The US’s bombing of Caracas reiterates three key foundations of American foreign policy: the Constitution is dead, democracy is irrelevant, and the “rule of law” doesn’t matter.
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He was almost VP. Soon he’ll be just another “visiting scholar” at a leftwing think tank. Perhaps he can hang out with Liz Cheney.
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Margaret Thatcher’s famous quote spells doom for new socialist schemes, “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money.”
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Cato Scholars: US Raid in Venezuela Raises Serious Constitutional and Foreign Policy Concerns While Ousting a Brutal Socialist Dictator
Ian Vásquez, Justin Logan, Brandan P. Buck, Marcos Falcone, Katherine Thompson, Clark Neily, & Jeffrey A. Singer Scholars at the Cato Institute provide independent analysis on the implications of the…
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Venezuela—Indictments, Invasions, and the Constitution’s Crumbling Guardrails
Clark Neily Last night, US forces attacked various locations in Venezuela in an operation to capture the loathsome President Nicolás Maduro and bring him to New York to face federal…
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Jack Hunter: “From WMDs to bombing Iran, the president who consistently mocked the GWOT is now pushing the same old buttons.”
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Trump claimed Washington would pay for the occupation of Venezuela with profits from the country’s oil.
Even Milton Friedman—who never supported gold as money—admitted that a monetary system based on gold would “take care of itself.” Instead, our money is created and manipulated by the politicized…
$50 wasn’t the finish line. It was the starting gun for policy finger-pointing and real-world bottlenecks.
Depending upon the narrative, American Indians were either noble creatures who were victims of a genocide by rapacious European settlers or were bloodthirsty savages. The truth is more nuanced.
