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Manufactured Opioid Crisis: a Ploy to Salvage the War on Drugs
In case you haven’t heard, there’s an opioid crisis in America. With majorities of Americans now clearly supportive of marijuana legalization, opioids, a class of drugs used for thousands of years to treat pain and other ailments, have become the latest target of drug...
Border Patrol Expands its “Constitution-Free Zone”
In this photo that has been widely circulated on social media, customs agents can be seen inspecting the IDs of passengers disembarking from a domestic flight from San Francisco to New York City. It is delusional to pretend that a border enforcement Regime will employ...
News Roundup 2/10/17
Trump signs three executive orders dealing with public safety. [Link] The first order creates a task force to look into crimes and police deficiencies. [Link] The second executive order directs his staff to develop new laws to protect all law enforcement from crimes....
Money Supply Growth Moderated in December
In our last update on money supply — using the "Austrian" measure of money supply developed by Murray Rothbard and Joseph Salerno — we found that money supply growth hit a 46-month high of 11.2 percent in October. Growth has moderated since then, however, with...
Economics Links 1/27/17
Top economics links for 1/27/17 Federal Reserve Bankers Mocked Unemployed Americans Behind Closed Doors - The Intercept Executive Orders Pave Way for Some Savings, but Also More Spending - National Taxpayers Union Asset-Price Inflation Heating Up with Nothing to Show...
Trump’s Wall and the Assault on Private Property
The Washington Post's article on Donald Trump's border wall does something unusual: it takes into account Trump's planned assault on property owners along the Mexican border. Note: "In Texas, almost all of the land along the border is privately owned. When former...
The GOP’s Homeland Security “Gleichschaltung” is Underway
Many conservative-leaning populists extol the county sheriff as the highest law enforcement officer within his jurisdiction. Within that group, many likewise regard what they believe to be unchecked immigration as an existential crisis that must be addressed through...
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Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty
Americans today have “freedom” to be fleeced, groped, injected, harassed, surveilled, vilified, disarmed, beaten, detained, and maybe shot by federal agents. From hapless homeowners hit by SWAT raids to pandemic lockdowns pointlessly paralyzing lives, government...
The Fake China Threat and Its Very Real Danger
Today the front pages and bookstores are filled with tales of the so-called "China Threat." From spy balloons to Fentanyl pipelines, genocide to dreams of world domination: CHINA! But is it all true? Is any of it? Now, for the first time, the speciousness of these and...
