“If an insufficient patriotism is one of the ills of contemporary America,” declares National Review editor Rich Lowry, “then a national divorce would prescribe arsenic as a cure. It would burn down America to save America, or at least those parts of America it...
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Double Standard Drones
by J. W. Rich | Oct 20, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On August 29, 2021, the U.S. forces in Afghanistan conducted an airstrike against an ISIS-K leader in Kabul. Tensions had been running high throughout the city, as just several days ago a deadly terrorist attack was carried out that killed over 70 people, including...
Foreign Actors Behind the Revolutionary Curtain
by Peyton Gouzien | Oct 19, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Libertarians are quick to support revolutions, especially the American Revolution, as popular uprisings against a tyrannical regime. It is a narrative that allows one to believe that certain political movements are on the “right side of history." They are often rare...
Report: Nashville’s ‘Kids for Cash’ Sentencing Scheme
by Matt Agorist | Oct 19, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In 2008, a case of two judges from Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania—Michael Conahan and Mark Ciavarella—shocked the country when these insidious human beings were convicted of accepting money in return for imposing harsh adjudications on juveniles to increase occupancy at...
Texas Is Not Free: A Case of Civil Asset Forfeiture
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Oct 18, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
On May 14, 2019, Ameal Woods drove from rural Mississippi to Houston with $42,300 in cash. He was ready to achieve a major goal he and his wife had worked, saved and borrowed for: Purchasing a second semi truck for the fledgling trucking business he operated with his...
TGIF: Inflation Is Evil
by Sheldon Richman | Oct 15, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
When will Americans demand that the government denationalize money and free the market to do what it does better than anything else: serve the general welfare rather than the special interests? It's hard to know what it would take to bring this about, but inflation...
When Barack Obama Got Away with Murder
by Jim Bovard | Oct 15, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
[Yesterday was] the 10th anniversary of the drone killing of Abdulrahman Al-Aulaqi, a 16 year old born in Colorado and killed in Yemen. He perished as part of Obama’s crackdown on terrorist suspects around the world. His father, who was also an American citizen, was...
The War on Drugs for Her
by Kym Robinson | Oct 14, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
She had just turned fifteen. She was a good girl, though some of her friends had a wilder side. They did like to party. She was excited to attend a music festival, a large one geared to people under eighteen. While she was there the police were conducting an operation...