History has been dominated by the stories of great powers diplomacy. American hegemony is grounded in this notion, and in the mind of the Pentagon, the entire post-war consensus is based on full spectrum American dominance. What if America declines? Must China, for...
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If It Bleeds It Leads: How the American Media Perpetuates and Profits from Mass Shootings
by Sam Jacobs | Sep 3, 2019 | Featured Articles
I have repeatedly told CNN and our other media the following if you don’t want to propagate more mass murders: Don’t start the story with sirens blaring. Don’t have photos of the killer. Don’t make it 24/7 coverage. Do everything you can not to make the body count the...
President an Insane Lunatic
by Scott Horton | Aug 26, 2019 | Blog
Inflate! ....My only question is, who is our bigger enemy, Jay Powell or Chairman Xi? — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 23, 2019 Deflate! ....better off without them. The vast amounts of money made and stolen by China from the United States, year after year,...
Mid-Atlantic States Enact Historic Reforms, But Remain Stalled on Legalization
by Patrick McKnight | Aug 22, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
New Jersey May Renew Push to Legalize Marijuana in 2019 Recent comments from Governor Phil Murphy and Senate President Steve Sweeney suggest one final legislative effort to legalize marijuana in 2019. “I think I’ve been consistent that I hoped we could have one more...
JAMA: Fluoridated Water During Pregnancy Causes Lower IQs
by Scott Horton | Aug 19, 2019 | Blog
You insane conspiracy kooks. -- Uh, I mean the Journal of the American Medical Association: An influential medical journal published a study Monday that links fluoride consumption during pregnancy with lower childhood IQs—a finding that could undermine decades of...
Yankee-Go-Home
by Adice Lyneis | Aug 18, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Guatemala has elected Alejandro Giammattei as its new president. The president elect opposes the “safe third country” deal with the United States that current president, Jimmy Morales, agreed to. Only time will tell if Giammattei sheds his campaign opinions in order...
The Supreme Court and the Second Amendment: Understanding the Court’s Landmark Decisions
by Sam Jacobs | Aug 13, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice
The Second Amendment is one of most fundamental provisions of the Bill of Rights, and one of the most fiercely debated. Since it was first put to paper, legal scholars, gun owners and anti-gun activists have engaged in an endless discussion over the meaning and scope...
Women’s Soccer is a Financial Loser
by Matt Knight | Aug 6, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
On July 29, 2019, U.S. Soccer president Carlos Cordeiro released an open letter and fact sheet addressed to “Friends, Colleagues and Supporters of U.S. Soccer.” Though he spends much of the letter emphasizing the organization’s commitment to “equal pay for equal...
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The Welfare-State Paradox
"Whether ... a system of social security is a good or a bad policy is essentially a political problem. One may try to justify it by declaring that the wage earners lack the insight and the moral strength to provide spontaneously for their own future. But then it is...
The Ford Follies: Yes, It Can Get Worse
Brent Eastwood does a splendid job elucidating so many of the problems of the fatally flawed Ford super-carrier. I suspect he had to say "promising" but there is nothing here for the 21st century; this is the chariot and crossbow of the next generation. This is the...
The Steady Rise in Living Standards
"The history of capitalism as it has operated in the last two hundred years in the realm of Western civilization is the record of a steady rise in the wage earners’ standard of living. The inherent mark of capitalism is that it is mass production for mass consumption...
Pentagon Acquisition: Rotten From Head to Toe
The pattern is a revolving door of deliberate insider trading and influence by hiring retiring flag officers with active Rolodexes to be exploited in bent bidding and shadowy acquisition practices in an already sclerotic and gummed-up acquisition system that can't...
The Business of America: War, War, War!
Sachs mentions Timber Sycamore which was a classified weapons supply and training program run by the CIA and supported by the United Kingdom and some Arab intelligence services, including Saudi intelligence. The aim of the program was to remove Syrian president Bashar...
Mises on Wages under Capitalism
"While daily experience taught impressively that under capitalism real wage rates and the wage earners’ standard of living were steadily rising, while it became from day to day more obvious that the traditional walls separating the various strata of the population...
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