivan, also directed the protesters to enter the Capitol. In an interview, Liz Cheyney inadvertently revealed the real reason for the House’s January 6 Commission, “to ensure that Donald Trump can never be re-elected President.” Some of the witnesses called to testify before the Commission refused to appear because they knew the obvious: that it was solely political theater and not a serious investigation. Mainstream Media played along with the charade and reported it as if it were something other than the sham it was.

40,000 HOURS OF VIDEO

Much has been learned since January 6, 2021. The most important is that Nancy Pelosi is largely responsible because she would not agree to President Trump’s request to allow 10-20,000 National Guard ready to maintain the peace at the Protest and at the Capitol. Thanks to Kevin McCarthy for authorizing the release of 40,000 hours of video taken by the cameras in and around the Capitol. It showed most of the protest was very peaceful and respectful of the Capitol though there were some unruly protesters which were the only ones that the January 6 Committee showed to the public while they prohibited showing the mostly-peaceful protest by the majority of protesters. Meanwhile, hundreds of protesters remain in Washington jails without bail or even being charged. Jacob Chansley, the protester who wore the horned helmet, received a 4-year jail sentence and his lawyer and the judge were never shown the video exonerating him of all wrongdoing. I saw the video depicting the aforementioned on Tucker Carlson’s TV show on March 6, 7 and 8. It was very difficult to believe my eyes, and then to see and hear U.S. Attorney General, Merrick Garland, lie by stating that five police officers were killed on January 6 though no police officers were killed at the Capitol on January 6.

CONCLUSION

The January 6 protest got out-of-hand with some becoming unruly. It was politically unwise for President Trump to hold his “stop-the-steal” rally on January 6, given the Democrat Party’s penchant for deceit and the FBI’s partisan political corruption in its leadership. Democrat pollster, Pat Cadell, has called the Democrat Party “the crooked party” for good reason. The FBI investigation of the January 6 protest proved there was nothing there. President Trump did not incite the crowd to riot…I heard and taped everything he said, however, the House’s January 6 Commission’s fake investigation milked this debacle as long as it could. For a detailed and thorough account of the January 6 riot, see Troy E. Nehl’s 2022 book, The Big Fraud, and Julie Kelly’s book, January 6.

The most important “Take-Away” lesson from January 6 is that the Democrat Party has become completely corrupted and cannot be trusted about anything it says or does.

NOT YOUR FATHER’S DEMOCRAT PARTY

Posted on August 9, 2025 by Mike Russo

Hillary’s America gives a detailed account of the history of the Democrat Party. The DVD version is entertaining as well as informative.

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I remember discussing the 1960 Presidential election with my father after watching the very first T.V. Presidential Debates, trying to decide who would make the better President, Richard Nixon or John Kennedy. Both candidates had similar positions on issues. Though inexperienced, Kennedy was youthful, energetic, good-looking, and came across very well on television. Nixon was more dour and did not look good on T.V. However, my dad and I thought that Nixon’s experience trumped Kennedy’s and that this was the most important factor to consider.

Of course, Kennedy was elected President and, aside from his mishandling of the “Bay of Pigs” fiasco, governed well. Although his father, Joseph Kennedy, bought the election for his son by buying votes in Cook County, Illinois, as well as in Texas,, President Kennedy, aside from his womanizing, was basically an honest and effective president, and consequently is still beloved to this day by many millions of people. President Kennedy was one of the first presidents to cut taxes to stimulate the economy, something that no Democrat President would do today (though Democrat President Bill Clinton drastically cut the Capital Gains tax in the mid-90’s resulting in huge increases in trading stocks and consequent vastly increased revenues to the federal government (and budget surpluses).

Upon President Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, Vice-President Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as President and served out the remainder of Kennedy’s first term. His escalation of the Vietnamese war was unpopular but his Civil Rights legislation was (legislation that President Kennedy originated). Johnson allegedly said that “this will have the N****** voting Democrat for 200 years. African-Americans had been previously voting Republican for 100 years after Republican President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation (the Democrat Party was the party of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan, and Jim Crow laws).

After Republican Gerald Ford became President when Richard Nixon resigned in 1974, Jimmy Carter became the next Democrat President in 1976. Both inflation and interest rates skyrocketed under the Carter Administration, and when Carter persuaded the Shah of Iran to allow the Ayatollah Khomeini out of exile in Paris and back into Iran, Khomeini quickly fomented revolution and took over Iran. Fifty-two hostages were taken from the U.S. embassy in Tehran, were held for 444 days, and only released 30 minutes after Republican Ronald Reagan was sworn in as President in 1981. President Carter was thought to be a religious person, better suited to be the Nation’s preacher.

President Reagan reduced tax rates (which resulted in the Gross Domestic Product of the U.S. doubling in 10 years), strengthened the military (including the Strategic Defense Initiative, “Star Wars”), cut back Federal regulations, and created Individual Retirement Accounts (IRA). All of these got the economy booming.

Republican President George H.W. Bush subsequently served as president from 1988 to 1992 and had U.S. troops push Saddam Hussein’s troops out of Kuwait and back to Iraq in the first Gulf War..

Democrat Bill Clinton became President in 1992, governed as a moderate, and was considered a successful President despite his tryst with White House intern, Monica Lewinsky, which eventually led to his impeachment. Under his Presidency there were 4 years of Federal budget surpluses from his reducing the Capital Gains Tax and to Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, Budget Committee Chairman, John Kasich, and the Republican House and Senate. His support of the popular welfare reform led to greatly reduced welfare rolls and consequently to his re-election in 1996.

After Republican George W. Bush served as President from 2000 to 2008, Democrat Barrack Obama became President in 2008 on a slogan of “Hope and Change,” after serving as a U.S. Senator from Illinois for 2 years, and moved the Democrat Party to the far left. He was re-elected in 2012 and served as President for four more years. As President, Obama pushed through the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) that mandated very poor healthcare unaffordable for most people except those receiving subsidies. In addition, Obama pushed the Dodd-Frank law that destroyed 40% of community banks, shut down many coal-fired generating plants and consequently lost about one million jobs, wasted billions from the Federal budget by investing in failed “green energy” “kick-back” plants like Solyndra, emphasized man-made climate change instead of sun-caused climate change, increased the National debt from $9 trillion to $19 trillion, decreased the strength of the military to its weakest in decades, did not leave a small residual military force in Iraq which resulted in terrorists regaining a strong foothold in the region, negotiated a really bad deal with Iran which would have led to nuclear proliferation in the Middle East and possibly a nuclear war, and did not take the threat from ISIS seriously, etc..

On January 20, 2017, Republican Donald Trump was sworn in as President and subsequently implemented policies which grew the economy by over 4%/year Gross Domestic Product (GDP), after only about one and a half years in office. This after eight years of President Obama having an average of 1.9% GDP growth/year. The stock market went from about 18,000 Dow Jones Industrial Average to over 28,000 in less than three years from the day Trump was elected President. Moreover, President Trump and the Republicans in Congress significantly cut taxes on individuals, businesses and corporations which resulted in the economy growing at an unbelievable rate to the extent that I believed that budget deficits would disappear by the end of 2024 if Trump were re-elected in 2020. Finally, one of the most important accomplishments was his “Operation Warp Speed” that produced vaccines for Covid-19 in nine months, rather than the 3-4 years that it would have otherwise taken.

Joe Biden, however, became President in January 2021 and immediately began reversing President Trump’s policies. After only a few months in office the country began falling apart, with huge surges in illegal immigration and drugs, huge increases in government deficit spending and its consequent inflation, China and Russia challenging the U.S. all over the world, etc. Today’s Democrat Party is for open borders, Sanctuary Cities, high taxes, late-term abortions, Socialism, government-run healthcare, and fraudulent elections; and against ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), law enforcement, gun ownership, low taxes, energy independence, and a strong military.

From Conservative Democrat President John Kennedy to Far-Left Democrat President Joe Biden, the Democrat Party is no longer the Political Party that your father might have voted for….it has become a far-left party for the very wealthy whose dark agenda was quickly destroying freedom in the United States. This was possible only because of the corrupt Mainstream Media and Big Tech enabling it. See Elon Musk’s recently-released Twitter emails between Twitter and the FBI and “Big Tech” corporations colluding on suppressing political speech that it disagreed with.

IS INCOME INEQUALITY ETHICAL?

Posted on July 12, 2025 by Mike Russo

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A hot political issue is income inequality. The heart of the debate is that it doesn’t seem fair for some people to make millions while others are living close to or in poverty. The government already redistributes wealth through taxes and a variety of welfare programs including food stamps, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, etc., but advocates want to see a lot more. Is this fair? Is it feasible? Are there unintended consequences for even more income redistribution? Let’s check it out by first reviewing the scope of the problem: According to the latest data, the wealthiest 1% of taxpayers pay about 40% of all individual Federal income taxes and the wealthiest 10% pay about 70%. However, the bottom 50% of taxpayers only pay about 3% of all Federal income taxes.

The United States’ economy is fueled by free enterprise, also known as Capitalism. Being able to make a better life for yourself and your family motivates people to devote the time, energy and work necessary to become financially successful. This system, however, does result in some being very rich and some being poor. Free enterprise, as practiced in the United States, contains economic safety nets to help ensure that no one is destitute. Even so, some will still be bad off. Here’s where charities play a large roll, as well as simple government policies, such as those that require that hospitals treat everyone, even when they can’t pay.

For average-income Americans, the Social Security Administration has reported that in 2020, the medium household income was $34,612. This poor record was the fault of the Federal government in over-regulating businesses, until President Trump’s first term tax cuts reduced the absurdly high (35%) corporate income tax rate that forced U.S. companies to relocate overseas where rates were much lower. All of these high-tax policies are still advocated by the Democrat Party, who, in the same breath, say they’re for the “little guy” and for the poor.

Free enterprise is not perfect but has moved billions of people out of poverty in India, China and many other countries. Winston Churchill said that, “the inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” Venezuela is the best recent example of how a wealthy capitalist country becomes impoverished when it converts to socialism. Income inequality naturally occurs under free enterprise but can be somewhat mitigated through the tax system. I believe that it should therefore be tolerated but great effort made by government and businesses to naturally raise lower incomes to higher incomes.

Finally, I never got a job from someone poor. However, when I became relatively well-off, I was able to give temporary, part-time employment to others needing jobs. Most wealthy people want to help others in this way. And billionaires eventually give their money away to charities, their families, etc. However, if the government took away most of the wealthy’s money, it would surely waste it.

WHY 40% of the U.S. DISLIKES PRESIDENT TRUMP

Posted on June 14, 2025 by Mike Russo

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Forty percent of the U.S. dislikes President Trump even though he has accomplished more than any other President that I’ve seen in the last 66 years that I followed politics. Since I went to the same school as the President (Wharton, U. of Pennsylvania (but the government side, not the finance side) and am a little older (82), I decided that my opinion might be helpful.

I love what President Trump has done to make America stronger and more successful and therefore would like to see him fix America’s huge problems that were created by the far-left Biden Administration and the Democrat Party, like immigration, the military, and the economy. Other issues President Trump can resolve in his second term involve Ukraine, Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. If Trump has accomplished so much for America, then why do so many Americans dislike or even hate him and what can President Trump do to turn them around?

