Thanksgiving: Giving Thanks in Times of Trouble
While many Americans are distraught by the current situation of their country and the world, they can find comfort in the fact that good people have suffered through and overcome hardships...
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Leftist Advances in Latin America Now Include Colombia
On June 19, Colombia became the latest in a string of Latin American countries to elect radical leftist governments in recent months, following in the footsteps of Chile, Peru, and Honduras...
Biden Revives TPP With New Indo-Pacific Trade Agreement
In his relentless quest to undo everything accomplished by his presidential predecessor, Joe Biden has taken another major step backwards: resuscitating the former Trans-Pacific Partnership trading bloc (TPP), which President Trump...
World Economic Forum — More Globalism to Solve “Global” Problems
The World Economic Forum 2022 is underway in its traditional venue in Davos, Switzerland. Two and a half years into the Covid-19 pandemic, the annual confab of international corporate, financial, and...
Biden Strikes Again Against U.S. Energy Production
In yet another militantly irrational move, the Biden administration has cancelled one of America's largest pending oil and gas lease sales. ...
Central Bank Digital Currencies: Say Goodbye to Financial Privacy
In a new study carried out by the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), the central bankers’ central bank headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, an overwhelming majority of the world’s central banks indicated...
Shanghai’s Extreme Lockdown Policy Creating Untold Human Misery
As once-proud Shanghai, China’s largest, wealthiest, and most cosmopolitan city, enters its second month of near-total citywide lockdown, Chinese authorities are hardening their response to the apparently unstoppable Omicron outbreak by...
Shanghai Now Under Severe Covid Lockdown
While world attention is riveted on Ukraine, another great crisis is building in the People’s Republic of China. For more than a week, the entire city of Shanghai has been on...
Calls for New World Security System Arise From Ukraine War
Among the many conflicting narratives emerging from the fog of the Ukraine war is the future of the “world security system.” Frustrated by the reluctance of Western countries, including the United...
Citing Coronavirus, China Locks Down Wenzhou and Its 9 Million People
In an ominous new development, the Chinese government has locked down the city of Wenzhou, China’s 15th largest, a growing sign that the coronavirus outbreak is defying efforts of the Chinese...
Quarantine and Wuhan: Government Power in Times of Epidemic
The story of the Wuhan coronavirus, so far, is a cautionary tale of the dangers of government power in times of epidemic. ...
Another Step Toward Auditing the Federal Reserve
Representative Thomas Massie kicked off the legislative New Year on January 3 with H.R. 24, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act. ...
Thanksgiving and the Blessings of Liberty
Although many holidays have broad international appeal, Thanksgiving — arguably America’s second-favorite holiday after Christmas — is celebrated only in the United States and Canada. What originated as a sort of...
Establishment Conservatives Now Hoping for Democratic Takeover in November
Many establishment conservatives — some of them former Republicans — are now rooting for the Democrats in the fall elections. Is it anti-Trump derangement or showing their true colors? ...
What Happens When Republics Fall?
The very institutions that republics so painstakingly maintain to maximize the liberty of their citizens and the stability of their body politic are susceptible to perversion into instruments of tyranny. ...