We saw a lot of stocks go up huge in May and then have key reversal days on June 9th on high volume. NVDA for instance went up over 68% in less than six weeks. Then it had a big down day. That action looked like the makings of a potential top or the start of a healthy...
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News Roundup 5/4/17
by Kyle Anzalone | May 4, 2017 | Blog
Trump will sign an executive order to ease restrictions on churches and other tax-exempt organizations engaging in political activity. [Link] An activist was convicted of laughing during Jeff Sessions confirmation hearings. [Link] This article breaks down the $1.1...
News Roundup 4/24/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 24, 2017 | Blog
Trump says he is not involved in the decision to arrest Assage or not. Trump says he will support Sessions if he decides to pursue charges against Assange. [Link] A look into nuclear weapons around the globe. [Link] Worldwide defense spending was up 0.4% in 2016....
News Roundup 3/28/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 28, 2017 | Blog
Jeff Sessions announced that he will look to strip funding from sanctuary cities. [Link] The US is boycotting nuclear disarmament talks taking place at the UN. [Link] US soldiers in Mosul have started to wear black uniforms to look more like Iraqi counterterrorism...
Manufactured Opioid Crisis: a Ploy to Salvage the War on Drugs
by Sal Rodriguez | Mar 20, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
In case you haven’t heard, there’s an opioid crisis in America. With majorities of Americans now clearly supportive of marijuana legalization, opioids, a class of drugs used for thousands of years to treat pain and other ailments, have become the latest target of drug...
Opioid Deaths: Another Drug War Failure
by Steve Chapman | Mar 20, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice
Illicit drug use is an old phenomenon, and Jeff Sessions has an old solution: take off the gloves. "We have too much of a tolerance for drug use," the attorney general complained to an audience of law enforcement officials Wednesday, promising more aggressive...
The War on Marijuana is Ending. Disarm Jeff Sessions.
by Thomas L. Knapp | Feb 28, 2017 | Featured Articles, Politics
Jeff Sessions doesn’t “think America is going to be a better place when more people of all ages and particularly young people start smoking pot.” He’s worried about the possibility of “marijuana being sold at every corner grocery store.” Because, you see, “good people...
News Roundup 2/8/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 8, 2017 | Blog
The Senate approves Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education. Devos has been the most contested of Trump's appointments so far. The Senate vote was 50-50 with Mike Pence breaking the tie. [Link] In a conversation with sheriffs around the country, Trump expresses support...
2/1/17 Alex Nowrasteh on whether Trump’s temporary ban of immigrants from certain countries really helps US national security
by Scott Horton | Feb 1, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute's Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, discusses his guide to Trump's executive order limiting migration for people from a list of countries supposedly at risk of exporting terrorists to the US;...
News Roundup 2/1/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 1, 2017 | Blog
872 refugees will be granted waivers from the ban on refugees. The waivers are allowed under Trump's executive order on immigration. [Link] Senate Democrats delay the committee confirmation vote on Jeff Sessions. The Democratic members refused to show up the committee...
Jeff Sessions’ Coming War on Legal Marijuana
by Scott Horton | Dec 5, 2016 | Blog
Doesn't look good.
#Hope #Change
by Scott Horton | Nov 10, 2016 | Blog
Gingrich, Arpaio, Palin, Giuliani, Sessions, Corker, Bolton!, Hadley. Ayotte, Jose Fuckin' Rodriguez! Doomed I tells ya. Doomed.
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Empower the Working Class: Abolish Occupational Licensing
It's time to consistently apply the "my body my choice" principle. If consenting adults want to engage in economic activity, no third party should forcibly stop them. Democrats always say "voting once every two years between two politicians is how you express...
Death By Climate: Down 97% in Last 100 Years
Our schools provide many hours of lessons on climate change, but I wonder how many teachers, let alone pupils, are aware that climate-related deaths have decreased by as much as 97 per cent over the past 100 years, as the OFDA / CRED data show. - Why don’t we ever...
Black Youth Unemployment: Before and After Progressives Started “Helping”
A constant trend is progressivism is to use the state to coercively control others under the guise of "helping" them, make things worse, then ignore the problems you caused and never apologize. Sallie Mae loans didn't make college affordable. The Federal Reserve...
What Kind of Liberal?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I am a Locke-Smith liberal.
The Tale of the Steak – A Lesson in Economics by Walter E. Williams
Consider filet mignon and chuck steak. Assume-realistically-that consumers prefer the former. Then the question becomes: why is it, despite consumer preferences, that chuck steak sells at all? The fact is that chuck steak outsells filet mignon. How does something less...
My Favorite Michael Malice Quote
If the government didn't have a monopoly on security, only rich people would be able to have security just like when the government got out of other businesses, the only cars produced were limousines, the only clothes produced were tuxedos and the only food produced...