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When the Fawley Refinery opened in southern England in 1921 as an offshoot of Standard Oil, the company deliberately kept a low profile. The project was a workaround for US and UK tariffs. So there were no speeches, no ribbon cutting, not much news coverage. One day there was no
The US hostage crisis—also known as the government shutdown—has been going on for a month now. I’m all for limited government, but this shutdown feels incredibly vindictive, petty, and wildly unprofessional. When politicians can’t manage to compromise on something as basic as keeping the government open, it’s just a really
Leftists certainly have an interesting command of the English language. Minnesota governor Tim Walz, former VP Kamala Harris, Illinois governor JB Pritzker, etc. among many others have routinely referred to their political opponents— ranging from Trump, Trump’s voters, and conservatives in general as “Nazis”. Multiple CNN “experts” have called Trump
George Villiers should have been a nobody. Born into a minor family from an irrelevant English village far from London in the late 1500s, young George grew up with no real prospects for his future. But he did have one thing going for him: according to reports at the time,
Protestant firebrand and political activist Hugh Latimer must have known he was risking his life when he stepped into the pulpit at St. Paul’s Cross on January 12, 1549. His sermon that Sunday morning was hardly religious in nature. Rather, Latimer publicly expressed the view– the deep, deep frustration– that
In October 2024, a sitting justice of the New Hampshire state Supreme Court, Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi, was indicted on seven criminal charges related to corruption and abuse of power. According to prosecutors, Justice Marconi abused the immense power of her office to squash a separate criminal investigation that had
In light of this week’s roller-coaster gold ride, I thought it would be useful to turn once again back to the lessons of history and revisit what we discussed recently about the 1970s. Foreign governments and central banks around the world had been becoming increasingly concerned about the US government’s
It was only ten weeks ago that the US national debt crossed $37 trillion for the first time. Now, less than three months later, the national debt is set to surpass $38 trillion this week. That’s a simply insane rate of increase— another $1 trillion added to the debt in
In 1828, a proposal came before the US House of Representatives to provide some money to the widow of a deceased naval officer. The woman’s husband had died in service to the country, and tragically she had been left penniless. So the request wasn’t outrageous—just a small pension to help
A little over a month ago, in early September, after careful analysis and detailed study, my team and I reached an important conclusion. And we started telling our audience almost immediately. Gold had just crossed $3,500 per ounce, silver had just crossed $40, and many gold and silver mining companies
Some of us are old enough to remember life in 1999. That Prince song– party like it’s “1999”– was constantly on the radio in anticipation of the year 2000. Plenty of doomsayers were predicting the end of the world because of the ‘Y2K’ software bug. (Spoiler alert: it didn’t happen.)
As the clock struck midnight on July 1, 1848, Ohio Congressman Samuel Vinton probably started having a minor panic attack. Viton was Chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, the Congressional body that, at least at the time, was responsible for all taxation and spending appropriations. Anything that
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