Americans who give President Trump low marks use his style and watch and read mostly the mainstream media such as The New York Times and Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc.. These outlets are really the PR arms of the Democrat Party and rarely are accurate or unbiased and simply do not report on President Trump’s numerous accomplishments. Moreover, Google with 92% of the search engine market and a very liberal bias, uses SEME (search engine manipulation effect) that can change voter sentiment by 37-63 %. On the other hand, Americans who support the President look at his actions and forgive his sometimes lack-of-a-good bedside manner. They realize that he was a real estate developer in a very tough neighborhood (New York) and evolved accordingly. Moreover, they really appreciate the President being blunt, on their side and fighting for them against some bad actors like China, Russia, North Korea and Iran…and they get news from Fox, Newsmax, or X, so they usually hear both sides of issues.

I believe that President Trump will go down in history as being one of our greatest, if not the greatest President. If you think that this is not so, or even worse, you really dislike President Trump, you are unaware of the hundreds of accomplishments and humanitarian deeds he has done to improve the lives of Americans. Moreover, as most countries throughout the world confront chaos from China, Russia, Iran and North Korea,, it will be president Trump that saves the U.S. from worldwide conflict. Watch what he does, as reported by an honest media outlet, and you should eventually like (or at least respect him). You will be much happier and optimistic.

HOW DEMOCRAT POLICIES HURT IMMIGRANTS, MINORITIES, AND THE POOR

Posted on May 31, 2025 by Mike Russo

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For the past 75 years the Democrat Party has promoted itself as helping the poor, African-Americans, women, and the “little guy.” Today’s modern Democrat Party says that it is the self-avowed champion of illegal immigrants. I contend that it has never been true, and is actually hurting illegal immigrants, the poor, women, and African-Americans and is no friend to these groups. This is how it is doing this:

Because illegal immigrants will work for lower wages, they push down the wages that employers pay to their other workers, many of whom are legal immigrants, unskilled workers and the poor.
Democrat propaganda says that African-Americans are continually discriminated against so many believe that they are victims and buy into the victimhood mentality and adopt defeatist attitudes and therefore don’t even attempt to excel and achieve the “American dream” because they have been brainwashed to believe it’s useless.
Many female migrants that traveled north to cross the U.S.’ southern border were sexually assaulted along their journey, so encouraging illegal immigration hurts many women (and Joe Biden and the Democrat Party encouraged illegal immigration).
Mexican cartels used illegal immigrants crossing he U.S. border to lure Border Patrol agents to other parts of the border so that they could smuggle illegal drugs, and illegal “got-aways” that are criminals in their own countries, into the U.S. much easier, so open borders is very harmful to Americans. Democrat policy is to support open border which enables the cartels.
Human trafficking was rampant through the southern border and was made possible by the cartels who charged large fees to the immigrants or had them work for them in the illegal drug trade or prostitution. Democrat policy is to support open borders which enables human trafficking.
When its advocacy of a $15/hour minimum wage is made mandatory, like in Seattle, many “starter” and “beginning-wage” jobs were eliminated, thus removing the first step of career ladders that unskilled workers need to join the workforce.
The Democrat policy to outlaw guns denies law-abiding women, poor, and minorities the capability to defend themselves from criminals with guns, which is especially important to them because crime is usually high in their neighborhoods.
Democrat advocacy and funding of Planned Parenthood, whose clinics are mostly located in Black neighborhoods, support abortions in line with the Eugenics movement promulgated by its founder, Margaret Sanger.
The Democrat Party encourages and advocates dependency on government as one of its major methods of recruiting and retaining its voter base.
The Democrat Party believes that “the ends justify the means” and its Democrat Presidents consequently have done many illegal acts such as using the IRS, Justice Department and the FBI to combat its enemies (see Mark Levin’s 2021 book, American Marxism; Stephen Moore’s 2022 book, Govzilla). This often results in their political enemies being impoverished (which was their intention), like general Michael Flynn.
Democrat leadership in all cities where they govern have inner cities, mostly of minorities, that are crime-ridden, dilapidated, and impoverished. This is a direct result of Democrat policies of Open Borders, Sanctuary Cities, easy-on-crime, banning guns, no-cash bail, high taxes, not supporting local police, rent control, etc., etc., etc..

CONCLUSION

The Democrat Party has targeted minorities, illegal immigrants, women, and the poor to vote for them but Democrat policies have actually significantly hurt them. Once these targeted groups realize this, there should be a backlash. The mainstream media, a Democrat support group, however, keeps this lie alive.

UNDERSTANDING TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME (TDS)

Posted on May 17, 2025 by Mike Russo

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What exactly is Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) and why does it matter? Loosely defined, it’s an intense hatred of President Trump to the extent that it makes someone very emotionally unhinged and completely lose control of their temper…and for a few people…leads them to violence; consequently, its important to examine how people develop TDS…

I believe it all begins with presidential candidates’ likeability. A study looked at Presidential elections over a 100-year period, comparing likeability and whether the most likeable became President. In all but two cases, the most likeable candidate was elected President. President Trump, although he has a good heart, in the 2016 and 2020 elections, spoke very assertively or even aggressively at times and also sometimes was not articulate enough for some people to understand everything he was talking about. This enabled the biased and incompetent Main Stream Media to create their interpretation of what he meant.

People can catch TDS by repeatedly being exposed to the demonization of President Trump by the news media and Democrat leaders and seeing President Trump accused of all kinds of evil ulterior motives.

Since it all begins and ends with the Media, perhaps the continual successes of President Trump and the embarrassment of the MSM will eventually soften their biased approach. If the Media would present Trump’s achievements as well as what it dislikes, this would help. Let’s hope so because America really needs a great Press to keep everyone honest, but currently it’s totally dishonest and therefore cannot be trusted to accurately report on anything.

HOW THE DEMOCRAT PARTY CAN REGAIN POPULARITY

Posted on April 26, 2025 by Mike Russo

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American needs two major political parties. I was hopeful that the resounding defeat the Democrat Party experienced in the 2024 elections would force it to do serious introspection to help ensure that such a humiliating defeat would never happen again. In fact, there were attempts from Democrats of all ilks, far-Left, moderate, and slightly-left. All of the attempts, however, advocated going even further left instead of closely examining those Democrat policies that led to the Party’s defeat. Today’s Democrat Party, with 23% approval, believes in biological men competing in women’s sports, illegal migrant murderers, rapists, and drug dealers remaining in the United States, hatred of Jews, hatred of police, fraudulent use of taxpayer money, vandalism to Tesla cars, mutilation of children’s sex organs, etc.

Because the Democrat Party, with a few exceptions, does not see what needs to be done to be competitive again, I thought I’d give my opinion, having followed politics for 65 years. For years I watched and listened for 15 hours a day to political issues, now I spend about 5 hours/day. watching and listening to discussions of national and international issues. The following is what it would take for me to vote for a Democrat president again:

1.The Democrat Party and its mouthpiece, Main Stream Media (MSM), must be completely honest in their criticism of President Trump. There are things that the President can be criticized about but almost everything I hear about Trump on Main Stream Media is phony. Perceiving and reporting on Trump’s real weaknesses is complicated and difficult whereas the ridiculous, mindless allegations by MSM are “half-simple” and require no thought or analysis. This is important because voters in the political middle and on the Right do not believe their insane fabricated drivel (and the Democrat Party needs votes from Independents and a few Republicans).

2. The Democrat Party must end their support of election and voter fraud. Despite the efforts of Main Stream Media to the contrary, more and more voters are becoming savvy and aware of the shenanigans that occur in many elections, over 95% of which are in favor of Democrats. At this point, it would not be inaccurate to call the Democrat Party the “Criminal Party.” It’s got to stop.

3.Analyze the polling on national issues and try to support the 80% on 80/20 issues. Your positions on issues are from the far-left of the Democrat Party and are not supported by a majority of Americans.

4.The exploitation of African-Americans needs to cease. The Democrat Party has harmed that race for over 150 years. At first with slavery, then with Reconstruction and Jim Crow laws, then with eugenics and Planned Parenthood, and now with politics. I believe African Americans would have been so much better off today were it not for the Democrat Party racism.

5.Whenever back in power, enact balanced budgets, keep the military strong, stop the racist politics, don’t go overboard with taxes and regulations, and most importantly, don’t lie!

CONCLUSION

America needs two strong political parties. When at their best, each keeps the other honest. Currently, the Democrat Party is very weak and the far-left or progressive wing of the Party is still running it into the ground. I can’t see Democrats winning elections with their very unpopular far-left positions on issues. At some point, America’s oldest political Party will either wake up or disappear.

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S FIRST TERM ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Posted on February 15, 2025 by Mike Russo

President Trump in the Oval Office during his first term

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Whether you agree or disagree with what President Trump did during his first Presidential term, there is little disagreement that he did a lot as President. If you disagree, you probably either did not pay attention or only watched CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, or MSNBC, since those T.V. stations generally did not and do not report the positive actions the President took or downplayed/twisted his accomplishments. To help remedy this situation, I’ve compiled a list of a few of the President’s accomplishments.

1. Created the largest reduction in Federal income tax rates that the U.S. has ever had for both people and businesses, leading to the largest economic boom the U.S. has ever seen. This has resulted in the lowest unemployment rates ever for African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and Asian-Americans, and an overall unemployment rate of 3.5%. It also has meant about 10% increase in wages to the lowest-paid workers and a total increase to average American families of about $10,000 and larger revenues from Federal taxes because of the vastly-increased economic activity.

2. Revised as much of Obamacare that was legally possible and replaced it with much better and less expensive healthcare insurance.

3. Ordered and signed hundreds of Executive Orders largely directing various Federal agencies to eliminate job-killing regulations.

4. Withdrew the United States from the do-nothing “Paris Climate Accords,” preventing billions of taxpayer dollars being transferred to other countries.

5. Appointed three “originalist” judges to the Supreme Court and about 200 Federal judges.

6. Coerced NATO members to add $140 billion to their previous donations to NATO.

7. Decreased illegal immigrant border crossings by 73%, thus improving the lives of legal immigrants as well as the poor since illegal aliens will work for “starvation wages” and thereby drastically lower the wages employers offer to unskilled workers.

8. Dow Jones Industrial Average increased in value by over 40% from when he was elected on November 8, 2016 to when he left office on January 20, 2021 as result of his economic policies.

9. Enabled the U.S. to become “energy-independent” by significantly increasing oil, gas, and coal production, thus freeing it from mid-east oil, as well as keeping Russia much poorer and therefore less able to militarily threaten other countries.

10. Created the Abraham Accords between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco to normalize relations to help bring peace to the Middle East.

11. Re-established the United States as the world leader by bombing a Syrian airfield when Syria used chemical weapons against its citizens.

12. Destroyed the ISIS caliphate by delegating authority to the Secretary of Defense and removing Obama’s “Rules of Engagement.”

13. Significantly increased military spending in FY ’18, ’19, and ’20, thus vastly improving the military’s combat-readiness.

