As the #GunControlNow battle rages on online, between two camps that won’t listen or understand each other, and where both sides are throwing emotionally loaded words in each other’s virtual faces, I’d like to give a couple of cents on a different, but closely related...
Whenever a central bank introduces easy monetary policy, as a rule this leads to an economic boom — or economic prosperity. At least this is what most commentators hold. If this is however the case then it means that an easy monetary policy can grow an economy. But...
Since the end of the Cold War in 1990, US defense spending has increased 182 percent in nominal terms, and 44 percent in inflation-adjusted terms. In inflation-adjusted terms, defense spending is now about equal with the all-time peak reached in 2011, and the White...
Donnie Gebert is a former US Army Intelligence Sergeant, Ammunition Supply Specialist, Infantryman and US Navy Electronics Technician. He was medically discharged after 17 years of active service and lives with his three children in Texas. He is the author of “A...
Sergeant First Class Elis Angel Barreto Ortiz could have been the last American serviceman to die in Afghanistan. Could have been. After the Taliban took credit for the attack that killed Sgt. Ortiz, President Donald Trump called off his meeting with the Taliban last...
Myanmar A UN fact-finding mission on Myanmar found that the Rohingya live under systematic persecution and are under the threat of genocide. [Link] Afghanistan The Afghan government reports killing two Taliban governors. US airstrikes supported the Afghan army...
Kelley B. Vlahos tells Scott about two of her recent American Conservative articles, one about the FBI's investigation of antiwar.com on spurious grounds following the 9/11 attacks, and the other a review of the new book, Poisoner in Chief by Stephen Kinzer. The book...
But lots of child rapists are cops.
Saudi Arabia’s oil production facilities were attacked by drone strikes from an unknown attacker. Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim to have done the strike, but some question this story. American intelligence points the finger at Iran, while some suggest this is a false...
US News Twitter restores some of the blocked accounts of Cuban officials. [Link] Trump is planning to meet with South Korean leader Moon Jae-in at the UN in September. Trump said he is open to meet with Kim Jong-un again. [Link] The US sails warships through the South...
