RATIONAL REVIEW NEWS DIGEST
The Freedom Movement's Daily Newspaper
Volume XVI, Issue #4,016
Steemit Edition -- Wednesday, July 18th, 2018
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TODAY'S NEWS
EU strikes free trade [sic] deal with Japan amid rising US protectionism
Trump "walks back" criticism of Deep State intel agency credibility
Afghanistan: Islamic State bomber kills 20, Taliban kill nine
Mueller asks Manafort judge to immunize five witnesses
Israel: Regime bans occupation critics from schools
Obama slams populist "right-wing billionaires," touts liberal push for "universal income"
Iraq: At least eight dead as protests spread
Judge rules for Trump regime in suit over shifting corporate welfare from Planned Parenthood to "faith-based" moochers
Kim Jong-un blasts delays in North Korean economic projects
IBM backs FDIC-insured cryptocurrency
States sue US to void state and local tax deduction cap
Iran: Regime takes US regime to court over violations of nuclear deal
Reporter corrected after tweeting alleged Russian spy was photographed in Trump's Oval Office
US Congress: Massachusetts pols introduce bill banning "gay and trans panic defense"
Researchers looking for volunteers to smoke weed and "drive"
Report: Stolen plutonium still missing after more than a year
MGM Resorts sues victims of Las Vegas massacre, denies liability
Syria: Refugees approach Israeli frontier as regime forces close in
NYPD to feds: Tired of waiting on you, prepared to act on Garner killing
UK: Brexit campaigners fined and reported to police over "illegal donations"
TODAY'S COMMENTARY
"Trump is a Russian plant": Birtherism for liberals [sic]
Supreme Court should not represent the American people; its job is to interpret laws
Laws are for the little people
Elections: More than half of Americans believe fairy tales are real
The Deep State went after JFK on Russia too
How technology bolsters your right to work, choose, and earn
Trump is not Putin's puppet
John Brennan misses Communist Russia
The wisdom of Eric Hoffer
Bank workers rising
One country, two radically different narratives
OBR -- we can't afford the welfare state we've already got
Brett Kavanaugh repeatedly ruled in favor of the security state, most recently for the CIA -- and against me
EPA transparency rule will bolster science and improve rulemaking
Five questions on the Trump-Putin summit
Canary in the coal mine -- emerging market contagion
Echoes past and future: Helsinki goon show masks the real rot that bedevils us
Trump's summit message to the Russia collusion witch-hunters: Dream on, losers
"Dorky" doesn't define it
Italian Catholics increasingly embrace Vladimir Putin
How Trump can lower drug prices
The follies and distortions of the Global Peace Index
US collects record tax revenue, but deficits keep piling up
Giving Putin a pass [sic] on vote meddling, Trump widens rifts back in US
Left's claims of "treason" on Trump-Putin talks smack of dangerous political hysteria
Avoiding ostrich behavior: Free speech as a nonpartisan ideal
Does "obedience" have any redeeming qualities?
Make governments compete -- for us
Radical Markets in immigration
The police state abolishes the trial
TODAY'S AUDIO/VIDEO
Cato Daily Podcast, 07/17/18
Scott Adams Says, 07/17/18
The Cyberlaw Podcast, episode 226
Liberty Chronicles Podcast, episode 64
Postcards from Somalia, episode 2
Plastic straw myths
Humans of Bitcoin, 07/17/18
Free Talk Live, 07/16/18
The Tom Woods Show, episode 1196
Anarcho Agenda, episode 74
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