14. Re-negotiated trade agreements (NAFTA) with Mexico and Canada to make it fairer to the United States.

15. Approved the completion of both the Keystone and Dakota Access oil pipelines, thereby preventing the more dangerous train and trucking of the oil.

16. Cancelled U.S. participation in the very flawed and harmful-to-the-U.S. Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

17. Withdrew the U.S. from the Iranian nuclear deal and imposed a “maximum pressure” campaign on it that has forced Iran to curtail its funding of its terrorist proxies.

18. Negotiated a trade deal with China to curtail Chinese tariffs, add American tariffs, and stop Chinese theft of American intellectual property.

19. Built about 500 miles of 30-ft. high wall on our southern border to curb illegal immigration, narcotics, and human trafficking.

20. Withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia so as to compete with China, who has heavily invested in these weapons.

Of course, Donald J. Trump was re-elected president on November 5, 2024, inaugurated as president on January 20, 2025, and has been bringing the U.S. back to normalcy, prosperity, and strength at his famous “Trump Speed.”

POLITICAL TALK IS CHEAP

Posted on January 25, 2025 by Mike Russo

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President Biden on March 25, 2021, gave his first press conference, 64 days after he became President. He called on ten reporters and spoke for just over an hour. His delivery went reasonably well except for having to refer to his briefing book in order to answer foreign policy questions. His preparation-staff prepared a book with photos of all the journalists in attendance with the ten circled he was to call on for questions. Since I follow national issues very closely I can say with certainty that he told many lies in his answers to reporters’ questions. Since his first press conference, he has earned a well-deserved reputation for lying…all of the time. Political talk is cheap!

When he was President, Trump spoke bluntly, not eloquently, but spoke the truth and did a lot of good things for America and Americans. However, his blunt talk often got him into trouble. Trump was not a politician and did not know how to speak “political talk”.

President Obama was an eloquent speaker, but he actually made race relations worse, and didn’t get much done to improve the lives of most Americans. Or did he? If you liked how the economy and his job-creation efforts performed (lowest civilian labor-force participation rate since 1978), and liked the declining strength of the military, and think our foreign policy helped the United States, then you might believe that President Obama performed well. Or perhaps those things are not that important to you but his Presidential demeanor was important. Political talk is cheap!

Because Presidents are our spokesperson to the world, most do want them to be presidential. President Obama was usually presidential but didn’t get much accomplished; President Trump’s language, on the other hand, was not presidential at times but he was successful in creating jobs, making the U.S. energy independent, creating an outstanding economy, and strengthened out the military.. What’s more important to you, talk or deeds?

I hear many times each day that “Biden said this,” or “Biden said that,” and previously, “that Trump tweeted this or said that.” However, what a President says is not nearly as important as his actions because deeds are the best indicator on how the U.S. (and the President) is doing. For example, when former President Obama said that he thought about the economy every day, but then didn’t meet with his “Jobs Council” for many months at a time, it was natural to question the President’s sincerity. When Obama suggested he “felt our pain,” but took Air Force One to New York city where traffic was stopped for hours so he and Michelle could have a “night out” in “The Big Apple,” his actions said a lot more about his true feelings than his words.

President Biden’s $1.9 trillion “covid-19 stimulus” was passed during the first two months of his Presidency. Wouldn’t unemployment have been even worse without it, which is how it was sold to the American public? Much of the stimulus was a waste of money…only 9% of it went for Covid-related relief within the United States, though Covid was touted as its primary justification. Reality is that much of the stimulus went for projects that mostly benefitted Democrat politicians and their friends and supporters. All of the talk about its wonderful benefits was “bull”. Reality is that it raised inflation to even higher heights…the happy political talk was “Bull”.

CONCLUSION

President Biden talked a great game but it took all of the mainstream media, most of Hollywood, most universities and colleges, the Unions, and far-left, multi-billionaire George Soros’ money, to keep him from not having bad job approval numbers.

President Trump was brash and blunt in his rhetoric, but he was a doer, insofar as he got a lot of good things done for the United States, especially revising regulations and laws that led to huge job creation. President Obama was a great talker. President Biden talks like a moderate while implementing far-left extremist policies which have significantly hurt the United States, however, the mainstream media will not report it so you won’t even know anything about it. Talk is cheap. Political talk is worse than worthless, it’s misleading to the extent that everything you think you know about issues may not be true! Look at deeds…passing a piece of legislation is not a deed. The results caused by that legislation are deeds.

CAN PRESIDENT TRUMP GROW THE ECONOMY AND LOWER INFLATION AGAIN?

Posted on December 14, 2024 by Mike Russo

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CAN TRUMP DO IT AGAIN? LET”S CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING:

After most recessions, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth comes back with a strong minimum 5% increase/year. But not the recession of 2008-09…annual growth averaged under 2% for the eight years that Barrack Obama was President and the Civilian Labor Force Participation Rate diminished to 62.8%, the lowest it had been since 1978. Moreover, although the official unemployment rate was under 5%, it would have been about 12% if it were measured the way it was back in the year 2000, and over 20% if it were measured the way it was during the Great Depression in the 30’s.

So what happened under President Obama? Why not the usual strong growth? Business had a few trillion dollars that it held onto oversees, so why didn’t it spend its money to expand its operations and create millions of jobs in the U.S.? There’s a lot of reasons why business was cautious in expansion…and we need to understand what the problem was in order to continue to turn around today’s economy and foster substantial job growth (and the increased tax revenues that come with job growth). Of course, the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) is filled with disincentives to job growth, especially full-time jobs, so it was partially responsible. The large number of regulations and tax increases under President Obama also added additional burdens on job creators and that’s another major cause.

But who am I to be pontificating on jobs and the economy? Well, I do have a masters degree in Government Administration from the University of Pennsylvania. And my degree is from the Wharton School in the U. of P., which is known for its econometric models of the economy. To be clear, however, my education was in government, not economics, though I did need to have economics and accounting courses as well as a statistics course in order to graduate from Wharton with my MGA long ago. Moreover, I also worked for the Federal government for over40 years in various capacities, and have also worked for the state of Pennsylvania and the city of Philadelphia.

FORMER SUCCESSFUL QUICK RECOVERIES

Let’s put aside education and experience qualifications because, from my observations, ideology trumps education. I’ve seen PhD’s advocate really stupid positions, even in light of contradictory evidence. So I tend to look at the real world, what actually happens when a particular economic policy is followed and practiced.

I’ll start with the policies used by President John F. Kennedy in the early 1960s. When confronted with a recession, he cut tax rates which led to increased economic growth and recovery. In addition, when President Ronald Reagan inherited the worst recession since the Great Depression from President Jimmy Carter in 1980 (unemployment over 10%, inflation 13.5%, mortgage interest rates up to 20%), President Reagan cut tax rates to the extent that GDP almost doubled in ten years and tax revenues to the Federal government greatly increased in the 10 years following the tax rate cuts. President George W. Bush had a similar experience with tax rate cuts, revenues to the Federal government significantly increased.

The most recent successful economic recovery was orchestrated by President Trump with cuts in taxes and regulations, which resulted in an extremely low unemployment rate of 3.4% and the lowest unemployment rates in U.S. history for African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and Asian-Americans.

PAST FAILURES

Let’s look at what actually happened when the opposite approach was used: it is estimated that President Franklin D. Roosevelt doubled the duration of the Great Depression in the 1930’s by using the John Keynes economic model of increasing government deficit spending, and the US still did not even get out of the Great Depression until World War II (because of WW II). Moreover, when Japan’s economy went bust in the 90’s, it spent trillions over a 20-year period trying to stimulate its economy. The huge deficit spending did nothing except give Japan a huge debt.

WHAT PRESIDENT OBAMA TRIED

Which brings us up to to when President Barrack Obama spent almost a trillion dollars in his “stimulus” package in a effort to turn around the economy…and he also devalued the dollar by having The Federal Reserve Bank print trillions of dollars with no backing through it’s so-called Quantitative Easing 1, 2, and 3. He also tried other short-term Federal spending programs such as his “cash for clunkers” and engaged in huge annual deficit spending, the extent of which had never been seen before. His economic policies, based on the discredited theories of economist, John Maynard Keynes, actually made the economy worse by piling up huge government debt (over $20 trillion in total national debt which is greater than the annual GDP of the US), with very little to show for it, and whose interest payments will be unsustainable when interest rates increase.

Let’s look at other factors significantly adversely affecting the economy, such as oppressive government regulations. One of the reasons for President Bill Clinton’s economic success in the 1990s was his significantly cutting back many Federal Regulations (as well as the reduction in government employment through attrition) as part of his “National Performance Review” initiative. President Obama’s policy, on the other hand, on preventing drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico, has resulted in 240,000 barrels/day less oil from the Gulf, which would have led to large increases in gasoline prices were it not for oil companies engaging in horizontal drilling and fracking on private and State lands. Another example of over-regulation is the Dodd-Frank bill, the stated purpose of which was to prevent future financial meltdowns…but it did not even deal with the cause of the meltdown, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, who threatened and coerced banks into making housing loans to people who could not afford to repay them. Dodd-Frank also had adverse impacts on small banks and dried up loan money for small businesses that would have otherwise been available to them to expand.

Then there’s Obamacare which has been estimated to actually cost the government up to 3 trillion dollars in the first 10 years, as well as lead to very expensive, rationed and inferior health care. Then, of course, there’s EPA’s over-regulations, such as the one on carbon dioxide, which as we know, is an inert gas, the chief purpose of which is food for plant life, plants which turn carbon dioxide into oxygen. Moreover, let’s not forget how hundreds of thousands of farm hands were suddenly unemployed when the US Department of the Interior shut off the water to California’s Central Valley in an effort to protect the Delta Smelt (a small fish) that was on the Endangered Species list. All of these things had severely hurt jobs. Finally, President Obama extending unemployment benefits to 99 weeks actually increased unemployment because studies show that, on average, unemployment benefit recipients don’t even begin looking for work until 4 weeks prior to the end of their benefits.

IS CUTTING TAX RATES FAIR?

But stimulating the economy by cutting tax rates isn’t fair, is it? Even President Obama said in an interview a year or so before he was elected President, when confronted with the fact that cutting the capital gains tax rate in the past had actually resulted in increased tax revenues to the Federal government, that he still would not cut the capital gains tax rate because “it isn’t fair.”

So is it fair to cut tax rates even though we know that the result would be to increase tax revenues? The nation would then have more money to help the poor, not less, so why not do it? I can understand the “equality” argument but is it really a good thing if everyone were equally poor as they are in many countries? “So what” if there are some super-wealthy people…we know that in the United States they will eventually give most of their money to charity anyway and do it much more wisely than the Federal government! Winston Churchill said that capitalism is a bad form of government except that it’s better than all other forms of government.

