The phrase “pro-gun, pro-military” is used by some conservatives to describe themselves, as if the two go together seamlessly. For example, activist and political candidate Erin Cruz states she is both “Pro Second Amendment” and “Pro Military” in her promotional materials.

While many defenders of private gun ownership recognize that the Second Amendment was written to provide some sort of counterbalance against the coercive power of the state, this argument is often left far too vague to reflect an accurate view of this historical context surrounding the Amendment.

After all, it is frequently pointed out that private ownership of shotguns and semi-automatic rifles could offer only very limited resistance to the extremely well-equipped and well-armed United States military.

“Truth isn’t truth,” declared Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s personal attorney, on Meet the Press on Sunday. Giuliani’s comment — the weirdest absolution yet proffered for Trump — is the “Trump era’s epitaph,” according to a Washington Post columnist. But truth really is defined differently inside the Beltway.

In just a few decades video gaming has grown from a niche market into one of the largest entertainment industries in the world, certainly no mean feat. However, its transformation has also brought with it the same regulatory problems that every large industry encounters sooner or later. And like most other industries, gaming’s regulatory woes are a combination of internal and external threats. We can categorize these threats as follows:

At Mises U this year, Timothy Terrell did a fantastic job of busting a lot of the myths out there about healthcare, in particular about the quality of US care. Some particularly noteworthy points:

1) America’s life expectancy is often used as an attack on US healthcare, but this number includes a variety of factors that have nothing to do with medical care, including car fatalities, suicides, and drug abuse.

The continuing tragedy of Venezuela is a disaster that few Americans can truly comprehend. Annual inflation in the country, as calculated by Dr. Steve Hanke, has reached 61,436%.

Last month marked the 70th anniversary of the creation of the National Health Service, Britain’s government-run monopoly healthcare provider. Since its creation, during the wave of nationalisations undertaken by the post-WWII Labour government of Clement Attlee, one of the most consistent themes in the history of the NHS has been its ongoing failure to keep pace with the healthcare systems of similarly developed countries.

Optical illusion in the form of a focus on flows — rather than stocks — is a well-known flaw in the analysis of asset markets. Two examples this year demonstrate the phenomenon: one from the market for gold and the other from the market in stock options. Analysis of the illusion in gold helps provide a clue to how present high speculative temperatures in corporate bond markets — intimately related to the options market — will collapse.

Many American families are having trouble making ends meet. It’s no surprise given the value of the dollar has fallen 95% since the Federal Reserve was created. Not everyone is harmed by inflation, but those who, according to inflationdata.com are,

the other big losers those on fixed incomes like the elderly and anyone whose income isn’t indexed to inflation.