Laurie Laughlin, the lady from Full House, and her husband, clothing designer Something Mossimo, are being prosecuted by the feds for bribing their kid's way into USC. She now says the feds are hiding exculpatory evidence showing she thought the half-million was the...
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Understanding Elizabeth Warren’s Radical Wealth Tax
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has had a long-standing call for a 2% wealth tax on any individuals with a net worth exceeding $50 million, and a 3% tax on wealth exceeding $1 billion. Yet when pressed on how to pay for her “Medicare for All” plan,...
Today in History: The Boston Tea Party
Today in history, on Dec. 16, 1773, a group of Bostonians dressed as Mohawk Indians boarded three British ships and dumped several tons of tea into Boston Harbor. The event became known as the “Boston Tea Party,” or the “Destruction of the Tea.” After congregating at...
Only American to lead FBI and CIA says Trump presents ‘dire threat’ to country
Of course he does. He's a president of the U.S. government after all. But man, either the National Security State has the dumbest PR department in history or Trump has the most brilliant one. But he probably couldn't really afford to pay them what it would cost for...
12/13/19 Nasser Arrabyee on the War in Yemen
Scott interviews Nasser Arrabyee about Yemen, where the U.S. continues to back Suadi Arabia in waging a war of starvation against the people of Yemen. Scott calls this the very worst thing our government is doing, and yet by and large the American people don't much...
The Economic Consequences of the Peace: 100 Years Later
Introduction December 12, 2019 is the hundred-year anniversary of The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes. This work has been described as “one of the most influential books of the twentieth century.”1 It made Keynes the most famous economist in...
News Roundup 12/16/19
US News The US is withholding crucial evidence in the Assange case from his defense team. [Link] Peter Thiel’s Palantir gets a $111 million contract to provide software to the Army. [Link] The 2020 NDAA includes a requirement of Trump to sanction the construction of...
12/13/19 Jerrod Laber on America’s Futile War in Afghanistan
Scott talks to Jerrod Laber about the status of the U.S. presence in Afghanistan following the Washington Post's release of their "Afghanistan Papers" last week. Laber thinks that if and when American troops leave, things are sure to get worse in the short term. The...
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