Last month, when President Trump issued his executive order banning refugees and visa holders from seven countries, the acting Attorney General Sally Yates refused to enforce the orders. In response, conservatives at National Review issued an unsigned editorial reminding the reader that It is a very simple proposition. Our Constitution vests
In the next issue of The Austrian , David Gordon reviews Sebatian Mallaby’s new book, The Man Who Knew , about the career of Alan Greenspan. Mallaby points out that prior to his career at the Fed, Greenspan exhibited a keen understanding of the gold standard and how free markets work. In spite of this contradiction, Mallaby takes a rather benign
In the wake of the Senate’s confirmation of the appointment of Betsy DeVos, the protests from the left prompted Republican Congressman Thomas Massie to offer them a way to get rid of DeVos: eliminate the Department of Education. According to Massie, he’d been planning to introduce the bill for more than a year , and the controversy over DeVos
In the days following the 2016 election, there were already worrying signs that the Trump administration didn’t merely view the War on Drugs as a useful source of rhetoric to please some Conservatives. With the appointment of Jeff Sessions — who appears to be a true believer in the War on Drugs — the threat to federalism, states’s rights, and
After getting caught flinging obscenities at one of Uber’s drivers, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has issued an apology saying he (Kalanick) needs to “grow up.” The short shouting match ensued when Uber driver Fawzi Kamel picked up Kalanick for a ride. Kamel proceeded to criticize Kalanick for Uber’s policies and for the reductions in fares
In this interview with the Ron Paul Institute, Lew Rockwell discusses the Mises Institute’s upcoming foreign-policy conference with Ron Paul, David Stockman, Eric Margolis, and other keen observers of American foreign policy. The symposium will be on April 8 in Lake Jackson, Texas. Register here. Lew also points out how Murray Rothbard regarded
In recent years, the Fed has felt the need to step up efforts to defend its governing structure and its agenda. Thanks to the the success of the anti-Fed rhetoric of the Ron Paul campaigns of 2008 and 2012, combined with the financial crisis of 2008, the Fed has directly engaged the public more and more : What followed [the Paul campaigns and
Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress this week has been hailed as good politics from both supporters and opponents alike. The Washington Times declared that Democrats were left “befuddled, in ruins” after the speech. Meanwhile, CNN’s Van Jones fell for what should have been regarded as cynical theatrics: Trump’s parading out the
Once a phrase generally eschewed in the legacy media, the term “Deep State” has now gone quite mainstream. In February, for example, Salon defined ”Deep State” as : The Deep State is shorthand for the nexus of secretive intelligence agencies whose leaders and policies are not much affected by changes in the White House or the Congress. While
The BBC reports today that Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced she’ll seek a new referendum on Scottish independence to be held in late 2018 or early 2019: That would coincide with the expected conclusion of the UK’s Brexit negotiations. The Scottish first minister said the move was needed to protect Scottish interests in the
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