People who can recall or who are aware of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell speech to the nation in January 1961 usually remember it for his use of the phrase “military-industrial complex.” Eisenhower wrote:
Seventeen years after the Paraguayan War, which pitted the army of Paraguay against those of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay, ex-combatant Bernardino Caballero and a group of men founded the National Republican Association (ANR) in 1887—also known as the Colorado Party. In the party’s founding manifesto, there was a clear intention to lift Paraguay out of the situation in which it still found itself after the devastating war:
As most of the world’s “liberal” democracies continue to embrace more ruinous censorship, war, crippling inflation, crushing debt, and rising crime, many who pine for a different type of political order understandably look to regime types other than the modern democratic state. In some cases, monarchy is offered as an alternative.
“Keynes was not a democrat, but, rather, looked upon himself as a potential member of an enlightened ruling elite.”—James Buchanan and Richard Wagner (1977)
Last year, Ron DeSantis banned the sale of lab grown meat in Florida, and Texas, Alabama, and Mississippi have now followed suit. Two arguments form the main basis for the ban: 1) the need to protect American animal agriculture from undercutting; and, 2) cultivated meat itself being immoral due to its unnaturalness. Both fail. American animal agriculture must not necessarily survive and the unnaturalness of lab grown meat is no more immoral than the existence of GMO vegetables (i.e., not at all).
On Monday, the long-rumored deal was made official as Paramount bought the online media outlet The Free Press and named its founder, Bari Weiss, as editor-in-chief of CBS News.
Sometime in 2026 a NASA project called Artemis II will send four astronauts to the moon and back. Unlike the Apollo missions of the past century, the Artemis crew will be diverse in gender and race.
Israel has received over $21 billion in military aid from the US and Washington has bombed Iran and Yemen for Tel Aviv.
