Sunday, September 28, 2025

A Libertarian Argument for an Interventionist Foreign Policy

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Individual Liberty and the Responsibility to Protect: Toward a Neolibertarian Foreign Policy From here . Side note: Due to my mother's d...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Memory Eternal!

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Mom died tonight. It was unexpected though I was able to say goodbye. She was the last member of the family from that generation. Those who ...
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Friday, September 05, 2025

Making Polio Great Again

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Ok. It's time to call a shovel a shovel. Anti-Vax pseudo-scientific nuttery has now gone mainstream in the Republican Party. RFK Jr. is ...
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Thursday, September 04, 2025

Ray Dalio Warns of Debt, Wealth Inequality and America's Drift Towards Authoritarianism

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One of the world’s most prominent hedge fund billionaires has warned that rising inequality is turning the US into an autocratic state and c...
Monday, September 01, 2025

Gold Posts New Record

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Gold currently trading at ~$3,566 /oz amidst expectations of the Fed cutting interest rates (whether by choice or under presidential coercio...

China's navy is the world's largest and expanding at breakneck speed

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...Suoyuwan park in Dalian, which juts out of north-eastern China into the Yellow Sea, has stunning views of one of China's largest ship...
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Sunday, August 31, 2025

By the Numbers: The slow death of the manual transmission

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Just like the trend toward SUVs in the United States throughout the 2000s, there’s another major shift happening that seems unstoppable. Aut...
Saturday, August 30, 2025

Mexican (Catholic) bishop faces backlash for con-celebrating Eucharist with Anglican female cleric

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A retired Mexican bishop has provoked widespread controversy after he celebrated the Eucharist with an Anglican female minister at the Shrin...
Friday, August 29, 2025

Federal appeals court largely rejects Trump’s emergency tariffs

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A federal appeals court ruled Friday that most of President Donald Trump’s global tariffs are illegal, striking a massive blow to the core o...
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Trump Has Dropped an ‘Atomic Bomb’ on the Department of Justice

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...Donald Trump has blown through all of this. From the first days of his second term, that much was clear. He granted clemency even to the ...

Germany is rearming, with potentially huge implications

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...Across Germany, both politicians and members of the public have been going through a similar transformation. The country’s army, official...

White House declares $4.9B in foreign aid unilaterally canceled

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President Donald Trump threw a grenade Friday into September government funding negotiations on Capitol Hill, declaring the unilateral power...
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Trump revokes Secret Service protection for Kamala Harris

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has revoked U.S. Secret Service protection for former Vice President Kamala Harris, a senior adviser to ...

Want to work for National Weather Service? Be ready to explain how you agree with Trump

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As the National Weather Service scrambles to hire up to 450 people to restore deep cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency, potentia...

With the rich ALREADY fleeing New York, who’d be left for Zohran Mamdani to tax?

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Anyone who thinks Zohran Mamdani’s plans to tax the rich are remotely workable, beware: The city’s share of “the rich” is already shrinking....
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DOJ drops charges against another client of AG Pam Bondi's brother Brad

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For the second time in less than a month, the Justice Department on Wednesday abruptly dropped charges against a client represented by Brad ...

Ashli Babbitt, Jan. 6 rioter killed in Capitol, offered military funeral honors

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Pardon me while I throw up.
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Pope Francis blessed King and Queen’s anniversary despite their divorces

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Pope Francis gave the King and Queen a blessing for their 20th wedding anniversary, it has emerged. The King and Queen, who had a private au...

Medical Quackery and RFK's Purge at the CDC

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An escalating conflict over an influential vaccine committee was one of the final straws that led to the firing of Centers for Disease Contr...

Europe must assert hard power or become a ‘hunted animal,’ France’s top general warns

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PARIS — Europe's disunited governments are in denial about the extent to which violence is shaping global politics and must step up to a...

France may be heading into a full blown political crisis

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PARIS — President Emmanuel Macron’s allies don’t seem to have any good answers as to what happens after the almost certain fall of the gover...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Terrorist Attack on Minneapolis Catholic Church/School

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There has been a planned attack on a Catholic Church in Minnesota, almost certainly motivated by anti-Catholic hatred. At least seventeen pe...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Trump is playing with fire in his attacks on the Federal Reserve

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The US Federal Reserve must henceforth be considered the personal political agency of Donald Trump. America’s monetary credibility has been ...
Sunday, August 24, 2025

The gerrymandering wars is a flashing warning light for US democracy

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After the extraordinary scene of Texas Democrats fleeing their state to forestall a rare mid-decade gerrymander, Texas Republicans neverthel...
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Friday, August 22, 2025

The Threat to Madisonian Democracy

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...In an astounding 80 percent of our states, a single party already controls the House, Senate and governor’s office — a so-called trifecta...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Archbishop Alexei of Alaska (OCA) Meets Putin; Sparking Criticism

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See here , and here . Unless you are calling the man to repentance, I fail to see any justification for a prominent hierarch to meet with an...
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In the news

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Politics may have spurred August purge of 5 veteran FBI agents Trump bought more than $100 million in bonds since January  even as he demand...
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

RIP Pretty Girl

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How I wish I could complain one more time about tripping over your toys or your habit of sprawling on top of the AC vent on hot days. To ha...
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