“A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power.”—Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle If we haven’t learned by now, we should beware of anything the government insists is for our own good. Take the Biden Administration’s Infrastructure Investment and...
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The Case Against ‘Uyghur Genocide’
by Peter Lee | Feb 15, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In Xinjiang, the People's Republic of China (PRC) is conducting perhaps the most intensive program of social engineering in recent history. It is probably trampling on the human rights of Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities, systemically and by design and randomly...
Father Charged With Attempted Murder After Defending Family During Police Raid
by Matt Agorist | Feb 15, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Corey Marioneaux Jr., 24, is a father of two, church-going husband with no criminal record. So when he heard his front door getting smashed in last week just before 5 a.m. as he slept in his bed, the last thing going through his head was, “it must be the cops, I’ll...
Free Crack Pipes? Time to Pardon Tommy Chong
by Jim Bovard | Feb 14, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Conservative publications have accused the Biden administration of planning to distribute $30 million worth of free crack pipes and other paraphernalia as part of its effort to achieve “racial equity” among “underserved communities.” The original notice for federal...
Where We See Costs, the War Party Sees Profit
by Ryan McMaken | Feb 14, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In perhaps the most predictable column of the year, the Wall Street Journal this week featured a column by Walter Russell Mead declaring it's "Time to Increase Defense Spending." Using the Beijing Olympics and the potential Ukraine War to push for funneling ever more...
TGIF: More Voices, Please
by Sheldon Richman | Feb 11, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
If the social media and other high-tech companies, whether under pressure from the state or not, were to lead people to believe that, starting today, only accurate information will get through their gatekeepers, would the public, especially the most gullible, really...
Jimmy Carter, the Great Deregulator
by Norman Singleton | Feb 11, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
One way President Biden can “Build Back Better” is following the example of one of the greatest deregulators to sit in the Oval Office: Jimmy Carter. Whilst most think of Carter as a standard New Deal-Great Society liberal, deregulation was a major part of Carter’s...
Sanctions Set America on the Path to War, Claiming Lives with No Benefit
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Feb 10, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Sanctions have quickly become the foreign policy establishment's favorite tool. Blacklisting governments opposed to the empire's agenda allows for politicians to look tough on 'evil regimes' while stopping short of the type of warfare that is largely opposed by the...