Is Russia A “Realist” Power?
Ryan McMaken, Tho Bishop, and Zachary Yost discuss the theory of international realism and its application to the military actions of the Russian state in Ukraine and Georgia.
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Tweet Jeb Hensarling warns Republicans to take America’s perilous fiscal situation seriously. A slice: Congress should be alarmed. Although the Fed has been cutting rates, bond yields have been rising, and some Treasury auctions this year have been weak. That suggests that bondholders are beginning to question America’s ballooning national debt. They likely have noticed that debt service is the fastest-growing line item in the federal budget, now exceeding that of the Pentagon. Congress should follow the Hippocratic […]
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Israeli Defense Minister Says Israeli Military Will Occupy Gaza After War
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Salt Lake City Officer Charged With 13 Felonies in Sexual Assault Case
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FTC Commissioner Lina Khan Doesn’t Know That Socialism is Her Real Problem
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The U.S. Government’s Building Fiscal Crisis
Government spending is going through the roof as the outgoing Biden-Harris administration cements its fiscal legacy of failure. That’s not an understatement. Even U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is apologizing for the administration’s sad fiscal performance. Here are her comments from the Wall Street Journal‘s CEO Summit on December 12, 2024: WSJ: One not-so-great aspect of the legacy you and President Biden leave behind is a very large budget deficit, roughly 6% of GDP. Are you sorry you […]
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A Decaying Joe Biden Underlines the Need for a Less Powerful Presidency
Observers of the American presidency warn with increasing frequency that the office of the country’s chief executive has acquired power more befitting a monarchy than a republic with elected officials. But what if the person holding that office is a placeholder for aides who cocoon the president and who really make the decisions? That is, what if all that growing power is wielded by an unelected and relatively faceless circle of advisers? That brings us to the Biden […]
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Ancaps and Abortion
For those ancaps who view abortion as murder and a violation of the NAP, how—if at all—do you imagine abortion might be detected without an intrusive and non-voluntery surveillance system? ie, how might someone go about identifying pregnancies that the pregnant person does not publicly disclose? How do you determine if someone purposefully or accidentally ate lunchmeat contaminated with listeria that can trigger an abortion? If abortion is murder, then it is unique among murder in that it […]
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Keynesian Economics debunked by David Hume
I thought of this when I saw pictures of Thomas Sowell on here and discussion of housing costs. Thomas Sowell pointed out that a late 1800s depression in America was recovered from quicker than the great depression as in free market vs Keynesian economics. Here is one reason why, so basically if you have capital there are two ways to make money, interest or profits. Therefore, interest rates must be at around the same rate of return as […]
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Even CNN had to admit Milei’s libertarian policies worked
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