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The Nicole Shanahan Announcement and RFK’s Route to the White House

When John F. Kennedy chose his running mate in 1960, he was not in the ideological check-the-box business. He was in the race to win, and to do that he needed the 26 electoral votes of Texas and to retain as many of the 101 electoral votes in the rest of the historic “Solid South” as possible.

Needless to say, leading Democrat contenders for the VP nod like Senators Hubert Humphrey and Henry Jackson or Minnesota Governor Orville Freeman checked the liberal boxes with fying colors. But when it ca...

Preventing a Nuclear War

Anti-Russia and anti-China rhetoric is driving the western alliance towards all-out war against them. Increasingly, the only way an ultimate nuclear conflict can be avoided is either for the dollar-based fiat currency regime to destroy itself, or to be given a helping hand by its enemies. Either way, gold is certain to be central to the evolution of these rapidly evolving events and their outcome.

Gearing up for a wider conflict

While it hasn’t been officially declared, to all intents the US wit...

Boyd’s Bounty Brings Boom -Time Bucks

Pattie Boyd, British fashion model and muse to two rock superstars, George Harrison and Eric Clapton, engaged Christie’s to auction love letters from Harrison and Clapton in addition to other memorabilia.

As with all other assets these days, Boyd’s bounty went for boom-time prices. Chron.com reports, “Christie’s, the world-renowned auction house, said its online sale of The Pattie Boyd Collection sold for around 2.82 million pounds ($3.6 million), or more than seven times the pre-sale high estim...

Self-Ownership and the Right to Self-Defense

Self-defense is an ancient common law right under which necessary and reasonable force may be used to defend one’s person or property. As Sir Edward Coke expressed it in 1604: “The house of every one is to him as his Castle and Fortress as well for defence against injury and violence . . . if thieves come to a man’s house to rob him, or murder, and the owner or his servants kill any of the thieves in defense of himself and his house, it is no felony, and he shall lose nothing.”

The meaning of re...

Serfdom Under the TSA

By now, I’m sure that most Americans have their own personal stories about TSA abuse. The U.S. government’s takeover of airport security after the 9/11 attacks has made flying an unpleasant experience.

This past weekend, I was flying back to Virginia. A TSA agent took my carry-on suitcase aside and opened it up. She then pulled out a container of talcum powder. She spent around 5 minutes intensely examining it and then testing it. Up to that point, it was simply a matter relating to the talcum p...

Majority of Americans Would Not Serve in Event of Another World War

The majority of Americans say that another world war is at least somewhat likely to break out in the next 10 years, but most say they would not enlist to serve in combat or non-combatant roles if the United States were to be involved.

A new YouGov poll revealed that 22% of Americans believe it’s ‘very likely’ that there will be another world war within the next five to 10 years; 39% say it’s ‘somewhat likely.’ Broken down politically, one-third of Republicans believe it’s ‘very likely’ that ther...

The Empire Slowly Suffocates Assange Like It Slowly Suffocates All Its Enemies

The British High Court has ruled that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may potentially get a final appeal against extradition to the United States, but only within a very limited scope and only if specific conditions are met.

The court ruled that Assange may appeal only on the grounds that his freedom of speech might be restricted in the US, and that there is a possibility he could receive the death penalty. If the US provides “assurances” that neither of these things will happen, then the trial...

Study: These 3 Supplements Boost Your Heart Health

A December 2022 paper1 analyzed 884 clinical trials and 27 micronutrients to determine the nutrients that have the biggest impact on heart health. The focus on heart disease is important since it continues to be the leading cause of death in the U.S.2

Cardiovascular disease is a term that encompasses several types of conditions, many of which are related to atherosclerosis. In this condition, there’s a buildup of plaque along the walls of the artery which makes it more difficult for blood to flo...

The West’s Technofeudalism Versus the BRICS Growth Forecast

You’ll find an important Russia-India story on page 28 of the Google News results, to care about what’s really happening between the two BRICS nations. Many reading this may not know that India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Vladimir Putin on his re-election as the President of the Russian Federation and announced the deepening of a strategic partnership between the two countries. Russia and India – strategic partners – isn’t that page one New York Times stuff? Well, no.

Naturally,...

Abortion for Libertarians

Our libertarian non-agreement on abortion is a vacuity. Applying either the libertarian non aggression principle or general morals to resolve the conflict between a woman’s bodily rights and the life of a fetus bewilder us. Both of their rights are infringed. There are no convenient answers so we spare ourselves the labor of thinking and ignore the issue. Political Libertarians say that it would split the party and it never comes up at meetings. Libertarian sites or books are silent.

The major p...