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How State Legislators Can End Our Endless Wars

by Stewart Jones | Dec 16, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

While President Trump was negotiating yet another peace agreement this week — this time between Israel and Morocco — his enemies beat the drums of war in their ongoing effort to overthrow the America First foreign policy. It’s sad that throughout the entirety of Mr. Trump’s presidency, the swamp has worked around the clock to dismantle his efforts toward peace. Even worse, with the passage of the disastrous, $740.5 billion 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), it appears the neocons and pro-war left will soon regain the levers of federal power, plunging America into another four...

The Founders Warned Us About the Fed

by Stewart Jones | Oct 7, 2019 | Featured Articles

The Federal Reserve just lowered interest rates for the second time this year and announced more quantitative easing by injecting even more U.S. dollars into the market. The days of cheap money will soon come to an end, and I fear that many people won’t realize what’s happening until the rug is pulled out from under them. As economist Henry Hazlitt wrote, the practices of the Fed distort the real-world market indicators of cost, future prices, investments and production. A recent study from the National Association for Business Economics showed that 72 percent of economists now predict that...

How the Market Is Already Repealing Obamacare

by Stewart Jones | Apr 6, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles

There’s a common misconception that if you’re opposed to government services, programs and/or departments, then you’re opposed to building roads, education, people getting affordable health care and even people taking care of the sick and elderly. These misconceptions are becoming more apparent as the free market offers solutions and options using innovation and technology, as the government continues to fall in on itself. Six months into the pregnancy, we received a letter explaining that due to the changes in the law, our policy would no longer cover maternity services. I continue to be...

Daylight Saving Began as ‘War Time’

by Stewart Jones | Mar 15, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Benjamin Franklin once joked in his 1784 essay “An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light” that candle usage could be economized by changing the time and getting people out of bed earlier. Unfortunately, those in government took this seriously and have attempted to manipulate time for its own control. History of Time In fact, government’s attempts at controlling time and the implementation of daylight saving time was started to support war. Daylight saving time (DST) or “Fast Time” as it was first introduced in the United States in 1918 was signed into law by President Woodrow...