Blue Otter

.@chelliepingree and I reintroduced the PRIME Act today (HR 4700). The bill would give individual states freedom to permit intrastate distribution of custom-slaughtered meat such as beef, pork, or lamb to consumers, restaurants, hotels, boarding houses, and grocery stores.

I studied and wrote about Russiagate for years, most of it on a Wordpress site I can’t even access. In any event, here is what actually happened. A law firm hired by the Clinton camp in turn hired a washed up British spook named Christopher Steele to write a hit piece…

Displacement dressed up as DEI: In 2023, the U.S. graduated 134,153 American computer science majors. That same year, it gave out 110,098 work permits to foreign tech workers—equal to 82% of the graduating class who are guaranteed jobs before Americans even enter the market!

Tomorrow in the Times: "I Was One of Pol Pot's Agricultural Advisers. Here's How to Fix Farm Productivity in the US."

U.S. highways were built as “economic development” tools while destroying the very neighborhoods that could have brought economic development.

I am afflicted with ownership responsibility for one of the most beautiful urban trees I've ever seen in Pennsylvania. One of my very worst fears is that I will outlive it. It's a full time job defending it. It's a bald cypress — a deciduous conifer that sheds its needles in…

Yes. In fact, only a few congressmen are complete wankers, with the majority being closer to 90% wanker. Some examples: * Thomas Massie ... less than 5% wanker. * Chip Roy .... approximately 10-15% wanker. * Freedom Caucus average: 35% * MTG ... topped out at nearly 90%,…

I couldn't support the "Big Beautiful Bill" for a host of reasons. I hoped Massie might prevail. That doesn't mean I don't support strong borders, immigration sanity and sovereign trade prerogatives. Apparently, that's not enough to protect me from official MAGA admonishment.

That may be true, but there are four apparently unsolvable problems with the LP: * A striking paucity of political talent within its ranks. * A worldview used by some LP members to justify left-cultural moral indifference and open borders. * A still-sizable contingent of…

Presented with Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's assessment last month that Iran was not working toward a nuclear weapon, President Trump said yesterday, “I don’t care what she said. I think they were very close to having one.” If he will not listen to his…

The "Based Mike Lee" proposal to sell off the American public's hunting and fishing frontier commons to Black Rock is so instantly and deeply unpopular, that it's amazing the Democrats are basically dodging the issue rather than maximally exploiting it.

It's perfectly healthy naive idealism, and I'm glad society is functioning well enough to produce it. Ten years from now, after she pays taxes, copes with incompetence and fraud in government and business, and starts looking out for the welfare of her family, she will grow more…

This is just retirement

Karl Marx's father didn't like Marxism either. Brutal.

This falls flat. The country has made a beeline for the cultural right. It was a rational and predictable populist response to reckless immigration, govt spending on "someone else", and various forms of social decay fostered by left-wing academics and entertainment media.…