Notes in the Margin

A reminder that GW Bush and the "war on terror" made a mockery of the Bill of Rights. 

The order reclassified thousands of federal workers as at-will employees, meaning the government can now terminate them without offering a reason.

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., on Tuesday criticized Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s decision to stay on the central bank’s board.

"...we are witnessing an unprecedented shift of resources from domestic investments in the United States to the military-industrial complex"

"I had surmised, that benevolence is meant to improve society, not the State; and to do so through personal, not political, acts in the community."

John Stossel asks guests, how did America make it to 250 years?

Antony was a longtime friend of the Mises Institute and always a solid contributor to Mises.org. 

He now basically supports the opposite of every position he campaigned on. So it would be interesting to see him now campaign on the claim that "THIS time I'm not lying." 

“The real problem is that the Fed has pursued destructive policies for more than a century.”

The aircraft losses and damages include four F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets, one F-35A Lightning II fighter aircraft, one A-10 Thunderbolt II ground-attack aircraft, seven KC-135 Stratotanker aerial refuelling aircraft...