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Trump: Don’t Follow the Bush-Obama Foreign Policy Legacy

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Eight years ago, President Obama had a chance to change the warmongering direction that outgoing President Bush and the U.S. national-security establishment had led America for the previous eight years. Obama could have said, “Enough is enough. America has done enough killing and dying. I’m going to lead our country in a different direction — toward peace, prosperity, and harmony with the people of the world.” He could have ordered all U.S. troops in the Middle East and Afghanistan to return home. He could have ended U.S. involvement in the endless wars that Bush, the Pentagon, and the CIA spawned in that part of the world. He could have led America in a new direction. Instead, Obama decided to stay Bush’s course, no doubt believing that he, unlike Bush, could win the endless wars that Bush had started. It was not to be. He chose to keep the national-security establishment embroiled in Afghanistan and Iraq. Death and destruction are Obama’s ...

Freedom, Despite a New Democratically Elected Dictator

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For the last year, the American people have had their fun, what with all those presidential candidates catering to them, being nice to them, offering them goodies, and saying all sorts of nice things about them. Tomorrow, however, the roles reverse once again. Either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will be in charge. One of them will assume his or her role as America’s newest democratically elected dictator. The people will reassume their roles as serfs. That term — democratically elected dictator — undoubtedly shocks lots of Americans. That’s because they have been inculcated with the belief that democracy is freedom. When people are free to elect their president, the notion goes, that shows that they are free. But nothing could be further from the truth. Freedom is determined by the nature of the power that the government wields over the citizenry, not by the manner in which a ruler becomes a ruler. For example, let’s assume that a foreign ruler wields omnipotent power ...

The Supreme Court, Federalism, and Limited Government

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The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of whether a biological female who identifies as a male can use the boys’ restroom in a Virginia high school. Parties who are not satisfied with the decision of a U.S. Court of Appeals (or a state supreme court if it is deemed a constitutional issue) can petition the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case by means of a writ of certiorari: a request that the Supreme Court order a lower court to send up the record of the case for review. According to official Supreme Court procedures, The Court usually is not under any obligation to hear these cases, and it usually only does so if the case could have national significance, might harmonize conflicting decisions in the federal Circuit courts, and/or could have precedential value. Of the more than 7,000 cases that it is asked to review each year, the Court generally ...

Economic Ideas: Mercantilism as Monarchy’s Planned Economy

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The Feudal System had resulted in the disintegration of the unity that much of Western, Southern, and Eastern Europe had known under the Roman Empire. Following the fall of Rome, Europe was divided into local and regional political and economic entities, each politically functioning and economically surviving in high degrees of isolation from each other. However, beginning in the fifteenth ...