Europe Scrambles For Innovation And Defense As US Decouples From "Global Order"

After the 9/11 attacks, US officials used the “emergency” to wield and exercise extraordinary totalitarian-like powers. This was reflected by such totalitarian-like measures as the USA PATRIOT Act, warrantless telecommunications surveillance, torture, indefinite detention, assassination, the TSA takeover of the airports, and the undeclared wars of aggression against Afghanistan and Iraq. Of course, that isn’t […]

Why Congress Should Restore The Monetary Veto Authored by Sean Fieler via RealClearMarkets, American democracy prides itself on being "of the people, by the people, and for the people." But the people lack control over a key part of their daily lives: the money supply. Its expansion and contraction affect the value of every paycheck, every dollar of savings, and the price of virtually everything that can be purchased. Americans once had the ability to redeem their dollars for gold at a fixed rate. Congress should restore that power. Doing so...

SpaceX Starship Flight 13 Launch Scrubbed At The Last Second Update (1900ET): SpaceX scrubbed their 13th test flight on Thursday right as the countdown clock reached zero.  Noooo! Abort triggered after 4 of the centre engines failed to ignite at start-up...as seen in the Booster engine graphic, bottom left of screen. Video straight off the @SpaceX stream. pic.twitter.com/nZ65wfuQkb — VixXi (@VickiCocks15) July 16, 2026 Developing... * * * SpaceX is scheduled to launch the 13th test flight of its Starship rocket on Thursday evening, marking the first mission since the company completed its blockbuster public debut in June,...