A rocket attack near a base housing American forces in northern Iraq killed a US-led coalition contractor and wounded at least eight other people on Monday night. A US service member and two civilians were among the injured in the 9:30 p.m. strike in between the Irbil international airport in the semi-autonomous Kurdish-run territory and […]
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The Lincoln Project was launched in late 2019 by a group of high-profile Republicans with the mission to defeat Donald Trump. It went on to raise nearly $90 million for the effort, more than half of which flowed to firms controlled by its various founders, says USA Today. Its sole mission was to story Trump and his followers. At […]
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The Biden administration is working with congressional committees to allow intelligence agencies to “target” American citizens as terrorists, Sebastian Gorka, host of the America First radio show, warned on Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow. Gorka stated, “I was informed yesterday by a private citizen that the Biden administration — and this comes on […]
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by Dan Mitchell, reproduced with permission. I’ve already shared some politician humor and some socialism humor in 2021, so it’s time to complete the trifecta with a new edition of communism humor. We’ll start with some gallows humor about the link between communism and famine. As far as I can tell, the fad of millennials eating Tide pods has gone away, but […]
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By Dan Mitchell The economic disintegration of Venezuela is a powerful example how socialism fails. Even in a nation with massive oil wealth. This video from Reason tells the tragic story. I think long-run data is especially valuable when assessing a nation’s economic performance. And Venezuela definitely looks terrible when looking at decades of data on per-capita economic output. Especially when compared to a pro-market nations such as Chile. Not that we should be […]
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(BPT) – As we age, we begin to learn – sometimes firsthand – how devastating a fall can be. It isn’t quite as easy as it once was to hop back up and continue on our way. Each year, more than one in four Americans aged 65 and over experience a fall, which contributes to […]
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This is a pre-pandemic video but we’re sure the situation is even worse now. There’s an epidemic of loneliness stretching across the world. Self reliance shouldn’t mean toughing it out and going it alone because you’re widowed, or solo. Let’s remember we must help those who can’t always help themselves. Even if it’s only a […]
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Originally published in the Daily Caller, by Bob Barr, with permission. If there was perhaps one mistake our Founders made in drafting the Constitution, it was presuming that future members of the Legislative Branch would be sufficiently competent to actually read the document to which they all had sworn an oath. It is, however, increasingly clear […]
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Jeremy Grantham, co-founder and chief investment strategist of Boston’s GMO, believes U.S. stocks have become an epic bubble and will burst in a collapse rivaling the crashes of 1929 and 2000. In this interview, he explains why, discusses the futility of Federal Reserve policy, criticizes the state of American capitalism, and shares his thoughts on […]
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This message was sent to all Alzheimer’s Association and Alzheimer’s Impact Movement board members, all Alzheimer’s Association staff, and volunteers and supporters of AIM and the Alzheimer’s Association. Last week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) heard the heart-wrenching personal stories of individuals whose lives have been devastated by Alzheimer’s disease. The Alzheimer’s Association worked […]