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...
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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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If Israel’s Apologists Insist ‘From the River to the Sea’ Is Genocidal…
Apologists for Israel’s genocide in Gaza reject freedom for Palestinians and insist on Israel’s continued existence as a Jewish supremacist state.
I Met a Man
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...
UN Review: No Evidence UNRWA Staff Are Terrorists
The UN’s review on UNRWA’s neutrality notes that Israel provided no evidence for its claim that staff members belong to terrorist organizations.
Joe Biden is Such a Liar
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.
John Boyd: Persona Non Grata at the Pentagon
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:...
Class versus Identity Politics?
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...