bySelwyn DukeFebruary 25, 2026 Here’s a story for you from what could be called the Warmth of Collectivism Files. A 97-year-old woman in Britain is diagnosed by a paramedic as having a broken hip. A serious injury such as that means you’re going straight to the hospital, stat, right? Well, instead, the elderly woman […]
FEB 19, 2026 https://alimcforever.substack.com/p/cruelty-is-functional You have to understand that for this class of modern billionaires, wealth is not the goal. Rank is the goal. And rank requires someone beneath you. Positional goods Wealth that only works if others lack it. In 1976, the economist Fred Hirsch coined the term “positional goods”. These are things whose
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02/27/2026•Mises Wire•Gary Galles https://mises.org/mises-wire/ignore-rich-dont-loot-them Apparently to illustrate that the state of California has little interest in controlling its fiscal profligacy or in protecting the property rights of anyone who can be demonized as rich, a union-backed state ballot initiative titled “The Billionaire Tax Act” has been proposed. It would not only be punitive,
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or Marx Begets TDS MARK O’BRIEN JAN 29, 2026 This post is about the relationship between Karl Marx, Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), and the kabuki ICE/immigration-indignation theater being performed across the country by a cast of brainwashed, pathologically misguided — and, in some cases, suicidal — lunatics. But I’m not going to start there. I’m
The announcement of a skeletal agreement between U.S. President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte was good news, even if it turns out to be a fig leaf for a failed land grab. The brouhaha over Trump’s rhetoric was obscuring what is a genuinely serious geostrategic concern. By Michael Froman, President, Council on
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01/27/2026•Mises Wire•Murray N. Rothbard The Constitution had been ratified and was going into effect, and the next great question before the country was the spate of amendments which the Federalists had reluctantly agreed to recommend at the state conventions. Would they, as Madison and the other Federalists wanted, be quietly forgotten? The Antifederalists, particularly in
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01/13/2026•Mises Wire•Wanjiru Njoy Friedrich von Hayek explains in his article “Why I am Not a Conservative” that, given a choice between the progressive parties that destroy liberty, and the conservative parties that defend the status quo, the classical liberal will “generally have little choice but to support the conservative parties.” This is because there are many parallels
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01/15/2026•Mises Wire•Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. Everybody knows we need sound money; but what exactly is sound money? A good way to answer this question is to consult the works of the two greatest economists of the twentieth century, Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. I am proud of the fact that Mises’s widow, the unforgettable Margit
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THE RAGING PATRIOT FEB 01, 2026 substack.com/@theragingpatriot Florida is implementing English-only administration for all driver license knowledge and skills examinations starting February 6, 2026. The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) made the announcement on January 30, 2026, stating that the change applies to every driver license classification, including oral exams.
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byVeronika Kyrylenko January 28, 2026 President Donald Trump sharply altered the public narrative on Tuesday, saying that Alex Pretti, the man shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis, “shouldn’t have been carrying a gun.” Earlier that day, when asked about the shootings, he said, “You can’t walk in with guns. You just can’t.” The
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