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Government’s meddling in the healthcare business has been disastrous from the get-go. Since 1910, when Republican William Taft gave in to the American Medical Association’s lobbying efforts, most administrations have passed new healthcare regulations. With each new law or set of new regulations, restrictions on the healthcare market went further, until, at some point in the 1980s, people began to notice the cost of healthcare had skyrocketed. This is not an accident. It’s by design. As regulators allowed special interests to help design policy, everything from medical education to drugs became dominated by virtual monopolies that wouldn’t have otherwise existed … Continue reading →

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This writer wishes Jacoby would sound even less like other Boston Globe columnists. I’ve nothing against Jeff Jacoby, who from all accounts is a fine family man and a journalist who occasionally produces informative columns. (My eldest daughter and he attend the same synagogue, and my daughter has praised his soft-spoken manner.) Jacoby was among the few columnists at The Boston Globe, who went after former President Obama and his smarmy, social engineering administration. After a stint as an editorialist at the Republican-leaning Boston Herald, Jacoby in 1998 was invited to become the “conservative” columnist at the Globe. There he … Continue reading →

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In order for an ancient tribe to successfully eat or purge a scapegoat, the community first had to scandalize their target with a lying accusation—that the victim was guilty of high crimes against the very social order of the land. This is what is behind the envious mobs and the media priests’ daily work to tie Trump and any of his allies to rumors of “Russian hacking of the election.” The election ritual is the life of the state and its order. The established media and political hegemony are trying to stab as many pin pricks into Trump as possible … Continue reading →

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Originally published by AmmoLand.com. When making a major purchase, a smart consumer will research options, read reviews, and compare products. A good student will do the same when seeking a firearms instructor and evaluate the quality of training offered. You are making an investment with your consumer dollars — and your life may someday depend on this training. The first step is to learn where your instructor received training and make sure that you’re getting quality and correct information. Modern gunfighting skills have not changed too much in the past decades as far as standards of safe gun handling and … Continue reading →

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There probably isn’t any part of your body that is more sensitive, exposed, or crucial to your survival than your eyeballs. You use these soft, delicate organs during every waking moment and for just about every task, but unfortunately, the only thing that protects them are a few eyelashes and 1mm thick eyelids. Evolution is cruel like that. So given the vulnerability of our eyes, it would be wise to brush up on the first aid measures that should be taken in an emergency to protect them. Below are the most common eye injuries and the protective procedures that you … Continue reading →

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Doug Casey and I recently chatted about Trump and what his presidency means for the stock market. We also hit on the War on Cash, bitcoin, and a big third-world problem that’s headed straight for the US. Nick Giambruno: Doug, what do you think is the root problem of the US economy and financial system? Doug Casey: There are several, including incompetence, corruption and, of course, just plain stupidity. But there’s not much you can do about those things; they’re intrinsic to the government. But perhaps something can be done about ignorance, which starts in school: What, for instance, do … Continue reading →

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David Rockefeller was a very nice evil man. So was his father. He always thought he was doing the right thing. Maybe once in a while, he did something really good. I just can’t think of anything. Rockefeller was a big promoter of modern art. So was his brother Nelson. The brothers promoted an artistic rebellion against the common man’s taste. The more that a typical citizen would regard a piece of art as ugly or silly or meaningless, the more money a Rockefeller would pay for it. Americans love Norman Rockwell’s paintings. The Rockefellers did not. I can think … Continue reading →

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The United States suffers from a chronic trust deficit, to put it mildly. Anything that its leaders say must be weighed against years of deception and relentless criminal conduct by US governments. Only a fool would trust anything that comes out of Washington. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited Chinese President Xi Jinping at the weekend, vowing greater cooperation to reduce tensions boiling up on the Korean Peninsula. Only a day before, however, Tillerson was threatening that the US would use pre-emptive military strikes against China’s ally North Korea if “we believe” it presented a threat “to us”. So what’s it to be then? Cooperation or … Continue reading →

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I return to the compilation of Rothbard’s essays originally written for the Rothbard-Rockwell Report, entitled “The Irrepressible Rothbard.”  This essay is entitled “Education: Rethinking Choice.” You might ask: what does education choice have to do with open borders?  Walk with me, and keep an open mind. Rothbard sees vouchers, allowing parents a choice in where to send their children to school, as a “half-a-loaf” step.  He is perfectly fine with half-a-loaf if it moves the needle toward liberty.  Vouchers move the needle the wrong way: I have always opposed the voucher scheme bitterly; because it enshrines in “libertarian” favor a … Continue reading →

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I have spent this past week watching the Senate Judiciary Committee interrogating U.S. Circuit Judge Neil Gorsuch. Judge Gorsuch is President Donald Trump’s nominee to fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court. The vacancy was created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia more than 13 months ago. The Supreme Court is currently generally divided between four liberals and four conservatives. As a justice, Gorsuch would probably break many ideological ties. During the hearings, Republican senators are doing their best to associate Judge Gorsuch with the popular-in-death Justice Scalia, and Democratic senators are doing their best to try to … Continue reading →

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Trump’s Labor Secretary nominee faces questions over why he cut a deal with pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein instead of indicting him on federal sex crimes

More than 30 dead after US-led coalition air strike hits school sheltering families near Raqqa

Saudi Arabia carrying out ‘open-air massacre’ in Yemen

Europeans won’t be able to ‘walk safely’ if EU’s current attitude persists, Erdogan warns