John Tamny aier.org John Tamny, research fellow of AIER, is editor of RealClearMarkets. His book on current ideological trends is: They Are Both Wrong (AIER, 2019) What better way to begin a review of what is an excellent book than to say that the book’s author always knew.
Predictably, the riotous events in Washington have sent the left-media into a paroxysm of screeching and pearl-clutching. Never mind that, just a few short months ago, large fires lit by Democrat supporters were raging in Washington. Also ignore that senior Democrats urged on the rioters, including the incoming
The most obvious thing about totalitarian ideologies is just how little the ideologues apply their own theories to themselves. The Soviet Union had its nomenklatura. Communist China has its “princelings”. Some animals are always more equal than others. In the US, the nomenklatura are those leftist politicians who demand curfews
President Trump has just finished speaking and now the crowd is moving off down Pennsylvania Ave. Vice President Mike Pence announced he would not try to decertify the electoral college votes for President-elect Joe Biden during Wednesday’s joint session of Congress. Congress is now working through certifying the
Joe Biden’s not in the White House yet, but already America’s enemies are jostling to take advantage of what they clearly see as a more easily-bullied new administration. In 2016, Iran tested then-president Obama’s mettle when it seized two US Navy boats and their crews.
The Proud Boys, if we are to believe the mainstream media, are a “white supremacist group”. Which makes it odd that their leader is a black Cuban, while their founder is married to a Native American. But, hey, who are you going to believe? The mainstream media or your lyin’
A reputable NZ journalist with decades of experience under his belt writes for the ODT saying 2020 was “The year Donald Trump lost — badly.” Given the wealth of evidence about US election fraud emerging recently and reported as “baseless” by NZ media; labelled by Twitter and Facebook as “containing false
We all know the type: the person who demands, “Do you know who I am?” and insists on standing on every pettifogging point of ceremony. Occasionally, it’s amusing, such as when Prince Charles gently chided Molly Meldrum’s reference to “Your mum”, with, “You mean, Her Majesty the Queen”
