In a recent editorial, I discussed a new Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) that was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on May 1, 2022, by Adam Kinzinger (R-IL). The proposed AUMF, if passed, would allow President Biden to deploy American...
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Despite Social Media Narratives, School Shootings Remain Incredibly Rare
by Ryan McMaken | May 26, 2022 | Featured Articles
In response to the Robb Elementary School shooting in Texas this week, one now sees repeated claims that school shootings are somehow “normal” or common in the United States. For example, social media at this moment is teeming with users—assuming they’re not...
Truth, Lies and Sussmann
by Peter Van Buren | May 25, 2022 | Featured Articles, Politics
It can be a bittersweet moment when truth is all that's left. Suspicions of infidelity become credit card receipts from a no-tell motel. A Facebook post tells of a meal shared when a business trip was scheduled. It is ugly, especially the certainty you were lied to by...
FBI Claims It Foiled ISIS Plot Against George W. Bush
by Connor Freeman | May 25, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
The FBI claims to have foiled an assassination attempt against former President George W. Bush, alleging the infamous Islamic State terrorist group hatched a globe-spanning plot to kill the ex-commander in chief. Since Forbes first reported the story on Tuesday, the...
Deputies Set Motorcyclist and Themselves on Fire After Tasing Him at Gaspump
by Matt Agorist | May 25, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
As TFTP reported last week, for the last several months, 26-year-old Jean Barreto has been fighting for his life in a Florida hospital after being set on fire by an Osceola County deputy. Barreto was pumping gas when a deputy deployed a taser, ignited the pump,...
Would Your Online Self Pull Over to Help a Stranger?
by Kym Robinson | May 24, 2022 | Featured Articles
It’s raining, late in the evening and you have been driving for most of the day. You want to get home. It’s cold and the pangs of hunger stir. You are on the home straight, and through the darkness and rain your beams of light illuminate the familiar. Suddenly ahead...
How to Build the Biggest ‘Necessary’ Government in History
by TJ Martinell | May 24, 2022 | Featured Articles
One of the most significant (and often abused) clauses in the U.S. Constitution is the “Necessary and Proper” Clause. The clause states: “The Congress shall have Power… To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing...
30 Years With No Strategy Brought Us the War in Ukraine
by Douglas Macgregor | May 23, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Washington DC has not excelled in grand strategy; the art and science of cost-effectively employing the diplomatic, economic, and informational powers of the United States in combination with its armed forces to secure its national goals and interests. Most of the...