As TFTP has consistently reported, police officers in the United States have an exceedingly higher rate of domestic violence than any other occupation. The average rate of domestic violence among most families in America is around 10%. As the National Center for Women...
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How Turkey Inspired Its Little Brother, Azerbaijan
by Armen Tigranakert | Apr 5, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
During a recent visit to the captured areas of Nagorno-Karabakh, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev ordered the destruction of historical inscriptions on the Armenian churches, calling them “fake.” The order aiming to erase the region’s cultural and religious...
What High Interest Rates Mean for a Debtor Nation
by Doug French | Apr 5, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
If there is anything Wall Street banks crave is relief. Primarily relief from the potential for failure and, next, relief from holding much, if any, equity capital. These banks like their capital tiny and their profits huge. Losses should be socialized. After all, we...
TGIF: Targeted Advertising Violates No Liberty
by Sheldon Richman | Apr 2, 2021 | Economics, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Last week I modestly attempted to show that no injustice takes place when A sells B the opportunity to pitch its product to C. This is the principle behind print, television, and radio advertising, and it is no different in the era of social networks like Facebook. In...
Pascal’s Wager for COVIDystopic Times or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying about the Coronapocalypse and Eat Krispy Kreme Doughnuts
by Laurie Calhoun | Apr 2, 2021 | Featured Articles
Being of a naturally skeptical bent, I have harbored doubts from the very beginning about the upheaval of the entire world rationalized by politicians everywhere because of a virus which kills less than 1% of the people it infects. I watched in amazement as country...
Scott Horton Testifies Before Texas House Committee
by Iris Poole | Apr 2, 2021 | Featured Articles, Politics
Legislation that would require Congress to declare war before the Texas National Guard would be sent into active combat status is moving through the legislative process. House Bill 2701, by State Rep. Bryan Slaton (R–Royse City), was heard on Monday before the House...
Epistocracy and the Nature of Political Knowledge
by Brice M. Vanhaelen | Apr 1, 2021 | Featured Articles
Many intellectuals and philosophers have suggested that society would be better ruled if political power was concentrated citizens according to their knowledge. For instance, Plato proposed a system of governance, called Noocracy, where decision making is in the hands...
COVID-19 Passports, Step by Step
by Adam Dick | Apr 1, 2021 | Featured Articles
With reports that President Joe Biden’s administration is planning for imposing a vaccine passport mandate in America, expect to see in the media a deluge of vaccine passport propaganda. What will that propaganda look like? A template illustrating several elements you...