By Laurence M. Vance
April 25, 2024
In his state of the union address, President Biden expressed his desire for a $400 a month tax credit over two years for first time home buyers. I have argued for years that tax credits are a good thing, and still maintain that they are a good thing. Yet, I am leery of Biden's tax-credit proposal.
Biden's proposal was one of several relating to housing:
I know the cost of housing is so important to you.
By Ryan McMaken
Mises.org
April 25, 2024
Thomas Woods has reminded us more than once that "no matter who you vote for, you get John McCain." It's not strictly and always true, of course, but the evidence is clear that it's often true. The latest example is the GOP's speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) who has turned out more or less exactly like us skeptics have predicted. Johnson is a friend to the war party, a do-nothing on issues important to the rank and file (like immigration), and a true enemy of the people on issues like warrantless spying.
By Doug Casey
April 25, 2024
International Man: What is the role of a justice system in a society, and what should the State have to do with it?
Doug Casey: In my view, what really holds a society together isn't the laws enacted by legislatures or dictators, but peer pressure, social opprobrium, and moral approbation. In general, society is pretty self-regulating. It's why people pay their bills at restaurants even though there's not a cop at the door.
By Boyd D. Cathey
My Corner
April 25, 2024
I found the following article (below) of interest, so I am passing it on. It symbolizes for me, in iconic fashion, another major reason that the millennia-old inherited society around us is collapsing, to be replaced by a monstruous, dystopian Gulag, a counter-reality where our tried-and-true verities are unceremoniously dumped onto the ash heap of history.
By Ryan McMaken
Mises.org
April 24, 2024
During the 2016 and 2020 campaigns, Trump's opponents in the Democratic party (and elsewhere) often pointed out that Trump's protectionism hobbles private markets and the economy overall. Yet, the allegedly anti-protectionist Biden administration has done virtually nothing to end Trump's protectionists policies put in place from 2017 to 2020. The motivation is unclear, but it is possible that the Biden administration realized that protectionism is a useful political tool.
By Walter E. Block
Walter's Newsletter
April 24, 2024
It does not take too much upstairs to see through the Biden administration's rejection of the JetBlue-Spirit Airlines merger. The latter is on the verge of bankruptcy. It is $1.1 billion in debt. It faces the headwinds of a new labor agreement raising pilot pay by 34% and has trouble with its Pratt & Whitney engines. JetBlue offered Spirit a $3.8 billion buyout.
Zork (The) Hun
April 24, 2024
In my last post I promised a more optimistic subject, but then life happened.
A distressing personal event that made positive thinking quite difficult; then I came across an article fitting right into the train of my own thoughts in the past few posts:
Monopoly on Knowledge - A guest post by Dr. Monika Gabriela Bartoszewicz on the John Carter Substack.
The post is superb, please read it.
By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
April 24, 2024
Someone sent me an article from something called Patriot Alerts, "Morgan Stanley Sounds Alarm On 'Death Of US Dollar.'"
The death of the US dollar is not blamed on the Federal Reserve printing trillions of new fiat currency during the years of Quantitative Easing in order to bail out the difficulties of the 5 large banks. It is not blamed on the thoughtless US sanctions imposed on Russia, Iran, and other countries, the only effect of which is to encourage countries to abandon the dollar based system, thus causing a drop in the demand for dollars and US Treasury debt.
By Ron Paul, MD
The Ron Paul Institute
April 23, 2024
When future historians go searching for the final nail in the US coffin, they may well settle on the date April 20, 2024.
On that day Congress passed legislation to fund two and a half wars, hand what's left of our privacy over to the CIA and NSA, and give the US president the power to shut down whatever part of the Internet he disagrees with.
By George F. Smith
April 23, 2024
This article is based on chapter 8 of my book Do Not Consent, 2020
If someone asked you to define "free market," could you? Could you do it on the spot without recourse to dictionaries or other crutches?
The term "laissez-faire economy" might do as a first response. But what does it mean? In Capitalism Ayn Rand explains:
Based on a column in the Los Angeles Times, August 1962.
By Mike Whitney
The Unz Review
April 23, 2024
America last. America last. That's all this is. America last, every single day. - Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene
The man who is most responsible for the $95 billion giveaway to Ukraine and Israel, is the same guy who pretends to oppose America's "wasteful" foreign wars. Donald Trump. It was Trump who consulted with Speaker Mike Johnson about the contents of the Ukraine aid package, just as it was Trump who concocted the idea of issuing loans instead of dispersing the standard welfare handout.
