By Alan M. Dershowitz via the Daily Caller News Foundation | August 16, 2023 When Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that he was appointing David Weiss as special counsel, he failed to mention § 600.3(c) of the Code of Federal Regulations entitled “Qualifications of the Special Counsel.” These qualifications include
Greece, Italy and Spain received more than 2.3 million migrants between 2014 and 2022. Almost 85,000 refugees traveled north to seek asylum in the United Kingdom. During this period, nearly 26,000 people perished on their journey. Britain’s Home Office recorded 45,755 people crossing the English
Russia’s central bank has raised its key interest rate 3.5 percentage points to 12 percent, after the rouble slid past 100 against the dollar for the first time since March last year. The Kremlin said loose money policy was to blame for the weakening rouble, which has also
By Connor O'Keeffe, Mises Institute | August 16, 2023 The most destructive natural disasters are never 100 percent natural. Human choices, land use, and government policies play a big role in how harmful hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, flash floods, and wildfires are to the affected communities. And after catastrophes like
By Charles A. Smith, Mises Institute | August 16, 2023 The price of a McDonald’s hamburger in the United States has inflated 3.75 percent annually over the last seventy years. McDonald’s has grown from a tiny hamburger stand in Des Plaines, Illinois, to the second largest fast-food chain
Six worrisome things for which the Deep State must be held accountable for.
This war in Ukraine is the ghoulish epitome of Western capitalism, writes Finian Cunningham.
By Samantha Aschieris, The Daily Signal| August 15, 2023 China’s infiltration of American K-12 schools is “almost everywhere,” according to Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars. “That is, in every state that we’ve looked at, we have found instances of it, but I would say
By Wilson Beaver and Wyatt Eichholz for The Daily Signal | August 15, 2023 Christopher Nolan’s summer blockbuster film “Oppenheimer” tells the story of the Manhattan Project director who raced to develop the world’s first atomic bomb before Nazi Germany could. J. Robert Oppenheimer successfully exploited the revolutionary discovery
By Alastair Crooke, The Strategic Culture Foundation | August 14, 2023 The Ukrainian offensive has petered out – even CNN says it: '[The Ukrainians are] still going to see, [whether] in the next couple of weeks, there is a chance of making some progress. But for them really to make the
By Ron Paul, The Ron Paul Institute for Peace And Prosperity | August 14, 2023 I am not a big fan of Federal Government disaster relief. Too much of the time the money never gets to those who need it most, and too often Washington’s armies of disaster “experts” are
Fully 75 percent of Republicans support the floating orange spheres.
By John Stossel via the Daily Caller News Foundation |August 10, 2023 We are told climate change is a crisis, and that there is an “overwhelming scientific consensus.” “It’s a manufactured consensus,” says climate scientist Judith Curry in my new video. She says scientists have an incentive to exaggerate
By Alan Dershowitz via The Daily Caller Foundation Several academics—including members of the conservative Federalist Society—are now arguing that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment prohibits Donald Trump from becoming president. They focus on the language that prohibits anyone who “shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion…or
By Fred Lucas, The Daily Signal | August 14, 2023 A key House committee released a 65-page transcript Monday of testimony by a former FBI supervisory special agent who said he encountered obstacles in leading an investigation of Hunter Biden. Restifying to committee investigators behind closed doors July 17, the former
By Daniel Lacalle for The Mises Institute | August 15, 2023 European natural gas prices soared almost 40 percent on the risk of a global liquefied natural gas shortage. European wholesale power prices remain below the record highs of the energy crisis but have steadily climbed as the volatility in the
