RATIONAL REVIEW NEWS DIGEST
The Freedom Movement's Daily Newspaper
Volume XVII, Issue #4,231
Steemit Headlines -- Wednesday, May 1st, 2019
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TODAY'S NEWS
Venezuela: Guaido calls for "largest march in history" after uprising fizzles
Trump, Democrats agree to pursue $2 trillion infrastructure plan
Japan: Emperor Akihito steps down after 30 years
Grassley to Trump: Lift tariffs or new NAFTA deal is "dead"
VA: Charlottesville judge rules Confederate statues can't be removed
US DoJ argues against giving Stone unredacted Mueller report for trial preparation
Trump urges steep Fed rate cut as central bankers hold meeting
Trump introduces sweeping changes to asylum in memo
MO: Woman shoots, kills intruder who assaulted her
UK: Labour Party rejects calls to fully back new Brexit referendum
TX: Idiot pol who took away inmates' last meals now wants to take away their last words
CA: College disinvites notorious, violent gang from job fair
GA: Abrams won't run for US Senate seat
Schiff says he'll send a criminal referral to DOJ for Erik Prince over alleged false statements to Congress
Mystery of moon's formation may have been solved
Prosecutors: US Army veteran "planned to bomb Nazi rally"
TX: House approves marijuana decriminalization bill
Trump's lie count as president reportedly passes 10,000
Rosenstein to leave on May 11
Trump team sues Deutsche Bank and Capital One to keep them from turning over financial records to Congress
TODAY'S COMMENTARY
Afghanistan and America's "indispensable nation" hubris
Galileo and the Medicis brought revolution and truth
Twitter's outrageous meddling in British democracy
Unlike real insurance, Social Security "insurance" creates greater risk for the future
Why Australians should fight to bring Assange home
Can courts clear the fog of war?
Backlash against whom?
Medicare Trust Fund is running out of money
Mitch McConnell is democracy's grim reaper
Both conservatives and liberals love monetary socialism
Avoiding the excesses of pacifism and violence
Why global warming does not necessarily translate to daily high temperature records
The Pentagon's long con
The meme terrorists
The Hamiltonian approach to reparations
This Duke dropout could reinvigorate the study of anthropology
Five responses to climate change deniers
Pragmatism is impractical
Dear rape survivors -- you've made an allegation, therefore you are on trial
Sri Lanka bombings do not mean there's an ISIS worth fighting
The founder who told Americans we have a right to military weapons
Are you choosing politics over people?
Trump on the border: More of the same
Hypothetical cowardice?
What "Game of Thrones" captures so perfectly about the hard reality of war
New Bernie Sanders app democratizes organizing -- and panics people unfamiliar with organizing
Bitcoin history, part 11: The first major loss of coins
Public schooling is fading fast -- but there is hope
Joe Biden calls Trump an aberration; he's wrong
The United States of Incarceration
TODAY'S AUDIO/VIDEO
Ron Paul Liberty Report, 04/30/19
Postcards from Somalia, episode 44
The LAVA Flow Podcast, episode 129
Punk Rock Libertarians, episode 213
Free Talk Live, 04/29/19
CQ Budget Podcast, episode 108
Foreign Policy Focus, episode 342
Cato Daily Podcast, 04/29/19
The Tom Woods Show, episode 1394
Bloggingheads.tv, 04/29/19
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Editors:
Thomas L. Knapp
Steve Trinward
Editors Emeritus:
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