Now what will hasten the day when our present advantages will wear out and when we shall come down to the conditions of the older and densely populated nations? The answer is: war, debt, taxation, diplomacy, a grand governmental system, pomp, glory, a big army and...
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Biden Family Corruption Laid Bare
by Brad Pearce | Jan 23, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Politics
For many years, Joe Biden’s corruption has been as well known as his dementia to anyone remotely out of the Democrat Party and MSNBC messaging zone. Throughout his half-century career as an unimpressive politician, his family has accumulated enormous wealth through...
‘YOU’RE FIRED!’ Trump Dismisses Brian Hook in Truth Social Post
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 22, 2025 | Foreign Policy, News, Politics
President Donald Trump fired four presidential appointees that he said did not share his vision for America. Among those dismissed were Brian Hook, who served on the Trump transition team. “My Presidential Personnel Office is actively in the process of identifying and...
What Will a Trump Second Term Mean for Russian-American Relations?
by José Niño | Jan 22, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Contrary to the conventional wisdom permeating across alternative media, a second Trump administration is likely going to be much more hawkish than expected. Donald Trump’s national security advisor, Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL), revealed in an ABC News interview that the...
My Best Biden Bashes
by Jim Bovard | Jan 21, 2025 | Featured Articles, Politics
Joe Biden’s presidency ended yesterday. Would it be ungracious to whack him as he was exiting the White House? Nah—Biden has been vilifying libertarians and anyone who didn’t kowtow to his commands for too many years. Plus, he is working on a memoir, so he is fair...
A Libertarian-Left Alliance…On Economics?
by Thomas Eddlem | Jan 20, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles, Politics
It sounds silly; a libertarian-left alliance on economics? It's almost like the wolf and the sheep allying on what’s for dinner. But hear me out. There’s a global political realignment in the works, and it’s clearly based on stopping the military-industrial complex,...
Tulsi Gabbard, For Better or For Worse
by James Rushmore | Jan 14, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
When President-elect Donald Trump first nominated former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii to serve as director of national intelligence (DNI) in his second administration, many critics of current U.S. foreign policy saw the selection as a step in the...
TGIF: Efficient Bureaucracy?
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 10, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
With all the talk about government efficiency, it would be useful to remind ourselves why bureaucracies differ radically from for-profit businesses. Ludwig von Mises devoted a short but enlightening volume to this subject in 1944, Bureaucracy. Elon Musk and Vivek...