With Thursday’s passage of a continuing resolution that funds government operations until December 3rd, Congress dodged one fiscal cliff, but a bigger one looms ahead. The federal government has maxed out its credit, and if Congress doesn’t raise the statutory debt...
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TGIF: Why “Science Denial”?
by Sheldon Richman | Oct 1, 2021 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
In a new book two professors of psychology, Gale Sinatra and Barbara Hofer, seek to explain why what they call "science denial" is rampant today and how dangerous it is. They also give their account in a strange conversation with Michael Shermer, the editor of...
The Only Police Reform That Matters
by Keith Knight | Sep 29, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
This is a partial transcript taken from an episode of the podcast Don't Treat on Anyone, hosted by Keith Knight. You can watch the entire discussion here. Keith Knight: I want to talk about your most recent work, a book called When All Else Fails: the Ethics of...
Corruption at the Fed: Are America’s Money Masters Engaged in Self-Dealing?
by Jp Cortez | Sep 28, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
America’s central bankers are tasked with impartial oversight over aspects of the American economy. But could these individuals be making decisions on interest rates and bailout operations based on what is best for their own personal investment portfolios? After...
He Thought I Was an Undercover Fed
by Jim Bovard | Sep 27, 2021 | Featured Articles
From the early 1990s onward, I was exposing FBI crimes, lies, and cover-ups. FBI director Louis Freeh publicly denounced me after I wrote a Wall Street Journal piece on the FBI’s killing of an innocent mother holding her baby at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. I continued...
On-Duty Cop Solicited Child for Sex, Will Serve No Jail Time And Won’t Be Registered as Sex Offender
by Matt Agorist | Sep 27, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Benjamin Reinhart, a disgraced officer with Genesee County received some great news this week. Despite being caught up in a child sexual trafficking sting, he won’t have to go to jail and he won’t have to register publicly as a sex offender. Reinhart was “sentenced”...
TGIF: Beware the Government-“Science” Complex
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 24, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The government-"science" complex ostensibly promotes the search for facts about our world, but it actually promotes and enforces orthodoxy, protects resulting paradigms, and manufactures apparent consensuses that are questioned only at one's reputational peril. That's...
The Fed Is Planning For More Inflation
by Ryan McMaken | Sep 24, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
In late August, Fed chairman Jerome Powell suggested that the Federal Reserve would begin tapering before the end of the year, an admission that price inflation was rising above the 2 percent target. Nonetheless, the Fed took no immediate action in the following...