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News Roundup 9/4/17

by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 4, 2017 | Blog

The Department of Health and Human Services rolled back an Obama era directive that weakened work requirements for welfare recipients. [Link] Trump is sharply cutting the funding to promote Obamacare enrollment. [Link] A Utah nurse was placed under arrest for refusing...

News Roundup 7/31/17

by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 31, 2017 | Blog

Trump fired Reince Priebus as White House Chief of Staff. Trump named General John Kelly to the position. [Link] Trump says he expects the US to withdraw from the P5+1 Nuclear Agreement with Iran in September. [Link] Trump threatens to with hold bailouts to health...

News Roundup 7/27/17

by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 27, 2017 | Blog

The vote on the clean repeal of Obamacare failed in the Senate 45-55. [Link] A federal judge in Michigan continued to prevent the deportation of 1,400 of Iraqi nationals living in the US. [Link] New documents reveal the Obama Administration violated the law while...

News Roundup 7/26/17

by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 26, 2017 | Blog

Trump tweets on the ending of arms and assistance to Syrian rebels. Trump said the program was dangerous and wasteful. [Link] A Florida police officer was fired for having several complaints against him and tampering with evidence. The officer was rehired by the same...

Healthcare: A House Divided Cannot Stand

by Thomas L. Knapp | Jul 24, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles

The latest healthcare initiative from the Trump administration and the Republican Party’s leaders in Congress seems set to sink just like the last version. Mitch McConnell can’t seem to round up the votes to push it through the Senate, if anything the House is more...

Death Panels: Sarah Palin Was Right, Sort Of

by Thomas L. Knapp | Jul 14, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles

In 2009, former Alaska governor and vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin raised the kind of ruckus she’s known for with her comment on the then-notional Affordable Care Act, aka “ObamaCare.” In a Facebook note, she wrote: “The America I know and love is not one in...

Market-Based Medical Care for All

by Sheldon Richman | Jul 13, 2017 | Blog

My latest article for the American Institute for Economic Research is "Market-Based Medical Care for All."

The Historical Inevitability of Libertarianism

by Zack Sorenson | Jul 10, 2017 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism

Marxism infamously puts forward a theory of history in which its utopian vision for human society is upheld as an eschatological certainty. According to Marx, irresistible political and economic forces will compel mankind towards a future of full equality and...

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The Continuing Erosion of US Dominance in Peer Combat

The predominance of Western military superiority in weapons systems is unraveling and the increasing dissonance in the US military complex coming to grips with existential changes in how peer competition in war is evolving is causing tremendous reduction in both both...

The Global Censorship Complex and the Local Voice of Liberty with John Weeks

The Global Censorship Complex and the Local Voice of Liberty with John Weeks John Weeks (@weeksjf) examines the evolution of free speech, the nature of state power, and the rise of what he calls the "global censorship complex." Drawing from anthropology, political...

163rd Anniversary of Stonewall Jackson’s Victory in the Battle of Front Royal

This is reprinted from Jim Bovard's blog and expands on a post originally from 2023. Today is the 163th anniversary of the battle of Front Royal, Virginia (the town near where I was raised). On May 23, 1862, almost all the Yankee soldiers in Front Royal were captured,...

Future Fish Apartments R Us

Aircraft carriers are the crossbow and chariot of the 21st century. Very expensive 20th century modalities not fit for purpose in 21st century peer naval combat. Carriers like the USS Ford can barely function but the sentence above applies to even best of class in...