High taxes and extensive regulation can make doing business, including providing a quality product at a low price, difficult to impossible. It looks like the New York state government is about to demonstrate this fact, as have some other marijuana-legalizing state...
Month: August 2022
Salman Rushdie, Charles Murray, Fatwa and Cancel Culture
by Walter E. Block | Aug 30, 2022 | Featured Articles
At first glance, there would appear to be something wrong with the title of this essay. Surely, the Muslim fatwa against Salman Rushdie (death sentence in his case) for writing The Satanic Verses, a book widely deemed offensive in this community, can have little or...
Black Hole: as billions in American arms and aid enter Ukraine, US officials receive hand written receipts
by Jordan Schachtel | Aug 30, 2022 | Featured Articles
Ukraine is consistently ranked as one of the most corrupt governments in all of Europe. Given that reality, it might not come as much of a surprise that Kiev has no functioning mechanism to track the massive amount of inflows of American weapons and aid into the...
Poking China: Biden Asks Congress to Approve $1.1 Billion in Weapons for Taiwan
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 30, 2022 | The Liberty Report
As Congressional delegations line up to be more provocative toward China while visiting Taiwan, President Biden has announced that he would like to sell $1.1 billion in new weapons to Taiwan. China is not amused. What could go wrong? Also today: the Pentagon has sent...
Are You Attending the RPI Conference This Saturday?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 30, 2022 | Featured Articles
The Ron Paul Institute is holding its annual conference at the Westin Washington Dulles Airport this Saturday, September 3. It stands to be another outstanding one. I have the honor and pleasure of again speaking at it. I will also be speaking at the conference’s...
The Emperor has no Clothes: US Strategy for Africa
by Oscar Silva-Valladares | Aug 29, 2022 | Featured Articles
The US government recently disclosed its latest strategy toward Sub-Saharan Africa. The document, while not showing surprises or changes from previous policy permutations, is eloquent on the US real priorities in the continent. For the US, its geopolitical agenda...
Keeping Out the Jacobins
by Pedro I. Gonzalez | Aug 29, 2022 | Featured Articles
I’ve been reading The New Jacobinism: America as Revolutionary State by Claes G. Ryn, first published in 1991. It’s a short but insightful polemic about the pernicious influence of neoconservatism—the “New Jacobinism”—on American affairs. Here is a brief overview:...
Biden’s Student Debt Forgiveness Scheme is Unforgivable
by Ron Paul | Aug 29, 2022 | Featured Articles
Last week, President Biden announced he is creating a new program forgiving 10,000 dollars of student loan debt for those with income under 125,000 dollars a year. The amount rises to 20,000 dollars for borrowers who are Pell Grant recipients. Biden flip-flopped on...
Iraq and Libya Imploding – Another 'Successful' US Intervention!
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 29, 2022 | The Liberty Report
First Afghanistan imploded and now it appears Iraq and Libya are about to follow suit. Syria simmers. The fruits of US interventionism are everywhere the same: chaos and death, not the promised "triumph of peace and democracy." Also today: Facebook exec admits FBI...
Scott Ritter’s Show — Conversations with Russians to Improve Understanding between America and Russia
by Adam Dick | Aug 26, 2022 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Scott Ritter’s Show debuted this week — at a time when it is much needed. Big money media is painting Russia as an archvillain, the United States Congress and president are imposing sanctions on Russia while sending weapons and other aid to Ukraine in order to kill...
Falling Military Recruitment Is Another Sign of Waning Faith in the Regime
by Ryan McMaken | Aug 26, 2022 | Featured Articles
The US Army reports it is having some serious problems when it comes to recruiting new soldiers. Last month, according to the AP: “Army officials … said the service will fall about 10,000 soldiers short of its planned end strength for this fiscal year, and prospects...
How Did America Survive Without an Espionage Act?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 25, 2022 | Featured Articles
(See Jacob Hornberger speak live at the Ron Paul Institute's Sept. 3rd Washington Conference!)For some 140 years, the United States did not have an Espionage Act. It didn’t come into existence until 1917, when US officials used it to punish Americans who had the...
Lawless! Biden Side-steps Constitution In Promise To Write Off Student Loans
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 25, 2022 | The Liberty Report
In a blatantly unconstitutional move, President Biden yesterday announced that his Administration would be obligating upwards of half a trillion dollars - or more - to "forgive" student loans in households making $125K per year or less. Good thing the Inflation...
Is ‘Autocracy’ America’s Mortal Enemy?
by Patrick J. Buchanan | Aug 25, 2022 | Featured Articles
In the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden declared to the nation and world: "We are engaged anew in a great battle for freedom. A battle between democracy and autocracy." On her trip to Taiwan, Speaker Nancy Pelosi echoed Biden: "Today, the...
Reinforcing Failure in Ukraine
by Douglas Macgregor | Aug 24, 2022 | Featured Articles
US Military loading HIMARS rockets for UkraineIn an open letter entitled “US must arm Ukraine now, before it’s too late” 20 notable American advocates for the war against Russia in Ukraine argue that the conflict has reached a decisive moment. To win, the authors...
Jared Kushner and the Mystery of the First US Lockdown
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Aug 24, 2022 | Featured Articles
[Kushner: On March 11, 2020, Vice President Mike Pence asked for my help with the COVID response. I called my friend Nat Turner (left) and Adam Boehler (far right), successful healthcare entrepreneurs who helped me procure lifesaving supplies and equipment from around...
Twitter’s 'Tricky' Timing Problem: Lawsuit Reveals Back Channel with CDC to Coordinate Censorship
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 24, 2022 | Featured Articles
“Tricky.” Over the course of 110 pages in a federal complaint, that one descriptive word seemed to stand out among the exchanges between social media executives and public health officials on censoring public viewpoints. The exchange reveals long-suspected...
The Coronavirus Crackdown Continues: School Kicks Out Four-Year-Old Child for Not Wearing a Mask
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 24, 2022 | The Liberty Report
Over two years after the coronavirus crackdowns began across America, much of the authoritarian “public health” measures have been jettisoned. But some draconian government mandates pursued in the name of countering coronavirus remain in place. Included are outrageous...
America’s Perpetual Foreign-Policy Crises
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 23, 2022 | Featured Articles
Ever since the federal government was converted from a limited-government republic to a national-security state after World War II, America has lived under a system of ongoing, never-ending, perpetual foreign-policy crises. That’s not a coincidence. The...
More Billions to Ukraine as America Falls Apart
by Ron Paul | Aug 22, 2022 | Featured Articles
There is a video clip making the rounds showing President Biden speaking at a recent NATO summit about the seven billion dollars the US government had - at that time - provided to Ukraine. Attached to that is another clip showing the horrific state of several US major...
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