The film Gaslight (1944), directed by George Cukor and starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer, relays the story of a con artist, Sergis Bauer, who under the assumed name of Gregory Anton seduces and marries a young woman, Paula Alquist. The smitten bride has no...
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SWAT Team Blew Up Old Woman’s House, Sent Her Bill for $50,000 Repairs
by Matt Agorist | Dec 6, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In July of last year, Vicki Baker, 75, was excited to move on to the next chapter of her life in Montana by selling her home she owned for 12 years in McKinney, Texas. That sale would never take place on schedule, however, because the day before she was supposed to...
TGIF: Safety in Freedom
by Sheldon Richman | Dec 3, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
With the emergence of the Omicron COVID-19 variant, renewed restrictions on liberty or calls for their reinstatement have broken out around the world. The new wave is probably only beginning, and with it will surely come sermons on how we must face trade-offs between...
All the Trouble in the World: The Ron Paul Doctrine
by Dan McAdams | Dec 3, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Daniel McAdams is executive director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity and coproducer/cohost of the Ron Paul Liberty Report. Daniel served as the foreign affairs, civil liberties, and defense/intel policy advisor to US congressman Ron Paul from 2001...
What a Homeschooling Surge Means for Our Future
by Alice Salles | Dec 2, 2021 | Featured Articles
Parents across America were caught unprepared for the mass closure of government schools in 2020. Soon after, however, many decided they and their children had had enough of the status quo. Now at a crossroads, will they choose reform or repudiation? The wave of...
Australia’s History of Benevolent Fascism
by Kym Robinson | Dec 1, 2021 | Featured Articles
You can read Part I of this essay, published in September 2021, here. Australia has had a history of complicated relationships between the governments that ruled over its vast sunburned lands and the individual citizens subject to such rule. The states and territories...
Trial Begins For Female Cop Who Shot Minneosta Man, While Claiming To Reach for Taser
by Matt Agorist | Dec 1, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Just miles from where George Floyd took his last breaths on Earth as they were squeezed from his body by officer Derek Chauvin, Daunte Wright was targeted by police over an alleged expired tag. Because the American police state is a violent behemoth which knows no...
Joe Biden’s Cold War China Bluff
by Mike Swanson | Nov 30, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Tensions between the United States and China blew open during the Trump administration after President Trump launched a trade war against China. Those tensions have increased during the Biden administration. Both countries have taken actions that its citizens have...