Social justice as will to power. Hostility to innovation and free trade was grounded in a broader worldview that saw money itself as the root of all evil. From the time of antiquity until the Enlightenment, trade and the pursuit of wealth were considered sinful. “In the city that is most finely governed,” Aristotle wrote, “the citizens should not live a vulgar or a merchant’s way of life, for this sort of way of life is ignoble and contrary to virtue.” In his Republic, Plato laid out one vision...

Tulsi Gabbard waves to the crowd after speaking during the Conservative Political Action Conference, at the National Harbor, CPAC 2024, in Oxon Hill, Md., Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. Former President Donald Trump reportedly invited former Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard to his residence at Mar-a-Lago as he prepares for the presidential debate with Vice President Kamala Harris. Gabbard, a former combat veteran who served four terms in the House, left the Democratic Party two years ago. Her...

The Title X family planning grants were cut off after the state stopped abortion referrals. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) told the Supreme Court on Aug. 15 it should not have to give millions of dollars in grants to Oklahoma that the agency withdrew over the state’s refusal to provide abortion referrals. HHS argues Oklahoma should lose the funding because it made clear it would not include abortion in its information offerings about family planning services. Funding...

The Supreme Court has refused to lift court orders in 26 conservative states that blocked Education Department rules extending anti-discrimination protections to transgender students. The Supreme Court said Friday it has turned down an appeal from the Biden administration and refused to lift court orders in 26 conservative states that blocked new Education Department rules extending anti-discrimination protections to transgender students. The decision means the federal education law known as...

Officers in New Jersey who responded to a mental health call last month told a woman: “We don’t want to hurt you. We want to help you.” Moments later, she was fatally shot. New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin on Friday released body camera videos from the July 28 encounter outside an apartment in Fort Lee, where Victoria Lee was fatally shot in the chest by a police officer. The officer, Tony Pickens Jr., was among several from the Fort Lee Police Department to respond to the apartment...

MOSCOW, Aug 16 (Reuters) - An influential aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that the West and the U.S.-led NATO alliance had helped to plan Ukraine's surprise attack on Russia's Kursk region, something Washington has denied. The lightning incursion, the biggest into Russia by a foreign power since World War Two, began on Aug. 6 when thousands of Ukrainian troops crossed Russia's western border in a major embarrassment for Putin's military.

Velveeta shows off its luxurious side by replicating the technique for Italian pasta alla ruota with a wheel of Velveeta and pasta shells served tableside.

by Jim Hoft, The Gateway Pundit: A preliminary investigation report by Rep. Clay Higgins (LA-R) has revealed the body of Trump rally shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks is gone. In Rep. Higgins’s report, he wrote that on August 5th, when he requested to view the body of Thomas Matthew Crooks, he was told the body of Crooks was […]

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