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Biden’s ‘Nighttime in America’ State of the Union

Last week President Biden delivered a dark and angry speech meant to convince the low percentage of Americans who still feel positive about his presidency that everything is fine and will only get better if he is re-elected for a second term.

Unfortunately we have come a long way from the optimism of a Ronald Reagan, who won a second term partially on the popularity of his “Morning in America” campaign commercials. Reagan was far from a perfect president, but it was that sense of optimism in oth...

Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address

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Gold — Catch It if You Can

Gold and silver surged this week on a sudden increase in demand. In European trade this morning, gold was $2167, a new record and up $85 from last Friday’s close, while silver at $24.49 was up $1.18. Comex volumes in both contracts were heavy, but the startling increase was in gold’s Open Interest, which has surged by 100,000 contracts since 20 February:

Comex deliveries have also soared. In the four days of this week so far, 1,056 gold contracts have stood for delivery, making the total this ...

Liberty, Strategy, and Culture

Creating ideas is easy – getting other people to accept those ideas is much harder. All movements struggle with overcoming this challenge, and Libertarianism is no exception. In characteristic fashion, Libertarians have produced a trove of literature on the subject of political strategy. Opinions abound on how a free society might be achieved, and prominent Libertarians have even changed their views on the subject over time. Murray Rothbard first allied with left-wing movements in the 1960s, onl...

Germany and NATO Caught Red-Handed in War Planning

German military leaders may have bungled foolishly over their private discussions regarding operational plans against Russia. However, the security of their incompetent communication – while laughable – does not lessen the seriousness of what was being discussed.

Lt. General Ingo Gerhartz and his aides were earnestly weighing up the technical and propaganda means by which to strike Russia with long-range ballistic missiles. In short, a NATO member was caught red-handed hatching an act of war aga...

Can Americans Have Hope?

I suspect that some of my readers are getting worn down by the continuing refusal of our rulers and manipulators to acknowledge any truth. I myself get worn down. Tucker Carlson’s interview with Steve Kirsch reveals that it is impossible in the medical world to speak the truth. The top doctors and medical research scientists cannot state the truth about the Covid mNRA “vaccine” and childhood vaccination without losing their jobs and becoming a nonperson.

What this means is that the medical profe...

Covid Showed Us Who Really Rules America

This month marks the fourth anniversary of one of the most disastrous assaults on human rights in American history. It was on March 16, 2020 that the President Trump issued “guidelines” for “15 days to slow the spread” which stated that “Governors of states with evidence of community transmission should close schools in affected and surrounding areas.” The administration instructed all members of the public to “listen to and follow the directions of your state and local authorities.”

It was at t...

Did ‘Toria’ Jump…or Was She Pushed?

The sudden retirement announcement by State Department Deputy Secretary for Political Affairs Victoria “Toria” Nuland earlier this week left many US foreign policy watchers – your author included – trying to read the tea leaves to see what was actually going on.

There are plenty of theories and speculations as to what motivated someone like Nuland – whose entire professional career seemed to hinge on getting this proxy war on Russia started  – to suddenly pack it in and pull out of the game, mid...

Dissecting Lincoln

Thomas DiLorenzo, the president of the Mises Institute, has already reviewed Paul C. Graham’s Nonsense on Stilts: The Gettysburg Address and Lincoln’s Imaginary Nation (Shotwell Publishing, 2024) in characteristically excellent fashion, but the book is so insightful that some further comments are warranted. It is clear that Graham has a philosophical turn of mind and is a master of linguistic analysis.

His skill is amply on display in his dissection of Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address, ...

Sick, and Sick of It All

Sometimes it takes our bodies to return us to our souls.  And our little pains to remind us of the indescribable pain of the savage killing and dismemberment of innocent children and adults in Gaza and many other places by U.S. weapons produced in clean factories by people just doing their jobs and collecting their pay at “defense” contractors Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Pfizer, etc.  Abstraction is the name of the game as human bodies are torn to pieces “over there” and the obscene profits are t...