As frequent readers of the Free Thought Project know, police officers are arrested weekly in this country for sex crimes involving children. This is a massive problem but becomes even worse when victims of child sex abuse seek out help and run right into the arms of...
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Who Do We Blame?
by Jeffrey Wernick | Nov 23, 2022 | Featured Articles
This is from The Wall Street Journal last week: FTX suffered a “complete failure of corporate controls” that culminated in an “unprecedented debacle,” its new chief executive officer said Thursday. John J. Ray, who has helped oversee some of the biggest bankruptcies...
We Can’t Expect America to Take Its Economic Medicine
by Jeff Deist | Nov 23, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
Does America simply lack the political will to face economic reality? In the teeth of the Depression, Treasury secretary Andrew Mellon famously told President Herbert Hoover to “liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate”—in other...
Vote Buying Surges in Advance of Georgia Runoff
by Jim Bovard | Nov 23, 2022 | Featured Articles, Politics
President Joe Biden is tottering on the edge of his most inefficient vote-buying binge yet. As the runoff race for Georgia’s Senate seat enters its final weeks, the Biden administration may rubberstamp a nationwide handout to snare a handful of Peach State ballots....
NATO Doesn’t Supersede the U.S. Constitution
by Dan McKnight | Nov 22, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As our government continues to bumble and stumble at full speed towards World War III, the concept of tripwires and the legal authority of Article 5 become required understanding for the vigilant citizen. Last week the American people received the then-breaking news...
Search for Easy Money Fueled FTX-Crypto Collapse
by Ryan McMaken | Nov 22, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
The collapse of the crypto exchange FTX may prove to be a canary in the coal mine of the easy-money-fueled crypto bubbles. FTX’s collapse has exposed just how little due diligence is actually taking place among investors, who are apparently willing to put large...
Is Washington’s Aid Spigot to Ukraine About to Dry Up?
by Ron Paul | Nov 22, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Last week the world stood on the very edge of a nuclear war, as Ukraine’s U.S.-funded president, Vladimir Zelensky, urged NATO military action over a missile that landed on Polish soil. "This is a Russian missile attack on collective security! This is a really...
Cop Shoots Unarmed Man in Head, Gets Slap on Wrist
by Matt Agorist | Nov 22, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In December 2017, community members began searching for answers after an unarmed man was shot and killed by a police officer in an unmarked car who claimed that he opened fire because he had his hand in his pocket. But their victim, 25-year-old Dennis Plowden Jr. was...