Advocates for vaccine mandates—led by the Biden Administration—are apparently unconcerned that the mandates are likely to drive down total employment and reduce access to government services. In many cases these are the same services that mandate-pushing politicians...
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Protectionism: Morally and Economically Dumb
by Jim Bovard | Nov 1, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
Protectionism is reviving in Washington on both sides of the political aisle. Democrats are cheering proposals to restrict trade to benefit labor unions and save the environment while some Republicans are reviving Smoot-Hawley style salvation schemes. Protectionist...
Down With Fraudulent ‘Fair’ Trade
by Jim Bovard | Oct 21, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
The Biden administration is embracing the same flawed “fair trade” mantra that previous administrations used to sanctify protectionist policies. Biden’s team has “largely dispensed with the idea of free trade as a goal in and of itself,” the New York...
When Barack Obama Got Away with Murder
by Jim Bovard | Oct 15, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
[Yesterday was] the 10th anniversary of the drone killing of Abdulrahman Al-Aulaqi, a 16 year old born in Colorado and killed in Yemen. He perished as part of Obama’s crackdown on terrorist suspects around the world. His father, who was also an American citizen, was...
That Time I Swiped the U.S. Tariff Code
by Jim Bovard | Oct 8, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
"Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy,” as Attorney General Ramsey Clark warned in 1967. As a journalist, I have battled federal agencies for decades to try to discover the sordid details of how Americans’ rights and liberties are being shafted. Most government...
News Roundup 9/30/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 30, 2021 | News Roundup
US News The NBA says players who are unable to play because of vaccination mandates will not be paid. [Link] The House NDAA includes a provision that extends the draft to women. [Link] Two Democratic Senators tell Biden to end drone strikes outside of war zones....
Nixon Closed the Gold Window and Stole My Political Innocence
by Jim Bovard | Aug 16, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
Fifty years ago, on August 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon announced that the U.S. government would cease honoring its pledge to pay gold to redeem the dollars held by foreign central banks. Nixon declared he was taking “action necessary to defend the dollar against...
Medical Apartheid Is Here
by John Whitehead | Aug 5, 2021 | Featured Articles
The things we were worried would happen are happening. — Angus Johnston, professor at the City University of New York Imagine it: a national classification system that not only categorizes you according to your health status but also allows the government to sort you...
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NZ Ocean Floor Survey Naval Vessel Runs Aground Off Samoa
That New Zealand naval ship that ran aground, foundered, caught fire and capsized with the DEI Captain commanding was an ocean survey and mapping ship. HMNZS Manawanui was a dive and hydrographic vessel of the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN). It was one of five vessels...
The Carrier as Reef Complex: World’s Most Expensive Fish Apartments
*** I have returned from a long sojourn with my wife to Croatia and will be writing more regularly and trying to address issues arising more contemporaneously than the previous month. We were delayed in returning by Hurricane Milton but finally managed to get home:...
The Soul of a Socialist
From the pen of H. G. Wells (1908), socialist: War is a collective concern; to turn one’s back upon it, to refuse to consider it as a possibility, is to leave it entirely to those who are least prepared to deal with it in a broad spirit. In many ways war is the most...
Watch ‘Atrocity Inc: How Israel Sells Its Destruction Of Gaza’
This new documentary exposes how hoax claims about Hamas’s 10/7 operation have been used to manufacture consent for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
On “Election Integrity”
The government openly claims the right to control everyday decisions millions of people make with taxes and regulations. Why would they have some exception for who gets to run for (or be elected) President of the United States? The same deep state Domestic Imperialist...
US Navy Can’t Weld
Fire all uniformed flag officers in the chain. Releive all SES and naval civilians leaders in the chain. Immediately. And this is peacetime. And keep this in mind, find this many faulty welds and ALL welds on the ship have to be inspected and certified. That is very...
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