New reports from across the country show that police departments are unable to keep their numbers up as fewer people are applying to be cops and record numbers of cops are seeking early retirement or simply quitting. There is a police recruitment crisis in America but...
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The Military-Industrial Complex Has a Vote in War Too
by Ron Paul | May 5, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Even if “won,” endless wars like our 20 year assault on Afghanistan would not benefit our actual national interest in the slightest. So why do these wars continue endlessly? Because they are so profitable to powerful and well-connected special interests. In fact, the...
No, Vaccine Passports Are Not ‘Libertarian’
by Ryan McMaken | May 5, 2021 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Earlier this month, the conservative magazine known as The Spectator published an article with the absurd title “The Libertarian Case for Vaccine Passports.” The online version now bears the title “Vaccine Passports Are a Ticket to Freedom,” but the physical print...
Should Libertarians Compromise with Taxing Marijuana?
by Laurence Vance | May 4, 2021 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Marijuana freedom is a good thing. The taxation of marijuana is a bad thing. Unfortunately, owing to the greed of spendthrift politicians, it looks as though we will have to take the good with the bad or not at all. Now, this does not mean that smoking marijuana is...
Cop Walks Up, Sucker Punches Random Teen
by Matt Agorist | May 4, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
On the day he was attacked by those he has been told are their for his protection, high school sophomore, Carlos Rodriguez had committed no crime, was not suspected of committing a crime, and was simply being a kid. However, his innocent, compliance with officer...
2021 Will Decide the Future of Military Conscription
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | May 3, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The coming year could bring a major milestone to America’s fitful relationship with the military draft: The Supreme Court may declare male-only draft registration unconstitutional, while Congress could either expand registration to women or end it altogether. Out of...
Cops Sic Dog on Sleeping 13 Year Old Boy, Falsely Accuse Him of Stealing Car
by Matt Agorist | May 3, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
The Cedar Rapids police department was slapped with a lawsuit this week by the mother of a 13-year-old boy who was mauled by a police K-9 as he slept in the backyard. According to the lawsuit, the boy was wrongly accused of being involved in a car theft when he was...
TGIF: Bust the Conservative “Trust Busters”
by Sheldon Richman | Apr 30, 2021 | Economics, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
When right-wing leader Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) recently declared that "liberty and monopoly do not go together," I fantasized that he had become a free-market anarchist. When I hear monopoly, I think government because what's the most literal of monopolies (or source...