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Times sure have changed.  When we talk about immigration, we tend to envision vast hordes of impoverished immigrants that are desperate to find a way to cross our southern border.  But did you know that large numbers of Americans are actually going the opposite direction?  Because the cost of living in California has become so oppressive, many residents of the state are choosing to flee to Mexico where everything tends to cost quite a bit less.  The increasing prevalence of work at home opportunities has made it easier for Americans to be employed in the U.S. while living in Mexico, and there are multitudes of others that actually make a commute across the southern border on a daily basis… (Read More...)

Will this be a summer of widespread politically-motivated violence in the United States?  The Supreme Court decision that finally overturns Roe v. Wade is expected to be released this month, and authorities are fearing the worst.  In fact, the Department of Homeland Security just issued an advisory warning specifically of “mass casualty violence” once the Supreme Court decision is officially released.  And as you will see below, violent acts related to this controversy are already happening.  There are millions upon millions of Americans that are extremely angry that Roe v. Wade is going to be overturned, and we are about to see a national temper tantrum of epic size and scope. (Read More...)

Moving from a major urban area on one of our coasts to a city in the middle of the country can be a major shock.  If you have been through such a transition, you know exactly what I am talking about.  Outside of the United States, many try to make generalizations about “American culture”, but the truth is that we are a nation that is made up of thousands of increasingly divergent subcultures.  So if you pack your stuff up and plop yourself down in another state a thousand miles away, you may find yourself in the midst of a culture that literally seems like it is from another planet.  In some cases that can be a good thing, but in other cases it is not so good. (Read More...)

Monkeypox continues to spread to more areas around the globe, but so far there is not the same sort of widespread alarm that we witnessed during the early stages of the COVID pandemic.  One of the big reasons for this is because global health authorities have been assuring us that there isn’t much of a risk to the general population.  More than a week ago, the World Health Organization boldly announced that there was no evidence that the monkeypox virus had mutated, and so everyone assumed that this outbreak would not become a global crisis.  Well, it turns out that the World Health Organization spoke way too soon.  Scientists are now telling us that there are lots and lots of mutations in the new strain that has been spreading like wildfire all over the planet.  In fact, it is being reported that “there are way more mutations than expected”… (Read More...)

Circumstances seem to keep pushing the United States and Russia closer and closer to a horrifying showdown.  If I was in the White House, I would be doing all that I could to try to find a way out of this mess.  Unfortunately, the guy currently leading our nation is a hothead in an advanced state of mental decline, and he is surrounded by the worst foreign policy team in U.S. history.  That is a recipe for disaster, but most Americans seem to be entirely convinced that a full-blown war with Russia is extremely unlikely.  Most of us seem to think that we can keep escalating the conflict in Ukraine without ever suffering any serious consequences.  Unfortunately, the Russians see things very differently. (Read More...)

Why are so many strange diseases suddenly breaking out all over the globe?  In all my days, I have never seen anything like this.  COVID, bird flu and monkeypox are all making headlines around the world, but of course they aren’t the only pestilences that we are currently dealing with.  As I mentioned a few days ago, the Democratic Republic of Congo is actually facing outbreaks of ebola, cholera, measles, monkeypox, bubonic plague and typhoid all at the same time!  Can you imagine what health authorities in that nation must be going through right now?  A few years ago most of us never gave much thought to disease outbreaks, but now they are seemingly everywhere. (Read More...)

We are truly moving into unprecedented times.  For decades, the U.S. has been the leading agricultural power in the world.  Most of us have lived our entire lives in an environment of “more than enough”, and that is because food production has never been a major concern in this nation.  But now things are changing.  Food production is being hit from all sides by a “perfect storm” of problems, and this “perfect storm” is only going to intensify in the months ahead.  The following are 5 reasons why the food supply in the United States is going to continue to shrink… (Read More...)

Is there something that they aren’t telling us?  Monkeypox continues to spread all over the world, but theoretically this should not be happening.  It has always been a virus that has been very difficult to pass from person to person, and so if that has changed we have a right to know.  As I write this article, there is now a total of 375 confirmed, probable and suspected monkeypox cases in 22 countries around the globe.  Some authorities have told us that many of these cases can be traced back to huge “superspreader events” in the Canary Islands and Belgium.  But if the people that caught the virus at those events begin spreading it to others once they get back home, we could soon have a full-blown global pandemic on our hands. (Read More...)