THE SOLUTION

Cutting tax rates and regulations have always worked in the past and stimulated the economy and thereby created many jobs. Presidents Kennedy, Reagan,Bush and Trump all increased tax revenues by cutting tax rates for everyone. Today, the bottom 50% of earners pay almost no Federal income taxes…the wealthiest 10 %, on the other hand, pay over 70% of all Federal income taxes. If you believe that’s not enough, how much is enough? The U.S. corporate tax rate was 35% but Trump and the Republican Congress reduced it to its current 21% in Trump’s first term, and it consequently led to many corporations moving their operations and jobs back from other countries and caused the United States to regain many jobs. Now that Donald Trump has been re-elected President, it’s time for him to work his Wharton School “magic” again and bring back the economy again and drastically lower inflation. I believe that President Trump can and will do it.

HELLO KAMALA, GOODBYE AMERICA

Posted on November 2, 2024 by Mike Russo

Democrat nominee, Kamala Harris, after only a few weeks as the nominee, is doing much better than the former Democrat nominee, President Joe Biden, before he withdrew from the 2024 presidential race. Why, given the fact that the Democrat Party was trying to replace her as the Democrat vice-presidential nominee since she had been less popular than President Biden. That’s what this post is about.

According to the website, govTrack.com, vice-president Harris had the most far-left, liberal voting record in the Senate when she was a senator. I heard her speak on TV at least twenty times, and every one of those times she gave her infamous “word salad” and sounded like a fool, though she read a decent teleprompter acceptance speech at the Democrat National Convention on August 22 except for everything she about Donald Trump, which were all lies). Since becoming a presidential nominee, she changed a few of her policy positions, like being against fracking to being for fracking. In addition, she has not answered any policy questions as of November 2 and usually speaks from a teleprompter. I don’t question that she a good person, but I do know that she is not qualified to be commander-in-chief of the military or president of the United States. So I repeat my question, why is she doing so well? Here’s my opinion:

Kamala is a Democrat and Main-Stream Media dream candidate for reasons that should not matter, one way or another, she’s (half) black and she’s a women. In addition, the Main Stream Media, Academia, and Hollywood love anyone who is a far-left Democrat. Proof? Just one for now should suffice: Kamala is on the cover of Time magazine although she would not give Time an interview. Finally, Kamala obviously is not Donald Trump so it doesn’t matter to the Left how incompetent or ridiculous her policy positions have been because Trump is unacceptable since he would shut down all of the Democrat’s devious and criminal power and money schemes.

Now let’s address the “goodbye America” that I included in the title to this post. Why “goodbye America’? Here’s why I think:

The very best predictor of future actions is past actions! Kamala’s past speeches and interviews while vice-president as well as her policy positions were terrible, and as attorney general of California she jailed many black men for simply possessing marijuana to improve her prosecutions record. Her followers are low-information or misinformation voters and have no idea about her former policy positions and speeches (Main Stream Media does not report anything that makes Democrats look bad). Her staff as vice-president had a 92% turnover rate because of how badly she treated them.

Moreover, Harris has no foreign policy experience. She was part of an Administration that opened up our borders to people from all over the world (at least 10,000,000), added over 20% inflation for their time in office, destroyed many businesses with their draconian Covid-19 shutdown mandates, were very tough on Israel and Jewish-Americans when they needed the U.S. the most, was part of Biden’s decision to leave Afghanistan on a date certain rather than follow Trump’s plan to make our troops departure “conditions-based” (which had the unintended consequences of Russia invading Ukraine, Hamas invading Israel, and China threatening Taiwan). Harris, with the Biden administration, gave Iran billions which enabled it to fund its many terrorist proxies to continue to attack Israel including the horrific slaughter by one of its proxies, Hamas, on October 7, 2024. Finally, Harris, as vice-president, gave the tie-breaking deciding vote in the Senate to pass multi-trillion bills which led to over 20% total inflation for her time as vice-president.

If elected President of the United States, I believe Kamala Harris would continue her bad policies that led to the aforementioned disasters because, once again, the best predictor of future actions is past actions. However, the very worst outcome would be the U.S. pulled into a major war within one year of Harris becoming president.

To read about Kamala’s corruption, check out the chapter, “Kamala Harris” in the 2020 book by Peter Schweizer, “Profiles in Corruption.”

WHY OPEN U.S. BORDERS (AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT THEM)

Posted on September 14, 2024 by Mike Russo

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Since January 2021 from ten to sixteen million illegal immigrants entered the United States with the assistance of Mexican cartels and the American government. This is added to the approximately 30 million illegals currently living in the United States. They come from over 165 countries around the world. Why is it happening? How is this possible? Is it fair to Americans? What can be done about it? That’s what this post will attempt to answer.

Mexican cartels make billions from illegals, drugs, and human trafficking. Their motive is obvious…money, with a minimum of $4,000/illegal. However, the motive of the Biden Administration and the Democrat Party enabling illegals to get into the U.S. may not be so obvious. As a pretext, concern is expressed for our less prosperous neighbors south of our Southern border. However, the real reasons are: 1) increasing the rolls of Democrat voters, since two-thirds of immigrants vote Democrat whenever they or their eventual children are able to vote, legally or illegally, 2) increasing population (which includes illegals) in selected districts so as to give those districts greater Congressional representation; and 3) providing large employers a cheap source of labor as well as driving down the overall cost of labor.

So what’s to be done? President Trump successfully secured the border so we know it can be done. If Trump were able to do it now, illegal immigration through our Southern Border would be very low. The solution appears to be to repeat what President Trump did, including finishing the wall along our southern border. This will not happen if Kamala Harris is elected. Then we need to deport the criminal illegals as we catch them committing crimes The only Democrat Presidential hopeful that would do this is Robert Kennedy Jr. and, of course, former President Trump would also do this.

Some books that forthrightly address the illegal immigration crisis are: 1) The Immigration Solution, 2) Border Insecurity, 3) Adios America, and 4) Whatever it Takes.

UNETHICAL, CORRUPT, OR CRIMINAL DEMOCRAT PARTY?

Posted on August 10, 2024 by Mike Russo

INTRODUCTION

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In the old days, political candidates would tell voters what they stood for and voters would vote for those politicians whom they agreed with the most. With the advent of polling and the use of focus groups, politicians now know in advance what voters want and most then tailor their speeches and “promises” to tell voters what they want to hear.

Politicians usually refer to this as “spin.” Up to a point, it is spin. But many politicians simply lie about their real intentions before they are voted into office…and go far beyond “spin.” This is deceit and unethical but many people are easily deceived, partly because they want to believe whatever “their” politician and political party is advocating.

How does one find out which politicians are telling the truth and which ones are conning voters? Start with being skeptical of all politicians. Look at their record because what they’ve done in the past is the very best predictor of what they’ll do in the future. Finally, don’t be fooled by great and inspiring speeches. We live in a sophisticated and complicated age where not much in politics is what it seems.

BODY

These are some current examples of “unethical politics?” First define “unethical”. We’ll just jump in with specific examples and you, the reader, decide whether some behavior is unethical or not. You should be able to verify every example I cite on the Internet using the search engine DuckDuckGo. Let’s go:

The Republican Party or GOP (Grand Old Party) is also known as “The Stupid Party.” The Democratic Party is also known as “The Treason Party.” Here’s why…when it comes to political strategy, for whatever reason, the Republican Party is naive, and possibly stupid. When it comes to issues related to national defense, security, terrorism, and the economy, the Democrat Party has demonstrated that it is not only very weak, but its policies actually make things much worse. But these are superficial labels and characterizations, so let’s go deeper and more substantive so, for the sake of time and brevity, I’ll simply cite just a few examples that I consider unethical:

-Former Vice-President Joe Biden, now President, for numerous corrupt and illegal activities (a “Quid Pro Quo”) with Ukrainian government officials to assist his son, Hunter, to obtain millions of dollars (see Peter Schweizer’s book, Profiles in Corruption).

-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for political reasons, not providing for the rescue of U.S. Ambassador Chis Stevens and other Americans in Ben Ghazi on September 11, 2012.

-Secretary Clinton for deleting 33,000 emails from her server after receiving a subpoena to provide all of her emails to a Congressional Committee.

-President Obama, for political reasons, not pushing for a “status of forces” agreement with Iraq and consequently not leaving a small contingent of American troops to protect the victory that we won there (and ISIS consequently taking over much of Iraq and Syria).

-The Democrat Party for encouraging and funding violent demonstrators at Trump rallies.

-The Democrat Party for fabricating the phony “war on women.” (read Katie Pavlich’s book, “Assault and Flattery”)

-The Democrat Party for blaming climate change on carbon emissions rather than addressing the real upcoming global cooling which is due mostly to solar flares and sunspots, specifically weak Solar Cycles 24 and 25 (read John Casey’s book, “Cold Sun,” David Archibald’s book, “Twilight of Abundance,” John Casey’s book, “Dark Winter,” and my article “Is Climate Change due mostly to the Sun and Solar Flare or is it mostly Man-Made.”).

-The Democrat Party for advocating banning guns, thus endangering the lives of millions, especially women (see John Lott’s book, “More Guns, Less Crime,” and Dana Loesch’s book, “Hands off my Gun”).

-The Democrat Party for: 1) stealing millions of votes (see Troy E. Nehl’s 2022 book, The Big Fraud, Andrew Gumbel’s book, “Steal This Vote,” and John Fund’s book, “Who’s Counting, How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk”), and for 2) its phony “voter suppression” charges as a pretext to be against Voter ID efforts and legislation that prevent voter fraud (see Ann Counter’s book, “Mugged”).

-The Democrat Party for constantly falsely claiming that the rich don’t pay their “fair share” of Federal taxes when the fact is that the top 10% of the wealthiest pay 70% of Federal income taxes.

-The Democrat Party for trying to suppress free speech (see Kirsten Powers book, “The Silencing”)

-T he Democrat Party for turning into a political-unethical organization intent on seizing and retaining power at any cost (see David Horowitz’ book, “The Shadow Party,” Dick Morris’ book, “Power Grab,” and Mark Levin’s book, American Socialism).

-The Democrat Party for its racist history: being pro-slavery, pro Jim Crow laws, pro Klu Klux Klan for over 150 years (see Ann Coulter’s book, Mugged).

-The Democrat Party for opposing border security, and advocating extended-family chain migration, and the VISA diversity lottery, due solely on its desire for more undocumented workers who, when they become citizens, will vote almost exclusively for Democrats.

-The Democrat Party and the Hillary Clinton campaign for jointly paying $12 million to pay former British agent Christopher Stihl for having Russians create a fake dozzier on candidate Trump and then pass it on to the FBI, who used it to convince the FISA court (and keep it secret that it was funded by the DNC and the Clinton campaign) and issue a warrant to listen in on Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page and ultimately to instigate a special counsel to investigate President Trump for non-existent collusion with the Russians.

-ad infinitum.

CONCLUSION

It’s possible that any politician can become corrupted and lie through his/her teeth to the electorate. America needs two major honest political parties. Democrats need to do whatever needs to be done to return their Party to the honesty of one its former Democrat presidents, John F. Kennedy. The health of the United States and all of its citizens depend on it. It’s ultimately the responsibility of voters to keep their politicians honest by voting them out of office when they lie and deceive. The corrupt media, however, has made it very difficult for most Americans to learn the truth about what their politicians are doing because it has taken sides and does not ask probative questions (e.g., of Kamala Harris in the 2024 election), is no longer objective, and even goes so far as lying about the politicians and political Party it disagrees with.

