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Tax All Data Leaving the EU! The forever befuddled looking French president Hollande, the most unpopular French president on record , ha...

Trotskyites, Eugenicists,  Malthusians and Lysenkoists are still going strong By Jonathan Abbott There is a type of person that needs...

Seems as though the normal times are never coming back by Patrick J. Buchanan   The first reports in early May of 1960 were that a U....

Political Extortion Racket by Pater Tenebrarum A little while ago we discussed ' crony capitalism ' (as one of our readers ...

United Nations Death Panel One of the most startling news stories of the season is the dispatch on page one of the New York Times war...

The economy is more like a cat than a washing machine By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Several years before the financial crisis descended...

Not if they understand the difference between law and legislation By  ROBERT P. MURPHY A silly episode on Facebook recently undersco...

There is hardly a soul left on Earth that experienced life without the gargantuan state by James E. Miller In France, Minister for Ene...

Racist vandals, run-of-the-mill vandals and thought-crimes by Wendy Kaminer   In America, if you decorate your house with anti-Semit...

Public Buses Adding Microphones To Record Conversations By Mike Krieger Believe it or not   the article   itself is actually a lot w...

Efforts to manage runaway hyper-complexity with more complexity are guaranteed to fail by James H. Kunstler In these climax years of ...

A Collective Pining for More Inflation by Pater Tenebrarum The John Law school of economics remains alive and well. A recent article ...

The Not-So-Wild, Wild West By  Thomas J. DiLorenzo   In a thorough review of the “West was violent” literature, Bruce Benson (1998) d...

Superman is unimpressed by what Everyman wants by  Anthony de Jasay ... a service is profitable if Everyman, the businessman and the ...

Thought is long overdue. So is honesty.   By Thomas Sowell Years ago, someone said that, according to the laws of aerodynamics, bumbl...

"Elites' strange plot to take over the world."  By Anthony Wile An article in  Salon  was recently brought to our atten...

No world power has more to lose from instability in the Middle East than does China By Spengler  English-language media completely ig...

Down the road, the partition of Syria, might be the best and the most humane path to stabilizing the country By Victor Kotsev  With ...

Getting to the bottom is good in one sense: the only way is up. By Steen Jakobsen I’ve been starting my speeches for some time now b...

Government’s violent treatment of citizens has become generalized and unremarkable by  Angelo M. Codevilla Increasingly, the US gove...