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Comrade Pope backs carbon tax To stem “global warming.” Carbon pricing, via taxes or emissions trading schemes, is used by many governments to make energy consumers pay for the costs of using the fossil fuels that contribute to global warming

Economic Ignoramus in Chief Laurence M. Vance :first: I'm trying to give our president the benefit of the doubt, but he makes it harder and harder everyday to support him.. Everyone needs to keep praying for the president so his decision making skills can improve..

Dear President Trump: Below are seven suggestions which will accelerate your popularity while infuriating your critics and putting them on the defensive at the same time: Pardon all non-violent federal drug offenders. Fire Mike Pompeo and John Bolton. Propose not only another tax cut but...

NO REDS UNDER OUR BEDS AFTER ALL by Eric Margolis Not since the witchcraft hysteria of the Middle Ages have we seen such a display of human idiocy, credulity and absurdist behavior. I refer, of course, to the two-year witch hunt directed against President Donald Trump which hopefully just...

Pentagon Spent $4.6 Million on Lobster Tail and Crab in One Month Chalk it up to use-it-or-lose-it spending. Joe Setyon

It’s so good at such things, says Laurence M. Vance. Entire article here. The problem with these “heartbeat bills,” aside from the hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees that some states have spent defending them, is that the person least likely to want to discover a baby’s...

Donald Trump: Welfare/Warfare Statist Laurence M. Vance Trump proposes a record $4.75 trillion budget. Perhaps the worst thing is that he wants to spend even more on the military than the military is asking for. Good grief.....

Written back when Alito was being confirmed, but raises great questions. Federal Courts and the Growth of Government Power by Ron Paul The Senate hearings regarding the confirmation of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court demonstrated that few in Washington view the Constitution as our...

North Korea Talks Breakdown – Trump Keeps the Empire Happy By Thomas Luongo Gold Goats ‘n Guns Given the trajectory of President Trump’s foreign policy since last year there was little hope of significant movement at this year’s summit with North Korea. Since that first, historic meeting last...

A LONG WAY TO GO FOR DINNER By Eric S. Margolis March 2, 2019 President Donald Trump’s air trip to Vietnam cost taxpayers $5,695,000 just for the president’s flying Taj Mahal. Plus millions more for his retainers, the presidential limo, hotel rooms, meals, security details and only Ho Chi Minh...

Emergencies Do Not Trump the Constitution By Ron Paul Ron Paul Institute February 26, 2019 After Congress rejected President Trump’s request for 5.7 billion dollars for the border wall, the president declared a national emergency at the southern border. Present Trump claims this “emergency”...

Trump is waging four wars on the economy, says David Stockman. A former U.S. budget director under Ronald Reagan has called President Donald Trump an ‘unhinged madman’ and accused him of waging ‘four wars’ on the American economy. David Stockman, who also served as a Republican member of...

3 Things That Trump Just Did Are Absolutely Confounding The Pundits By Michael Snyder End Of The American Dream With President Trump, you should always expect the unexpected. Just when you think that you have Trump all figured out, he will inevitably do something that completely surprises you...

The Last Buick By Eric Peters Eric Peters Autos It hasn’t been announced yet, but Buick won’t be around much longer. It’s already mostly gone. GM just announced the cashiering of the Cascada convertible – after less than three years on the market. This follows on the heels of the cancellation...

Great Expectations New congressional hearings to be run by Larry, Moe, and Curley, says James Howard Kunstler. The #Resistance has been losing bigly in recent days as each new “bombshell” it manufactures turns out only to reveal its modus operandi, which is that the end justifies the means —...

What If They Started a War and No One Showed Up? By Philip Giraldi Strategic Culture The humiliation of United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Warsaw last week was a good thing. The ancient Greeks, exercising their demonstrated ability to synthesize defining characteristics, had a word...

On to Caracas and Tehran! Patrick J. Buchanan on more neocon wars. In the Venezuelan crisis, said President Donald Trump in Florida, “All options are on the table.” And if Venezuela’s generals persist in their refusal to break with Nicolas Maduro, they could “lose everything.” Another example...

Once again, the bitter India-Pakistan dispute in Kashmir endangers the world, says Eric S. Margolis. INDIA AND PAKISTAN RATTLE THEIR NUCLEAR SABRES While Americans were obsessing over a third-rate actor’s fake claims of a racial assault, old foes India and Pakistan were rattling their nuclear...

Why a Judge Ruled the Police Have NO DUTY to Protect Citizens By Martin Armstrong Armstrong Economics February 23, 2019 I have received a number of questions asking how the judge in the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, ruled that the police had no...

Trump's Brazen Unconstitutional Overreach By Andrew P. Napolitano February 21, 2019 Last week, President Donald Trump followed through on a threat he had been making for months. It was not a blistering or insulting tweet. It was not an attack on the press or congressional Democrats. It was an...