Partisanship makes people stupid. People who for partisan reasons hated Bolton's sorry guts in the W. Bush years now think he's just great as long as he's trashing Trump. But he's still a lunatic. More fun:...
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Senator Rand Paul Proposes National Ban on No-Knock Police Raids
On Thursday, in a historical move, all 26 members of the Louisville, Kentucky Metro Council voted to pass a ban on no-knock warrants, a measure known as “Breonna’s Law.” The law was named after the former EMT who was gunned down as she slept in her bed by cops raiding...
News Roundup 5/22/20
US News The Senate confirms John Ratcliffe as Director of National Intelligence. [Link] Trump’s arms control negotiator says the US is prepared to spend Russia and China into oblivion to win another nuclear arms race. [Link] China A bipartisan group of Senators will...
Matt Taibbi: Democrats Have Abandoned Civil Liberties
I know. It's hard to believe the guys who hired the Delta Force to burn the Branch Davidians to death, banned AR-15s, voted for the PATRIOT Act, colluded with Bush on spying and torture and war, let Obama get away with deliberately murdering American citizens and...
The Senate’s COVID-19 Relief Bill Is a Crony Capitalist Dream
Over at Reason, Elizabeth Nolan Brown and the gang, including LP chairman Nick Sarwark and libertarian-leaning independent congressman Justin Amash, are of course opposing the government's massive bailout of their corrupt cronies: After a day of performative fussing...
How Excessive Federal Spending Sparked a Liquidity Crisis
Since mid-September 2019, the U.S. Federal Reserve has been fighting to contain a liquidity crisis in the nation’s money markets that was caused in large part by excessive spending by the U.S. government. That surge in spending was prompted by “the worst budget deal...
I Think I Finally “Get” The Economy
So more big Fed cash floods into the market? Back during QE2 you had partisan hack Krugman rationalizing it all (though QE had little to do with his Keynesian philosophy). Guys like Bob Murphy were saying, "Yep, this is it, get ready for the inflation." And then it...
US-Israeli Defense Pact
The Jerusalem Post is reporting that Netanyahu and Pompeo are close to finalizing a National Defense Pact between the US and Israel that was created by The Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA). JINSA is the think tank founded by Michael Ledeen. ...
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