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NAFTA 2018: Free Trade or Central Planning?

Those of us who support real free trade must not let supporters of the USMCA get away with claiming the USMCA has anything to do with free trade. We must also fight the forces of protectionism that are…

Is Ron Paul About To Be Proven Right… Again? A 50% Market Decline & No Way To Stop It

There is no possible way that our debt bubble can continue to grow much faster than the overall economy indefinitely.  In fact, we have already been defying the laws of economics for way too long.

University Lecturer Under Fire For Saying Muslims Commit Terror Attacks

Blackburn has deactivated his Twitter account, but that isn’t enough for the slavering academic mob – they want his head, just as they want the head of anyone and everyone who dares to say anything that even comes…

On The Kavanaugh Confirmation: One Of These Things Is Just Like The Other

In all reality it shouldn’t matter, nor should we care who is on the Supreme Court. Their job is not to make law but to uphold the Constitution, period. The fact that the nomination of a Supreme Court…

Abbas Gives Hamas Ultimatum: Give PA Full Control Of Gaza By End Of The Month, Or Suffer The Consequences

If Hamas doesn’t meekly surrender power, which is unlikely, could this escalate beyond stopping the payment of salaries to Hamas clerks? Of course it could.

The Retail Apocalypse Picks Up Speed: Sears, JCPenney, Brookstone & Mattress Firm Spiral Toward Bankruptcy

Things are not getting better for the U.S. economy. We continue to see numbers that we have not seen since the last recession, and it appears that things will continue to deteriorate as we head into 2019.

DNC Co-Chair Congressman Keith Ellison & Michigan Candidates Top 2017-18 Terror-Funded Money List

Rep. Keith Ellison (Democratic congressman from Minnesota) is number two on the list, and the top national candidate. Long an Islamist money favorite with a lifetime total of $227,473 in contributions, Ellison has raked in $28,030 from Islamists so…