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House Passes $578 Billion Military Spending Bill

by Jason Ditz | Mar 8, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Bill Moves on to Senate, Expected to Easily Pass There The House of Representatives today voted 371-48, with massive majorities in both parties, in favor of another $578 billion military spending bill to cover the remainder of fiscal year 2017. The bill now moves on...

Trump Vows Record Military Spending, End of Sequestration

by Jason Ditz | Mar 1, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Despite Years of Hype, Cuts Didn't Happen While military policy wasn’t heavily focused on in President Trump’s first address to Congress, an early and quick emphasis was placed on the recently announced plan to increase military spending by 9%, in particular...

1/27/17 Joseph Stromberg on the politics, protectionism and foreign policy of The New Deal

by Scott Horton | Jan 27, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Joseph Stromberg, an independent historian and writer, discusses how the Smoot-Hawley Tariff and worldwide protectionism ground the US economy to a halt in the 1930s; the enduring "accordion effect" of increasing government power and decline of civil liberties during...

Keynes Would Have Loved Trump’s Economic Plan

by Frank Shostak | Nov 22, 2016 | Economics, Featured Articles

Trump’s plan is what Keynes would have prescribed! Most economic commentators such as a Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman should be delighted with the US president-elect Donald Trump’s economic plan for it is going to be along the lines of Keynesian economics. One of...

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Death By Climate: Down 97% in Last 100 Years

Our schools provide many hours of lessons on climate change, but I wonder how many teachers, let alone pupils, are aware that climate-related deaths have decreased by as much as 97 per cent over the past 100 years, as the OFDA / CRED data show. - Why don’t we ever...

Black Youth Unemployment: Before and After Progressives Started “Helping”

A constant trend is progressivism is to use the state to coercively control others under the guise of "helping" them, make things worse, then ignore the problems you caused and never apologize. Sallie Mae loans didn't make college affordable. The Federal Reserve...

What Kind of Liberal?

Not to put too fine a point on it, but I am a Locke-Smith liberal.

The Tale of the Steak – A Lesson in Economics by Walter E. Williams

Consider filet mignon and chuck steak. Assume-realistically-that consumers prefer the former. Then the question becomes: why is it, despite consumer preferences, that chuck steak sells at all? The fact is that chuck steak outsells filet mignon. How does something less...

My Favorite Michael Malice Quote

If the government didn't have a monopoly on security, only rich people would be able to have security just like when the government got out of other businesses, the only cars produced were limousines, the only clothes produced were tuxedos and the only food produced...

Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a Tyrant Unworthy of Admiration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNSMrawCmcM Volodymyr Zelenskyy has: Instituted Military Conscription (Also Known As Slavery and Forced Labor) Bombed Poland Then Lied Blaming Russia Trying to Start World War Three w/ NATO Nationalized (Monopolized) the Media Banned...

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