American Consequences

Learn what's really happening in America

No thanks, I believe the mainstream media.

Author - Erica Wood

October 2020

Playing With Fire

An update on the Melt Up… and what happens next. By Dr. Steve Sjuggerud “Stocks only go up,” outspoken day-trader Dave Portnoy says – often – on Twitter. On up days, Portnoy is the best there is. At least, that’s...

October 2020

Debt Is the Real Pandemic

By Dr. Ron Paul According to the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) latest “Update on the Budget Outlook,” this year’s $3.3 trillion federal deficit is not just three times larger than last year – it is the largest...

October 2020

The Middle Class Squeeze

Economic Stagnation, Downturn In Middle-Class Incomes, and Our Declining Position On The World Stage By Trish Regan In January 2017, the man that would eventually become an attorney for the so-called “Ukraine whistleblower” sent a...

October 2020

Keep In the Vote

By P.J. O’Rourke Since 1980, U.S. presidential election voter turnout has averaged 53.7%. In the last hundred years, no voter turnout for any federal election has topped 62.8%, and that was in 1960 during the festive squeaker of a grudge match...

October 2020

Experts Vs. Crackpots

By Geoffrey Norman In the early days of the 20th century, the progressive vision was that widespread war was simply not possible. A bestselling book of the time, The Great Illusion, argued that the cost of war was prohibitive. Slaughter had become...

October 2020

Trump Versus the Media

His Real 2020 Election Opponent By Jason Rantz When Donald Trump announced his presidential candidacy in 2015, the national media was already eager to watch it crash and burn. Offering endless hours of coverage, media outlets thought they would end...

October 2020

A Liberal Landslide

Prepare Your Portfolio Now for Certain Sectors to Skyrocket By Whitney Tilson Usually, the presidential election is the big news driver of the year. Of course, 2020 headlines have been all about COVID-19. A global pandemic is one of the few things...

October 2020

America Is Already at War

By Sebastian Gorka PhD After September 11, 2001, I spent more than 12 years helping our warfighters understand America’s enemies. My audience included the SEALs, the Green Berets, the United States Special Operations Command, and various...

October 2020

Conspiracy Theories in 2020

Underground Ideas Are Surfacing Everywhere   By Kim Iskyan From claims that Elvis is still alive to theories that NASA faked the moon landing, Americans have always loved their conspiracy theories… But add in a global coronavirus...

October 2020

It Doesn’t Matter Who Wins

America is an enormous ship of state, too big and complicated for any single person to control it… Letter from the Editor: Editor in Chief P.J. O’Rourke Our ship of state is an old-fashioned square-rigged treasure galleon, but with...