"Free trade results in giving our money, our manufactures, and our markets to other nations," warned the Republican Senator from Ohio and future President William McKinley in 1892..."
Hong Kong's unpopular chief executive C.Y. Leung, nicknamed "the wolf" by detractors, has one Lunar New Year's request for his city's people:
Be more like sheep.
The ideological movement that calls itself neoconservative is small, potent, and extremely dangerous. Oh, and its members don't like lewrockwell.com, either.
Jonathan Barth (postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Political Thought and Leadership at Arizona State) on Money and Empire in Early America - Dahr Jamail (Investigative Journalist) reports on Obama's war with Syria, Middle East, etc...
This is a topic which I have purposely avoided writing about in any detail for quite some time; only due to recent feedback here, it seems it best that I clarify my views.
From the YouTube description
"What you hear in this video is from the audiobook of "The Iron Web," a novel I wrote years ago. (The printed book and audiobook are at www.LarkenRose.com).
On Memorial Day weekend, scores of thousands of bikers arrived here for their annual Rolling Thunder tribute to America’s veterans, especially those lost in our wars or left behind.
There were some five million inhabitants in over a thousand cities and settlements that traded extensively with each other. Cities were well planned with dockyards, granaries, places of worship, and public baths. Their architectural skills produced w
"Nearly every election cycle, a poll comes out suggesting that many Americans, and a big chunk of swing voters, think of themselves as “fiscally conservative but socially liberal,” and therefore possibly open to libertarian candidates who want to pol
The Internet is full of stories about politicians acting badly and doing the opposite of what they promised. Talk radio is full of the same things, all day, every day. Even around office water coolers, almost everyone will admit that politicians are
Well played. The bigger problem for progressives, however, is that libertarianism has grown far larger than any billionaire's money. So you have to do still more to kill the movement. At the very least that means using heaping helpings of intellectu
I’m obviously no fan of politicians, but I also like to give credit where it is due. I did pick up one very valuable lesson from a politician, something that contributed substantially to my life.