Next month, the war in Yemen will turn seven. At a minimum, the war has killed 400,000 people. For several years, many notable aid groups have considered Yemen to be the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Over half the population relies on food and medical aid—now...
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The Real ‘National Emergency’ in Canada is Trudeau
by Lee Friday | Feb 17, 2022 | Featured Articles
On February 14, Justin Trudeau invoked emergency powers to crack down on the peaceful truckers' protest in Ottawa. The Emergencies Act became law in 1988, and it has never been used until now. The act contains “a specific definition of “national emergency” that makes...
Lessons from Fentanyl
by Laurie Calhoun | Feb 16, 2022 | Featured Articles
The use of drugs is sometimes characterized as a victimless crime, since the person who ingests them will bear the negative consequences should something go awry. Supporters of prohibition, who wish for the government to regulate and limit sales and distribution, are...
The Government’s Killswitch For Your Car, and Your Freedom
by John Whitehead | Feb 16, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
“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...
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...