Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 2196

Can Illegal Immigrants Be Deported

Last weekend, President Donald Trump argued that those foreigners who enter the United States unlawfully should simply be taken to the border, escorted across it and let go. According to the president, this would save precious government resources, avoid the business of separating children from their parents and free up the Border Patrol and other federal assets to do their jobs.

He is undoubtedly correct on the beneficial consequences to the government of forced deportation without due proce...

CRISPR Gene Editing

By Dr. Mercola

The discovery of the gene editing method known as CRISPR eventually led to a novel gene editing tool called CRISPR-Cas9, a form of molecular scissors that allows for far more accurate DNA editing for the removal, addition or altering of sections of a DNA sequence. A layman’s explanation of the technology is presented in the video above.

CRISPR is the acronym for clustered regularly interspaced short palindrome repeat, and its function was initially discovered in 1993 by Spani...

What The Government Really Thinks About Gas Mileage

All this hubbub over how much gas cars burn and the government won’t even synchronize traffic lights.

How much gas does that waste?

An interesting study was done by a Stanford University researcher a few years back. Its author – Victor Miller – estimated that the average car needlessly stops – and then goes – about 15 times every day as a result of such things as unsynchronized traffic lights.

When multiplied by the approximate number of cars driven each day in urban/suburban environments – w...

On Imposing One’s Views

Subtracting Christianity, 1979 — I am sometimes asked, when in conversation it transpires that I oppose abortion, whether I am a Catholic.

That this is deemed a pertinent question is a mark of confusion — and of the success of the pro-abortion campaign, which has managed to get an ethical and political problem turned into a credal problem. The result has been to further embitter an already thorny issue.

By now that campaign has popularized the proposition that “when human life begins is essen...

The Drug War Is Pushing More Migrants

Over the last couple of weeks we have been bombarded by news coverage of the US government handling of foreigners illegally crossing the southern border and having their children separated from parents by our government. At first I tried to avoid subjecting myself to this circus, but I have been paying close attention for about a week.

I describe it as a circus because of the hysteria involved. Everyone from the Know- Nothing wing of the Trump party to the ultra-PC progressives, and the liber...

Jared Kushner and the Palestinians’ Right to Happiness

We were wrong to believe that the US project for the Middle East was a peace plan for Palestine. Despite the communications from the White House, this is not what President Trump is seeking. He is approaching this question from a radically different angle than that of his predecessors – not attempting to render Justice between his vassals, as an emperor would, but to unblock the situation in order to improve the daily lives of the populations involved.

The Israëlo-Arab conflict, which was ori...

Only Stupid Countries

“We have to change our ways. We can no longer be the stupid country. We want to be the smart country.” ~ President Donald Trump

“Trade wars are good, and easy to win,” declared President Trump after announcing new tariffs on imported steel and aluminum back in March. This was after he imposed steep tariffs on imported washing machines and solar panels at the beginning of the year. Now Trump is calling for more tariffs on imported Chinese goods.

This should come as no surprise.

Trump’s economi...

Harvard Scholar Explains How America Created Al-Qaeda

It’s truly amazing how much the consciousness of the planet has changed within the past 5 years alone, and it’s not just happening within one topic, but in several different areas ranging from health to geopolitics and everything in-between.

People are really starting to wake up and see through the mass amounts of propaganda and lies we are continuously fed via the mainstream media, with regards to global events and other major areas that surround all aspects of humanity.

Known as “the father...

The Politics of Obedience: A Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

The mere existence of this book is amazing. It is hard to believe that any writer in 16th century France would write an essay against tyranny, including the existence of royalty but the work exists. It was lost for centuries but discovered, later translated and now available in book and ebook form.

This edition from 1975 has an introduction by Murray Rothbard which is almost as long as the work itself. It is occasionally discussed in libertarian circles. The odds are the reader of this review...

Revealed: The Towering NSA ‘Spy Hubs’ Hidden in Plain Sight in Cities Across

The National Security Agency is using internet data processing centers run by telecommunications powerhouse AT&T to spy on American and foreign citizens, a new investigation claims.

The Intercept has identified eight AT&T facilities across the United States which are allegedly being used by the NSA to monitor internet users’ emails, social media posts and internet browsing.

The centers are known as ‘peering’ facilities’ and processes data from both AT&T customers and those of other U.S. inter...