Friday, March 30, 2018

TGIF: Cambridge Analytica -- Bogey of the Week

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The panic over Cambridge Analytica looks like an acknowledgment that Russiagate is a losing horse.  CA is the latest excuse for Hillary C...
Friday, March 23, 2018

TGIF: The Iraq Invasion after 15 Years

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On the 10th anniversary of the U.S. government's criminal, catastrophic, and still-to-this-day consequential war against Iraq in March ...
Saturday, March 17, 2018

The Presumption of Innocence: Not Just for the Courtroom

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Journalist Peter Hitchens wrote the following in the connection with the events in Salisbury, England, involving a former Russian double ag...
Friday, March 16, 2018

TGIF: Economic Nationalism: Elitism in Populist Clothing

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My old friend and former  American Conservative  editor Dan McCarthy  gets it all wrong  about Donald Trump's "national security...
Friday, March 09, 2018

TGIF: Trading Places

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"What protection teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war." --Henry Georg...
Friday, March 02, 2018

TGIF: The Grammar of Russiagate

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Closely observing the grammar of the Official Russiagate Narrative is revealing and instructive. It provides clues to the (language-)game b...
Thursday, March 01, 2018

How Trump Interprets the Second Amendment

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Take the guns first, go through due process second. -- President Donald Trump
Wednesday, February 28, 2018

The U.S. Role in the War in Yemen: What You Can Do

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Since March 2015, U.S.-supported airstrikes in Yemen have implicated us in what is now the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. Militar...
Monday, February 26, 2018

Breaking News: Washington Post Reports Russian Bots Used Factual Mainstream News Stories to Disrupt America

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Damn you Russian bots, with your widely read mainstream sources and your factual accuracy! 🤯 https://t.co/qxDYTtSJ3J pic.twitter.com/N8S...
Friday, February 23, 2018

TGIF: The Tragedy and Comedy of Russiagate

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The whole election-meddling distraction is remarkable in both comic and tragic ways. The tragedy can be summed up in three words: New Cold ...
Friday, February 16, 2018

TGIF: "Peace Through Strength" Is a Racket

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Donald Trump has embraced the popular "peace through strength" doctrine (PTSD) with his characteristic panache:  "I’m goin...
Sunday, February 11, 2018

Radio Interview: Why I Am Proud NOT to Have “Served” in Vietnam

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I was on the Craig Silverman Show yesterday talking about why I am proud not to have "served" in Vietnam. Listen here .
Friday, February 09, 2018

TGIF: Raining on the Parade

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Of course Donald Trump wants a military parade. I'd be surprised if he didn't. It's just what an insecure narcissist would want....
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Friday, February 02, 2018

TGIF: The Church of America

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One myth that Americans live by is the separation of church and state. Some like the idea; others hate it; but the irony is that church and ...
Friday, January 26, 2018

TGIF: The Voice of American Workers Is a Charlatan

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Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed voice of American working people, has decreed that the prices of washing machines and solar panels shall r...
Thursday, January 25, 2018

Protectionism, Freedom, and a Frustrating Day at the Pipe Shop

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One of my haunts is a local tobacco shop, where I regularly drop in to smoke a few bowls of fine pipe tobacco and talk to a fine group of fr...

Is Trump Planning a Tactical Nuclear Strike on Kim Jong Un?

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From Business Insider : The US has been quietly amassing firepower in the Pacific during a lull in tensions with North Korea, but recent d...
Friday, January 19, 2018

TGIF: Trump versus the World

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According to the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, somewhere President Donald Trump, instead of saying, “Why do we want all t...
Friday, January 12, 2018

TGIF: Trump and No Silver Lining

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I confess I was indulging in wishful thinking when I thought I detected a silver lining to Donald Trump's election as president. That...
Friday, December 29, 2017

Make-Work Is Wasteful

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My final column for the American Institute for Economic Research is "Make-Work Is Wasteful."
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