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Chet Richards
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August 25, 2022
Something's missing in the Mar-a-Lago coverageI know a little bit about security clearances — so I can tell that the media are missing something important about the FBI raid.
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April 27, 2022
You Can't Have a Functioning Nation without Free SpeechIt is odd that the notion that speech must be censored is the current fashion of people who call themselves liberal.
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April 2, 2022
America is suffering from a gigantic loss of trustDemocracy can function only in an environment of trust. Trust is the glue of society.
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March 7, 2022
How Technology has Saved UkraineWhile the nature of war hasn’t changed during all of recorded history, technology has.
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February 13, 2022
The easiest government-approved way to be cruel to childrenWhat we have done to kids in this country — and, in some places, are still doing — is cruel and criminal. Yet the government positively boosts it.
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February 2, 2022
The Great Climate Rip-OffClimate alarmist scientists want to sell you on how smart they are. But there's one huge problem they're overlooking.
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January 19, 2022
Government's COVID Tyranny Heralding a New Dark AgeCOVID has shown us how rigid a technocracy can be, even in a supposedly democratic society.
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October 21, 2021
On the Front Lines of the COVID WarIn their greed for power and complete control, these progressive politicians believe that COVID, together with temporary control of the federal government, has given them a very narrow window to “fundamentally transform” this country.
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September 5, 2021
Joe Biden and the Consequences of Lost Global TrustAll societies are basd on trust.
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July 2, 2021
The Golden Rule: He Who Has the Gold Makes the RulesBut it's not money that calls the shots. It's a different, more powerful kind of currency.
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March 22, 2021
Science in an Age of FearFear is the most effective instrument of totalitarian control.
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November 11, 2020
Free speech and the woke mobOur universities are corrupted by woke-ness and closing the American mind.
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October 27, 2020
For how much longer will we get to enjoy free speech in America?Will free speech be replaced with "the right not to be offended"?
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August 18, 2020
Donald Trump and the Tide of HistoryThe establishment didn’t select Donald Trump, the American people did. Why? The self-preservation instinct of the American immune system is on the job.
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May 21, 2020
Killing Off a Pandemic is Engineering, Not 'Science'The medical engineers, not the scientists, are the ones who should be front and center.
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March 24, 2020
It's Not Just Physical Walls the U.S. Must Build in the Coronavirus EraThe coronavirus crisis exposes many hard new realities about China.
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January 3, 2020
Why the USA Needs a Space ForceWhile it seems as though we are now living in a science fiction world, it is easy to see, in the 21st century, why establishing the U.S. Space Force was inevitable.
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December 26, 2019
Deplorables Versus the Ruling Class: A Global StruggleThe Mandate of Heaven no longer rests with the condescending progressive bureaucratic establishment. It is passing back to the people. It is passing to Deplorables everywhere in the world.
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November 21, 2019
Free Markets: The Purest form of DemocracyEvery time you select and buy a product, you are voting for that product. You become a citizen of an association formed around that product.
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September 8, 2019
Dems want an election recession. Should we expect one?The Democrats are hoping recession will topple Donald Trump in 2020. Will that happen?
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January 18, 2019
The Culture of Trust and How Society Collapses without ItSomething quite serious is attacking America's traditional culture of trust.
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October 3, 2018
Judge Kavanaugh Is the Victim of a Great CrimeThere is no need to name these criminals as individuals, for there are really no distinctions to be made among the members of any real criminal gang.
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September 19, 2018
Google May Help the US by Setting Up Big Brother in ChinaIt will be no picnic for the Chinese rank and file, though.
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September 12, 2018
Presidential ChaosPerhaps President Trump is the kind of genius who thrives on turmoil. If so, that explains the chaos. In my profession of physics, there have been several brilliant notables with exactly that characteristic.
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July 22, 2018
Sifting the rubble in HelsinkiThe media threw a hysterical fit. Here is a look through the smoke-scream.
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May 4, 2018
How Trump InspiresHere is what we can learn from a man who prevails in the face of non-stop, ferocious opposition.
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February 17, 2018
Feminism and What Makes a WomanDespite my delight in successful women, I refuse to be called a feminist
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December 6, 2017
Bakery vs. bakeshopThe one is not the other, and this could be considered in the upcoming Supreme Court ruling on the wedding cake controversy.
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September 2, 2017
Ranch Land: America's True EliteIt's hard to talk about Wyoming and its people without waxing poetic.
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August 12, 2017
Diversity and the Human SpiritDiversity of talents is an evolutionary advantage that improves the survival of the community.
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July 25, 2017
The Necessity of Missile DefenseThere is only one correct way to look at missile defense.
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July 4, 2017
The F-35 Critics vs. the FactsThe F-35 program is still in its infancy – and infants have a tendency to grow up.
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June 13, 2017
Iago ComeyThe left's hatred of President Trump calls to mind Shakespeare's Othello. Just look at the parallels.
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May 31, 2017
Fingerspitzengefuhl: What It Is and Why We Need ItThe United States can't get by without this quality in its engineers, designers, and manufacturers.
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February 22, 2017
How to Win WarsHistory shows when we Americans did a good job of winning wars and when we did a downright terrible job.
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January 25, 2017
America, at Last the Land of Can-DoAfter eight years of desolation, the spirit that made America king of the hill is back.
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January 15, 2017
The Pros and Cons of Talking PointsIt's mostly cons. But some good can come out of talking points, too.
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November 26, 2016
Here's what to do with HillaryPresident-Elect Trump will have a hard time just washing his hands of her. This is better.
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November 18, 2016
Line-jumpers and revolutionRebellion by those who follow the rules was to be expected.
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October 29, 2016
Time Travel in the Twenty-First CenturyThe rich is the future of the poor. But the reverse could be our future, depending on how things turn out in the next few weeks.
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October 7, 2016
Why Environmentalism Became Both a Religion and a Con GameThis notion that people are parasites really got started in the 1960s. A couple of highly promoted bad actors started this environmental heresy.
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September 16, 2016
Globalism and the Death of DefenseWhether libertarian or totalitarian, globalism is a recipe for national security disaster.
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July 10, 2016
The United States Has Become an EmpireThe turmoil of Brexit among the elites shows the true status of our own nation. Something has to change.
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June 18, 2016
Trump the EntrepreneurTrump's projects also show him to be in the first rank of risk-taking entrepreneurs.
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March 5, 2016
Exceptional AmericaThe true significance of our experience is that the era we live in, and the nation we live in, are the most extraordinary in all human history.
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February 10, 2016
The Lessons of Engineering for Social EngineersHave you ever wondered why seasoned engineers are almost invariably politically conservative?
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August 14, 2015
Progressives and Free MarketsA look at how technocratic government fails, from an engineering perspective.
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July 20, 2015
When All Have the BombNuclear proliferation is going to cause some significant changes in how the United States is organized.
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April 6, 2014
Truth as a WeaponPolitics that is derived from war has no honor, no integrity, no honesty, no trust. Without these essentials, compromise is impossible and a political society inevitably, irretrievably, fractures.
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March 9, 2014
Dissonance, Harmony, and American CultureA lethal attack on our nation does not have to be military in nature. It can come through the destruction of our culture and our morale.
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February 4, 2014
Equality of OpportunityIf we step back from the feel good propaganda, we see that Equality of Opportunity doesn't mean what most people think it means.
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January 6, 2014
How Leftists (Badly) Explain Climate StabilityIf global warming alarmists' reasoning worked, the Earth would be dead already.
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January 1, 2014
A Few Easy Tests to Debunk Global Warming HysteriaYou don't have to be a physicist -- though I am one -- to figure this stuff out.