By a vote of 284-129, the House of Representatives soundly defeated an amendment to establish a plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan. A slight plurality of Democrats supported the measure, with most of the leadership opposing. All Republicans except two voted...
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Want Less Police Brutality? Write Less Laws
by Justin Murray | Jul 22, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
One of the most perplexing displays of cognitive dissonance this year is the strong support for a large state can be found within the various protest movements that are targeting the issue of law enforcement misconduct. Logically, groups opposing police misconduct...
Economic Disaster: Deficit Skyrockets As Unemployment Freezes
by Ryan McMaken | Jul 18, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
New tax revenue data released by the Treasury Department on Monday shows that tax revenue further worsened in June (compared year over year) from May's already cratering total. On the plus side, neither May nor June has returned to April's historic plunge in revenue....
A Halo for the Civil War is Hogwash
by Jim Bovard | Jul 16, 2020 | Featured Articles
“If the people who started wars didn’t make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?” said Rhett Butler, the savvy anti-hero in Gone with the Wind. Politicians, activist historians, and social justice warriors have awarded the American Civil War an ex post...
June Was One of the Most Expensive Months On Record
by Michael Maharrey | Jul 16, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
The federal budget deficit in the month of June totaled nearly the entire 2019 fiscal year shortfall and would rank sixth largest-ever if it were a yearly deficit. The June deficit came in at $864.1 billion dollars, according to the latest Treasury Department report....
How Fed Policy Could Cause More Riots
by Ron Paul | Jul 16, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly both recently denied that the Federal Reserve’s policies create economic inequality. Unfortunately for Powell, Daly, and other Fed promoters, a cursory look at the Fed’s operations shows...
How the U.S. Government Gave $200 Million to the Protectors of Pedophile Priests
by Matt Agorist | Jul 15, 2020 | Featured Articles
Over the past week, a conspiracy theory about Wayfair selling children in cabinets took the internet by storm. Sadly, without giving it much thought, people took this unfounded claim and ran with it—distracting from actual, provable conspiracies. Selling expensive...
NPR Report on Florida’s Record Infections Misleads Its Audience
by Eric Schuler | Jul 14, 2020 | Featured Articles
This Monday, NPR consumers woke up to this alarming report on the coronavirus: Florida Smashes U.S. State Record Of Daily New Cases: More Than 15,200 Not content to scare readers in the headline, the dire framing continues in body of the report, which was discussed on...