Brèves de crise
Le vote de la Chambre des Représentants autorisant l'aide financière importante des USA à plusieurs pays, et essentiellement (61 $milliards) à l'Ukraine, a été interprété par nombre de commentateurs comme un échec de Trump et, au-delà pour certains, comme "la fin du trumpisme". Témoin en est, pour l'excès dans ce sens, l'intervention sur tweeterX d'un très jeune candidat démocrate à la Chambre pour un district new-yorkais d'ores et déjà acquis au partir démocrate.
France-Soir
Après plus de six mois de tractations, l'aide américaine à l'Ukraine a été adoptée samedi 20 avril 2024 à la Chambre des représentants
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Après plus de six mois de tractations, l'aide américaine à l'Ukraine a été adoptée samedi 20 avril 2024 à la Chambre des représentants. Kiev, mis à mal sur le front, bénéficie d'une tant attendue enveloppe de 60,8 milliards de dollars.
By Karen Kwiatkowski
April 22, 2024
The western media are, above all, phraseologists. Managing massive vertically integrated "states" requires the controlled and targeted use of repetitive government approved language, propaganda, jingoism, repeated phrases to channel thought and energy.
We've seen a lot of "performative" progressivism in recent years - Black Lives Matter and reparations from the Civil War, incessant genderology above the fold, Trump Derangement Syndrome, tomato soup weilding environmental activism, and DEI departments in every company, corporate board, and investment portfolio.
By Milan Adams
Preppgroup
April 22, 2024
Are you a conservative, a libertarian, a Christian or a gun owner? Are you opposed to abortion, globalism, Communism, illegal immigration, the United Nations or the New World Order? Do you believe in conspiracy theories, do you believe that we are living in the "end times"?
If you answered yes to any of those questions, you are a "potential terrorist" according to official U.S.
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Le président de la Chambre des représentants des États-Unis, Mike Johnson, assiste à une conférence de presse au Capitole des États-Unis à Washington, le 16 avril 2024 (photo d'illustration).
Cet article a été initialement publié par RT International.
En rupture spectaculaire avec la ligne défendue par la base conservatrice dure de son parti, Mike Johnson, président de la Chambre des représentants des États-Unis, a loué cette semaine «l'État profond», qualifié la Russie, la Chine et l'Iran «d'axe du mal» et s'est engagé à mettre son poste en jeu afin d'acheminer plus de 60 milliards de dollars à Kiev.
Ouverture libre
• Portrait endiablé des USA à la sauce Kunstler, jamais découragé de remettre en lumière l'exponentielleottise sottise contemporaine américaniste. • ‘Kunstler.com' et ‘Monde Nouveau' en français (traduction Nicolas Bonnal).
« Regardez ce que tous ces patriarches blancs ont construit. Sans salaire. Pendant leur temps libre. Dans l'anonymat. » (Jordan Peterson sur TweeterX).
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La représentante américaine Marjorie Taylor Greene, lors d'une conférence de presse au Capitole des États-Unis le 06 février 2024 à Washington (photo d'illustration).
Cet article a été initialement publié par RT international.
Tout membre du Congrès des États-Unis qui vote pour la fourniture d'une aide de 60 milliards de dollars à Kiev devrait être tenu de s'enrôler dans l'armée ukrainienne, selon https://twitter.com/juliegraceb/status/1780746806692859936|un amendement proposé par une célèbre législatrice républicaine.
By L. Reichard White
April 20, 2024
One of the strongest protections against run-away government was crafted into the Constitution of the American Republic by founder James Madison. It was trial by a jury of twelve of your randomly chosen peers.
The strength of this protection is seriously underrated. Since conviction requires unanimous agreement by the jury, any one of the twelve jurors can block any prosecution by simply voting "not guilty." They can do this based not only on the asserted guilt or innocense of the defendant, but on the validity and acceptability of the law itself.
By Alex Rapoport
April 20, 2024
In spring/summer 2022 a lot of noise was raised because of the words of Russian Foreign Minister Sergej Lavrov who compared current western anti-Russian course to German Fascism. All and sundry stigmatize "dark" Lavrov. Let me start with where Mr. Lavrov is not right. Ways to express and choice of words matters too. "Brevity is the soul of wit." Not everyone has the ability to say in one phrase what requires 2 pages of explanations.