Trump promises to slam a 100-percent tariff on [Update:] imported cars made in Chinese-owned factories in Mexico. He announced this not to a group of prospective car buyers but to a group of car makers. So what else is new? Car buyers, who outnumber the well-organized...
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Republicans: You Think Biden is an Unbelievable Cuck for Criminal Israel? That’s Nothing Compared to Us.
by Scott Horton | Mar 16, 2024 | Blog
The GOP are nothing but traitors. Just wait till Trump gets back in there, he'll move the White House to Jerusalem.
Putin To Move Troops to NATO Border in Response to War Games
by Connor Freeman | Mar 14, 2024 | News
As the North Atlantic Alliance wraps up its massive Nordic Response 24 war drills, Russian President Vladimir Putin is threatening to deploy troops and weapons systems alongside his country’s shared 800-mile border with Finland.
Shifting Alliances and Building Tribes
by Christine E. Black | Mar 14, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Church leaders didn’t want me there. The minister had even called me into her office to ask me to stop passing out anti-war flyers and articles on the Iraq War. Why? Because I led a church peace group that was calling for the church to take a public stand against the...
How Washington Killed the Nuclear Arms Control System
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Mar 12, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
During the Cold War, world populations faced the ongoing nightmare of a nuclear attack coming out of the blue. All it would have taken was one miscalculation by either side. Such a trigger could even have taken the form of a false alert. We know that at least one such...
Biden’s Myth of ‘Price Gouging’
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Mar 12, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
In recent times, accusations of "price gouging" have become prevalent, often targeting producers utilizing strategies like dynamic pricing and “shrinkflation.” Such accusations, echoed by political figures including President Joe Biden, overlook the intricate dynamics...
News Roundup 3/7/2024
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 7, 2024 | News Roundup
US News Texas Republicans Vote Overwhelmingly in Favor of Restricting Combat Deployments of State’s National Guard AWC Pentagon Using AI Program to Identify Targets in Middle East and Ukraine The Institute Ukraine Putin’s Draft Treaty Between Russia and Ukraine Did...
States Rights and Anti-Interventionism is Rising
by David Brady | Mar 7, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Super Tuesday saw Donald Trump sweep all possible state delegates except for the state of Vermont. However, hovering just below the surface were a series of propositions that were voted on by the Texas Republican Party. Various propositions touched on topics of gold...
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The F35 Continues NOT to Stick the Landing
“I’m getting tired of over-promising and under-delivering,” F-35 program head Air Force Lt. Gen. Mike Schmidt said. The newly-envisioned Block 4 would instead focus on delivering “‘must-have’ content,” Schmidt wrote, which will include an undefined “subset” of 88...
At First I Hated Rian Johnson
For making the very worst Star Wars movie, Episode 8, and ruining Luke Skywalker. But now I realize that he was just making a film about how disappointing it was to meet Mark Hamill.
No Crickets for Cricket!
The governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem, has been plagued by a self-inflicted and festering wound for about a week now. An excerpt from her soon-to-be released memoir, aptly and prophetically entitled No Going Back, has transformed the governor from a Republican...
Richman and Woods
Tom Woods and I discuss alleged antisemitism on U.S. college campuses:
Creative Control and Private Property
Private property isn’t about selfishness so much as it’s about creative control. Someone might want to have their own business, not because they’re greedy, but because they have a vision of how they want things to go that won’t be realized if everyone else gets a say...
RIP, British Army 1415 – 2024
John Cleese and the Monty Python troop were seers in the 1970s. I am fond of saying the British win all their military victories in spite of their best efforts. The IED virus is destroying the institution. The British Army is reducing security checks in pursuit of...