The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet is a nice book title. It might even be an interesting read. But it is also false. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He stated that the power of the Web was its universality as a permissionless, decentralized,...
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Remembering the Tea Party, Fifteen Years Later
by Dale Steinreich | Dec 19, 2022 | Featured Articles, Politics
December 16, 2022, is the fifteenth anniversary of the modern Tea Party. That fact will come as a surprise to many readers who take the mainstream narrative about the Tea Party at face value. The mainstream account begins on February 19, 2009, when Rick Santelli, live...
The True History of the Bill of Rights
by Michael Boldin | Dec 19, 2022 | Featured Articles
Today [December 15] is “Bill of Rights Day”—commemorating ratification on December 15, 1791. But what the government-run schools—and supporters of the monster state—“teach” about the Bill of Rights has almost nothing to do with the foundational principles which...
TGIF: The State Fuels Identity Politics
by Sheldon Richman | Dec 16, 2022 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Anyone with an ounce of good sense knows that destructive identity politics is run amuck in America and elsewhere. All incentives these days seem to go in one direction: toward identifying oneself as a member of an aggrieved group supposedly due compensation through...
Washington Erases Red Lines, Escalates Proxy War with Russia
by Connor Freeman | Dec 15, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Since the Cuban Missile Crisis, the possibilities of nuclear war have never been higher. The American ruling class and NATO picked a fight with Russia on its borders and have sought to use Ukraine as a human battering ram to “weaken” Moscow, eying a larger, future...
Turning Down the Noise in the CPI Numbers
by David Stockman | Dec 15, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
So the talking heads of bubblevision think inflation is abating, but what about this: Federal revenues in November posted at $252 billion—10.3% below last November—while spending came in at $501 billion. And the latter included an ominous +53% rise in Federal debt...
Some Aussie Songs Against the Wars
by Kym Robinson | Dec 14, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Music can be powerful, possessing the ability to conjure emotion in a few minutes what an essay never could. Australia has a rich history of talented singers, writers, and performers creating music that is unique to the sunburned continent. Australia also has a rebel...
Cop Fired For Feeding Homeless Man a ‘Shit Sandwich’ Is Rehired 30 Miles Away
by Matt Agorist | Dec 14, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In November of 2016, the Free Thought Project brought you the disgusting story of a San Antonio cop putting feces on a piece of bread and giving it to a homeless man as food. For making a literal sh*t sandwich, San Antonio police officer Matthew Luckhurst was fired....