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Rand Introduces Six Penny Plan to Balance the Federal Budget in Five Years

Dr. Rand Paul Introduces Six Penny Plan to Balance the Federal Budget in Five Years WASHINGTON, D.C. – Recently, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced his “Six Penny Plan” federal budget that will balance within five years. “Seven years ago, we could balance our budget with a freeze in spending without cutting anything. Since then, our national debt has skyrocketed to over $35...

NIH Director: Fauci Critics 'Must Be Brought To Justice!'

NIH Director: Fauci Critics 'Must Be Brought To Justice!' vn2pbh

OH - Haitian migrants eating cats?

Commercial fishermen land a big one: SCOTUS overturns the "Chevron doctrine"

Supreme Court to consider overruling Chevron doctrine The Supreme Court on Monday announced it will hear a case that could significantly scale back federal agencies’ authority, with major implications for the future of environmental and other regulations. The justices next term will consider whether to overturn a decades-old precedent that grants agencies deference when Congress left...

At RCP Harris takes EC lead and now leads in PA

Harris - 276 Trump - 262 https://www.realclearpolling.com/maps/president/2024/no-toss-up/electoral-college Harris now up 0.1 in PA. In NV leads by 0.9

Anybody running for Senate or Congress

that would be a citizen’s first candidate that can win?

Invasion USA

RELATED (see this post): NYC's immigration woes Chicago's immigration woes NYC Mayor Eric Adams on Illegal Immigrants Arriving in the City: ‘This Is Horrific’ https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/08/08/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-illegals-arriving-city-horrific/ HANNAH BLEAU 8 Aug 2022

Feds raid P. Diddy's homes. He flees the country.

. Sean ‘Diddy' Combs' Holmby Hills mansion raided by Feds.

Meet Dr. Lindsey Doe. She thinks pedophilia is simply another “sexual orientation”

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Hillary says people that spread propaganda and "misinformation" should be prosecuted

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ABC whistleblower says debate was rigged

FL-Second assassination attempt on Trump fails at his Palm Beach golf course

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Reddit Trolls Wall St. Hedge Funds, Buying Up GameStop Stock

GameStop (GME) was expected to go bankrupt, so some Wall St. hedge funds (notably Melvin Capital) put down some serious short sells on their stock. Reddit took notice, and coordinated an attack and have driven the price of Gamestop (GME) up from about $40 a week ago to $209 currently. Some of the firms, notably Melvin Capital, have doubled down and gone to investors for billions in...

Beware Bitcoin Arguments

Not sure this belongs here, so move it if you see fit. I ran across this today: BIG error made at about 3:57 where he asserts that gold could not even keep up with inflation, the larger assertion being that gold has failed as money. To that I call foul. The error lays in his ignoring the fact that gold is no longer either currency or money, but whose market value is stated in terms...

Against Free Trade

For most of my adult life, I was a doctrinaire free trader. As a youthful disciple of Austrian economics, free trade was more than just an economic belief; it was a principle. Like most supporters of free trade, I relied on the fundamentally Ricardian analysis of free trade, which holds that free trade creates positive gain by allowing nations to specialize in areas where they have comparative...

Right-Wing Obtuseness on Immigration

by Jacob G. Hornberger September 11, 2024 A columnist for the Washington Post named Jim Geraghty recently chided me in his column for wanting to “abolish the Border Patrol and ICE and all controls on the free movements of people across borders.” With sarcasm dripping from his keyboard, Geraghty concluded, “I suppose that by declaring it to be legal for everyone to cross the border, you...

Milei Wants More Government Spending — For the Military, of Course

Mises Wire Ryan McMaken 09/17/2024 From day one of his presidency, it has been apparent that Argentina’s President Javier Milei wants the Argentinian regime to be a willing member of the US-NATO axis in international affairs. Milei has demonstrated this with a variety of overtures toward the State of Israel and by his repeated meetings with the dictator of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. ...

Dave Smith / Part of the Problem

I'll endeavor to post each episode of Dave Smith's, Part of the Problem podcast here, going forward. Feel free to discuss/opine.

The 10 Oldest Currencies Still Used Today

SOURCE: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-10-oldest-currencies-still-used-today/

Communism 3.0

Communism 3.0: The Succession of Capitalism and the China Model https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=246obUxmNW8 {New Discourses | 17 September 2024} The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 148 Karl Marx characterized Communism as “the negation of the negation,” which is a peculiar turn of phrase he borrowed from his theoretical predecessor G.W.F. Hegel. What that means is that...

Correcting Misconceptions About The Crusades

Luciano Anastasia's review of my first article on the Crusades "The Crusades, often misunderstood in modern times, were primarily defensive wars initiated in response to centuries of Muslim conquests and the persecution of Christians. These conflicts arose from the need to protect Christian lands, pilgrims, and Eastern Christians from ongoing Muslim aggression. The article emphasizes that...