Kentucky Senator Rand Paul recently announced he was receiving hernia surgery as a result of being blindsided in an attack from his neighbor. While a senator undergoing common surgery is of questionable newsworthiness, one may expect that the reminder that the Senator is still suffering from the 2017 incident as cause for sympathy. Instead, major
This week Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez released a preliminary summary of her grand vision for a Green New Deal. Prior to its unveiling, the youngest rising star of the Democratic Party had already managed to get the support of leading members of Congress, including all of the party’s current leading Presidential candidates. Unfortunately for Ms.
Today Jerome Powell got out of the beltway and enjoyed some southern hospitality at Mississippi Valley State University, speaking at the Hope Enterprise Corporation Rural Policy Forum. Most of the Fed Chairman’s talk was dedicated to talking about how the Fed could the financial needs of rural areas, a questionable claim considering the direct
After a month of “will he, won’t he” drama fitting for reality television, Donald Trump has announced his plans to declare a national emergency in order to get the funding he desires for his border wall. While the wall itself invites debate on subjects such as practical immigration policy , eminent domain , and government contractors – the use of
According to multiple reports , Donald Trump is preparing to nominate Herman Cain to fill one of the two vacant positions on the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors. Cain, the former CEO of Godfathers Pizza and a meme-friendly 2012 presidential candidate, shares several similarities to Stephen Moore, who was also nominated last month. To their
Following the incredible success of Brexit in 2016, British politics has become a tragedy. Theresa May has been rightfully ridiculed for her remarkable incompetence in striking a Brexit deal, but her greatest sin was her ideological commitment to preserving and growing the very sort of government interventionism that has long hindered the UK. As
Once again Donald Trump’s presidency has done a great job of highlighting the hypocrisy and delusion of the beltway bubble. A recent story from the Daily Beast reports that Trump is frustrating advisers with his apathy towards the current trillion dollar deficits coming out of Washington. Since the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump’s
At Wal-Mart, Bitcoin is now competing alongside gold, silver, and government coins in the candy isle. Still not quite what Ron Paul and other Austrians have in mind advocating choice in currency , but it does serve as another illustration of how crypto-currency is becoming normalized in the United States.
When not assisting the continued politicization of America’s most powerful legislative branch , the media this week has relished in a variety of news items continuing to push the narrative that President Donald Trump is mentally unfit to hold office. While it’s fair to question the fitness of anyone to hold the power given to the modern American
The European Union today voted in favor of Article 13, legislation that risks, in the words of some, “destroying the internet as we know it.” It’s understandable to be skeptical of such a claim – after all similar claims were made about the FCC repealing “net neutrality.” While that campaign was largely guided by ignorance and corporate hypocrisy
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