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Michael Breeden

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Obama’s biggest lie: ‘You didn’t build that’

Obama’s biggest lie: ‘You didn’t build that’

Former President Barack Obama once infamously said, “You didn’t build that.” I beg to differ. Our forebears created it, inherited it, and...

09.08.2026 7

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Michael Breeden

The media act like cheerleaders with press credentials — they’re supposed to be instant replay

The media act like cheerleaders with press credentials — they’re supposed to be instant replay

The press is supposed to be instant replay, not the cheerleading squad. In American politics, the people are the NFL audience. We invest our money in...

08.08.2026 8

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Michael Breeden

There are no socialists in power — only personal capitalists

I arrived at the Pentagon in February 2003. Whenever I could, I followed the official tours, learned every corridor, and later guided colleagues and...

03.08.2026 7

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Michael Breeden

They didn’t stop Trump. They just broke America

In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Mark Antony stands over the murdered leader’s body and repeats with cold irony: “For Brutus is an honorable man;...

03.08.2026 2

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Michael Breeden

When ‘free healthcare’ can’t fix your joint, it offers you euthanasia

The clueless market universal healthcare as a right: free at the point of use, available to all. In reality, when price is removed and budgets...

01.08.2026 3

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Michael Breeden

Your ‘right’ to free stuff requires a gun to someone else’s head

Matter and energy do not obey political declarations. Someone must cut the timber, raise the walls, grow the grain, and haul the water. If a person is...

01.08.2026 5

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Michael Breeden

America’s behavioral sink and the rise of broken families

10.06.2026 20

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Michael breeden