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It is often forgotten, but Hoover was a political philosopher. He first outlined his political philosophy in 1922 in "American Individualism." In 1934, in response to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, Hoover wrote "The Challenge to Liberty."Both "American Individualism" and "The Challenge to Liberty" were a defense of what Hoover called the “American System,” or constitutionalism. In "American Individualism," Hoover hailed the principle of equality of opportunity or the “fair chance of Abraham Lincoln,” which reflected his own life story. Hoover argued that it was the American system of liberty that allowed an individual to advance. Orphaned at an...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Paying a visit to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a puzzled Governor Tim Walz asked the guard why he bothered staying with his fallen comrade instead of just deserting him. "Who cares about some no-name soldier?" asked Walz, laughing jovially. "Isn't there something else you'd rather be doing?" Onlookers reported that Walz followed the guard at the Tomb back and forth for about half an hour, dumbstruck at why he wouldn't quit and go home. "Come on, what do we owe this dead guy? It's hot outside in this suit," said Walz as the guard remained...

On Friday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) stated that 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris “did what she was supposed to do” with her assignment on the border. Garamendi said, “I think she has a very, very good argument to make on the border. This border czar issue is just incorrect. She was given a very specific task of dealing with the Central American countries. She got about $5 billion into those countries and a very, very significant reduction in the number of asylum seekers leaving those countries. So, in that sense, she did...

Members of the media were caught off guard today and expressed confusion after seeing a presidential candidate standing in front of cameras and answering questions. The incident occurred today at the Mar-a-Lago resort estate of former President Donald Trump, where the media gathered in dumbfounded silence and stared in bewilderment at an actual presidential candidate standing right in front of them and answering their questions. "What… what strange practice is this?" one journalist was heard asking as he observed the surreal event of Trump answering a reporter's question. "Let me get this straight… this guy is running for president, and...

The campaign for the presidency overflowed for months with dark ruminations about the furies to be unleashed should the other side win: World War III, another Great Depression and even the possible ascent of a dictator. Into this season of gloom, enters a onetime high school teacher, football coach and corn dog lover, who has introduced a revolutionary alternative — joy. “Thank you for bringing back the joy,” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said to Vice President Kamala Harris, as the two made their first appearance this week as the new Democratic ticket for the White House. If he won his...

Over 76,000 people have been evacuated from Russia's Kursk region, the local emergency ministry said. Russia evacuates 76,000 people from its border region of Kursk as Ukrainian troops advance into its territory in the largest incursion on Russian soil since the full-scale invasion in February 2022. Russia's Ministry of Defence released footage on Saturday showing what it claims to be tanks, troops and artillery systems deployed to the country's western region of Kursk in a bid to fight off Ukrainian armed forces that stormed the area early this week. The Kremlin released other footage claimed to show helicopters, fighter jets...

Recently, Kamala Harris is holding her own in Presidential polls. If those polls are true (more on that in a minute), it’s not because of who she is or what she’s done. It’s because the media—her PR team—is flooding the airwaves in her favor and against Trump. However, there’s another zone that Republicans can flood. Regarding the polls, you must take presidential polls not with a grain of salt but with many a grain, even the polls that show Trump ahead. Most of these polls are not valid for a variety of reasons. The key reason is that it is...

“Tim Walz is the man who’s very freakish, he’s very freakish,” Trump said during the event in Bozeman, Mont., just hours after his plane was diverted due to a mechanical issue. “If Comrade Walz and Comrade [Vice President] Harris win this November, the people cheering will be the pink-haired Marxists, the looters, the perverts, the flag-burners, Hamas supporters, drug dealers, gun grabbers and human traffickers,”

Tucker Carlson has been talking for a while now, about the parallels/similarities of how the CIA and Intelligence Community targeted Richard Nixon and how the same group targets Donald Trump almost 50 years later. In this interview with Geoff Shepard, Tucker Carlson discusses, “newly unearthed documents showing Watergate was a scam from start to finish.” Geoff Shepard saw it happen walks through the story with Carlson. Geoff Shepard’s documentary, “Watergate Secrets and Betrayals,” is available at the link here: https://watergatesecret.com WATCH:

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz rallied a packed arena outside Phoenix, Arizona, on Friday – drawing perhaps the largest Democratic crowd of the election cycle this year. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, her running mate and the local leaders who joined them on stage whipped up the crowd, discussing immigration, abortion rights and Indigenous sovereignty. Noting the Indigenous leaders in the room, Harris also said: “I will always honor tribal sovereignty and respect tribal self-determination.” Indigenous voters are credited with helping deliver Arizona to Joe Biden in 2020; the state is home to 22 federally recognized tribes. At one point...

