Joel Gross's Blog

In his memoir Palace Gate, WWII and Vietnam pilot Richard Brown reveals a gut-wrenching truth about post-war Vietnam:

When he returned a decade after the war, the corrupt monarchy hadn’t been “liberated.” It had simply been replaced by an even more corrupt communist politburo.

The common people were still peasants. The elite were still kings. You see this pattern in every socialist state from Cuba to Vietnam—they collapse into aristocracies with a ruling class and a peasantry.… read more “Palace Gate”

People who want to book themselves in jail for a period of time should be allowed to do so. Jail should not be a nice place, but sometimes a person like the woman who murdered her own children need a way to protect other people from themselves.

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The 5th Amendment says the government cannot take your private land without paying you full market price. But bureaucrats found a loophole, and it is costing local landowners millions.

I just spent ten hours digging through 116 official public permit files. What I found in the county’s own records is infuriating.

Over 1,200 acres of private property have been effectively stolen through forced deed restrictions.… read more “1200 Acres Stolen”

You only have free choice before you get addicted. After that, free choice is gone.
Your physiological reward pathways get hijacked. Your brain gets rewired. You become a literal prisoner to a substance, stripped of the ability to make a healthy choice. Addicts don’t stay trapped because they are weak people—their biology has been taken hostage.… read more “Addiction destroys choice”

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Sane people with a million dollars buy a luxury sports car or a yacht, I bought acres of dirt, diesel-guzzling tractors, and a hundred cows that actively plot their escape every morning.

You know how to make a small fortune in farming? Start with a large fortune. Most guys have a midlife crisis and buy a Porsche or go to Hawaii.… read more “Sane people with a million dollars buy”

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Free markets reward those most who choose to invest in things that help other people. Dollars are just tokens of favor. For example, if I had bought a fancy car when I made my first big chunk of money, that car would have made me happy but would not have made other people happy. Therefore those other people would not have given me tokens of favor / dollars and I would not have any more money.… read more “Stop thinking about dollars as money”

🚨 WHY A $250K HOUSE NOW COSTS $500K🚨

(And no, it’s not the builders’ fault.)

​Ever wonder why hard-working families and young people are completely priced out of buying a home?

​Look at who actually builds America:
🔨 Carpenters
🧱 Masons & Concrete crews
🏠 Roofers & Framers
📐 Architects & Engineers

​They know how to build.… read more “WHY A $250K HOUSE NOW COSTS $500K”

THIS EXPLAINS THE SILENCE IN GRANT COUNTY
I received this message completely out of the blue. I don’t know Andrew Koeppen, but I looked him up and he is the former chairman of the Grant County Republican Party. For weeks, people have been contacting me privately about their problems with the county — yet almost none will speak publicly.… read more “Grant County WA Retaliation Statement by Former Chairman of the Republican Party”