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America’s Wars Are Far More Costly than the Pentagon Admits

America’s Wars Are Far More Costly than the Pentagon Admits

America’s decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan was greeted with disdain in some quarters. But so far, most pundits have explored this debacle from the vantage point of foreign affairs by either lamenting the decline of American influence or lauding the move as a justified containment of an aggressive foreign policy. Both views are worth pondering. However, Afghanistan and other foreign policy failures should spark a broader debate on the economics of war.America’s engagement in war has...

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Alternate Reality Traps Democrats in World of Dumb

Alternate Reality Traps Democrats in World of Dumb

In early December Hillary Clinton appeared on the Today show to read aloud her never-used victory speech from 2016. The scene was bizarre, Clinton tearing up as she read in first-person, present tense about becoming the first woman president, something which in real life did not happen. She then layered on another alternate reality, one in which President Hillary travels back in time to tell her dead mother “your daughter will grow up and become the president of the United States.” She glowed;...

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The Real Reason Politicians Want Legal Cannabis Is Tax Money

The Real Reason Politicians Want Legal Cannabis Is Tax Money

The latest two states to legalize recreational cannabis are New York and New Jersey. However, if one believes governors and legislators in those states have finally adopted a more libertarian view of the topic, one will be severely disappointed. Legalization of recreational cannabis in both states is driven by the need for tax revenue—tax revenue to plug the holes in state budgets for social programs, holes in the state budget that were exasperated by the failed covid policies in both states....

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2021 Year in Review: Madness, Mayhem and Tyranny

2021 Year in Review: Madness, Mayhem and Tyranny

Disgruntled mobs. Martial law. A populace under house arrest. A techno-corporate state wielding its power to immobilize huge swaths of the country. A Constitution in tatters. Between the riots, lockdowns, political theater, and COVID-19 mandates, 2021 was one for the history books. In our ongoing pursuit of life, liberty and happiness, here were some of the stumbling blocks that kept us fettered: Riots, martial law and the Deep State’s coup. A simmering pot of political tensions boiled over on...

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Patriotic Duty My Eye

Patriotic Duty My Eye

Rough Rider Teddy must be rolling in his grave as he looks down upon these poseurs gathered in the Roosevelt room. For crying out loud, every one of them is double vaxxed and totally boosted. And they have issued orders to force the same upon more than 130 million of their countrymen—allegedly to prevent the latter from becoming walking vectors of disease and killers of their neighbors. Yet if the Vaxx is actually a spread stopper, why do they sit there in their masks? What’s the need to...

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Is the Crack-up Boom Here?

Is the Crack-up Boom Here?

Bloomberg News recently solicited advice from Argentinians who lived through that country’s high inflation on how Americans should cope with rising inflation. The Argentinians suggested Americans spend their paychecks as fast as possible to avoid future price increases. They also suggested taking out loans that can be paid back later in devalued currency. These strategies may make sense for individuals. However, encouraging debt and discouraging savings is disastrous for the country. Relying...

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The Businessman and the Holy Family

The Businessman and the Holy Family

At the heart of the Christmas story rests some important lessons concerning free enterprise, government, and the role of wealth in society. Let’s begin with one of the most famous phrases: “There’s no room at the inn.” This phrase is often invoked as if it were a cruel and heartless dismissal of the tired travelers Joseph and Mary. Many renditions of the story conjure up images of the couple going from inn to inn only to have the owner barking at them to go away and slamming the door. In fact,...

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Failure of US Media on Ukraine

Failure of US Media on Ukraine

We need to constantly remind ourselves about the US media. During the Cold War, there was the saying that the difference between the New York Times and the Soviet Pravda was that Pravda readers knew they were being lied to. Unfortunately, current coverage by the US media about the movement of Russian troops demonstrates the applicability of that saying today. Lies by Omission For example, the US public is continually being told that the movement of a large number of Russian troops is a major...

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Emergency Powers Deployed to Impose Vaccine Passports

Emergency Powers Deployed to Impose Vaccine Passports

In its infinite Scientific™ wisdom, the city of Boston, Massachusetts just announced a new “vaccine passport” system set to take effect next month. This was one of the first major actions of the recently-elected mayor, Michelle Wu, who’d been hailed by many as a paradigm-shifter for her inspiring Progressive potential. Wu’s passport system is endearingly called “B Together,” because there’s nothing more emblematic of heartwarming communal “togetherness” than compulsory monitoring of medical...

