I'm not talking about the Democrats' pathetic attempt to remove him from office. It is the Deep State's effort to hem in Trump's foreign policy that is bearing fruit. Trump's 2020 budget gives $250 million in lethal aid to the Neo-Nazi friendly government in Ukraine.
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Trump’s Trade Policy Has Produced Damaging Tariffs but Little Else
by Daniel Griswold | Dec 4, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Farm exports to China are down, manufacturing job growth has stalled, and prices are up for many goods Americans are about to enter the third full year of President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff regime, which aims to promote US manufacturing, protect key...
NATO Is a Mess. It Is Time to End the Outdated Alliance.
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 4, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #425, I explain why NATO should be dissolved. NATO leaders are meeting in London and there are plenty of issues among the members. Turkey is recently purchased Russian made air defense systems and is refusing to sign off on defense plans unless other countries...
Even Nixon’s Ghost Agrees That Price Controls Won’t Fix Our Broken Health Care System
by Nick Waddy | Nov 29, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
The answer to high out-of-network health care costs is not to increase the federal government's already excessive powers over the marketplace. On a hot summer night—Sunday, August 15th, 1971—millions of red-blooded Americans tuned their Zenith and Magnavox TV sets to...
Monsters and U.S. Foreign Policy
by Laurence Vance | Nov 27, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism
It looks like the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity will be having some competition. The formation of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft was recently announced. The think tank gets its name from John Quincy Adams. According to the organization’s...
News Roundup 11/27/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 27, 2019 | News Roundup
US News Three Baltimore men were free after spending 36 years in prison for a murder they did not commit. [Link] Rand Paul highlights millions of US tax dollars going to waste on subsidizing Serbian cheese and getting fish addicted to nicotine. [Link] The Supreme...
What’s Wrong with ‘Détente’ Anyway?
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 27, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #423, I break down an Oliver Stone tweet saying the US should develop a more diplomatic relationship with Russia. I look at some of the reasons, so many Americans reflexively oppose the US strengthening ties with our nuclear rival. I take on some establishment...
The Next Curse
by Mark Thornton | Nov 26, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Zero Hedge reports “China’s Skyscraper Boom Comes Crashing Down Amid Developer Default,” noting reports that construction work was recently halted on the nation’s potentially tallest skyscraper, after the developer defaulted on a payment to the construction company....
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Lawrence Premieres in London
On this day, 62 years ago, David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) premiered in London, UK. My favorite movie of all time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULsFcSpaVO0
The Health-Care Nirvana Fallacy
Someone explain how coercive centralized bureaucratic control of medical decision-making and the purse can beat the decentralized free market with its undistorted price system. The government has many things besides medical care it wants to spend tax money on, and...
DEI Kills: Boeing Bumbling on Parade Part CXXVII
Editor's Note: Just returned from business travel so my blogging frequency should bump up again. Boeing continues o provide legions of future business historians the fodder for hundreds of books and cautionary tales on how engineering can fall of a cliff once...
What’s Behind HTS Rebranding and the Rise of Geopolitical Tensions? New Episode of the Kyle Anzalone Show
Al-Qaeda's Takeover in Syria: Truth Behind the Headlines! Al-Qaeda's recent control over Syria marks a significant shift in the region, and we need to unpack its implications. While mainstream media may portray this as a victory for freedom and justice, the reality is...
Time to Separate Medicine and State
The "progressive" coverage of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson's murder has an unspoken premise: namely, that we could have had a system in which medical care was instantly superabundant and free for everyone. There is no such system. We live in a world of...
No Need for DOGE
We don't need a Department (sic) of Government Efficiency. (It's a nongovernment thing.) We need a "Department" of What the Hell Should the Government Be Doing in the First Place? Efficiency implies that you know the objective of a course of action and want to avoid...
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