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Alan Greenspan, who died on Monday, is being remembered largely for his time as chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 through 2006. In that position, Greenspan played a critical role in advancing the American state. But, it is also important to remember that, about 20 years before he became...
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4 days ago
On Thursday, the justices of the United States Supreme Court unanimously concluded in deciding the case of United States v. Hemani that the US government violates the Second Amendment of the Constitution in enforcing a prohibition on people owning or possessing guns merely because those individuals also use marijuana. Further,...
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8 days ago
The norm in America used to be for one parent to stay home, looking after the home and children. Over time, that situation has increasingly become uncommon as economic pressure has pushed both parents to hold full-time jobs. A new report from the Pew Research Center indicates that an American...
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9 days ago
United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth likes to be referred to by the title secretary of war. Given his answer to a question at a Wednesday press conference at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida, it may make sense for Hegseth to add a word to his preferred title...
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16 days ago
The Israel government has done a lot to earn dislike through bringing death and destruction on a vast scale. People are seeing Israel’s attacks in the last few years on Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, and beyond as using destructive force that is not just defensive and focused on military targets. General...
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21 days ago
On Thursday, I wrote about the United States military’s continuing campaign of blowing up small boats, and killing their occupants in the process, in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea. The so-called justification for this killing spree is to win, or at least make headway in, the war on drugs....
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25 days ago
Suppose a Latin American nation’s military kept blowing up private American small boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean, killing nearly all the United States citizens on them in the process. The Donald Trump administration and a horde of US Congress members would be shouting about terrorism and supporting...
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30 days ago
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) took a significant step in reducing the scope and harm of the US government’s war on marijuana when they jointly announced in April the immediate easing of some aspects of marijuana prohibition under US law. The changes include...
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1 month ago
Remember Moderna? It is one of the United States government preferred companies that made big money off the vehement push for virtually every person in America to take their experimental coronavirus “vaccine” shots promoted under the deceptive description of “safe and effective.” With that grab for profits having largely petered...
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1 month ago
Investing is generally understood to be about seeking to preserve and grow wealth. But the Texas government seems to be making an exception to that understanding in buying the bonds of the Israel government and enabling other government entities in Texas to do so as well. In February, Acting Comptroller...
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1 month ago
In September of last year, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo boldly announced that the Florida Department of Health that he runs, along with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, would be working to eliminate all vaccine mandates in the state. While Ladapo said some mandates would be eliminated by the state health...
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1 month ago
When Javier Milei won election to the presidency of Argentina in November of 2023, I wrote that he was acting to “move forward enthusiastically in his support of the United States government and the wars of Ukraine and Israel.” Israel, I further noted, “is a nation upon which he has...
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2 months ago
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