The Tom Woods Show, episode 2623
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“Don’t Mourn the Department of Education.” (03/27/25)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2623-dont-mourn-the-department-of-education/
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“Don’t Mourn the Department of Education.” (03/27/25)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2623-dont-mourn-the-department-of-education/
Source: Cato Institute
by Scott Lincicome
“When it became clear in late 2023 that Javier Milei would become the next president of Argentina, the response from many economists and analysts was borderline apoplectic. They warned that the profane self-described libertarian … would inflict on Argentina’s already-beleaguered economy ‘deep recession,’ ‘devastation,’ ‘economic collapse,’ and all sorts of other economic horribles. … Then, a funny thing happened as Milei worked to enact his slash-and-burn agenda: Things in Argentina got better, and the doomsayers went quiet. A few brave souls, to their credit, have since issued mea culpas, but most of them haven’t. That’s probably because doing so would acknowledge the success of not only Milei, but also the libertarian ideas they so disdain.” (03/27/25)
https://www.cato.org/commentary/javier-milei-legitimacy-libertarian-policy
Source: spiked
by Kunwar Khuldune Shahid
“Hundreds of Palestinians have taken to the streets in Gaza this week to protest against Hamas’s tyranny. In the largest anti-Hamas demonstrations since the war with Israel began, Gazans have been demanding that Hamas step down from power and end the conflict. This won’t come as a surprise to those actually listening to Palestinians. Polling this month shows that just six per cent of Gazans want Hamas to stay in power. … how did the Western pro-Palestine movement get it so wrong? Why have leftist activists grown so sympathetic towards this Islamist terror group? The honest answer is that such people are motivated less by support for Palestine, and more by a hatred of Israel.” (03/27/25)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/03/27/why-gazans-are-rising-up-against-hamas/
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“Donald Trump has said he would be willing to reduce tariffs on [US buyers of Chinese products] to get a deal done with TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell the social media app used by 170 million Americans. He acknowledged the role China would play in any agreement. ‘With respect to TikTok, and China is going to have to play a role in that, possibly in the form of an approval, maybe, and I think they’ll do that,’ Trump told reporters on Wednesday. ‘Maybe I’ll give them a little reduction in tariffs or something to get it done,’ he added. Trump’s comment suggests the sale of TikTok’s is a priority for his administration and important enough to use tariffs as a bargaining chip with Beijing. TikTok did not immediately comment.” (03/27/25)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/27/donald-trump-china-tariffs-tiktok-deal
Source: The Dispatch
“Second Amendment v. Ghost Gun Ban.” (03/27/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/second-amendment-v-ghost-gun-ban/
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“A jury in San Antonio, Texas, recently returned a guilty verdict against two men — Armando Gonzales-Ortega and Felipe Orduna-Torres — for the role they played in the deaths of 53 illegal immigrants — 47 adults and 6 children. The victims died while being transported in the back of a tractor trailer where temperatures reached 150 degrees. The defendants are scheduled to be sentenced on June 27 and will most likely receive a very high prison sentence. … it wasn’t only Gonzales-Ortega and Orduna-Torres and other smugglers who bear moral responsibility for the deaths of those 53 people. So do U.S. officials who continue to support and enforce America’s decades-old immigration-control system — a system by which the federal government centrally plans the movements of people across international borders and criminalizes the unauthorized entry into the United States by foreigners.” (03/27/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/03/27/u-s-officials-are-morally-responsible-for-human-trafficking-deaths/
Source: Fox News
by David Marcus
“In the two months since Donald Trump became president, the Democrats have engaged in a one-note mantra in which they insist the administration ‘is not normal.’ But do the Democrats own a mirror? Because if there is any normalcy on their side of the aisle, it seems to be in deep hiding. It is not normal, for example, that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries [D-NY] and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi [D-CA] refuse to condemn the violence and destruction directed at Teslas and their owners across the nation. How hard is it – as some lower-level Democrats such as Rep. Ro Khanna [D-CA] have done, to just say, ‘Hey, it’s never OK to destroy personal property over politics?'” (03/27/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/david-marcus-normal-democrats-please-stand-up
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“BBC correspondent Mark Lowen has been deported from Turkey after being arrested in Istanbul on Wednesday, the BBC has said. Lowen had been in Turkey for several days to report on the ongoing protests that were sparked by the Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu’s arrest last week. Imamoglu — who is being held in jail on corruption charges he denies — is seen as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival. He has been selected by his party as presidential candidate in the 2028 election. In a statement issued on Thursday, the BBC said: ‘This morning (27 March) the Turkish authorities deported BBC News correspondent Mark Lowen from Istanbul, having taken him from his hotel the previous day and detained him for 17 hours.’ On Thursday morning, he was presented with a written notice that he was being deported for ‘being a threat to public order,’ the statement said.” (03/27/25)
Source: CounterPunch
by Kevin A Young
“‘Signalgate’ is how some are christening Trump officials’ unintended disclosure of plans for bombing Yemen via a Signal group chat on March 15. Since Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg broke the story, outraged critics have demanded a return to ‘the ethic of accountability that our nation holds sacred.’ The analogy to Watergate is fitting, but not in the way they intend. Congressional furor over Nixon’s misbehavior fixated on the pettiest of his crimes. The articles of impeachment in 1974 failed to mention his role in a war of aggression that killed between two and four million people.” (03/27/25)
Source: Albany Times Union
“A panel of Brazil Supreme Court justices unanimously ruled that former President Jair Bolsonaro and seven of his associates will stand trial on five counts, including attempting to stage a coup after the far-right leader lost the 2022 election. The panel will review existing evidence, potentially gather new evidence and hear testimonies. Legal experts estimate that Bolsonaro could be sentenced to up to 40 years in prison, though his actual jail time — if convicted — would be less than that due to procedural considerations.” (03/27/25)