As the British put increased pressure on the American colonists in an effort to force them into submission, the colonists backed up their increasingly forceful rhetoric with concrete actions to undermine British authority. The colonists began perfecting this formula...
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Donald Trump Reveals His 2024 Presidential Platform
by Adam Dick | Nov 21, 2022 | Featured Articles, Politics
Speaking Tuesday before an audience of supporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, Donald Trump presented an hour-long speech announcing that he is running in the 2024 general election to regain the United States presidency. Trump used the speech to provide an...
TGIF: Beware the Regulatory Storm over FTX
by Sheldon Richman | Nov 18, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The bankruptcy of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX and the alleged fraud by co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried, which has cost customers millions, is tailor-made for anyone who already wants the power of government to expand, especially in the area of financial privacy. For...
Revisiting the Fall of Mosul: Who Was to Blame?
by William Van Wagenen | Nov 18, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On June 5, 2014, hundreds of ISIS militants launched a lightning assault on Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city. As a result of the mass surrender and desertion of the Iraqi forces, ISIS took full control of the city on June 10, just 5 days later. The group looted...
Forever War at the End of the World
by Connor Freeman | Nov 17, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Uncle Sam now has nuclear weapons held to humanity’s head. Washington’s recently released Nuclear Posture Review clarified that launching nuclear weapons in a first strike is indeed on the table, to “achieve U.S. objectives if deterrence fails.” This came after...
Housing Prices Will Keep Getting More Expensive
by Ryan McMaken | Nov 17, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
As mortgage rates have risen this year, the demand for home purchases has fallen. That has spelled trouble for the home construction business. Homebuilder confidence dropped for the 10th straight month in October. The decline in builder sentiment reflects what...
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
by Kym Robinson | Nov 16, 2022 | Featured Articles
The latest adaption of All Quiet on the Western Front is a German production available on Netflix that gives a grim and gruesome depiction of World War I. Based on the 1929 book by Erich Maria Remarque, and differing in parts from both the book and previous film...
Joe Biden Says ‘Unlikely’ Polish Missile Strike Came from Russia; Ukraine the Culprit?
by Dave DeCamp | Nov 16, 2022 | Featured Articles
President Biden told reporters in Indonesia on Wednesday that it’s “unlikely” the missile that hit a village in Poland Tuesday near the Ukrainian border was fired by Russia and that “preliminary” information indicates otherwise. “There is preliminary information that...