In case you missed it, the U.S. government’s total public debt outstanding surpassed $35 trillion on July 26, 2024. This amounts to over $102,350 for every person in the country, based on the population of 341,963,408 in 2024. On average, this would be more than $255,875 per household, assuming each household has 2.5 members. These figures may seem daunting, especially when top executives from financial institutions who oversee high-priced deals express concern about them.

Mark Pulliam is a good fellow. He is retired from big law and regularly writes for publications such as Chronicles and the Law and Liberty Blog. Pulliam often sends me links to his publications and 99 percent of the time, I love his material. I enjoy my correspondence with him. However, I must take issue with his recent article entitled Nullification of the Constitution, in which Pulliam advocates for a supreme national government that dictates to the states. He argues that libertarian constitutionalists such as Tom Woods and the folks at the Tenth Amendment Center are off base for suggesting that the states may nullify/defy/reject federal dictates.

Vice-Presidential candidate J.D. Vance has been widely criticized for his gratuitous advice to American women on childbirth. The criticism can be extended to the broader goal of Vance and other isolationists, which is to defend American culture from past and future foreign influences. Their intent to purify culture from things foreign demonstrates extreme ignorance of American immigration history. For example, they appear to be unaware of a broad historical literature that includes Russell Kirk’s book, America’s British Culture and John Kennedy’s book, A Nation of Immigrants, which depict America as a melting pot that has always embodied foreign influences.

The California Department of Education reports that in the 2021-2022 school year, there were more than 10,000 teaching vacancies in the state. 

Sanctions have become very fashionable in the United States, which currently imposes them on over 15,000 individuals and entities, three times more than anyone else, in 20 countries with 2.5 billion people, i.e., 31% of all humans on planet Earth. From use sparingly in Cuba (since 1962) to Iran (1979), sanctions have proliferated this century and exploded under the Biden Administration.[1] Given their near-total lack of success, why do we continue imposing sanctions and expect a different result?

After an alarmingly bad debate performance and widespread pressure to drop out, President Biden formally announced he would not pursue a second term. Shortly after his announcement, the President endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, and many joined him. 

U.S. lawmakers have an unfair advantage over ordinary Americans when it comes to investing. Many can use their insider knowledge of how the laws and spending bills they make will affect businesses and make a killing in the stock market.

There is a renewed effort to impose a wealth tax on Americans. Several bills in Congress would tax and redistribute wealth supposedly to benefit the poor and “ensure the wealthy pay their fair share,” in the words of President Joe Biden. Biden and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) have offered the most widely discussed proposals for taxing wealth.

California-based company Diamond Shruumz was once one of the premier providers of microdosing products in the US. Providing “artisanal chocolates… designed for creative souls,” Diamond Shruumz offered chocolate bars, ice cream cones, gummies, and other sweets with trace amounts of psilocybin- the psychedelic found in magic mushrooms. 

The Associated Press explained what had happened in France’s parliamentary elections in the eighteenth paragraph of its July 8 story: “Rather than rallying behind [President Emmanuel] Macron,” AP reported, “millions took the vote as an opportunity to vent anger about inflation, crime, immigration and other grievances.”