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Mr. President: Close Down More 'Advisory Councils'

by Chris Rossini | Aug 20, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles

So President Trump closed down his "Manufacturing Council" and no one cheered? What a shame. Why was there a "Manufacturing Council" to begin with? It's not the job of the president to meddle with our economy. His job description says nothing about benefiting...

Mr. President: Close Down More ‘Advisory Councils’

by Chris Rossini | Aug 20, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles

What Trump’s Cabinet Meeting Reveals about Government

by Craig Cantoni | Jun 14, 2017 | Blog

You may have seen the video of President Trump’s cabinet meeting. Democrats are atwitter over what they saw as obsequious comments of cabinet members directed at an egotistical president. Republicans are atwitter over what they saw as sincere comments of cabinet...

Trump Mulls Tariffs to Prop Up US Solar Companies

by Eric Schuler | May 30, 2017 | Blog

It's not official yet, but Yahoo! Finance is reporting that the Trump administration is considering putting emergency "safeguard" tariffs on solar panel imports from China. Naturally, the move will be framed as a necessary action to protect US manufacturers from...

Astonishing Explanation for Campus Snowflakes

by Craig Cantoni | Apr 30, 2017 | Blog

In a letter to the editor in the April 27th edition of the Wall Street Journal, a faculty member of Northwestern University explained why snowflakes behave the way they do on college campuses. The letter is pasted at the end of this commentary. In an astonishing...

The Science of Fat vs. the Science of Global Warming

by Craig Cantoni | Mar 22, 2017 | Blog

For over a half-century, the government and those in the medical and science community who fed at its richly nutritious teats of grants and subsidies had declared that it was a scientific fact that dietary fats were a primary cause of heart disease, obesity and...

Negative Balance of Trade? So What?

by Robert Higgs | Mar 18, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles

The tendency of the USA to have a negative balance of trade (more accurately known as a negative balance on current account) played a prominent role in the recent U.S. presidential campaign. Donald Trump criticized this tendency repeatedly and promised that if elected...

7 Steps Toward a More Sensible Foreign Policy

by Patrick Barron | Mar 15, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

For the sake of peace and prosperity in the world, the US should take the true leadership role in proving to the world that free trade and non-interventionism are all that is required. In other words, all nations should simply mind their own business and set good...

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The Past is Future Tense, Always

The Wayback Machine reminds us of all past tense showing us the future. The base in Balakliya, near Kharkiv, is around 100km (60 miles) from fighting against Russian-backed separatists in the eastern oblasts (2017). 2017: “The Ukrainian SBU – the equivalent of the FBI...

Vance in Munich w/Kyle Matovcik

Kyle joined me to listen and discuss Vance’s fiery speech at the Munich Security Council last week.

It Begins: Blow-back Will Commence Once Festivities Begin

United States declares eight Latin American drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. This will not go well and the sophisticated ratlines, logistics enterprises and support networks will be leveraged to the highest order for retaliatory strikes in CONUS....

Hinting at War and Disaster: Mexico Will Go Up in Flames

Here are some news items from the war on cartels. This is a very ominous development. After two weeks of US Air Force RC-135V/W Rivet Joint reconnaissance aircraft conducting multiple signals intelligence (SIGINT) operations along the US-Mexico border and in...

Comply or Be Burned to the Ground

The IED nonsense continues at professional military education institutions as the zampolits flee for cover. "The Engagement, Retention, and Equal Opportunity directly supports the Naval Academy's Strategic Imperative One: To recruit, admit, and graduate a diverse and...

National Greatness

“A nation which makes greatness its polestar can never be free; beneath national greatness sink individual greatness, honor, wealth and freedom. But though history, experience and reasoning confirm these ideas; yet all- powerful delusion has been able to make the...

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