Maybe no one would have noticed if Trump had sent in some FBI guys just to help guard the federal courthouse in Portland, but Trump lives by the motto "Be ominously obnoxious or go home." So he sends in unidentified agents from customs, the border patrol, and other...
Donald Trump
On The Ballot
by Steven Woskow | Jul 22, 2020 | Blog
Looks like the Counsel On Foreign Relations won't be endorsing Trump this year. At Foreign Affairs Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is visiting the United Kingdom and Denmark this week amid a strain in the transatlantic alliance. President Donald Trump has criticized...
Donald Trump on Ghislaine Maxwell: ‘I Wish Her Well’
by Scott Horton | Jul 22, 2020 | Blog
"I just wish her well, frankly. I've met her numerous times over the years... I just wish her well, whatever it is." Anyone else? Anyone else wish Ghislaine Maxwell "well"? I don't. I think that if only bad things happen to her from now on that would be just fine....
June Was One of the Most Expensive Months On Record
by Michael Maharrey | Jul 16, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
The federal budget deficit in the month of June totaled nearly the entire 2019 fiscal year shortfall and would rank sixth largest-ever if it were a yearly deficit. The June deficit came in at $864.1 billion dollars, according to the latest Treasury Department report....
Natural Born Citizens: Understanding Who Can Be POTUS in a Nation Beset By Divided Loyalties
by Sam Jacobs | Jul 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
“Natural born citizenship” goes all the way back to England and determines who can and cannot be the president. But it also speaks to the core of who is an American.
How the Pentagon Failed To Sell ‘Bountygate’ Hoax to U.S. Intelligence
by Gareth Porter | Jul 9, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The New York Times dropped another Russiagate bombshell on June 26 with a sensational front-page story headlined, “Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says.” A predictable media and political frenzy followed, reviving...
Constitutional Republic vs. Pure Democracy: How the U.S. Election Process Has Changed
by Sam Jacobs | Jul 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
The long history of America’s franchise is one of ever greater expansion. But is more democracy actually better?
The Russian Bounties Hoax
by Scott Horton | Jul 2, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
There’s no reason for you to accept the story about the Russian military paying Afghan militants to kill American troops in Afghanistan. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post all started this controversy late last week with incredibly thin...
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Human Rights Watch: Yes, Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza
A growing body of legal experts and international humanitarian organizations have concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
What Corporatism Actually Is
"The fundamental idea both of guild socialism and of corporativism is that every branch of business forms a monopolistic body, the guild or corporazione. This entity enjoys full autonomy; it is free to settle all its internal affairs without interference of external...
The Pause That Refreshes
I will be spending the holidays with my children and grandchildren at an undisclosed bunker location in the inland Rocky Mountain west and off the 'net until the new year when I will resume blogging at the Institute... Since I paused Chasing Ghosts and started...
Good Plan Means My Plan
"All this passionate praise of the supereminence of government action is but a poor disguise for the individual interventionist’s self-deification. The great god State is a great god only because it is expected to do exclusively what the individual advocate of...
Who Needs What?
"[I]t is evident ... that the man, who first made himself clothes and built himself a cabin, supplied himself with things which he did not much want, since he had lived without them till then; and why should he not have been able to support in his riper years, the...
Whose Plan?
"The alternative is not plan or no plan. The question is whose planning? Should each member of society plan for himself, or should a benevolent government alone plan for them all? The issue is not automatism versus conscious action; it is autonomous action of each...
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