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Elon Musk’s dogecoin tweets have given the coin a nice run, sending its price from fractions of a penny—where it traded for roughly 8 years—to 40 cents on April 20th before falling back. It was enough to yank bitcoin skeptic Peter Schiff from watching his gold portfolio do nothing—also for roughly 8 years—to crow that “dogecoin is eating bitcoin” and begging dogecoiners to put laser beams on their nose.

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Now that Cuban president Raul Castro has resigned the presidency of Cuba, will the U.S. government lift its six-decades-long economic embargo against Cuba?

Don’t count it. Squeezing the life out of the Cuban people as a way to get regime change has become such a normalized way of life for the United States that it is unlikely that this cruel and brutal policy will be ended anytime soon.

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I recently attended the Soho Forum debate between (democratic socialist) Ben Burgis and (libertarian) Gene Epstein on the question of whether capitalism or socialism would lead to the most prosperity, equality, and liberty.

There are few examples to showcase the absurdity of the current political climate during the covid pandemic such as the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). Put in place by the Trump administration and now continued under the Biden administration, the PPP has become the poster child for government programs rampant with fraud and mismanagement. Indeed, in a recent report, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) repeatedly warned about the lack of program oversight and controls. However, government officials continued on with the program despite the OIG’s warnings.

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President Biden announced last week that he planned to remove all combat troops from Afghanistan by September, which he says will mark the end of what is now a twenty-year war in the central Asian country.

I’ve often argued against John Rawls’s theory of justice, and readers who see my title might be thinking to themselves, “Not another post on Rawls!” These readers can rest easy; this is not another post attacking Rawls. (It isn’t, of course, a post that says Rawls was right.)