About: Daniel Natal

Thanking Out Loud

Owing to the fact that it’s Thanksgiving, Daniel gives thanks for the many blessings that have befallen him… and America. DISCLAIMER: Views and opinions expressed on The Daniel Natal...

Gaslighting America

The Left said ‘Save the Whales,’ and something did: The innovation of petroleum, which rendered whale oil in lamps obsolete. As a result of kerosene, whaling ships stopped hunting...

Transhumanism

According to certain futurists, we are approaching ‘The Singularity,’ after which man will be deflected by technology onto a different evolutionary path. Certain individuals and institutions want to hasten...

The War Against the Family

According to Pew Research, America has now displaced Iceland and Sweden as the place where children are most likely to live in single-parent homes. What does this mean for...

Big Tech Tyranny

Silicon Valley’s “Big Five” (Google, Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft) have gambled on avoiding anti-trust laws by setting themselves up as “surrogate censors” for the government. This has been...

Liberal, Conservative or American?

The popular conception of “liberal” has changed meaning over time. The people who hold and espouse “liberal values” today are actually conservatives. In fact, Progressives actively hate liberal institutions,...

Baby Boom or Baby Bust?

New reports indicate that birth rates have plummeted by 4%, making the the biggest birth rate decline in U.S. history. While some people are blaming global medical emergencies and...

The Ring of Gyges

In “The Republic,” Plato describes the ring of Gyges, which allegedly imparted invisibility. He recounts Socrates discussing with friends whether people would behave ethically if they were invisible. Melissa...

Let’s Go, Brandon

Recently, a Southwest Airlines pilot got into hot water for uttering the phrase “Let’s go, Brandon” over the intercom. At just that moment, National Public Radio made news by...

Weaponized Immigration

While the media spends much time on talking about “weapons of mass destruction,” less time is dedicated to frank discussions of weapons of mass migration. We explore the way...

Kicking Away the Ladder (Part 5)

The fifth installment of our “Kicking Away the Ladder” series focuses on the War on the Middle Class. The historical norm is feudalism, with a tiny oligarchical class and...

HAARP

The government created the HAARP program to shoot beams into the ionosphere of the planet and to see how it could (in theory) affect weather patterns. Is this technology being used...

How The Internet Got Censored

People have noticed that the internet today is not like the internet from even a few years ago. Increasingly, it resembles China’s censored internet with its social credit system....

The War Against Competence

“Democracy,” in classical political science, was the old word for what we now call “socialism.” As America lurches from a republic into a democracy, it has shifted from its...

Rhetoric

In a republic, communication is key. It is necessary to persuade the people. As a result, the art of oratory and rhetoric is promoted. However, when empires displace republics,...

Artificial Intelligence

This episode of Under the Iceberg covers the subject of artificial intelligence. Are we heading toward what futurists call The Singularity, and if so, what dangers might we encounter as a...

The Importance of Property

John Locke said, “Government has no other end, but the preservation of property”. If so, then why (all over the country) are police forces refusing to defend property and...

Majestic 12

In 1984, Jaime Shandera and Bill Moore received a package with no return address on it, containing a roll of 35-millimeter film. On  the film were what purported to...