— by Polydamas Ayn Rand once wrote “You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality”. People may choose to build a city at the foot of a volcano. They can persuade themselves that they are…
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Draining the Beltway Swamp Must Start With Hillary Clinton
— by Polydamas The latest story circulating around Washington, D.C. is that the Department of Justice, now headed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, reopened its investigation into former presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal and plans to offer her a…
Destructive Leftist Ideology Ruins Dr. Who and Saddens Fans
— by Teucer When I first read that British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) recently cast a woman as the new protagonist in its iconic Dr. Who franchise, I had several vivid thoughts in rapid succession. I knew that this was coming…
Why They Won’t Truly Repeal Obamacare
— by Odysseus Health Care for US, But Veterinary Care for You. As the Republican Congress gets closer to repealing Obamacare, without actually repealing Obamacare, it is the role of The Cassandra Times to explain to you what is really…
$15 Minimum Wage Fails As We Predicted It Would
— by Polydamas Minimum wage legislation always begins with the enthusiasm of idealism and ends with the thud of reality. Even a college student, who had taken but a single undergraduate class in economics, would not be surprised by the…
America’s Fight Against True Tyranny
— by Polydamas On this 241st anniversary of our nation’s declaration of independence from Great Britain, there is no better time or greater need to examine what our Founding Fathers believed was tyranny that justified an armed uprising. The deplorable…
Edgar Mark Comey Fails in His Audition For the Democrats’ Impeachment Play
— by Polydamas Ecclesiastes 1:9 is correct. There really is no new thing under the sun. Like Hollywood, the Washington, D.C. Beltway constantly mines past blockbusters for new remakes and sequels by re-purposing old, tried-and-true scripts. For the past four…
The Deep State’s Plan to Desensitize America to the “New Normal”
— by Polydamas We here at The Cassandra Times have long admired the writings of Robert A. Heinlein, who was one of the pillars of the nascent science fiction literary genre. His writing career generally spanned from the 1940s through…
America is Ready For a Woman President Not Named Hillary Clinton
— by Chryseis I was amused to read Michelle Goldberg’s article “Will We Ever Have a Woman As President?” in the May 31, 2017 issue of Slate (http://bit.ly/2sgc2ZF). The overall theme that runs through her piece is that Hillary Clinton’s…
Pope Francis’ Misguided Attack on Libertarianism
— by Polydamas When Argentinian bishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elevated on March 13, 2013 to become Pope Francis, he was the first pontiff ever selected from the American continent and from the southern hemisphere. Much like former American President…