By: Ryan McMaken In the classic 1966 film, A Man for All Seasons, the family of Thomas More — chancellor of England and eventual Catholic saint —counsels Thomas to arrest power-mad Richard Rich because they suspect (correctly) Rich will betray Thomas and because “that man’s bad.” To this, More replies “there’s no law against that.” Another family […]
Archives for May 2018
Robert Shiller: Bitcoin won’t be around by 2118
Well, this is somewhat embarrassing. Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller doesn’t think the peer-to-peer decentralized cryptocurrency bitcoin will not last forever. In fact, he believes that bitcoin will go extinct by…2118. Speaking in an interview with CNBC, Shiller, who has been skeptical of the digital currency for a couple of years ago, warns that bitcoin […]
TRADE WAR: U.S. imposes new steel, aluminum tariffs
It has only been a couple of days removed from the U.S. government announcing a 25 percent tariff on $50 billion worth of Chinese tech imports, but Washington is continuing the 18th century protectionist pursuits. On Thursday, the President Donald Trump administration confirmed a 25 percent tariff on steel imports from the European Union, Canada, […]
List of leftists calling conservatives, Republicans ‘monkey’ or ‘ape’
So, Roseanne Barr’s ABC revival of Roseanne has been cancelled due to her tweeting that Valerie Jarrett was the product of the “Planet of the Apes” and an Islamist terrorist group. This caused quite the uproar, prompting ABC to cancel the highly successful television series. ABC is a private company and it can do whatever […]
Is the North Korean regime a fan of Ron Paul?
It appears that The Ron Paul Liberty Report has some admirers in the communist nation of North Korea. Ri Yong-ho, a North Korean head at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of North Korea since 2016, has been tweeting positive messages about Ron Paul, Daniel McAdams, The Ron Paul Institute, and the YouTube show. Here are […]