The anarcho-capitalism that Murray Rothbard favored differed entirely from the American system of government, and he saw the State as a gang of robbers. It by no means followed from this, though, that he was uninterested in politics. Quite to the contrary, he was passionately absorbed in it. I have never known anyone with as great an ability to amass and retain information as Murray Rothbard. He not only followed presidential campaigns, but he had a detailed knowledge of Congressional races as well. He could take any Congressional district in the United States and tell you who was running and … Continue reading →

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You have never heard of Rachel Premack. Admit it. Until July 3, neither had I. On that day, Ms. Premack got her 15 minutes of fame. These minutes marked her as a spokesperson for a Progressive generation that is utterly devoid of common sense. At about 4:30 a.m., a news story that quoted Ms. Premack in detail was the #3 story on Drudge. It was right there under the bold headline: OBAMA SENT $400 MILLION CASH TO IRAN AS AMERICAN PRISONERS FREED. That is a true “red meat” headline for meat-eaters, meaning just about everyone. Current Prices on popular forms … Continue reading →

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Current Prices on popular forms of Silver Bullion Highlights Jim Rogers rejoins the show from his Singapore office – he’s waiting patiently for discount opportunities in the precious metals sector. While the top US shares continue to tread water, twice as many lesser known stocks have declined over the same period. The recent Brexit may have signaled an end to the hegemony of the EU; Italy, Spain, and Portugal could be the next to leave the confederacy. Jim Rogers advocates adding agriculture based investments to every portfolio, underscoring the importance of listening to alternative talk shows. Read the Whole Article

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NEW YORK—There’s some guy at the world headquarters of CVS drugstores screwing with me. I don’t know who he is yet, but he lives in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. This is where CVS Health, the largest drugstore chainin the history of drugstores, has its main offices, and where a designated marketing jerk chews on the nub of a pencil and thinks all day about how many coupons he can string onto the bottom of my sales receipt. I was thinking about this recently while having three hot dogs and a Dr. Pepper during the time it took to print out my … Continue reading →

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Our youngest son Dan, born in 1987, claims socialism is good. Like many other people in his Millennial Generation born 1982-2004, despite growing up in a home with libertarian parents, he backed Bernie Sanders and thinks socialism works. A case in point, he argues: “Look at Sweden. It works there!” My wife and I have tried to dispel this notion and other collectivist views he holds since he attended and graduated from college, without effect. When I learned that Tom DiLorenzo had written a new book titled THE PROBLEM WITH SOCIALISM, for release on July 18, 2016, I pre-ordered a … Continue reading →

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One of the best ways to test your survival skills is to spend some time outdoors, without electricity, running water, and flushable toilets.  This is not to say that every disruptive event will require you to live outdoors, but rather that such an event will require you to cope without modern conveniences.  As preppers, our hope is that such an event will be short-term in nature, but, as the saying goes, “hope for the best and prepare for the worst”. About a year ago I was discussing this topic with Phil Cox, the CEO of Buy Emergency Foods.  For those … Continue reading →

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Is Macbeth really Shakespeare’s most cursed play? (Even more cursed than All’s Well That Ends Well?) Perhaps. Terrible occurrences have dogged performances of Macbeth ever since its premiere, when,according to theatrical legend, either an actor was killed onstage during a sword fight, or else a young boy playing Lady Macbeth died in an accident behind the scenes. (The cause of the curse, some say, is that Shakespeare supposedly included real witches’ spells in the play’s script.) But perhaps the darkest incident in the play’s long and murky history occurred on May 10, 1849, when a bitter rivalry between two competing … Continue reading →

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For most millennial college grads the idea of buying a home right out of college is a bit far fetched.  Many millennials have taken to moving back in with mom as we pointed out in a post entitled ““We All Work As A Team” – Millennials Explain How It’s Going Living ‘Rent-Free’ At Home.”  The trend actually so pervasive that home builders are even designing new homes with a master suite in the basement for returning millennials to have their own little “safe space.”  According to a local builder in the Chicago area: “For a mere $35,000-plus, the plan can … Continue reading →

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Maybe Hillary is the Deep State’s shoo-in for president. But I suspect doubts in the Deep State have advanced to active sabotage for the reasons noted below. Few would dispute that Hillary Clinton is the Establishment’s candidate. It’s widely accepted that the Establishment hews to a neoconservative (neo-con) foreign policy that is fully supported by America’s Deep State, i.e. the centers of state power that don’t change as a result of elections. As a result, it’s widely accepted that the Deep State fully supports Hillary Clinton’s bid for the presidency and will move heaven and earth to get her elected. While this is … Continue reading →

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One of the unavoidable consequences of youth is the tendency to think behavior we see today has always been. I’d like to dispute that vision, at least as it pertains to black people. I graduated from Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin High School in 1954. Franklin’s predominantly black students were from the poorest North Philadelphia neighborhoods. During those days, there were no policemen patrolling the hallways. Today close to 400 police patrol Philadelphia schools. There were occasional after-school fights — rumbles, as we called them — but within the school, there was order. In contrast with today, students didn’t use foul language … Continue reading →

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“Isolationists must not prevail in this new debate over foreign policy,” warns Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations. “The consequences of a lasting American retreat from the world would be dire.” To make his case against the “Isolationist Temptation,” Haass creates a caricature, a cartoon, of America First patriots, then thunders that we cannot become “a giant gated community.” Understandably, Haass is upset. For the CFR has lost the country. Why? It colluded in the blunders that have bled and near bankrupted America and that cost this country its unrivaled global preeminence at the end of the … Continue reading →

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Meet Ela Darling: The 21st Century’s First Virtual Reality Porn Star

Israel warns Celtic fans against flying Palestine flags in Champions League games

Deadly gas projectiles return to West Bank protests

Israel poised to raze Bedouin village so Jews can take land