Inside The Wire
Americans want China out of the land, the supply chain, and the phone. The agreement is broad, and it is defensive.
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Ambiguity Top And Bottom
Xi asked whether America would defend Taiwan. The President preserves the ambiguity by design, the public by indecision.
Murray Rothbard On War And “Isolationism”
The responsibility of trying to limit or abolish foreign intervention is avoided by many conservative libertarians in that they are very, very concerned with things like price control
Justice Clarence Thomas Is Right About Progressivism
Not surprisingly, his speech was not well-received among American progressives who insist that progressivism represented much-needed reforms in American society to curb the excesses of capitalism
Fairfax GOP Stands Up To State Party On Abortion And Gender
Among the many slimy things Virginia Democrats did when they assumed power was to pass a slate of constitutional amendments to be put before the voters. The first was the gerrymandering power grab
The Blueprint
Trump has asked the Middle East to sign a single sweeping settlement with Israel, and one day perhaps with Iran. The structure he describes could take years to build, if it rises at all. But someone has finally drawn it.
Paradoxically Fear Is The Foundation Of Stability: Deterrence Works
A number of western commentators have reacted with unalloyed hostility, with Professor Karaganov being presented as a political outlier, advocating fringe policies that could open Pandora’s box to wider nuclear conflict.
Victor Davis Hanson Exposes What Fascism Actually Looks Like
They have taken every institution with an iota of conservatism and destroyed it. What is network news? What is the media? What is K-12? What is all—it’s all a liberal institution. It’s subsidized
House Leadership Delays Vote On Ending The Iran War
The expected Thursday vote in the House to end the Iran War was, at the last minute, put off by House leadership until the House returns from recess next month.
Who Owns The Airwaves And The Sea?
In 1962, he argued that usable radio frequencies were scarce and therefore ownable, and that fishing areas in oceans could likewise be appropriated, bounded, and exchanged
Why Egalitarianism Persists
Rothbard argued powerfully against egalitarianism, which is the ideology behind so many statist welfare schemes
The Defeat Of Thomas Massie: Where To Go From Here?
The last libertarian of the Ron Paul-Harry Browne stripe in Congress, Thomas H. Massie is now gone. Trump cultists and war hawks have been steadily celebrating since election night
When Our Word Is No Longer Good
It is dangerous to have a US Administration that no one in the US or the rest of the world believes
The Big Apple’s Woes Are Not Just The Result Of One Election
Mamdani is the logical outcome of generations of New York City’s drift toward bigger and bigger government along with destroying the private sector. This leads the most productive citizens and businesses to head for the exits. It’s been going on for generations
Would Oil Bring A Resource Curse In Jamaica?
One economist even went as far as to say: “I hope oil is never discovered in Jamaica. Countries are more likely to get rich if they have to create things, like Singapore and South Korea, instead of just pulling stuff out of the ground, like Venezuela and Angola.”
The Permanent War Government: Who’s Really Calling The Shots In Washington?
Released in 1964, Seven Days in May imagined a dramatic military coup: generals plotting in secret to overthrow an unpopular president because they believed they knew better than the American people what was best for the nation