Taibbi: Taking The Neither Pill Authored by Matt Taibbi via TK News, Last Thursday, I sat in a studio in Newark for the above interview with Ben Shapiro. It was a wide-ranging and oddly friendly discussion between a former Breitbart staffer and the author of Andrew Breitbart’s mostly infamously obscene obituary, in which the fact…
WTI Extends Gains After Unexpected Crude Draw Oil prices are higher today following relatively positive news from China (easing some of its COVID quarantine restrictions), Macron-inspired doubts over the ability of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to significantly boost output, and unrest in Ecuador and Libya helped lift prices. “We’re in the crunch…
Individual liberty is the only way forward The answer is not to push the government to FORCE the entire country to live like you want them to––it’s to get the government out of our lives completely so they can’t eventually do the same to you. Individual liberty is the only way forward. — Young Americans…
I do try to respect President Reagan’s 11th Commandment: “Thou shalt not speak ill of thy fellow Republican.” I know ideological litmus tests rub some people the wrong way. I get that turning internal disagreements into political losses is self-defeating. I agree that priority number one is to beat back the Marxist hoards pushing America to the cliff’s edge. And…
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The Consumer Confidence Index from The Conference Board fell again in June, the second drop in a row and seventh in the last twelve months. The composite index decreased 4.5 points or 4.4 percent to 98.7, the lowest level since February 2021 (see top of first chart). From a year ago, the index is down…
Reprinted from the Independent Institute At least since Thomas Carlyle’s infamous put-down of economics as the “dismal science” (for economists having the temerity to oppose slavery), it has been popular to disparage economics as a discipline that fosters depression on the one hand and narrow self-interest on the other. Perhaps the two are linked, says the critic. My…
Civilians in America have spent nearly the last two years “hunting” for ammunition so that they can partake in various shooting sports and outdoor activities, and while some may have even felt that the lack of some calibers – not to mention the increasingly high prices – was bad, it fails to come close to what a…
Given Russia’s stature as a near-peer competitor of the United States with interests in regions as far afield from Moscow as Latin America and Africa, one might expect that the Russian navy would have sea power tools similar to that of the United States to project power in support of those interests. While China’s People’s…
Today, Monday, June 27, I will not be posting much if anything until the evening. We are in the process of transitioning content from some of the sites to America First Report, which will become the central hub along with my Substack, personal site, and Rumble channel. I also have another project that is very…