powered by Surfing Waves In 1937, Boris Orman was working at a bakery in Russia when he shared a joke over tea with his colleague. “Stalin was out swimming, but he began to drown. A peasant who was passing by jumped in and pulled him safely to shore,” the joke went, according to British writer Jonathan Waterlow. “Stalin asked the peasant what he would like as a reward. Realising whom he had saved, the peasant cried out: ‘Nothing! Just please don’t tell anyone I saved you!’” The joke is hardly the funniest eve…
powered by Surfing Waves Ukraine insane, inflation, wokeism, endless money printing: bestselling author Richard Maybury joins today's Liberty Report to discuss how the enemies of liberty have used the public school system to advance their agenda...and how liberty can make a comeback. Today on the Liberty Report: * Originally published at the Ron Paul Institute PUBLISH WITH US! The Washington Gazette works at our discretion with businesses, non-profits, and other organizations. We do not work with socialis…
powered by Surfing Waves Yesterday, I wrote about the deaths of 46 immigrants, who died of dehydration in the back of a tractor-trailer in Texas. The immigrants had illegally entered the United States. They were being illegally transported when they died in the back of that tractor-trailer. As I wrote yesterday, those deaths are a direct consequence of the federal government’s system of immigration controls. If people were free to enter the United States as normal human beings, there wouldn’t be a black market …
powered by Surfing Waves There are many bad explanations for inflation. I address some of them here . So let’s explore some better ones. They aren’t iron-clad, but they make sense in terms of basic economic theory. As always, the place to start is the equation of exchange: MV=PQ, where M is the money supply, V the velocity of circulation (the number of times, on average, the same dollar is spent on goods and services), P is the price level, and Q is real (inflation-adjusted) output. The equation of ex…
powered by Surfing Waves Reprinted from Law & Liberty In a Supreme Court term of many consequential decisions, Carson v. Makin stands out for its likely enduring legal and political effects. In Carson , which was handed down on Tuesday, the Court held that Maine could not prevent parents from using its tuition assistance for rural residents at sectarian religious schools. As Chief Justice Roberts said, a “State need not subsidize private education. But once a State decides to do so, it cannot d…
powered by Surfing Waves Global warming is real, and it is a problem. But how big of a problem? According to some, humanity’s very existence seems to be at stake. When our responses to global warming snap like a rubber band, warns economist Paul Krugman, “then the megadeaths will begin,” a claim he says, is not hyperbole, just realism. A popular book warns of an uninhabitable earth . And United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has used his bully pulpit to inform us that we are “firmly on trac…
powered by Surfing Waves Ron Paul was a strong proponent in the United States House of Representatives of ending the US government’s war on doctors who prescribe pain medication and on their patients who rely on the medication to relieve pain. This war has been a subset of the larger war on drugs and one that is in many ways easier to fight than taking on actual drug-running organizations that use stealth and violence as tools of the trade. In a House floor speech on July 7, 2004 in favor of his bill amendment…
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