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When America’s free-market system got converted to a welfare-state, regulated-economy system, the idea was that the federal government would operate as a parent taking care of his adult-children. The free market system — that is, a system free of government control...
The aim of the Cold War-era U.S. economic embargo against Cuba is to bring regime change to Cuba by inflicting death and impoverishment on the Cuban people, especially in conjunction with Cuba’s socialist economic system. The idea is that if enough Cubans are dying or...
Out-of-control federal spending. Decades-long monetary debasement. A never-ending violent and corrupt drug war. A perpetual deadly and destructive war on terrorism. A mind-destroying educational system. Bankrupt socialist welfare programs, including Social Security...
For some 140 years, the United States did not have an Espionage Act. It didn’t come into existence until 1917, when U.S. officials used it to punish Americans who had the audacity to question the U.S. intervention into World War I, an intervention that ultimately led...
Both conservatives and progressives are lamenting the soaring prices in the American economy. Not surprisingly, many of them are blaming the problem on Covid and, of course, on Russia. If only Covid hadn’t hit and if only Russia hadn’t invaded Ukraine, everything in...