The trade deal with Great Britain, unveiled last Thursday, was a definite step in the right direction, but the next steps for the U.S. should take us closer to going all the way to full free trade with the U.K. Dr. Stephen Meyer, Director of Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, has been arguing for this for decades, going back to when he was a graduate student in the philosophy of science at Cambridge University Read More ›
An agreement between the world's largest and fifth-largest economies will create a huge free trade zone, benefiting businesses and spurring growth on both sides of the Atlantic. Read More ›
In air combat over enemy territory, when the fighter plane encounters flak, the pilot knows he is over the target. The American people can be sure that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) that was reactivated by Trump is over the target. Read More ›
Trump is mistaken if he thinks that the restructuring of TikTok can be pulled off quickly, given the risk of residual backdoors to China that are likely baked into the system. Everyone understands that Facebook harvests data from users' devices even when they are not on the Facebook site. According to Sam Faddis, a 20-year veteran of the CIA, TikTok is four to five times more intrusive than Facebook in harvesting data from Americans who have downloaded the TikTok app. Read More ›
President Wilson enacted the Federal Reserve Act in 1913. This allowed a consortium of private bankers to establish what amounted to a central bank monopoly currency issuer in the United States — although they took great pains to deny that was the goal. The Federal Reserve was never part of the government. It was the fourth attempt by private bankers to establish a monopoly currency issuer in the United States. Read More ›
The Great Depression got started with the passage of the Smoot Hawley Tariff in the United States, by the Republican Party, which immediately set off a cascade of retaliatory tariffs worldwide. This alone did not cause the Great Depression, but it did cause the initial downturn. This was followed by a long string of bad decisions in reaction to that downturn, such as Republican Herbert Hoover's 1932 tax increase which took the top income tax rate from 25% to 63%. Read More ›