Unbelievably, in 2025, walking among us are people, many of them young and college-educated, who believe the Industrial Revolution (spawned by the liberal Enlightenment) was a disaster for most of mankind. They yearn for what they imagine was the tranquil, plentiful,...
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H.L. Mencken at 145: Proverbs from the Sage of Baltimore
by Alan Mosley | Sep 12, 2025 | Featured Articles
Henry Louis Mencken was born in Baltimore on September 12, 1880. After completing only a few years of formal schooling, he taught himself the craft of journalism and, by the age of eighteen, was working as a reporter for the Baltimore Herald. Over the next four...
Trump, India, and the China Hawks’ Horror
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Sep 11, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
For more than two decades, Washington labored to bring India closer—easing sanctions, opening high-tech trade, recognizing India as a responsible nuclear power, and embedding it in U.S.-led Indo-Pacific strategy. From President George W. Bush’s civil nuclear deal and...
For Both Ukraine and Russia, Compromise Aligns With Necessity
by Ted Snider and Nicolai N. Petro | Sep 11, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As peace in Ukraine struggles to be born after three-and-a-half years of war, necessity prompts each of the participants in different ways. For Ukraine to achieve its best possible outcome, it must find a diplomatic way to avoid outright military defeat. Russia, by...
The Psychology of Corruption
by Alexander Oakes | Sep 10, 2025 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This quote, coined by the British Lord Acton during the late nineteenth century, is beloved by libertarians, and for good reason. In essence, it challenges the notion that any one person, regardless of...
Trump White House Flips Script at FTC
by Norman Singleton | Sep 10, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles
On August 13, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order repealing predecessor Joe Biden’s July 2021 executive order “Promoting Competition in the American Economy.” The Biden order called for greater enforcement of antitrust laws and other efforts to...
I Helped Israel Propagandize American Christians
by Brandt Burleson | Sep 9, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Sun Tzu wrote, “All warfare is based on deception." You have heard many stories about the Israeli government deceiving and manipulating U.S. officials, steering our country towards funding and even fighting their wars. Let me tell you one more: Israel exploits the...
America’s Vestigial Constitution
by Thomas Eddlem | Sep 9, 2025 | Featured Articles
Does the United States Constitution grant President Donald Trump the power to unilaterally blow up boats of alleged drug smugglers on the high seas? No. “The Congress shall have Power To... To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and...
The Allies Could Have Done More, and Chose Not To
by Clark Patterson | Sep 8, 2025 | Featured Articles, History
Over the last year, a renewed controversy has arisen over the morality of World War II. For the last eighty years, World War II has been sold in the West as "The Good War" in which the United Kingdom and the United States, in spite of committing some war crimes, saved...
Answering Ron Paul’s ‘What If…’ Speech
by James Rushmore | Sep 8, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On February 12, 2009, Dr. Ron Paul (R-TX) delivered one of his most striking speeches on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. Since referred to as the “What If…” speech, Paul’s remarks offer a precise distillation of the libertarian critique of U.S. foreign...
TGIF: Trump and the Separation of Powers
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 5, 2025 | Economics, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The U.S. Court of Appeals' rejection last week of the Trump administration's global "emergency" tariff program was a welcome affirmation of the separation-of-powers doctrine. Next stop: the U.S. Supreme Court. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a 9-0 ruling that Trump...
No Peace in Ukraine? Blame the ‘Unusual’ Suspects
by Ted Snider | Sep 5, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
While on the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised he could end the war in Ukraine within twenty-four hours of being elected and before he even arrives in office. Peace has proven more difficult. Blame has frequently shifted from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky...
Britain’s Example Vindicates Rand Paul’s Opposition to ‘Kids Online Safety Act’
by Jack Hunter | Sep 4, 2025 | Featured Articles, Politics
In July 2024, Rand Paul (R-KY) was one of only three senators who voted against the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), legislation that sought to protect children from harmful material online. The other two were Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR)....
Washington’s Fiscal Doom-Loop
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Sep 4, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles
With U.S. gross debt now at a staggering $37 trillion—roughly equivalent to the combined debt of all other major advanced economies—Washington is trapped in a fiscal doom loop of its own making. Decades of bipartisan overspending have pushed the nation to a point...
Israel And The West Set The Stage For Next Round Of Warfare On Iran
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Sep 3, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Peace-loving people throughout the world breathed a sigh of relief when the Israeli-American war on Iran ended in June after 12 days, with President [Donald] Trump racing to triumphantly declare US strikes had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program. While his rhetoric...
Blitzkrieg Blowback: Nazi Warlord Primed To Lead Post-War Ukraine
by Scott Horton and John Weeks | Sep 2, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On February 19, 2021, almost exactly one year before Russia would invade Ukraine, President Joe Biden addressed the Virtual Munich Security Conference. He said: “We’re at an inflection point between those who argue that, given all the challenges we face—from the...
Capitalism Isn’t Responisble for Society’s Flaws; You Are
by Joseph Klein | Sep 2, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
“Capitalism is killing the planet—it’s time to stop buying into our own destruction.”- The Guardian The more disordered modern society becomes the more loudly we hear a common diagnosis: capitalism wanted this. Blaming capitalism has long been the status quo for the...
