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Why Bernie Sanders Is Wrong About Gas Prices
Why Bernie Sanders Is Wrong About Gas Prices
Authored by Robert Rapier via OilPrice.com,
Gasoline prices can diverge sharply from crude oil prices due to refining and logistical constraints.
Tight refinery capacity and geopolitical disruptions have created bottlenecks throughout the fuel supply chain.
Policies that discourage energy infrastructure investment could worsen future fuel price volatility.
When lawmakers propose solutions to complex economic problems, the first requirement should be a clear understanding of how those problems actually work.
A recent Facebook post by Bernie Sanders comparing today’s oil and gasoline prices to those in 2011 suggests...
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Jun 16, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Is California Reaching Critical Mass?
Is California Reaching Critical Mass?
Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness,
By any measure, California is a failed state—and a national embarrassment.
Taxes? It has the highest income and gas taxes in the nation.
Roads? A Reason Foundation survey ranks it 49th among the states.
Mass flight? Between 250,000 and 350,000 more Californians leave the state than move in each year. Housing, gas, insurance, and electricity prices? The highest in the continental U.S.
Illegal aliens, the poor, the homeless, the foreign-born, and welfare recipients? The largest numbers in the U.S.
Public K–12 schools? Test...
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Apr 29, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Senate Rejects Resolution To Bar Trump From Attacking Cuba
Senate Rejects Resolution To Bar Trump From Attacking Cuba
The US Senate batted down a resolution on Tuesday that would bar President Trump from being able to attack Cuba without first obtaining Congressional approval.
The U.S. Capitol building in Washington on April 22, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times
After Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) invoked the 1973 War Powers Act to force the Senate vote on Tuesday (undoubtedly knowing it would fail) - citing the recent US combat operations in Venezuela and Iran, and Trump's March comments...
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Jun 12, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Welfare-Warfare State Reform Is Not Freedom
Welfare-Warfare State Reform Is Not Freedom
Authored by Jacob Hornberger via The Future of Freedom Foundation,
The libertarian movement can be divided into two basic groups: libertarians who call for reforming welfare-warfare state programs and libertarians who call for dismantling welfare-warfare state programs.
I fall within the latter group. Why? Because I want to be free. Reform doesn’t get me freedom. At best it gets me a better serfdom. That’s nice, but it’s not want I want for the rest of my life. I want to be free, and only by dismantling...
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