Get Rid of Spam in One Day

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Get Rid of Spam in One Day
By James Quillian, Economist, Political Analyst, Teacher of Natural Law

There’s something folks don’t always understand about government. It can make political decisions — and it does. It can also administer justice — not perfectly, but well enough that most people trust the courts more than they trust Congress. You’ll hear complaints about politicians every day of the week, but you don’t hear many people blaming the legal system for the mess we’re in.

Now let’s talk about spam, bots, and the digital junk that clutters every phone and computer in the country. These things aren’t harmless annoyances. They cost all of us time, money, and peace of mind. Entire industries make fortunes trying to shield the public from spam, bots, and hackers. Meanwhile, the people causing the damage pay nothing at all.

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The Hypocrisy of the U.S. Attacking Iran

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The Hypocrisy of the U.S. Attacking Iran
By James Quillian, Economist, Political Analyst, Teacher of Natural Law

Back in the 1950s, the United States toppled the only democratic system Iran ever managed to build for itself. That’s not conspiracy, that’s history. We remember 9/11 and will for generations. Why on earth wouldn’t the Iranians remember what was done to them in the 1950s? Memory doesn’t stop at the water’s edge.

And here at home, in a country where a president can assume sweeping, near‑dictatorial powers and walk away without so much as a political bruise, we still insist on calling ourselves a republic. That’s the label. But Natural Law teaches us to judge by function, not by definition. If it quacks like a dictatorship and governs like a dictatorship, the label on the stationery doesn’t change the smell in the room.

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True Human Motivation.

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True Human Motivation
By James Quillian, Economist, Political Analyst Natural Law

Folks, psychologists have cooked up all sorts of fancy ways to explain human nature. That’s their trade, and it keeps the lights on in their offices. I don’t treat patients and I don’t have an income worth bragging about, so I’m not playing on their field. My work is simpler. I teach people how to size up what to expect from others—politicians, broadcasters, billionaires, and the rest of the citizenry trying to stumble through life.

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The Great Advertising Immunity

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By James Quillian — Economist, Political Analyst, Teacher of Natural Law

The tech industry has been riding high for a long time, mostly on the back of advertising dollars. For years, the public needed tech more than tech needed the public. That balance has flipped. These days, the tech giants need the population a whole lot more than the population needs them, and they’re not handling the shift with much grace.

For the better part of forty years, the public has been treated as a herd of virtual human beings. Not real people—just anonymous shapes on a spreadsheet. AI has taken that habit and polished it to a shine. You get “no‑reply” emails that take a machine a split second to send, and you can lose half a day trying to fix whatever problem the machine created.

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Politics and Righteous Ridicule

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Politics and Righteous Ridicule
James Quillian, Economist, Political Analyst, Natural Law

Every democracy has its toolbox. Some tools are shiny—ballots, hearings, committees, commissions. Others are blunt—petitions, protests, and the occasional letter to the editor written in a heat that could fry an egg on a cold skillet. But when the machinery of self‑government gets jammed, when the public is denied information, when voting has been neutralized into a ceremonial exercise, there’s only one tool left that still cuts clean: righteous ridicule.

Not the cheap stuff. Not the schoolyard kind. Not the kind that’s meant to bruise a man’s ego just to hear the thud. I’m talking about the kind Jesus used when He delivered those famous woes—calling the powerful “blind guides,” “whitewashed tombs,” and “hypocrites” with the precision of a surgeon and the moral authority of a man who had nothing to hide. That wasn’t cruelty. That was clarity.

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Henry B. Gonzalez and Ronald Reagan”

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 Henry B. González and Ronald Reagan
James Quillian, Economist, Political Analyst, Natural Law

Most people judge politicians by the labels pinned on them — conservative, liberal, moderate, centrist, reformer, outsider, insider. These labels are cheap. They are marketing tools, not measurements. If you want to understand a person or an institution, you ignore the label and look at how they actually function.

Two men illustrate this principle better than most: Henry B. González and Ronald Reagan. One was branded a liberal Democrat. The other became a conservative icon. But when you strip away the slogans and examine their behavior, the picture changes.

This is not about what was said about them. It is about what they did.

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“The Quiet Rise of AI Companionship and the Lonely Hearts Economy”

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“The Quiet Rise of AI Companionship and the Lonely Hearts Economy”
James Quillian, Economist, Political Analyst, Natural Law

A subtle shift is taking place in modern society, and most people won’t notice it until it’s fully formed. As loneliness rises and traditional community structures weaken, millions of individuals are turning to AI for conversation, comfort, and clarity. This isn’t a fringe behavior. It’s becoming a new social norm.

