Going into the end of last year and at the start of this year I released a series of videos in which I said that the stock market weakness last year and gyrations across multiple financial markets represented a major stock market cycle shift that would lead to a very...
Borrowing heavily from the Whig philosopher John Locke (1632-1704), Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that all of us have the right to our lives, to our liberty, and to the pursuit of happiness. Less than a century earlier, Locke had offered a...
When I was a kid, the thought of robotics, especially bionics, made me excited. I’m old enough to remember the Six Million Dollar Man and never missed an episode. An astronaut crashes on a test flight and is pieced back together using science that seemed centuries...
I really wanted to believe in Gary Johnson. That might sound questionable to anyone who’s watched him. He is far from perfect, usually doesn’t make any sense in live interviews, and seems to see no problem with hedging on his positions till they’re not even really...
Brian Sonenstein, of shadowproof.com, talks about the ongoing national prison strike, a very under the radar news story, and about resistance and riots in US prisons. The prison strike is very undercover in the media, and Brian details why, and also why he thinks news...
Matthew McCaffrey at the Mises Institute has a good piece on Ludwig von Mises' views on racial collectivism. Most contemporary economists discuss racism in the context of labor market discrimination. But for Mises, racism is mostly a methodological and epistemological...
“I’m getting tired of over-promising and under-delivering,” F-35 program head Air Force Lt. Gen. Mike Schmidt said. The newly-envisioned Block 4 would instead focus on delivering “‘must-have’ content,” Schmidt wrote, which will include an undefined “subset” of 88...
For making the very worst Star Wars movie, Episode 8, and ruining Luke Skywalker. But now I realize that he was just making a film about how disappointing it was to meet Mark Hamill.
The governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem, has been plagued by a self-inflicted and festering wound for about a week now. An excerpt from her soon-to-be released memoir, aptly and prophetically entitled No Going Back, has transformed the governor from a Republican...
Private property isn’t about selfishness so much as it’s about creative control. Someone might want to have their own business, not because they’re greedy, but because they have a vision of how they want things to go that won’t be realized if everyone else gets a say...