Afternoon Special: Happy Birthday Hans-Hermann Hoppe
by Alan Mosley | Sep 2, 2025 | Featured Articles
Hans‑Hermann Hoppe, born September 2, 1949, has carved a singular niche in libertarian thought. After earning a doctorate in philosophy in Germany, he moved to the United States in the 1980s to study under economist Murray Rothbard. His books A Theory of Socialism and...
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House Passes Defense Spending Bill that Includes Repeal of Iraq Wars Authorizations
The Legislation provides nearly $900 billion in funding to the Department of War The House of Representatives passed its version of the annual Pentagon spending bill. The legislation includes the repeal of the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) for the...
Israeli Strikes on Media Offices Kill At Least 25 Journalists in Yemen
Yemeni opposition officials warned that the Israeli attacks are leading to broader support for Ansar Allah An Israeli attack on Yemen hit the offices of two newspapers in Sanaa, killing dozens of journalists and civilians. The Yemeni Journalists Union condemned the...
Germany to Add More Than 100,000 Troops to Army in Preparation for War With Russia
The head of the German army is calling for more than doubling its forces in response to a perceived threat from Russia. The Army Chief said Berlin must be ready to fight a war with Moscow by 2029. Reuters reports viewing confidential German documents that show Army...
Senators Seek to Ramp Up Economic War on Russia
A bipartisan group of Senators is introducing a new bill that will place Russia and Belarus on the State Sponsor of Terrorism list. Senator Lindsey Graham is lobbying President Donald Trump to support legislation that will put 500% tariffs on China and India for...
NATO Used F-35s and $450 Million Missiles to Down Russian Decoy Drones in Poland
The North Atlantic Alliance used some of its most advanced military equipment to shoot down a small number of Russian drones that crossed into Polish airspace from Ukraine. A NATO official said using fighter jets to down Russian drones is not sustainable. The German...
NATO War Planes Shoot Down Russian Drones Over Poland
Russian drones crossed into Polish airspace and were downed by NATO fighter jets. A European official claimed the incursion in Polish airspace was an intentional provocation by Moscow. On Wednesday, 19 Russian drones crossed into Polish airspace from Ukraine. The...
Netanyahu Threatens Additional Assassination Attempts of Hamas Officials in Qatar
After a failed attempt to assassinate the leadership of Hamas’s political bureau in Qatar, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened more attacks if Doha did not arrest the Palestinian officials. On Wednesday, Netanyahu told Qatar to expel Hamas or “bring...
Jared Kushner Joins Top US and Israeli Officials in Gaza Meeting
The top confidants of President Donald Trump and Israeli Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met to discuss a proposal to end the conflict in Gaza that would require Hamas to release all Israeli hostages at the start of the ceasefire. Axios reports Trump’s envoy Steve...
Hamas Negotiators Survive Israeli Assassination Strikes in Qatar
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered strikes on the Hamas political leadership in Qatar. Tel Aviv informed the White House of the attack as it was occurring. Hamas leaders survived the attack. On Tuesday, Israel targeted a house in Qatar where Hamas...
Israeli Supreme Court Orders that Detained Palestinians Must Be Fed
The Israeli Supreme Court ruled that Israel must feed detained Palestinians three meals per day. National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has bragged about deliberately creating harsh conditions for Palestinians locked in Israeli prisons.
Blog
Charlie Kirk’s Assassin Caught
My thoughts on the news that they caught Charlie Kirk's murderer.
Charlie, Iryna, and MMA
My boy Kym is back to discuss the news and MMA.
Violence Did Not Silence the Voice of Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk’s last word was “violence,” but his last act, before an act of violence took his life, was an act of non-violence: the act of speaking that word. He died doing what he did all his brief adult life: working to persuade others through peaceful, yet...
Anti-War Blog – “Never Again”
“Never again.” Those words were spoken in the wake of the second world war, the revelation and realisation that a sophisticated, educated and civilsed nation of people could commit atrocities of such a scale. Not merely a genocide, a regime of torture, slavery and...
The F35 Follies: The Grift Keeps on Giving
I took months off to work on other projects and catch up on other business. I'm back. The F35 continues to be the gift that keeps on grifting. The F35B and C models are the Marine Corps Short Takeoff/Vertical Landing (STOVL) and US Navy aircraft respectively. Both the...
Trucking w/Gord
Gord is back to discuss the problems being exposed in the trucking industry.
Capitalism Civilizes
"Participation in capitalist markets and bourgeois virtues has civilized the world. It has 'civilized' the world in more than one of the word's root senses, that is, making it 'citified,' from the mere increase in a rich population. It has too, I claim, as many...
Hope for Gen Z w/J. Burden
J. Burden joined me to discuss the major problems conflicting Gen Z.
My Fabric, My Choice: On Trump’s EO Banning Flag Burning
On August 25, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at people who burn or desecrate the American flag. The order instructs the U.S. attorney general to “vigorously prosecute” offenders, imposes a mandatory one‑year jail sentence for anyone who...
Many Lives, One Suburb.
She just turned ninety, her body withering along with her mind. She dithers and smiles, walks slowly among the isles, she is never alone when outside, she remains lonely. She has always been a pensioner, never worked. Her husband died thirty years ago, now with three...