AI companionship fills a gap that modern life created. It is always available, never impatient, never judgmental. For many, it becomes a private space to think out loud — a place to rehearse difficult conversations, explore ideas, or simply feel heard. This doesn’t replace human relationships, but it does change the emotional landscape.

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What Safety Really Costs

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What Safety Really Costs

By James Quillian, Economist, Political Analyst & Teacher of Natural Law

There’s an old story about a fellow who spent forty‑odd years working in a factory. Time finally caught up with him. His back was shot, his hands were worn out, and he couldn’t keep pace with the younger men anymore. The company didn’t have the heart to fire him, so they gave him a “job” out by the woodpile, shooting rats.

One day a friend stopped by and pointed out a rat scurrying across the boards. The old man didn’t even lift his rifle. “I never shoot all of ’em,” he said. “If I did, they might decide they don’t need me.”

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The Cruelty of Economic Policy

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The Cruelty of Economic Policy
By James Quillian, Economist, Political Analyst & Teacher of Natural Law

There’s a special kind of cruelty in modern economic policy, and it isn’t found in the fine print of legislation or the footnotes of a Federal Reserve report. The real cruelty is in the management of public sentiment — the quiet, steady shaping of what folks are allowed to see, hear, and think.

Why manage public sentiment? Why not manage the sentiment of billionaires and the one‑percent crowd? Well now, that’s a good one. You might as well ask a rancher why he doesn’t put blinders on himself instead of the horses.

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Your Punishment for Believing Lies

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Your Punishment for Believing Lies

By James Quillian, Political Analyst, Teacher of Natural Law

Folks don’t like to hear it, but I’ve said for years that every lie needs two guilty parties. There’s the fellow who tells it, and then there’s the one who decides the truth just isn’t quite good enough. Without that partnership, most lies would die on the vine.

The trouble is, lies don’t send you a bill right away. The punishment for believing them is suffering, but the suffering doesn’t fall evenly. A man can go his whole life believing a wagon‑load of nonsense and never feel more than a bump. But when the lie is collective—when a whole nation signs on—the pain often shows up in the next generation. They inherit the bill for something they never bought.

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The Salvation of Cuba

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The Salvation of Cuba

By James Quillian, Economist, Political Analyst, Teacher of Natural Law

In natural law, I make it a habit to judge people and institutions by how they actually function, not by the labels they pin on themselves. A thing is what it does. That rule clears away a lot of fog.

The United States is defined as a republic. Officially it is, but it hasn’t functioned like one in a long time. The public gets a steady diet of surface‑level information, while anything meaningful or controversial is tucked out of sight. And truth be told, most citizens don’t seem eager to oversee their government anyway. Human beings have a long history of trading freedom for comfort. Once comfort settles in, the appetite for reform dries up.

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When the Picture Doesn’t Look Right

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When the Picture Doesn’t Look Right
James Quillian, Economist, Political Analyst, Natural Law

Every so often, a set of numbers comes along that tells a story louder than any headline. You don’t need a Ph.D. or a government grant to understand it. All you need is the same thing every rancher, schoolteacher, and café regular in this country was born with: a built‑in sense for when something just doesn’t look right.Here are the figures that have been making the rounds:

Jeffrey Epstein’s death — only 25% of Americans believe the official suicide story. Half the country calls it murder, and 70% think the government is hiding something.

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Calling It What It Is

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Calling It What It Is

James Quillian, Economist, Political Analyst, Natural Law

Every so often, a country drifts so far from its own description that the polite thing to do is stop repeating the label. America still calls itself a republic, but that word has become more of a sentimental keepsake than an operating description. We keep it around the way families keep an old photograph on the mantle — not because it reflects the present, but because it reminds us of what we once were.

A republic is supposed to be a system where the people are in charge and the government works for them. That’s the definition. But definitions don’t govern anything. Function does. And if you look at how power actually behaves in Washington, you’ll notice something uncomfortable: the people who are supposed to be in charge aren’t, and the people who are supposed to be working for them aren’t doing much of that either.

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Why the U.S. Cannot Recover

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By James Quillian, Economist, Political Analyst, Teacher of Natural Law

Why the U.S. Cannot Recover
By James Quillian, Economist, Political Analyst, Natural Law

Every now and then someone asks me whether the United States will recover from its current economic troubles, or whether we are headed for a complete collapse. That sounds like a simple question, but it hides an assumption I don’t share. Recovery is something that happens in a free market economy. The United States is no longer one of those. What we have today is a centrally planned system wearing the faded costume of a free market. And centrally planned economies do not recover. They collapse. Every time.

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