On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” co-host Brianna Keilar — who, on Thursday, stated that 2024 Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance’s (R-OH) actual title “kind of gives you a different impression” that he saw combat and thus, he might be “an imperfect messenger” to criticize 2024 Democratic vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz (D) — said that “the Trump campaign is swiftboating Tim Walz.

Richard Nixon, America’s 37th President, resigned his office on August 9, 1974, in the wake of the Watergate scandal. Considering the 50th anniversary of Nixon’s resignation on August 9, 2024, Geoff Shepard, a Nixon White House official and the youngest lawyer to serve on Nixon’s Watergate defense team, reflected on the rise and fall of the president in an intimate exclusive interview with Andrew Muller for The New American magazine.Shepard, who also personally transcribed the Nixon tapes and ran the White House document room, said the legal attacks against Nixon and his people “ended up a coup.”“I didn’t have a...

Vice President Harris’ presidential campaign admitted Friday that her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz “misspoke” about his past military service as a growing chorus of critics accuse him of “stolen valor.” “Governor Walz would never insult or undermine any American’s service to this country — in fact, he thanks Senator Vance for putting his life on the line for our country. It’s the American way,” Team Harris said in a statement to NBC News Friday. “In making the case for why weapons of war should never be on our streets or in our classrooms, the Governor misspoke. He did handle...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — One of Donald Trump’s emissaries to Arab Americans is a Lebanese-born businessman who moved to Texas as a teenager, speaks Arabic, English and French, and recently joined the Trump family when his son married the former president’s younger daughter. Massad Boulos has taken on the challenge of trying to convince a politically influential community angry at President Joe Biden that Trump is a better option. But many Arab Americans also note Trump has positioned himself as more pro-Israel than Biden and has made a series of comments and policy announcements that critics blast as Islamophobic. “Obviously...

Ludwig von Mises is a man who needs no introduction, with ideas that need no introduction. Today I'm happy to point out that The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science is now ready to go as a freely downloadable open source audio book. If you're a fan of either classical economics or Friedrich Hayek, an author we recently released for, then Mises is right up your alley.

In March 2022 I predicted some consequences of the sanctions imposed on Russia: The first [map] shows the countries which banned Russian airplanes from their airspace. Russia in turn denied its airspace to operators from those countries. It will cost quite a bit for U.S. and EU airlines as their flight times and cost to and from Asia, which typically fly through Russian airspace, will now increase. Carriers from Asian countries will now easily out-compete U.S. and European airlines on these routes. bigger As British media reported yesterday: British Airways is temporarily scrapping flights to Beijing until at least next...

Have you noticed that in recent days almost every major news outlet has been using the exact same phrase to describe Kacklin Kamala's and Stolen Valor Timpon's campaign: "The Politics of Joy." Not "happiness," not "glee," not "delight," not even "jubilation." Just "joy." This is a clear sign that we're not just looking at news reporting anymore; we’re witnessing state propaganda in action, designed to prop up the Democrat candidate. Shocker I know. --------------- You see, usually, you’d expect different media sources to offer a variety of perspectives, but with Kamala Harris, they all seem to be singing from the...

What a summer it has been: an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, the incumbent ending his re-election bid, and Vice President Kamala Harris anointed to the Democrat throne. Indeed, there has been no shortage of storylines in the world of politics. And yet, despite the political theater that has demanded an extra-large bag of buttery popcorn and amazed everyone, from observers in the front row to voters in the peanut gallery, polling data suggest that it is – and always will be – the economy, stupid. It’s the Economy, Stupid A plethora of 2024 election polls insinuate that...

VIDEOThe United Kingdom has now gone full V For Vendetta. Listen to the London Met Police Chief Sir Mark Rowley expressing the desire to "throw the full force of the law at people" and jail those posting on social media platforms such as X for what he considers to be "hate speech." He sounds very much like Commander Lewis Prothero of V For Vendetta.Hmmm... And the name "Starmer" does sound eerily like "Sutler."

You’ve got to hand it to the guy, Tim Walz knows how to speak the language of the average Democrat voter in middle America. Earlier this week, just hours after Kamala Harris had announced her decision to make him her running mate, Walz stood up in front of thousands of Americans and debuted his “golden rule” for all those Americans interested in preventing the slaughter of innocent unborn babies: “Mind your own damn business.” It’s a brilliant line. And it doesn’t just apply to what happens in Planned Parenthoods and abortion clinics in Walz’s home state of Minnesota, where he...