Source: Heartland Institute
by Paul Fisher

“Note that the switch by Justices Roberts and Kavanaugh from blocking a vaccine mandate in the one case to allowing a vaccine mandate in the other case created the mess and confusion about the power of the Federal government to mandate that Americans be jabbed with a vaccine or lose their jobs. This reinforces the ‘enigma of Justice Roberts’ and perhaps the alliance in that ‘enigma’ of Justice Kavanaugh.” (01/21/22)

https://blog.heartland.org/2022/01/dissecting-the-supreme-courts-split-decision-on-vaccine-mandates/

Source: Fox News
by Vance Ginn & Alexander William Salter

“‘May you live in interesting times,’ goes the old Chinese curse. When it comes to economics, ‘interesting’ usually means the sky is falling. Inflation reached seven percent at the end of 2021, a rate not seen in forty years. The Federal Reserve’s balance sheet more than doubled to $8.8 trillion since early 2020. And Uncle Sam’s fiscal house is in shambles. The 2021 budget deficit was almost $2.8 trillion, putting the national debt at $28.5 trillion — nearly 130 percent of U.S. gross domestic product. To call this imprudent would be a massive understatement. We need fiscal and monetary rules now. Money mischief and fiscal follies are intimately related. This isn’t because deficit spending causes inflation — things aren’t that simple. Instead, profligate spending and careless money-printing reinforce each other. When politicians and bureaucrats have too much leeway, they pursue short-run benefits at the expense of long-run viability.” (01/22/22)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/congress-federal-reserve-money-economy-inflation-ginn-salter

Source: The American Conservative
by Ivan Eland

“Great power spheres of influence, despite naive and self-serving internationalist rhetoric to the contrary, are far from outmoded. They are still widely recognized by international affairs experts as the harsh reality in anarchic international circumstances, and provide the best chance for peace among rival great powers, given such a harsh environment. After the Soviet Union and its competing Warsaw Pact alliance collapsed at the end of the Cold War, instead of the triumphalist expansion to Russia’s insecure western borders, NATO should have either dissolved or admitted most European countries, including Russia. This would have eschewed its Article V military purpose and made NATO only a diplomatic problem-solving forum for Europe.” (01/21/22)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/nato-bears-some-responsibility-for-the-ukraine-crisis/

Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton

“As a historian pointed out, the Roman Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus (nicknamed Caligula which translates as ‘little boots’ — named for the footwear of the legionnaires) was actually loved by the Roman people. They did not care that he was sleeping with his sisters, hosting giant orgies, murdering innocent people, or feasting on peacocks, they loved Caligula because he shared the surplus of Roman wealth with the people and not just the aristocracy, he contributed vast amounts of money to the Roman racecourses and coliseum, to building lavish bathhouses and other institutions, including brothels, pleasure houses, and casinos which the pre-Christian Roman population had absolutely no qualms about. The still-relatively-efficient Roman bureaucracy and military established by Augustus and managed fairly well by Tiberius kept things going in Rome and the provinces. Except for things like the insane pontoon bridge.” (01/21/22)

https://thepriceofliberty.org/2022/01/21/trump-and-tiberius-uncle-joe-and-little-boots-supply-chains-and-debt/