As the US economy stumbles through rounds of inflation and self-inflicted crises, a look backward might be appropriate. To those that say we only should look to the future, the Federal Reserve’s history of the last two decades tells us that governmental and monetary authorities will do the wrong thing and make things worse. It is time to scrutinize the past.

The U.S. military has just announced that it has carried out two more murders on the high seas near South America. This now brings the military’s high-seas murders to more than 200 people.

Mind you, in its announcement, the military did not use the term “murder.” The announcement stated that the military is simply enforcing the U.S. drug war. But make no mistake about it: What the military is doing is engaging in state-sponsored murder, which is ordinarily a felony offense.

More from our “entrepreneur” class: Ellison: “Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on.” 

Albert Einstein is credited with saying, “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Whether he actually said it or not, the definition stands.

This definition also very well describes the Trump Administration’s war with Iran. According to media reports, President Trump was cajoled by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu that this would be an “easy war,” like Venezuela. Just assassinate the Iranian leadership, he promised, and the regime change would bring in a pro-America regime in Iran.

For most of the twentieth century, the trouble with libertarianism was never its ideas, it was its posture. Theorists stood outside the arena with folded arms, waiting for voters to reason their way to liberty, treating political philosophy as a kind of religion of non-participation. That turned one of the sharpest critiques of state power into a seminar-room parlor trick.

For some strange reason, there is a certain minority of libertarians out there who think that Curtis Yarvin is some sort of libertarian—or at least some kind of pro-freedom intellectual. Much of this stems from the fact that so many libertarians are gullible and always eager to gush with praise in favor of anyone who even mentions Murray Rothbard in a favorable light once or twice. Yarvin has referred to Rothbard in this way a time or two, and some libertarians ridiculously reacted like Yarvin was the next Lew Rockwell. 

The JP calls for the US taxpayer to pay a “debt forgiveness for military service” program to enlarge the US’s standing army. The whole point being to further subsidize the state of Israel.