“You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” — Matthew 7:5 I grew up going to numerous youth group events, Christian summer camps, weekly chapels at my Christian high school, and...
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CENTCOM Commander: No Evidence For Russian Bounties on U.S. Troops
by Dave DeCamp | Sep 15, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Months after The New York Times reported that Russia secretly offered bounties to the Taliban to kill US troops in Afghanistan, a top US commander says a detailed review of all available intelligence found no corroboration of the story. Gen. Frank McKenzie, commander...
What We Can Learn From ‘The Untouchables’
by Kym Robinson | Sep 13, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
The 1987 film ‘The Untouchables’ starring Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, and Robert DeNiro is perhaps for law enforcement what ‘Rocky’ is for boxing. It is the Hollywood tainted story of Elliot Ness, the United States Treasury agent who helped to bring down Al Capone...
A 19 Year Retrospective on the War on Terror
by Jim Bovard | Sep 12, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Nineteen years after the 9/11 attacks, the War on Terror is still the biggest sham of this century. President George W. Bush promised to “rid the world of evil” and instead unleashed war and carnage. American troops are now fighting in 14 nations as part of an endless...
The Lie of Rwanda
by Jared Wall | Sep 11, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
When Barack Obama launched his war against Libya in 2011, a war that resulted in a bloody chaos that continues to this day, Susan Rice and Samantha Power both invoked the memory of Rwanda as justification. According to them, Muammar Qaddafi was on the verge of...
America’s War on Terror Has Displaced Millions
by David Vine | Sep 11, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The wars the U.S. government has fought since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, have forced 37 million people—and perhaps as many as 59 million—from their homes, according to a newly released report from American University and Brown University’s Costs of War Project....
Making Politics More Like a Free Market
by Sukhayl Niyazov | Sep 10, 2020 | Featured Articles, Politics
Free-market capitalism is the most successful economic system in history, as it has brought unprecedented prosperity and powered vast improvements in all aspects of human well-being. However, in spite of capitalism’s success, the application of economic ideas to...
ATIXA: Willful Non-Compliance With Title IX?
by Wendy McElroy | Sep 9, 2020 | Featured Articles
Just because a law is passed does not mean it is enacted. Implementation requires a bureaucracy willing to carry out the law rather than obstruct it. A new Title IX regulation was published on May 6; this section of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 prohibits...