Author: nick

Two weeks after unfounded rumors said President Donald Trump suffered a health issue, social media users shared a video they said showed proof he was just taken to a hospital. In the video, two men appear to assist Trump as he walks unsteadily out of a building. A sign on the building reads “Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.” “BREAKING: There are some reports Trump has been taken to Walter Reed Hospital,” the captions of multiple Facebook posts sharing the video read. The earliest we found was posted April 19 and the latest was posted April 21. The footage isn’t…

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Former Sen. Ben Sasse (R–Neb.), who previously served as president of the University of Florida, revealed in late December that he had been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. “Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence,” he observed. He’s right. Patients diagnosed at that late stage currently have a five-year survival rate of about 3 percent and often less than a year to live. Researchers, however, have recently reported some good news about advanced treatments that significantly increase the life expectancy of patients and, in some cases, even appear to cure the illness. In fact, Sasse is enrolled…

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The Iran War is bringing trustless payments back to the forefront. The market is reacting. Since the U.S. and Israel began striking Iran on February 28, 2026, markets have had to wrestle with the financial and economic implications. The IEA described the disruption through Hormuz as the largest supply shock in the history of the global oil market. The strait normally carries about a quarter of maritime oil trade and is involved in about a fifth of global petroleum liquids consumption.  The Iran war has made monetary infrastructure visible again The Strait of Hormuz is obviously a physical chokepoint. However, trade also…

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 Far-left Reps. Ro Khanna and Ilhan Omar, and right-wing firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene are suddenly best friends.  Khanna and Greene appeared together on CNN last week, while Omar went on Pod Save America and praised Greene, along with far-right commentator Candace Owens, for breaking with President Trump. She said Democrats should “put our arms around” them.  Something important is happening here that will shape the future of the No Labels movement and our country.  On the surface, these figures on the far right and far left would appear to have nothing in common. In fact, in 2024, then-Rep. Greene tried to…

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Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair I don’t care much for politicians and their works. Political government is a stupid and evil way of doing things. It makes us all less happy, less healthy, less prosperous, and less safe than we’d be if we abandoned it for voluntary means of living together. Nonetheless, I occasionally try to “give credit where credit is due” when a politician departs, for even a moment, from evil and stupidity. At other times I seek the most charitable explanations I can find for that politician’s actions. This is one of those latter times, and the question…

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