With the passage of NDAA expected this week, a sweeping change to the Selective Service will attempt to ‘automatically’ sign American males up to serve.

In contemporary political discourse, fiscal adjustment is often celebrated as a moral achievement rather than recognized as what it fundamentally is: an institutional obligation. In economies marked by chronic deficits, inflationary pressures, and bureaucratic expansion, the mere restoration of budgetary discipline frequently appears heroic. From an Austrian perspective, however, fiscal responsibility is not an extraordinary accomplishment, it is the minimal condition for preserving economic calculation and social coordination.

After Trump ordered this major joint US-Israeli air campaign on Iran a week and a half ago, several politicians, political commentators, and public figures heaped praise on the president for the “remarkable courage” he showed to finally take on the Iranian regime. 

Trump had betrayed his base on everything else. Why not also mass deportations? 

Tucker Carlson’s February 18 interview of the US Ambassador to the State of Israel, Mike Huckabee, aroused a storm of controversy over Huckabee’s endorsement of a maximalist Israeli claim to a biblically-defined territory between the Euphrates River (

I must have told a thousand people that the reason I came to Auburn, Alabama, was Roger Garrison and every time I did, I gave a silent thank you to him for being the crucial pivot point in my life.

[Vaccines, Amen: The Religion of Vaccines by Aaron Siri, Injecting Freedom LLC, September 4, 2025, 308 pp.]

President Trump’s unconstitutional and unjust war against Iran is setting back his “affordability” agenda. The war has caused a big rise in gasoline prices. Among the related concerns is the hindering of the movement of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, the only available passage for ships to transport oil from the Persian Gulf.

The increased costs will do more than raise prices at the pump. An increase in gas prices brings increased transportation costs that will be passed along to consumers. Prices of a variety of goods, including food, will increase.

Oil prices hovered around $90 per barrel: “Seven nations are scheduled to meet Tuesday to discuss a possible joint release of stockpiles to help ease the supply disruption.”

President Trump said on Sunday that any decision to end the war with Iran would be a “mutual” one made with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.