Why would Russia take such an enormous burden off the political West’s back? It was NATO that started all this and pushed us all to the brink of a world-ending thermonuclear confrontation just so it could inflict a strategic defeat on Moscow. Well, now that the tables have turned, there are zero reasons for the Kremlin to pay for damages of the political West’s aggression. Ever since the special military operation (SMO) started, trying to guess how far […]
VATICAN CITY –– Pope Francis has died today, aged 88. The Holy See Press Office announced the news, writing: A short while ago, His Eminence Cardinal Farrell announced with sorrow the death of Pope Francis with these words: “Dear brothers and sisters, it is with deep sorrow that I must announce the death of our Holy Father Francis. At 7:35 this morning, the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the Father’s house. His entire life was dedicated to […]
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week’s newsletter takes a look at two important pieces of California legislation and the crucial committee hearings that they face today. Getting the YIMBY Revolution Working Over the past half-decade or so, the California Legislature has passed dozens of bills that peel back state and local restrictions on home construction. Despite this flurry of new legislation, actual home construction in the Golden State has continued to stagnate. […]
There are always statistical games that can be played to mask the realities of our neofeudal economy and society. But “narrative control” can’t obscure the facts or the banquet of consequences that these realities have set. Not everyone in America gained ground as a result of the rampant hyper-financialization and hyper-globalization of the 21st century. Let’s begin our analysis of who gained ground and who lost ground in the year 2001, when China entered the WTO (World Trade Organization) and offshoring […]
“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.” — Ayn Rand 130 executive orders in under 100 days. Sweeping powers claimed in the name of “security” and “efficiency.” One president acting as lawmaker, enforcer, and judge. No debate. No […]
John Maynard Keynes, who should be burning in Hell for his shyster economic theories, is largely responsible for our current looming apocalypse. His theory basically is that only demand, made more real than just wishing for things by creating fiat money and credit, is important, since in his myopic, context-dropping theory, people produce a supply when there is a demand. (That they’d want the money they are paid to be valuable enough to buy someone else’s products he […]
Jeffrey A. Singer Critics warned it would lead to widespread abuse. Yet, in October 2018, Canadian lawmakers made Canada the first G7 country to legalize, not merely decriminalize, recreational cannabis. Researchers at McMaster University have conducted a prospective cohort study involving 1,428 adults in Hamilton, Ontario. Some participants were cannabis consumers before legalization, while others began using cannabis post-legalization, between September 2018 and October 2024. Their findings were published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association. […]
Tim McGraw wrote: Many Americans no longer have the love of liberty in their hearts. Wars, Covid, taxes, and other issues show that Americans are divided on their beliefs in liberty. The judge was right. When liberty dies in the hearts of men and women in America, no words or constitution will save it. The post American Constitution: The Road from Runnymede appeared first on LewRockwell.