Fresh off her 2018 upset New York Democratic congressional primary win, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (better known as AOC) and Massachusetts Sen. Edward Markey announced they were launching an ambitious legislative plan called the Green New Deal. While people who had a grounding in economic thought found this new initiative to be naïve at best and destructive at worst, nonetheless it has energized American progressives and other environmental true believers.

The first article in Jeffrey Tucker’s Bourbon for Breakfast is “The Bureaucrat in Your Shower” from 2006. Although I worked side-by-side with Jeffrey at the Mises Institute, I had no idea American showers had become, in President Trump’s terms, “weak” until a glorious cascade of water came from a shower head in Salamanca, Spain.

Those who hoped the second Trump administration would reject big spending, war, and restrictions on liberty continue to be disappointed. A new disappointment came when Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced her department would in May begin enforcing the REAL ID law.

Parents are rightly concerned about what is happening in our “public” schools. Crazed “educators” are encouraging impressionable children to “transition” to another sex, as if such a thing was possible. Students are taught that sexual promiscuity is a good thing. They are brainwashed to accept socialist attacks on our free enterprise system.

60% oppose cuts to food stamps. Huge federal deficits are here to stay. 

Sebastian Gorka says the people who advocate for due process for potential deportees should be prosecuted by federal bureaucrats. Bill of Rights, RIP.

Thanks to years of inflation-fueled asset-price inflation, first-time buyers can’t really afford to buy. 

For Americans who still think that Donald Trump is an advocate of realism and restraint in foreign policy, the events in Yemen should come as a rude awakening.

As financial pressure mounts nationwide, auto loan delinquencies are rising across all 50 states.