WAS THE TRUMP “HUSH-MONEY” TRIAL FAIR? CAN THE VERDICT BE REVERSED BEFORE THE ELECTION?

Posted on June 8, 2024 by Mike Russo

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If you closely followed an honest and accurate media source of the recent Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) trial of former president, Donald Trump, you know how extremely unfair it was. Most Americans, however, did not follow, followed only slightly, or followed on media that is strongly anti-Trump and does not report accurately…but it’s important to New York as well as to the United States that you know the truth because of the serious adverse unintended consequences Trump’s conviction will have on both. From two law professors (Alan Dershowitz, Jonathan Turley), a former judge (Jeanine Pirro), a former federal prosecutor (Trey Gowdy), a former assistant U.S. attorney general (John Yoo), a constitutional lawyer (Mark Levin), and some lawyers-legal analysts (Greg Jarrett, etc.) that attended the trial, I heard on T.V. the aforementioned legal experts discuss the following unfair practices that occurred during this “conviction-in-search-of-a-crime”.:

The judge for this trial, Juan Merchan, was supposedly randomly selected. However, he is the same “randomly selected” judge who recently presided at the trial of former Trump advisor, Steve Bannon.
Presiding judge Juan Merchan was asked to recuse himself because of serious conflicts because his daughter made millions from this trial raising money for Democrat politicians and Merchan personally donated to Biden’s 2020 campaign and also to groups that were anti-Republican candidates.
Judge Merchan imposed a “gag-order” on Donald Trump alone, leaving his chief trial adversary (Michael Cohen) free to go on his podcast every night and rant about Trump, who could not reply due to the gag order.
Merchan would not allow significant exculpatory witnesses at the trial, such as a former FEC chairman, who would have clarified that Trump “legal expense” ledger entry “Non-Disclosure Agreement” (NDA)was not fraudulent.
Judge Mechan denied a change of venue (city where the trial would take place) even though it would be impossible for Trump to get an objective jury in New York city since it had voted for Biden against Trump with 85% of the vote.
Trump was charged and convicted with a misdemeanor (entering a $130,000 payment to lawyer Michael Cohen in a ledger as a “legal expense”). The payment was reimbursement to Trump’s lawyer who paid porn star Stormy Daniels from his own money in a common and legal “Non-Disclosure Agreement” (NDA). The Statute of LImitations had expired so New York District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, in a novel (new) legal scheme tied the misdemeanor to a unspecified (until the Prosecution’s final Summation) any one of three Federal election violations. New York does not have jurisdiction over Federal election law. All of this was clearly a violation of the U.S. Constitution.
Judge Merchan denied Robert Costello, Michael Cohen’s lawyer, from fully testifying to the statements made to him by Cohen, which demonstrated that everything Cohen said during this trial about Trump was a lie.
Judge Merchan denied Trump’s defense team from presenting tax records that showed that Trump had no intention of cheating on his taxes and that his only concern was protecting his wife, Melanie, from hearing malicious information from Stormy Daniels.
Merchan allowed all of the salacious testimony of Stormy Daniels although it had no probative value and had nothing to do with the charges against Trump.
Judge Merchan’s jury instructions were 55 pages in length and took one hour and 40 minutes for him to read. They were confusing and parts were unconstitutional and could only lead to a guilty verdict.

I listed the items above to give you an idea of just how unfair and unconstitutional Trump’s trial was. There is no question that it will be eventually reversed, perhaps not by a New York appellate court since all of New York has the same problem, electing judges instead of appointing them. Therefore, if the usual course is followed, Trump won’t be exonerated prior to the 2024 presidential election in November, by which time the damage to his election will have already been done. This is a perfect example of the old maxim, “justice delayed is justice denied.”

Based on all of the above, and on a proposal from Constitutional lawyer Mark Levin, I believe that, in addition to the usual course of action through New York’s appellate courts, that Trump’s appeal also needs to go before the U.S. Supreme Court as soon as possible, The method to do this is based on Supreme Court Rule 20, Procedures to Petition for an Extraordinary Writ. Extraordinary Writs are rarely granted, however it’s worth an attempt because the fate of the United States depends on it.

MUGGED: racial demagoguery

Posted on June 1, 2024 by Mike Russo

I read Ann Coulter’s book, Mugged, and learned a lot of new information from this lawyer and best-selling author. None of the information surprised me but it was insightful reading Ms. Coulter’s relentless array of facts.

Basically, Coulter contends that very few of the racial incidents in the last 50 years have been racist (civil rights battles were mostly won before the seventies); instead, they were racial hoaxes, perpetrated by demagogues for various reasons and motives.

One of the most important facts that Ann Coulter shows in her book, Mugged, is that all segregationists were Democrats and that the Democrat Party fought against Civil Rights legislation for 100 years going way back to Abraham Lincoln’s time when Lincoln and his Republican Party ran on an anti-slavery platform. This is not news to us who know American history but it is big news to millions of Americans that have been brainwashed and now believe the racist propaganda politicians spout off.

Another very important and horrific fact brought to light in Ms. Coulter’s book is the fact that a major consequence of every racial hoax is the slaughter of whites by young black hoodlums seeking revenge for what they hear and believe to be true about the (phony) racial incidents (Google: “Blackout Game,” “Polar Bear Hunting,” “Flash Mobs”).

Why do I believe the aforementioned to be true? First, because I trust Ann Coulter in accurately portraying the facts. Second, because I not only worked for many years assisting minorities in combating discrimination as a Federal collateral-duty EEO Counselor and then as a Federal collateral-duty Hispanic Employment Program Coordinator, but also have closely followed many racial incidents, including Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.

“Mugged” gives the details of many racial incidents, such as the Tawana Brawley rape hoax with Al Sharpton’s involvement. I believe that some racism still exists, but there are many politicians and race hustlers exploiting race simply to get your vote, and use the very toxic “Critical Race Theory” (which contends that all whites are oppressors and all blacks are victims) and the”1619 Project” (which contends that America was really founded to further slavery, contrary to what the Declaration of Independence says).

CONCLUSION

Ann Coulter’s book, Mugged, ends with Barack Obama. The United States has made fantastic progress since it left British rule in 1776, which back then had slavery. Eighty-seven years later President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation which freed the slaves (in 1863). One hundred and thirty-seven years after the slaves were freed, the U.S. elected its first African-American President (Barack Obama in 2008). In the 1960’s, significant Civil Rights laws were passed to help combat discrimination. Today, many politicians are unethically using race to create racial strife to further their political agendas. It’s no coincidence that 90% of African-Americans vote Democrat, though Democrat Socialist policies are preventing them from achieving their dreams.

WILL THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION BE STOLEN?

Posted on February 10, 2024 by Mike Russo

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Will the 2024 presidential election be stolen? Maybe! We have to thoroughly examine the 2020 election to help us answer this important question because the U.S. cannot withstand another four years of Democrat-Party rule. All of this to then put in place strong effective safeguards to protect the integrity of the election.

I believe there is no question that the 2020 Presidential election was stolen…that President Trump won re-election by a huge landslide. However, he lost his re-election challenges in the State courts as well as in the Supreme Court, so how can this be? It’s important to discover what really happened so that it can be prevented from happening again. Let’s check out some of the things that happened…

1. Time magazine article of February 15, 2021, “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election,” by Leslie Dickstein, Mariah Espada and Simmone Shah.

This lengthy Time Magazine article is essentially a victory-lap by the Left on their collusion and coordination in defeating Donald Trump’s re-election. It’s objectivity is easily assessed by closely scrutinizing a quote allegedly by President Trump at his protest rally on January 6. Time says that “he told them to go to the Capitol and ‘fight like hell.'” The remainder of Trump’s comment that Time left off is: “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” Do you think Time accidentally simply left off the exculpatory phrase?

I included it first because many people have no idea that this type of collusion went on, though the Time article only a addressed the legal coordination, and none of the illegal fraud.

2. Dr. Peter Navarro’s three-part, 82-page report and analysis: 1)”The Immaculate Deception: Six Key Dimensions of Election Irregularities”; 2)”The Art of the Steal”; 3)”Yes, President Trump Won: The Case, Evidence, & Statistical Receipts”.

Peter K. Navarro has a Ph D in economics from Harvard University and was a Professor emeritus for economics and public policy at the University of California-Irvine for more than 20 years before becoming Assistant to President Trump. His 82-page three reports and analyses provide the details of the election fraud committed in the six battleground states that was far more than enough to steal the 2020 Presidential election from President Trump. I was only able to obtain this report using the “DuckDuckGo” search engine.

3. The book, Rigged: How Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections, by Mollie Hemingway.

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Mollie Z. Hemingway is a brilliant investigative journalist who explains the election fraud committed in the 2020 Presidential election, including censorship by Big Tech, the Press concealing unfavorable news about Joe Biden, the Democrat Party manipulating the Covid crisis to make voter fraud much easier, and how Mark Zuckerberg used over $400 million to help steal the election.

4. The movie, “2,000 Mules,” by Dinesh D’Souza.

This documentary exposes some of the massive fraud used to steal the election from the American public. It’s different from the other fraud that’s already been exposed extensively but which, of course, you’ll never see on Mainstream Media (New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angelis Times, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, etc.). It does this using: 1) geotracking, and 2) videotaping.

Geotracking was used to monitor the cell phone movements of paid criminal ballot-traffickers (“Mules”) that deliver them to the mail drop-boxes. The videotape was obtained from official State surveillance cameras, where you see Mules stuffing ballot boxes with fraudulent ballots.

5. Presentations aired on One America News (OAN) TV network by Mike Lindell.

Mike Lindell, aka: :”The Pillow Guy,” spent millions of his own money to have computer and cyber-security experts analyze the 2020 Presidential election for election and voter fraud. The analysis and its findings were aired on One America News in multiple presentations (which I taped), called “Absolute Proof,” and “Absolute Interference,” and “Absolutely 9-0.” It actually shows numerous screen shots of tallies of votes being switched in many precincts, mostly by China, in the “Battleground” States from Trump to Biden. Taken all together, President Trump won by a huge landslide. The official tally had Biden winning by 81,000,000 to 74,000,000, but the real tally was 80,000,000 Trump to 68,000,000 Biden. President Trump cost China hundreds of billions through the tariffs that he had imposed, so for our foreign adversaries, the massive vote-flipping operation was worth the risk and cost of the operation.

Political opponents to Trump call Lindell’s “Absolute” series a “Conspiracy Theory.” I saw the video data of the flipping and the operation…it’s a “Conspiracy Proven Fact,” not “Theory.”

6. Suppression of news that would have affected the election.

It’s no longer a secret that the FBI persuaded Mark Zuckerberg (according to an interview with Zuckerberg) to prevent on Facebook any mention of Hunter Biden’s laptop and its evidence of his father’s involvement in taking bribes from Ukraine, Russia and China. Mainstream Media also banned any mention of the laptop scandal though the source of the information was the New York Post, a reliable source of news. Countless other stories were buried by the Press and “Big Tech” who covered-up the news rather than covering it when it didn’t fit their pro-Biden, anti-Trump narrative.

