6+ hour, 43+ min ago   (458+ words) Everybody says they want freedom, but most people really don’t, mainly because they don’t know what true freedom is. And if they did, they would—and do — reject it. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom,” Benjamin Franklin wrote,…...

6+ hour, 43+ min ago   (132+ words) Marxists want economic enslavement, not individual empowerment. They want to confiscate private property and end property ownership. It is, after all, not affordable. They do not want to create opportunities for individual success and achievement. Remember, if you own a…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (652+ words) Big Dairy’s efforts are unjustified by science, harm small dairy producers, and have raised costs to consumers. These oligopolistic practices border on enforced speech and actions on climate and energy matters and anti-trust violations. Thankfully, two groups, Heartland Impact and…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (153+ words) That is the benefits cliff conservatives spent a generation warning about, and it remains even when the recipient is married and votes Republican. My Christian friends praising this idea are making families dependent on government and turning stay-at-home mothers into…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (595+ words) Republicans have spent months calling nearly everyone with a big D next to their name a socialist. And it’s not just the new crop that includes Zohran Mamdani, Abdul El-Sayed, and James Talarico. It’s been a reliable attack since proud…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (372+ words) Editor's note: This piece was authored by Sam Raus. There is no technical, scientific or legal definition to determine when AI “superintelligence” — aka ASI — has been achieved by the latest model of ChatGPT, Claude or others. In short, ASI is…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (151+ words) Scott Bessent boasting “I am the house” and trying to talk down the dollar is the classic hubris of a central planner. As Martin Armstrong points out, we saw this exact political vanity with the 1985 Plaza Accord—and the market…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (715+ words) Maybe somebody should pop the bubble?...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (502+ words) An artificial intelligence researcher who left OpenAI to join Anthropic has decided to leave the industry, accusing both US companies of "playing with our lives" in the race to develop AI models capable of self-improvement. Jacob Coxon, 27, spent the past…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (640+ words) So it was fun to read Michael Barone writing about the biography of Stalin by Stephen Kotkin. There’s a quote from Grigory Zinoviev, one of the top leaders in the Bolshevik Revolution. Bless his heart. It worked so well that…...