Recently, Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire tweeted that Singapore is able have “nice things” (referring to the technological and economic advancements the country has made) because of their severe penalties on criminals, including the execution of drug traffickers. This...
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Price Inflation Slows, But the Economy Keeps Getting Worse
by Ryan McMaken | Jan 26, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released new Producer Price Index (PPI) data on Wednesday, and it looks like the rate of increase in price inflation is slowing. Nonetheless, year-over-year price inflation in December remained near 40-year highs, and shows the...
WATCH: Cop Executes Unarmed Man on Knees With Hands Up
by Matt Agorist | Jan 26, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
The Free Thought Project has reported on countless killer cops before, many of them with several notches in their belts for killing the citizens they are sworn to protect. However, Modesto police officer Joseph Lamantia, a 12-year veteran of the force, has shot five...
What If the Davos Agenda Has Already Been Defeated?
by Tom Luongo | Jan 25, 2023 | Featured Articles
In November 2021 I wrote a piece entitled “Have We Finally Reached Peak Davos?” This article was scarily spot on. When you’ve written as much as I have over the past five years, however, it’s easy to look back and point at how prescient you were. Even if you’ve gotten...

Another Cycle of Debt Ceiling Hysteria
by Ron Paul | Jan 25, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
This week the U.S. government reached its 31.4 trillion dollars borrowing limit, better known as the “debt ceiling.” This led to a showdown among House Republicans, President Biden, and congressional Democrats. House Republicans are demanding that President Biden and...

Davos’ Damndest Delusion: FBI As Good Guys?
by Jim Bovard | Jan 24, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
You can judge an audience by how much bullshit they accept from the podium. By that standard, the World Economic Forum attendees in Davos, Switzerland last week were either depraved or craven. Why else would FBI chief Christopher Wray not get hooted down for...

‘Defend the Guard’ Receives Outstanding Committee Hearing in New Hampshire
by Dan McKnight | Jan 24, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
"I didn't know a lot about the Guard problem until I got involved in this, and the folks from Bring Our Troops Home sent me this very, extremely informative booklet on defending the Guard. And it's now called the Defend the Guard bill." That’s how State Rep. John...
The Idea of Making a ‘Trillion Dollar Coin’ Is Still Dumb
by Ryan McMaken | Jan 24, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
Here we go again. Every few years in Congress there is a purely political battle over the debt ceiling. We're supposed to be horrified and worried that the U.S. might default on some of its debt. Some commentators will insist the U.S. has never defaulted, and that...