I included this information because about 10% of people who voted for Joe Biden said that they would not have voted for him had they known about the information on Hunter’s laptop implicating his father, which is enough votes to have swung the election to Trump.

7. Democrat Party pushed changes to State election laws/rules.

Although the U.S. Constitution stipulates that State Legislatures are in charge of running elections, State courts instead have mandated changes in State election procedures that facilitated widespread voter and election fraud, enabling the election to be stolen from President Trump. Changes such as allowing mail-in votes to be counted after the election, even if they had no postmark on them, not requiring signature verification, canvassing ballots, etc., etc., ad infinitum. Moreover, when election irregularities were challenged in State courts, the evidence proving the fraud wasn’t even heard. The same thing happened in the Supreme Court, thanks to Chief Justice John Roberts.

8. “The Big Fraud” by Troy E. Nehls (see chapter 8, “The 2020 Win by All Means Election”)

Congressman Nehls was a new congressman and had just taken office on January 6 and therefore actually witnessed what happened in the Capitol building. In his thorough book, he explains why there is no doubt that Donald Trump won that election.

9. “Internal Radical Service” by David Horowitz and John Perazzo: Abuse of Taxpayer Dollars to Advance Leftwing Causes Illegally and Unconstitutionally

This book supplies all of the details and specifics of some of the massive fraud in the 2020 election buy numerous tax-exempt NGOs, including the $419.5 million that the Zuckerbergs donated to fraudently swing the election to Joe Biden.

CONCLUSION

The 2020 Presidential election was a farce, worthy of the worst of “Third-World” countries and dictatorships. The United States is well on its way to being taken over by malevolent forces in the best tradition of George Orwell’s “1984,” and Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” (otherwise known as the Democrat Playbooks). Conspiracy Theory? A “Big Lie”? Check out Mark Levin’s “American Marxism” and Pete Hegseth’s “Battle for the American Mind,” among many others. Can it be stopped? The Democrat Party needs to rid itself of its Far-Left cancer, but only voters can do this by watching the actions of their political leaders, not simply listening to their B.S., and voting the “Crazies” out of office.

The Mainstream News Media is corrupt and an arm of the Democrat Party…it cannot be believed about anything…it should just report the facts and do genuine investigative reporting but I don’t think this will ever happen. Also, Big Tech needs to be forced out of the political censorship business where it does not belong and does not know what it’s doing and consequently is destroying our Country. Finally, the Republican Party needs to toughen up and do politics as if the fate of the Country and its people depended on it, because it does. First order, Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell, must depart because he’s far too timid (as well as corrupt) to lead the battle in the Senate which needs a very strong leader to stand up to the “Woke” Crazies on the Left and the RINOs (Republicans in name only) on the Right. May God help us.

So will the 2024 presidential election be stolen? Not if Donald Trump can put sufficient safeguards in place tp prevent it. As of this writing I’d say “perhaps.”

CONSEQUENCES of the RIGGED 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Posted on December 30, 2023 by Mike Russo

January 6 Stop-the-Steal demonstration

Because I watched, listened to, and taped over 20 hours of testimony documenting overwhelming fraud in the 2020 election, I know that President Trump was re-elected President of the United States. Those who disagree have not seen or heard the evidence but are simply basing their opinion on what they heard on the news about President Trump’s court challenges being defeated, not knowing that they were defeated based on procedural grounds and that the massive amount of evidence was not even heard before the Court.

In addition to having the 2020 Presidential election stolen, the next consequence of overlooking the massive election fraud was the probable stealing of the January 5 run-off elections for both senators from Georgia using the corrupted vote-counting machines and their malicious software. However, Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnel, also helped lose both Senate seats by not agreeing to give Americans $2,000 stimulus checks a week before the election.

On January 6 there was a Trump (“Stop the Steal”) rally in Washington where President Trump spoke. Hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters attended it at the Ellipse across from the White House. Meanwhile, about a mile away, hundreds of right- and left-wing provocateurs, previously planned (according to the FBI) and got positioned at the Capitol by 12:53 pm, which was before the President finished his speech at 1:10 pm. Demonstrators entered the Capitol building, which interrupted the Congressional election-fraud debate and certification. Debate resumed hours later and certified the Electoral College votes. Media coverage was, as usual, pitiful. It exploited the violence by accusing President Trump of inciting it. He did not, but asked his supporters to, “walk down to the Capitol to…cheer on our brave Senators and Congressmen to peacefully and patriotically make our voices heard.” However, as I mentioned, the violent right-and left-wing demonstrators were already there with the intention of disrupting the Congressional debate on election fraud, which it did.

President Trump pleaded with all after the violence began at the Capitol to go home. Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, asked that the 25th Amendment (to the Constitution) be invoked to throw President Trump out of office, otherwise the House would impeach him (which it did on January 13 with no witnesses called, no hearings conducted, no language by Trump cited, no legal representation allowed for the President). In the following days, President Trump appeared on T.V. and said that he was focusing on the peaceful upcoming transition to a Biden Administration. Later he tweeted that he would not be attending Joe Biden’s inauguration. Incidentally, Supreme Court Chief Justice, John Roberts, was more responsible than any other government official for the violence at the Capitol by not at least giving a fair hearing to Texas’ lawsuit, joined by 22 other states and the President, because they (allegedly) did not have “standing.” In other words, it manufactured “lack-of- standing” as the pretext for avoiding doing its job as the court of last resort and gave no recourse to the 74 million plus Americans who knew the election was stolen.

On January 20, 2021, Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States. What did Trump supporters do with the massive evidence proving that the election was stolen? I personally taped over 20 hours of it and predict that there is simply too much of it for the issue to go away…and it may even unfortunately eventually lead to serious violence. Most Trump supporters won’t be placated until there is a thorough investigation. To add insult to injury, big tech companies and other large corporations penalized anyone who said that the 2020 Presidential election was stolen, which it was. God help us!

CHARTER/RELIGIOUS/PRIVATE/HOME SCHOOLS vs. PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Posted on November 25, 2023 by Mike Russo

THE PROBLEM

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Many public schools did not offer full-time in-school, face-to-face education during the Pandemic; the on-line “Zoom” classes that were offered were not effective for most students. However, Private, Religious and Charter schools were, for the most part, fully open during the Pandemic. Why the large difference between public schools and the others? The short answer is that the Teachers Unions, for a number of reasons, wouldn’t allow their members to return to classroom teaching. Local governments agreed to incentives that the Unions demanded, but it wasn’t good enough. Because most public schools usually had predominantly minority students, the bad effects of schools being locked down fell mostly on them. So what should parents do to prevent their children from ever being affected again like this or if they do not want their children being taught harmful, racist theories?

THE SOLUTION

IF YOU COULD AFFORD IT, putting your children in religious or charter schools is the answer. Charter schools are so popular that they run lotteries to select their students, so parents should sign up their children for the lotteries. Some States have passed legislation that give parents education money to send their children to the schools they want to send them to (see Thomas Sowell’s book, “Charter Schools and Their Enemies”). In addition, many public schools have morphed into indoctrination-institutions for brainwashing children, teaching racist theories such as “Critical Race Theory” and the “1619 Project” while at the same time not teaching the greatness of the founding of America, the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. These are not simply insignificant teachings, they turned children into self-hating anti-Americans, so many public schools have become something to avoid.

IF YOU COULD NOT AFFORD IT, what should parents have done if their children were stuck in partially locked-down public schools or if they observed their children being taught half-baked theories? I believe the answer is to: 1) attend and speak up at local school board meetings, 2) get elected to local school boards to change curriculums, 3) provide children with materials that give the accurate side of history, such as those offered on-line like PraegerU.com. (in accordance with the philosophy that the best remedy is to offer more free speech, not to shut down speech you disagree with), contact “Parents Against Critical (Race) Theory” [info@stoplcpscrt.com], 4) pressure politicians to change funding of schools by having public education funds follow the children so that parents could choose what schools to send their children to and control their children’s education instead of the Teachers Unions, and 5) Home School children.

CLOSING

Many public schools, as well as private schools, can longer be trusted to simply teach our children, instead of indoctrinating or “brainwashing” them. The safest course is to get them out of public schools. If that’s not possible, then consider homeschooling. With all of the guidance available…it’s dot difficult. If that’s not possible, then closely watch everything your child’s school does and complain to your school board when necessary or better yet, run for a spot on your school board.

THE STORY OF THE KEYSTONE PIPELINE

Posted on September 30, 2023 by Mike Russo

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

President Biden revoked, via one of his first Executive Orders, the Federal permits authorizing the completion of the Keystone Pipeline. A month after President Trump took office in January 2017, he signed a Executive Order authorizing its completion. Why are our Presidents playing flip-flop? To help you understand this issue, here’s the background of the pipeline:

BACKGROUND

In November of 2015 President Obama vetoed the TransCanada Corporation’s proposed $7 billion Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline (also known as the Keystone Gulf Coast Expansion Project), it meant that 830,000 barrels of oil a day would not travel from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf’s oil refineries via a pipeline. Though a politically popular decision with environmentalists, it was very unpopular with construction unions, as well as most Americans.

To counter criticism, some from leaders in his own political party, President Obama made an appearance in Cushing Oklahoma on March 22, 2013 saying that he would fast-track any required permitting of the 485 miles of pipeline traveling from Cushing down to the Gulf. That part of the proposed pipeline is on privately-owned land in the U.S. so President Obama couldn’t do much to stop its construction even if he wanted to. Without the northern leg of the pipeline, however, the 830,000 barrels of much-needed oil/day wouldn’t be coming from Canada and this leg of the pipeline the President could and did stop because the pipeline would have to cross the Canadian-American border (and therefore required Federal approval).

TransCanada subsequently modified its proposed route through the environmentally-sensitive areas of Nebraska and resubmitted its application. There was not much remaining that was controversial and the U.S. State Department found it to have “no significant impacts on the quality of the human environment,” which is the wording and standard contained in the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA).

The Keystone pipeline is not simply about oil, but also about eleven thousand construction jobs and up to 100,000 indirect jobs, as well as significant positive effects on the economy, including U.S. energy independence. It was therefore important to analyze President Obama’s decision to determine if it was mostly political or based on genuine detriments to the environment.

It’s no secret that the far left is anti-fossil fuel because of what it perceives as unacceptable pollution. To this end, the Obama Administration came out with 5 sets of anti-coal regulations which were estimated to cost the United States the loss of over one million jobs. In addition, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) zeroed in on anti-fracking regulations to control the utilization of the huge natural gas reserves (over a 100-years worth) in the U.S.; however, the far-left contended that its opposition to the Keystone Pipeline was mainly because of possible leaks from the line. In addition, former Energy Secretary Chu had stated that it would be desirable to have U.S. gas prices at European levels ($8-10/gallon), so that alternative fuels would be more price-competitive.

