April marks the time when the guns of war began to fall silent across the South in 1865, after four years of war. On April 9, General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia. General Nathan Bedford Forrest stood down his cavalry on May 9. By June 23, General Stand Watie had surrendered the last of the Confederate soldiers still fighting, the First Indian Brigade which included his own Cherokee Braves.
In January of 1917, V.I. Lenin was disappointed. He was living in exile in Zurich, having failed to bring about a communist revolution in Russia in the wake of the Russian revolution of 1905. Yet, being a committed revolutionary, he refused to declare defeat.
The 2026 NFL draft was held in Pittsburgh, which was the first time in the city since 1946. This year’s draft also broke attendance records with north of 800,000 people attending the final day.
In 2022, JetBlue and Spirit Airlines announced an agreement to an acquisition of Spirit by JetBlue in a $3.8 billion transaction, mostly involving an exchange of stock. The acquisition would have catapulted JetBlue from a distant #5 in the airline industry (behind United, American, Delta and Southwest) to a near rival, perhaps expanding the Big 4 to a Big 5.
Projects that the government undertakes are likely to be of a questionable nature. The fact that the private sector did not undertake these projects indicates that these projects were not demanded or prioritized by consumers. For example, if the government decides to build a pyramid, it is evident that most people regard this as a low or non-existent priority.
DOJ prosecutor Gaston replied: “I would like to take a special assignment of finding and prosecuting [habited nuns].”
“Wall Street cannot be counted on to do anything to move the American monetary system towards the proper sound money standard we so desperately need – indeed, quite the opposite.”
Government debt is no longer a distant policy problem—it is a present economic reality shaping everything from inflation to interest rates. The United States continues to run massive deficits year after year, with total debt climbing into levels that would have once been considered unthinkable. Yet, despite the scale of the problem, political incentives remain unchanged: spend more, borrow more, and push the consequences into the future.
