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Game of Thrones actor Hafthór ‘Thor’ Björnsson has broken a 1,000-year-old weight lifting record to become ‘The World’s Strongest Viking’. The 26-year-old lifted a 30-foot log, weighing 1,433lbs on his shoulders and carried it for five steps during the World’s Strongest Viking competition in Norway. The Icelandic strongman, who plays Gregor ‘The Mountain’ Clegane on the drama series based on the books by George R R Martin, has now got his eyes on the World’s Strongest Man-title. Read the Whole Article

Since the beginning of time, television pundits and other serious thinkers have beckoned the young to die or lose limbs in pointless, illegal wars. Just in the last 15 years alone, our groomed foreign policy experts and think tank fellows have made compelling cases for armed humanitarian interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and about a half dozen other defenseless nations desperately in need of drone strikes or some other form of Western aid. Some might think this ancient practice of the privileged few urging everyone else to perish for nothing is outdated—maybe even harmful. Perhaps. But tradition is very important in … Continue reading →

In his recent trip to India, President Obama repeated a long-standing pattern of his — denigrating the United States to foreign audiences. He said that he had been discriminated against because of his skin color in America, a country in which there is, even now, “terrible poverty.” Make no mistake about it, there is no society of human beings in which there are no rotten people. But for a President of the United States to be smearing America in a foreign country, whose track record is far worse, is both irresponsible and immature. Years after the last lynching of blacks … Continue reading →

Ludwig von Mises is one of my heroes. He abided by a fundamental principle in life: “Never give an inch.” It was often said by Chicago School economists and other non-Austrian economists that Mises was just too hard core. He was just too unbending. For an example of this criticism, watch this brief video, which is a segment from the PBS series, The Commanding Heights. The key comes at 1:30: an interview with Milton Friedman. Friedman dismisses Mises for standing firm. But on the issue at hand — the welfare state — he was right. At the age of 19, … Continue reading →

When I was growing up, I noticed that my dad kept his car well-stocked with supplies. A lot of the equipment was for his job busting poachers as a game warden, but most of the things were for emergency situations. And there were plenty of times when m…

‘Global oil prices have plummeted after the US crude stockpiles reached its highest level over the past 33 years. Reports said on Wednesday that US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and Brent North Sea crude, […]