It may have been around for only 20 years, but the Benelli M4 has already made great strides at breaking into the shotgun world. Produced by Beretta, the same manufacturer that produces the M9 handgun, the M4 shotgun was designed in response to a US Army request for a new semiautomatic combat shotgun to be […]
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Before a recent trip to the border with Mexico, President Trump called on the Fed to end its tightening of monetary policy and begin a new policy of quantitative easing. According to Trump, “I personally think the Fed should drop rates, they’ve really slowed us down. There’s no inflation. In terms of quantitative tightening, it […]
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President Trump has had the unprecedented ability to shape the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors in a way that no other President has. Three of the current five Board members were appointed by him, and he just recently announced two new nominations, Stephen Moore and Herman Cain. That means that by the end of his […]
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While the image of Liberty advancing in front of the sun’s rays is most associated today with the American Gold Eagle series of coins, its design dates back over 110 years to the double eagle gold coin design of famed sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Saint-Gaudens had been approached by President Theodore Roosevelt about redesigning US coinage, […]
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After nearly seven years of asylum within the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, journalist and transparency activist Julian Assange was arrested yesterday morning by British police. Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno terminated Assange’s asylum and invited British police onto the Embassy grounds to arrest Assange. US authorities immediately placed a request for his extradition to face charges […]
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While semiautomatic pistols have become the most popular handguns on the market for both self-defense and target shooting, revolvers continue to maintain a place in many shooters’ armories. That’s particularly true within the hunting community, which has seen handgun hunting become much more popular in recent decades. With rimmed cartridges requiring the use of a […]
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Judging by the behavior of politicians in Washington you would think that the United States is a country ascendant, with decades of rapid growth ahead of it and ready to take its place on the world stage as a leading nation. Instead the US is an empire in decline, living off its past glory, riven […]
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If you’ve been a gun owner for long enough you’ve probably made at least one gun purchase that in hindsight you wish you hadn’t made. It can be awfully tempting in the heat of the moment to spring for something that a few months down the road you realize isn’t all it was cracked up […]
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President Trump recently appointed former Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain to the last open slot on the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors. But while most people remember Cain as the former CEO of Godfather’s pizza and the developer of the 9-9-9 Plan (9% personal income tax, 9% federal sales tax, 9% corporate income tax), far […]
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Social media has come in for a good deal of flak recently, from complaints about securing user data, allegations that firms were oblivious to Russian use of social media to influence elections, to concerns that social media is enabling the spread of hateful and anti-social rhetoric. In response, embattled Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently called […]
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