Carbon emissions in the United States have been drastically reduced over the past 50 years. Autos emit only a tiny fraction of what they used to. Coal-fired power plants have been cleaned up. In contrast, China brings on-line two new coal-fired power plants a week and these plants, unlike U.S. plants, emit lots of pollution. Air pollution knows no boundaries, so it’s a lot less polluting to the earth for the U.S. to burn its coal (and oil) rather than for China.

Solar and wind sources of energy only supply about 5% of the nation’s energy needs. Hydroelectric supplies less than 10%, nuclear about 19% (France gets 80% of its energy from nuclear). So for the foreseeable future the U.S. still needs fossil fuels. Therefore this dilemma is not really a dilemma at all. If the U.S. cannot get the oil it needs from domestic sources and help improve the economy and create thousands of jobs at the same time, it will get it from foreign sources and give up to $500 billion a year of its wealth to countries that don’t like us and in some instances mean us harm, and to the detriment of the economy as well.

The United States is constantly improving extraction and utilization methods for fossil fuels, while continuing to develop alternative sources of energy, including nuclear energy. The potential for Keystone Pipeline leakage can be mitigated through built-in protective redundancies. Even the original Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), prepared pursuant to NEPA, published in late August 2011 after three years of preparation, found “no significant impacts” from the pipeline. If a pipeline oil leak did occur, it’s far easier to stop it and then clean it up, than if a leak occurred from an offshore pipeline.

There’s simply not enough alternative energy, including nuclear energy, currently available and it will be decades before there is, so for now we need fossil fuels and the United States has more natural gas, coal, and oil than any other country in the world, but it also has an array of laws and regulations preventing its access and use. The pipeline could be raised off the ground, as is the Alaska pipeline, or it could detour around the major 200,000-square-mile Ogallala or High Plains Aquifer in Nebraska and other surrounding States.

CONCLUSION

If the United States does not complete the Keystone pipeline, Canada will likely build an oil pipeline from the Tar Sands to its west coast and the 830,00 barrels of oil a day will be sold to China and an additional 150,000 barrels of oil a day from the Bakken Formation in North Dakota will have to continue to use trucks and rail to haul its oil south to Gulf refineries rather than simply using a safer Keystone Pipeline to transport it. Contributing to upward price pressure of oil will be the “slow-walking” or even forbidding of permitting of wells in the Gulf, not allowing drilling in ANWAR and on most of the Outer Continental Shelf…and OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), will once again play the major role in setting world oil prices by manipulating supply.

President Obama delayed his decision on the pipeline until after the 2014 mid-term elections, basically because a large Democrat donor (Tom Steyer) pledged to donate over $50,000,000 to the Democrats if he did so (Steyer actually spent close to $80,000,000). After the 2010 mid-term elections, the new Republican-led House of Representatives voted to build the pipeline but the still-Democratic-led Senate voted against it. The 2014 Congress began in January 2015, and both the Republican-led House and now Republican-led Senate approved it, but President Obama vetoed it. President Trump signed an Executive Order on January 24, 2017 ordering the re-opening of the approval process for the pipeline. On March 23, 2017, the State Department granted a permit for the construction of the pipeline to proceed. President Biden in January 2021 signed an Executive Order revoking the Federal permits authorizing the completion of the pipeline, which had not yet been completed.

Consequently, thousands of Union construction workers lost their jobs as well as 100,000 plus other “indirect” workers that provided services to those construction workers.

WHY IS INFLATION SO HIGH (& WHAT CAN BE DONE TO REVERSE IT)?

Posted on June 24, 2023 by Mike Russo

Inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), was 8.2% in October 2022 and decreased to 4.0% by May 2023. The working and middle classes are being seriously hurt and the government doesn’t appear to care. It blames everyone but itself, though it is responsible for most of it. How, exactly, did the government accomplish this? And if the government is totally responsible, shouldn’t the government be able to fix it?

Government deficit spending is the main culprit. It began its huge increases in earnest with “The American Rescue Plan of 2021” which cost $1.9 trillion, then $1.2 trillion for the “Infrastructure Plan,” $1.8 trillion add-on to the FY ’23 budget, and finally a $6.8 trillion proposed FY ’24 budget (fortunately reduced by 2 trillion thanks to the U.S. House of Representatives). Not the oil companies, not Covid, not Russia, but President Biden’s Administration, as well as almost all Democrats in the House and Senate, along with a few RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) who supported and voted for spending trillions that the U.S. does not have, so it borrowed it, bringing the National Debt to over $30 Trillion. The Federal Reserve, which controls the U.S. money supply, is also to blame because it should have begun raising Federal interest rates long ago to slow down rising inflation.

Another culprit is the huge increase in the price of oil which has enriched and enabled Russia and impoverished many Americans. Here again, the more-than-doubling the price of a barrel of oil is totally due to the Biden Administration because of its war on fossil fuels (oil, natural gas, coal). Perhaps in 25 years from now a mostly fossil-free U.S. might be feasible, but currently the world does not have dependable and affordable technology to achieve this goal.

So what can be done now to significantly reduce inflation? A few things, but it will take awhile to see results. In the meantime, people need to economize in every area of their lives to get them through this period of high inflation. To begin, the government must not pass any more huge spending bills since most of the money would be borrowed, which, of course, would only increase inflation. Also, the Federal Reserve needs to be cautious in raising interest rates any further because it could cause a recession, but it might be necessary and is the price for reckless spending and the war on fossil fuels. Next, voters must vote out of office Democrat Representatives and Senators to serve as a foil to President Biden’s out-of-control spending.

All of these things should stabilize inflation. To actually reduce it to under 2%, voters must vote in Donald Trump in 2024 with his pledge to the Nation and its people that he will bring inflation down to under 2%. President Trump is the only politician that I believe can do it because he has already done it in his first term and demonstrated that he is tough enough to stand up to the crazies on the Left.

IF YOU’RE NOT A LIBERAL AT 20…; IF YOU’RE NOT A CONSERVATIVE AT 40…

Posted on March 18, 2023 by Mike Russo

WW II British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said “if you’re not a Liberal at 20, you have no heart; if you’re not a Conservative at 40, you have no brain.” What exactly did Churchill mean and does it ring true?

At 20 years old, people are usually idealistic and often believe what their mentors (teachers, professors, parents, relatives) inculcate in them. However, teachers and professors in most of today’s universities and colleges have no practical experiences with socialism. Their students hear only one side of national and international issues, and further, are discouraged to even listen to both sides, because the other side is characterized as being racist or sexist or whatever.

At 40 years old, people are usually much more mature, often with a spouse and children, and they begin devoting more time following public issues. Moreover, they have lived long enough to become better at recognizing the lies and deceit engaged in by many politicians. And because many at age 40 now have children, national and international issues take on much greater importance with the realization that many Liberal/Progressive policies not only don’t work, but actually do harm to the people that they supposedly are intended to help.

I’m 50% Conservative and 50% Liberal. That does not mean 50% Republican and 50% Democrat. What’s Liberal or Conservative about $33 trillion in National Debt? What’s Liberal or Conservative about health care that is confusing, disorganized, and unaffordable like Obamacare? What’s Liberal or Conservative about a weak military or a foreign policy that punishes our allies and rewards our enemies?

At 80, I’m in the last few years of my life, and I’d love to leave this world knowing that the U.S. will be OK, but I’m not there yet, however most young people scare me because they are gullible and easily swayed but they still can vote, though many often know less than nothing about the issues…less than nothing because much/most of what they think they know is misinformation. I don’t mean to sound critical, because it’s natural for the young to spend most of their time pursuing mates, getting an education, starting a career and raising a family. How the young vote, the young being the group whose future would be the most devastated by another big-government statist president, however, will determine the fate of the United States.

Finally, many youth’s love-affair with liberalism and socialism is best answered with a comment by British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, who said: “The problem with socialism is that, sooner or later, you run out of other people’s money.” While the U.S. can’t run out of money because it can legally create through the Federal Reserve loaning funds to the Federal Government , its vastly reduced value from the resulting massive inflation from huge-deficit-spending programs have destroyed, and will continue to destroy, many livelihoods.

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DEMOCRAT PARTY IS NOT LIBERAL, REPUBLICAN PARTY NOT CONSERVATIVE

Posted on September 18, 2021 by Mike Russo

INTRODUCTION

Everyone knows that the Democrat Party is the liberal (or Progressive) party and the Republican Party is the conservative party. But is this true? I don’t think so. Here’s why: the Democrat and Republican parties stake out positions on many issues, most of which are neither liberal nor conservative. It is much more accurate to characterize their positions as being either Democrat or Republican positions rather than liberal or conservative.

BODY

For example, is the $29 trillion U.S. National Debt liberal or conservative? Of course, it’s neither! How about Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid? Once again, a safety net for the elderly and the poor is neither liberal nor conservative. I could continue on but I believe I made my point. However, I can successfully argue that a strong military is favored by the Republican Party and a weak military is favored by the Democrat Party. In addition, non-enforcement of our immigration laws is a tenet of the Democrat Party and strict enforcement is a tenet of the Republican Party. Once again, these are not liberal or conservative positions but are simply political party preferences. Another example, Sanctuary Cities are favored by the Democrat Party but are not favored by the Republican Party. Another, man-made climate change is a Democrat idea, whereas Sun-caused (Solar-Flares, Sun Spots, Weak Solar Cycles 25, 26) climate change is a Republican idea. Abortion is supported by Democrats, anti-abortion by Republicans. None of these positions have anything to do with liberalism or conservatism so why muddy the waters? Call them what there are: positions taken by either the Democrat Party or the Republican Party.

CONCLUSION

I think the language that is thrown around against both liberals and conservatives is sloppy, irresponsible and misleading and it needs to stop because it confuses voters. Voters need to know what each political party stands for with much more precision and clarity so that they know exactly what policies they are supporting. Calling voters names is what some people do when they can’t make intelligent, logical, and cogent arguments to support their positions. I can’t find much to suggest that the Democrat Party is Liberal or Progressive, and that the Republican Party is Conservative so let’s call political party positions Democrat positions or Republican positions and drop the liberal and conservative labels. They are misleading.

MINIMUM WAGE INCREASE: PROS & CONS

Posted on March 6, 2021 by Mike Russo

Who can be against a livable wage and why would they possibly be against it? That’s what this post is about.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) previously reported that if the minimum wage were to be increased to $10.10 nationwide, or a 40% increase, about 500,000 to 1,000,000 million minimum-wage employees, from a pool of 16,500,000 minimum wage employees, would lose their jobs because employers could not pay it and remain in small business. However, if the new proposed minimum wage jumped to $15/hour, the effects of such a raise is estimated as being the loss of about one and a half million jobs.

So why do it? The main argument is that it’s not a “living wage,” that no one can live on and raise a family on that wage. Sounds like a reasonable justification but, of course, we need to look at other sides of the argument before reaching sound conclusions. I already cited one of the primary reasons why government should not mandate raising the minimum wage too high…the loss of about 1,500,000 minimum-wage jobs; however, another significant reason is that it would almost shut down the first step on career ladders for unskilled workers…to the extent that they couldn’t even get that first job, get their foot in the door…because their work would not be worth $15/hour. Many small businesses, like restaurants, are very sensitive to the minimum wage and when government mandates that wage to be increased substantially, restaurant prices increase substantially, which hurts the business and makes it fail (so the end result may also be the elimination of jobs). Finally, it’s far more accurate to call the “minimum wage” the “starting wage,” because that’s exactly what it is for most people.

