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Taming the dragon and courting the bear

By John Guarco | March 29, 2017

The security apparatus implemented by the United States is gradually eroding as a new world order takes shape. President Barack Obama rightfully said, “When trouble comes up anywhere in the world, they don’t call Beijing, they don’t call Moscow. They call us. That’s the deal.” We need to preserve this because a world where America leads is far more desirable than one where it steps both inwards and backwards.

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The case for a Universal Basic Income

By John Guarco | February 22, 2017

Automation, globalization, rising economic inequality, protectionism, wage stagnation, political volatility and a rise in populism are all contributing to a changing world in ways that few could have predicted.

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OPINION

The American destiny

By John Guarco | October 31, 2016

The Founders envisioned a Republic where the individual is sovereign, not our rulers.

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OPINION

To infinity and beyond

By John Guarco | October 18, 2016

[Asteroid mining] brings the possibility of establishing fueling stations on asteroids which would ease interplanetary travel and aid space colonization efforts.

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OPINION

Economics and us

By John Guarco | September 27, 2016

The confluence of economic failures on a multidimensional level has a way of historically seeping into politics that affects our daily lives.

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OPINION

Carthage must be destroyed

By John Guarco | September 13, 2016

"The advent of the twenty-first century has shown that the world cannot rely on America to solve all of its problems. Yet, at the same time, the problems of our world cannot be solved without America."

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OPINION

​Here comes the sun

By John Guarco | August 30, 2016

I stand confident believing that the framers did not intend for our political system to devolve to what it has become.

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OPINION

​A changing world order

By John Guarco | June 29, 2016

The recent referendum results in the United Kingdom have proven that people are willing to vote against their economic self-interest rather than “confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves,” as President Ronald Reagan once remarked.

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OPINION

The follies of compromise

By John Guarco | June 8, 2016

President Barack Obama, on December 10, 2009, accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway and boldly proclaimed, “We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend.

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