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The Fickle ‘Science’ of Lockdowns

The Fickle ‘Science’ of Lockdowns

‘Follow the science” has been the battle cry of lockdown supporters since the Covid-19 pandemic began. Yet before March 2020, the mainstream scientific community, including the World Health Organization, strongly opposed lockdowns and similar measures against infectious disease.That judgment came from historical analysis of pandemics and an awareness that societywide restrictions have severe socioeconomic costs and almost entirely speculative benefits. Our pandemic response, premised on...

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When Your Government Ends A War But Increases The Military Budget, You’re Being Scammed

When Your Government Ends A War But Increases The Military Budget, You’re Being Scammed

The US Senate has passed its National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) military spending bill for the fiscal year of 2022, setting the budget at an astronomical $778 billion by a vote of 89 to 10. The bill has already been passed by the House, now requiring only the president's signature. An amendment to cease facilitating Saudi Arabia's atrocities in Yemen was stripped from the bill. "The most controversial parts of the 2,100-page military spending bill were negotiated behind closed doors and...

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America’s Foreign Policy Dilemma

America’s Foreign Policy Dilemma

American foreign policy, wrapped up in hubris inside American exceptionalism, is incapable of recognizing a dangerous situation. And a dangerous situation is what we have. The Russian deputy foreign minister Sergey Ryabkov speaking for the Kremlin has made it clear that Russia will tolerate no further movement of NATO toward Russia’s borders. Russia has ruled out any possibility of the former Russian provinces of Ukraine and Georgia becoming NATO members. If this red line is ignored, the...

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Fauci’s War on Science: The Smoking Gun

Fauci’s War on Science: The Smoking Gun

Those weeks following the release of the Great Barrington Declaration did feel odd. On the good side, medical doctors, scientists, public health workers, and citizens all over the world were thrilled that three top scholars in fields of public health and epidemiology had spoken out against lockdowns and for a reasoned approach to Covid. They eagerly signed the document. Yes, there were some attempts to sabotage it too, with fake names and so on, which should have been a clue about what was...

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Memory Hole: virtually every major health official in the United States has claimed that COVID shots stop the virus

Memory Hole: virtually every major health official in the United States has claimed that COVID shots stop the virus

There is an incredible gaslighting campaign happening in the United States right now, as COVID cases reach all time highs in the US northeast and elsewhere. On television and in corporate press outlets, there is a giant, ongoing memory-holing operation related to the once-promised idea that mRNA shots would stop the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19. While they now claim otherwise, every single major government health official and pharmaceutical executive has claimed that COVID shots...

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Is the Crack-up Boom Here?

Omicron: The Lockdowners’ Last Stand

Just as President Biden’s unconstitutional vaccination mandates were being ripped up by the courts, authoritarian politicians, public health bureaucrats, and the mainstream media, announced a new Covid variant to justify another round of lockdowns and restrictions. The things that didn’t work last time would be a good idea to do again this time, they claim.For these authoritarians, the timing of omicron’s emergence was perfect.The variant was first discovered in South Africa, with the US and...

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‘Public Health Experts’ in government & academia have exposed themselves as clueless charlatans

‘Public Health Experts’ in government & academia have exposed themselves as clueless charlatans

There’s one thing that the “public health expert” class is certain about these days. They claim to have the “the tools” to stop this coronavirus. .@GStephanopoulos on COVID fatigue: “You must be exhausted yourself. What signs of hope can you point to in this holiday season?” Dr. Fauci: “We have the tools to protect ourselves, and that's the thing we keep saying over and over again.” https://t.co/QThiAol6tu pic.twitter.com/o8NYiS3cbZ — ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) December 12, 2021 Here’s...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

Trump Invades Syria

Trump Invades Syria

US forces in Manbij, Syria. March 5, 2017.Although the Syrian army, with its ally Russia, has made significant gains against ISIS over the past week or so, the Washington Post is...

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When Your Government Ends A War But Increases The Military Budget, You’re Being Scammed

Winning Wars?

“We have to start winning wars again,” President Trump told the nation’s governors today. No, Mr. President, America must stop military interventionism. As you have said America...

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Al-Qaeda Gets An Oscar

Al-Qaeda Gets An Oscar

Hollywood is all about fake. That is what movies are - fake depictions of a fake reality that only exist in the mind of scriptwriters, directors and a usually gullible audience....

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