Matt Welch at Reason writes about a new political alliance between so-called libertarian Justin Amash and a new group of "McCain Republicans" formed by Rick Wilson, John Weaver and Jeff Timmer calling themselves "The Lincoln Project". Wilson, author of the 2018...
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NBC Tattle-Tales on Trump, Claiming He Wants Out of Afghanistan
Which they take at face value and also to be a horrible, cynical thing to do. Which, if it's at all true, then it probably is for political reasons, but so what? Doesn't that just mean that that's what the American people -- the right even -- want to happen, and that...
Half of My Heart Is in La Habana: Life After Flight from Castro’s Cuba
When Mercedes (“Mercy”) Rodriguez arrived in America on a fall day in 1979, the first thing she noticed was how clean and wide the streets were. The 15-year-old Cuban refugee had just arrived on a plane carrying nearly a dozen political prisoners, including her father...
Iraq Parties Hold Talks on a New PM as Protests Continue
Last week’s resignation of Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi didn’t take anyone by surprise in Iraq, least of all parliament. Officials say that talks on his replacement had already begun days before he resigned, and are now actively going on in earnest. Which isn’t to...
The Boom Is Worse than the Bust
The popularity of inflation and credit expansion, the ultimate source of the repeated attempts to render people prosperous by credit expansion, and thus the cause of the cyclical fluctuations of business, manifests itself clearly in the customary terminology. The boom...
11/15/19 Jimmy Dore on the Moral Bankruptcy of the Democratic Party
Scott talks to comedian Jimmy Dore about all the problems with the foreign policy positions of the Democratic presidential candidates. He and Scott agree that the only one with a halfway decent antiwar stance is Tulsi Gabbard, who the media has been trying their...
11/7/19 Elizabeth Murray Exposes the Lies Behind Douma
Scott interviews Elizabeth Murray about the supposed chemical attack in Douma, Syria in 2017, which was used to justify an immediate bombing campaign by the U.S. and its allies. A thorough investigation was only conducted months later, and the reports of this...
Trump: US May Have to Go to War With Iran Soon
Speaking to reporters at the White House on Monday, President Trump bragged about his efforts to try to get the US “out of wars,” then warned that “we may have to get in wars, too. OK?“ Trump continued on talking about how ready the US is for a war with Iran, and how...
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