Most have probably already heard that President Trump told Axios in an interview that he seeks to remove birthright citizenship via an executive order. As many have already explained, this move would be unconstitutional as it would violate the Citizenship Clause of...
Yesterday the Federal Reserve raised interest rates and projected two more rate hikes by year-end. The stock market's reaction was muted, but silver and gold firmed up after the news and are ticking up this morning. At some point, the FOMC is going to pause on its...
Trump on Syria, “I want to get out, I want to bring our troops back home." [Link] Trump suggests sending troops to the southern border to stop immigrants. [Link] Trump on Russia "If we got along with Russia, that would be a good thing, not a bad thing." [Link]...
Americans have long rejected a national ID, but many U.S. state governments are quietly developing national ID systems in a variety of forms. One is the uniform identity card system envisioned by the REAL ID Act. That federal law, passed in 2005, seeks to subject...
On FPF #144, I discuss the war's cost on Americans. 1,000s of Americans have been killed overseas. Many veterans suffer from lasting physical, psychological, and moral injuries from the war. The war has cost every American freedom. The cultural decay created by the...
Thank you. Thank you to the Reason Foundation, and to the judges who saw merit in my work and honored me with this award. It's especially validating to get an award named after Bastiat—an award for which people like Milton Friedman and James Buchanan once served as...
Asians have done it again. Once again, they’ve debunked the diversity dogma that prevails at universities and elsewhere, including the canard that minorities are held back because of white privilege, which is itself a canard. How have Asians done this? By achieving...
Located nearly three hours drive from Adelaide, the property rested in the South-East. The nearest township a good thirty minutes if you pushed your vehicle over dirty unselaed road. It was a job that a mate threw my way, help out some old timers that he knew through...
He lies about everything. This time it's his uncle Ambrose who was lost at sea during WWII. Genocide Joe lies that he was eaten by cannibals, smearing the people of Papua New Guinea, who fought as America's allies in that war.
COL John Boyd was quite the maverick in the military ranks and rocked the boat all the time. You will not though incredibly capable, he was never promoted to flag rank. One of the best insights he ever gave was that when one distills strategy simply, it is:...
Parts of the "left" and "right" often lament that class politics has given way to identity politics. I don't get that. Class was the original modern political identity, and state privilege was part of the cause. Libertarians and classical liberals long warned that...