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I was in my early teens, and for me politics was no different than a football game in that you have two teams, you play to win, then everyone goes…

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has indicted 13 Russian nationals and 3 Russian entities, accusing them of conspiring to meddle in the US electoral process. The indictment focuses on the Internet…

This week brought another tragic mass shooting, this time in Florida, where a 19-year-old former student opened fire at a high school and killed 17 students. Not surprisingly, the smoke…

Given the continuing partisan dysfunction in Washington, DC, it was inevitable that government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would need another bailout. That eventuality was Big Government’s Valentine’s…

Members of the US Senate are showing the same confusion and ambivalence about cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin that is characteristic of so much of the rest of the American population:…

Iconic American firearms manufacturer Remington is planning to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It’s a move that wasn’t unanticipated but that could still reverberate throughout the firearms and outdoors industry.…

With the passage and signature into law of the new budget deal, any hopes that Congress might eventually tackle out of control government spending and slow the increase of the…

Taxpayers and astute observers of the increasingly perilous financial position the federal government is heading in might be pleased to learn that pending legislation in Congress would begin to modestly…

The gyrations in stock markets over the last couple of weeks have unnerved many investors. After two years of an unprecedented bull run, the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered its…

Recent data from real estate industry firm Zillow indicate the American housing market has regained all of the $9 trillion in market valuation (paper wealth) that was erased when the…