An explosion of criticism had erupted in Congress and the news media in response to President Trump’s decision to withdraw a small contingent of US troops stationed in northern Syria. Those forces served as a (mostly symbolic) barrier to Turkey’s ambitions to conduct a military offensive against Syrian Kurdish forces there. Ankara has now initiated that offensive. Republican hawks and Trump’s automatic adversaries among congressional Democrats are united in excoriating his decision. Much of...
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Lew Rockwell: Central Banks Make World Wars Possible
As people worry a new world war may rise out of Ukraine, RPI Advisory Board Member Lew Rockwell proposes Wednesday on the Tom Woods Show that the creation of central banks makes...
Patriotic Blasphemy
A relative of mine attended the church of another relative of mine on the Sunday before Memorial Day. Here is the patriotic blasphemy he reports that he observed: Battle Hymn of...
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Kinky Friedman, who is competing in a runoff election Tuesday for the Democratic Party nomination for Texas Agriculture Commissioner, describes his race as “kind of a referendum...
Walter Block’s Libertarian Journey: Booing Ayn Rand and Playing Risk with Murray Rothbard
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Memorial Day and the Meaning of Freedom
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