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Wednesday, April 2, 2025
 
 
Trump’s “Liberation Day” Tariffs are a Mistake
Connor O’Keeffe
President Trump has declared “Liberation Day” as new tariffs take effect—gambling that Americans won’t mind higher prices or that supply and demand will not apply.
 
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Who Owns the Gold?
George Ford Smith
With people calling for an audit of the US gold stores at Fort Knox, perhaps we should remember how that gold got there in the first place. Franklin Roosevelt’s theft of gold from the American people is a crime that still needs to be rectified.
 
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Military as Engine of Social Change
 
In this 1994 talk, Allan Carlson reveals how war became a tool for reshaping American family, culture, and identity.
 
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Obedience to Authority
 
Why even the most compassionate people can conduct themselves in abhorrent ways when they are obedient to authority.
 
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Federal Spending in 2025 Is on Track to be the Highest Ever
For the first five months of the 2025 fiscal year, federal spending is coming in at the highest level ever. This is true even when we adjust for CPI inflation.
 
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Tariffs Are an Attack on Natural Rights
The British opponents of the Corn Laws rightly understood that tariffs and other restrictions on trade are violations of fundamental natural rights.
 
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Tariffs as Welfare-State Economics
Logic and ethics do not change just because we cross an invisible judicial line. The pro-tariff person should face the implications of his position.
 
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The Corrupt Political Influence on Military Intelligence
 
Political agendas—not facts—shape the road to war.
 
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Open Borders are an Assault on Private Property
 
Whether illegal immigration from Mexico and Central America, or birthright citizenship, or migrants coming from the Middle East and Africa, the subject of immigration is an issue fraught with potentially perilous consequences. So it is especially important to understand it correctly.
 
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