News Story of the Day: the man who never saw a country he didn’t want to be bombed has been tapped as the next White House National Security Adviser. John Bolton, who wants war with Iran, North Korea, Africa, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Canada, Australia, England, Spain, China, the Isle of Man, and Easter Island, will now play a chief role in America’s foreign policy once again.
What the heck is the president thinking?
Mike Pompeo, Gina Haspel, John Kelly, and now John Bolton. The neocons have returned to the promise land and will drone every country that does not bow down to the whims of the U.S. government.
Bolton is likely Trump’s worst move of 2018.
How is this any different than what Hillary Clinton would have done as president?
Chart of the Day: there is a lot of criticism you can lodge against American corporations, like their cronyism, but on the issue of tariffs, you can’t help but agree with them. The Economist has a new chart that looks at Corporate America’s response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs:
Illustration of the Day: this week, a Scottish YouTuber was found guilty for being “grossly offensive.” Count Dankula was essentially found guilty for using his freedom of speech. Of course, the left championed the judge’s decision, while the right slammed the announcement. So, over in Europe, they’re quiet on a whole host of issues, but when it comes to a pug, the sirens will be coming to your door.
Quote of the Day: the trade war is only heating up, and you can expect plenty more announcements from the Trump administration and other leaders around the world. Cafe Hayek’s Don Boudreaux has an exchange with the legend Walter Williams:
My great colleague Walter Williams responds tongue-in-cheek, by e-mail, to this recent letter of mine:
You miss the point. This example might help. If you and I are at sea, and if I shoot a hole in my end of our row boat, naturally you’re supposed to retaliate by shooting a hole in your end of the boat.
Walter here perfectly captures the insane (il)logic of so-called “trade wars” and trade “retaliation.” To cheer on your government in a “trade war” is to cheer on your government seizing money from you each time another government seizes money from its citizens. To engage in such cheering is, of course, imbecilic – but, being ignorant of economics, many (most?) people in fact cheer their being plundered by their own governments.
Tweet of the Day: Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul has taking it to the president on the budget-busting omnibus legislation. It’s 1,000 pages long that nobody has read and it adds more to the national debt and obviously doesn’t balance the budget. How is Trump any different than former President Barack Obama on fiscal issues? But Sen. Paul has raging on Twitter for the last 24 hours, and this is one of his best tweets:
Page 376 of terrible, rotten, no-good budget busting bill:
I found it! I found it! Border security, what President Trump wanted!
no . . .wait a minute section says Defense can spend what funds it determines to enhance the border security of Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, and Tunisia
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 22, 2018
Video of the Day: there’s nothing better than the mockery of libertarians. Let’s face it: we’re not always a barrel of laughs. But Andrew Heaton and Austin Bragg try some good old-fashioned libertarian humor and libertarian parody!
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