Download Episode. Scott talks with Eric Brakey, now serving in the Maine Senate, about the Defend the Guard hearing scheduled for Monday at 1 PM EST. Scott and Brakey discuss the nationwide effort to pass the legislation, which would block Congress from deploying...
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Is the Silicon Valley Bank’s Failure the First Domino?
If you watched the Fed Chair Jerome Powell testify before the senate and the House, you heard over and over that banks are well capitalized. The non-sequitur should inspire the Shakespearean quote “Methinks you protest too much.” The very next day after the hearings,...
COI #361: Zelensky Turns Up Heat on Russian Orthodox Church
On COI #361, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman cover the Senate’s impending vote on a War Powers Resolution to end US support for the Saudis’ war in Yemen, Kiev’s sanctions and arrests against Ukraine’s Russian-tied Eastern Orthodox Church, the Ukrainian government's...
Political Cynicism Won on Tuesday
Cynics had another great Election Day on Tuesday. Expectations of a vast red wave became little more than scattered sightings of Democratic road kill. President Joe Biden took a “no red wave” victory lap in a White House press conference Wednesday and promised to make...
Gen. Don Bolduc Did Not Get “Hit”
The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire has been getting under the skin of LP Senate candidate Jeremy Kauffman's war hawk opponents. Kauffman has been excluded from the debates, which the party is protesting. The latest controversy involves Republican candidate...
Want Health Care for Everyone? End the Regulatory Regime (feat. Blake Masters)
https://youtu.be/Yhcm5pegHPE Some critics of the free market argue that property rights are in conflict with “human” rights. But the critics fail to realize that in a free-market system, every person has a property right over his own person and his own labor, and that...
The Senate is Back – Yemen Campaign is On
The House returns next week. Go to 1833STOPWAR.com for talking points and then CALL 833STOPWAR and they will connect you right to Congress. If we can all focus on this together for just a few weeks, it could really make the difference. Please get involved, especially...
U.S. House Endorses Accepting Finland and Sweden Into NATO, 394 to 18
The bipartisan consensus for expanding NATO remains strong as the House approved a resolution on Monday endorsing Sweden and Finland’s memberships in a vote of 394-18, with only Republicans voting in opposition. On Tuesday, the Senate Armed Services Committee easily...
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