Whenever taxpayers object to being forced to bankroll research they consider immoral, the standard retort arrives on cue: “Don’t politicize science.” But public funding is already the politicization of science. The moment research is financed by compulsory taxation, it is no longer a purely scholarly enterprise, it becomes a state project—filtered through bureaucracies, grant incentives, and the ideological needs of the regime that signs the checks.

December numbers were also revised way down. The US economy now has fewer jobs than it did 9 months ago. 

FT: “Donald Trump’s decision not to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve drained by his predecessor Joe Biden has left consumers exposed to an oil price shock.”

On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: In less a week, the quick victory promise has given way to increased calls for a US ground invasion. 

The US taxpayers so far have paid more than 6.5 billion toward the Iran war. 

March 2 would have been Murray Rothbard’s 100th birthday, so it is only fitting that I devote this week’s column to my great friend and mentor. I have often written about his life, but this time I would like to describe him as I found him in our many conversations, both in person and over the telephone.

In light of the US’s actions against Iran and the overt goal of regime change, it is worth recalling the original, covert regime change the CIA brought about in Iran and its decades-long consequences.