Kuwait “mistakenly” shot down three U.S. F-15 fighter jets on Sunday after strikes were launched against Iran one day earlier, according to U.S. Central Command (Centcom).

“Trump administration officials ⁠acknowledged ⁠in closed-door briefings with congressional staff ⁠on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces.” 

According to a Reuters poll conducted on Sunday, only 27% of Americans support the US attacking Iran. 43% of Americans oppose the war. 

When I taught economics at the University of Guelph, I assigned an optional book report on Bureaucracy by Ludwig von Mises, originally published in 1941. The assignment was strictly for bonus points.

Today would have been Murray Rothbard’s 100th birthday.

Murray Rothbard was a genius. Counting his contributions in economics, history, political philosophy, strategy, and even cultural commentary, he left this world so many incredible insights. One could spend years reading his work and still not complete it all.

On February 2, the Trump administration announced a plan—dubbed “Project Vault”—to spend $12 billion (funded mainly by borrowing almost all of the US Export-Import Bank’s available capital) to create a “critical” minerals stockpile.

The moral perversity of U.S. foreign policy is on full display right now with respect to two Latin American countries — Cuba and Venezuela. The fact that the both political parties, the mainstream press, and many regular Americans, including Christians, display no moral outrage over this perversity only goes to show the depths of moral depravity into which our nation has plunged.

Let us imagine for a moment that we are in a museum. In one wing, the great achievements of government intervention are shown: highways, dams, public schools, and countless other ingenious designs, organizations, and feats. Things which we use in our everyday lives which, for better or worse, supposedly ensure the smooth flow of society. Plaques and posters on the walls of this wing boast of the millions of jobs and trillions of dollars created by the state, and list the many ways by which it has contributed to the growth of the free market.