It appears that labor union leadership and consequently the Democrat Party is the only beneficiary of government mandating dramatic minimum wage increases with everyone else being harmed; therefore, gradual increases in the minimum wage may be able to satisfy genuine concerns of the minimum wage argument.

The best way to raise everyone’s wages the most is to create a booming economy like they did in North Dakota, for example, where $15/hour was the starting wage in fast food restaurants because of the huge competition for employees that North Dakota’s great economy had fostered. Former President Trump did precisely that with the U.S. economy, which resulted of a 3.4% increase in workers’ wages. The government did not have to mandate minimum wages…they occurred naturally.

OBAMA & BIDEN POLICIES FOOLED US TWICE!

Posted on October 10, 2020 by Mike Russo

I didn’t vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden in 2008 or 2012. In 2008 it was a very difficult choice for me because I had devoted many years to fighting racial discrimination and eagerly wanted to vote for the first black President. However, on eight of the top ten National issues, I disagreed with Obama’s and Biden’ positions, so I couldn’t vote for them in good conscience. Though I didn’t vote for the Obama-Biden ticket, I believed what they said about their being “post-partisan” and wanting a “transparent” Presidency. While there were some rumblings on the right about Obama really being a far-left radical, I was unconvinced and believed his message of “hope and change.” By the 2012 Presidential election, I had become convinced that President Obama and Vice-President Biden followed Democrat policies which had destroyed many businesses and jobs, and made health insurance unaffordable for anyone who paid for Obamacare themselves.

Eight years after being elected, Obama-Biden had a record of a number of failures, of wasting trillions of dollars, of race relations being much worse, and of creating a health care system that was far worse and much more expensive than most Americans could afford. After eight years of Obama-Biden, we had a Civilian Labor Force Participation Rate the lowest since 1978, 62.8%, and a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) whose growth did not reach 3% annually for his entire presidency. Calling President Obama and Vice-President Biden economically incompetent doesn’t come close to describing the situation accurately.

“But Obama-Biden did their best,” you might say. Their best was simply not good enough. They were in over their heads. They are good fathers and husbands, but their policies as President and Vice-President have been a disaster and therefore whoever ran as the Democrat nominee in 2020 (Joe Biden) should not be elected because Democrat policies simply do not work.

Most democrat policies are very destructive. There is no war on women (see my post, “War on Women”), no longer very much new man-made Global Warming (see my post, “Is Global Warming due mostly to Solar Flares or is it Man-Made?”), not much racism (see my post, “Obsessed with Race”), a phony gun issue (see my post “More Guns, Less Crime”), etc., ad infinitum. I spend over six hours/day following national and political issues, and have my Masters degree in Government Administration from the University of Pennsylvania, so it’s easy for me to know who knows what they’re doing and who does not (and President Obama didn’t know, economically, and had surrounded himself with economic advisors who all believed in Keynesian economics although it has never worked). Though the U.S. was fooled twice by President Obama, Vice-President Biden and the corrupt and criminal Democrat Party, I don’t intend to be fooled again.

On a positive note, President Obama was the very first African-American president and is beloved by many of all colors ad creeds. It took 145 years for African-Americans to go from slavery (up to 1863) to having one of its own being elected to President of the United States (in 2008). In addition, President Obama appointed two female Supreme Court justices.

POLICE BRUTALITY?

Posted on August 8, 2020 by Mike Russo

The beating of Tyre Nichols in January 2023 in Memphis Tennessee demonstrated severe police brutality. We saw the video of Tyre Nichols being beaten so we know that it was true. In Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Atlanta, etc., police were charged with racism and brutality. Are the police brutality charges for the other cites true? Many businesses were burned down around the Nation. In Portland, there was over 60 nights of attempts to burn down its Federal Courthouse. Many policemen were seriously injured and three were even blinded. Some cities reacted insanely to Mr. Floyd’s murder by defunding their police departments. Some thankfully outlawed chokeholds by police.

George Floyd’s murder initiated anew protests against police brutality which then morphed into riots. Mr. Floyd’s murder was used by the Far Left to weaken police departments. Since police brutality has been alleged in the past, I thought it was the appropriate time to examine it, determine how pervasive it is, and see what could and should be done about it, if anything. But first, a reminder of how important this issue is, I’ll cite a quote from David Clarke’s book, Cop Under Fire, “Police officers have the overwhelming support of their communities. Changing us into something we’re not will get cops and civilians killed.” In fact, crime has skyrocketed when cities weakened their police forces.

I believe that the first most important and relevant fact to consider is how pervasive is police brutality. The second is, “what is the best remedy for police brutality” if it, in fact, is commonplace. Thus far, the “defunding the police” remedy, being done by many municipalities, was worse than crazy, it’s goofy. More training for police would be the best remedy. In George Floyd’s case, however, the policeman who killed him had previously been charged with many instances of brutality; therefore, he should have been fired or at least disciplined long ago. Training, however, should be given on: when fellow policemen should step in and stop criminal police behavior. Training is expensive and requires more money for police departments, not less. More training is always a good idea, though I did not find police brutality to be pervasive. I think national standards are in order.

Despite their pronouncements to the contrary and months of riots, looting and burning down of businesses indicate that Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA are not interested in the welfare of the African-American community or of the United States; therefore anything that they support or advocate should be taken with a universe of salt, including their claims of police brutality and advocacy for defunding the police.

CONSEQUENCES to the U.S. from PRESIDENT OBAMA’S ECONOMIC POLICIES

Posted on January 7, 2017 by Mike Russo

President Obama meant well. He sounded sincere and touted “fairness” as his primary concern in his governance of the nation. However, it’s true that “the road to hell is paved with people with good intentions.” In plain English, it almost doesn’t matter if the President was sincere and meant well if the results of his policies were to cause great harm to hundreds of millions of people. Until the Obama Presidency the percentage of Americans with full-time jobs (“Civilian Labor-force Participation Rate”) had not been as low as then (62% of civilian labor force) since the late seventies and if unemployment statistics were calculated the way they were in the year 2000, unemployment would be about 10%. If they were calculated the way they were during the Great Depression, unemployment would be over 20%. Below is my analysis of those major policies of President Obama that destroyed the American dream for many Americans and which President Trump, who came after President Obama, and the Congress had to reform:

A. OBAMACARE/AFFORDABLE CARE ACT: This law was a wet blanket on the economy. While everyone is for good healthcare, and for insuring people with pre-existing conditions, as well as kids up to the age of 26 years-of-age on their parents insurance, Obamacare is a bureaucratic nightmare with much more expensive premiums for most people, and unbelievably-high deductibles and co-pays. This turns most Obamacare policies into catastrophic care only because most people will never meet their deductibles and will therefore be paying out-of-pocket for most of their healthcare. This turkey needed to go and hopefully replaced with something much better.

B. IMPEDING ENERGY PRODUCTION: A decision on the Keystone pipeline was made for political reasons. Oil production on government land was significantly down, however, basically because the environmental lobby was against all fossil fuels. Meanwhile, America has more gas, oil, coal, and shale oil than all of the countries in the Middle East combined but government regulations prevented most of it from being developed. The wealth created by all of this energy could pay off the National debt, the trillions in unfunded liabilities, and produce an economic boom the likes of which no country has ever seen. And as thoroughly, scientifically, and irrefutably proven in David Archibald’s, Twilight of Abundance, the warming trend of the earth over the last century and up until recently, is due mostly to Sun Spots and Solar Flares, not to the burning of fossil fuels.

C. DEFICITS/NATIONAL DEBT: President Obama doubled the National Debt (from $9 trillion to $20). The Federal government is still borrowing billions/month from the Federal Reserve so the annual budget deficits grew to over 1/2 trillion dollars/year. Each year the Annual Budget Deficit is added to the total National debt and when Obama left office was about $20 trillion. This amount of deficit spending and National Debt is unsustainable. The Federal Reserve has the authority to print money and by doing so has been able to get away with this huge deficit spending, but doing so without the backing of gold and/or legitimate loans from other countries, simply inflates our currency. The U.S. dollar is currently the world’s “reserve currency,” but our borrowing and spending may eventually change that. When it occurs, the dollar will immediately decrease in value by about 30%, our credit rating dramatically reduced and interest rates on our borrowing dramatically increased, and our ability to borrow severely curtailed.

D. REGULATIONS: Regulations are necessary in our society but government needs to be very careful in not over-regulating since this can and does add significant costs to the economy, negatively impacts business creation, and reduces freedoms. The regulations written pursuant to Dodd-Frank, the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”), among many others, are excessively burdensome to people and the economy. ESA, for example, had caused the destruction of many crops in California’s Central Valley due to the Delta Smelt, a small fish on the Endangered Species list. Dodd-Frank is a financial nightmare that does nothing to prevent future bank problems. Obamacare has and is destroying jobs.

E. HIGH TAXES: Money taken from the economy in taxes should be limited because it hurts the economy. Tax money should be used only for legitimate purposes. Higher taxes is a drag and drain on the economy so government needs to be careful to spend it wisely. Lowering tax rates on everyone who pays taxes in order to stimulate the economy is the preferred way of increasing tax revenues and growing the economy to pay for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment benefits, etc.

F. CORPORATE TAXES: A significant Obama policy that had unintentionally done harm to many people was the retention of the 35% corporate tax (reduced under Trump to 21%), which was higher than any other country in the world except for Japan. This has led to the flight of many U.S. corporations and businesses to other countries, and with this flight, the jobs and taxes that go with them.

G. PROLONGED UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS: Extension of the duration of unemployment benefits for more than 12 months is very harmful to the unemployed as evidenced by studies showing the unemployed usually do not even look for jobs until a few weeks prior to their unemployment benefits expiring. At one point, Obama, in conjunction with a Democrat Congress, extended unemployment benefits to 24 months. “Compassion” was the stated reason, but “buying votes” I believe was the real reason.

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In closing, most Americans were proud that the U.S. elected an African-American President 151 years after the Emancipation Proclamation freed American slaves, even if they personally did not vote for Barack Obama. The United States inherited slavery from England when it took over the country in 1776 but had to temporarily retain slavery in order to form the Union to include Southern States (the “Great Compromise”). At the first opportunity, the U.S. rid itself of slavery (in 1863).

The first African-American President unfortunately had no experience in managing anything or in guiding an economy and therefore the U.S. consequently hurt badly economically. While I believe President Obama meant well, he also still believed that failed liberal/”progressive” economic policies (“Keynesian economics”) were the way to stimulate the economy and therefore turned a blind eye to workable economic policies.

President Reagan demonstrated how to get an economy working and the proof is the fact that the Gross Domestic Product (which measures the size of the economy) of the United States almost doubled 1n the 10 years following Reagan’s implementation of his large reduction in tax rates (1983-1993) and curtailing Federal regulations. President Kennedy also stimulated the economy during a recession in the 60’s by cutting tax rates.