Last week, the Free Thought Project reported on HR 127, the most tyrannical gun bill ever proposed. The bill would target the poor by forcing citizens to pay $800 per year to possess firearms that they are required to register. It also bans multiple legal guns and...
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As Biden Improves Yemen Policy, Activists Must Push Him Further
by Connor Freeman | Feb 9, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Surprisingly, Joe Biden has done some good as President. On Yemen, he ostensibly looks to be favoring diplomacy and ending support for the Saudis’ “offensive” operations, including stopping all “relevant” arms sales. Two U.S. sales of precision guided munitions, from...
Innocent Man Appeals For Release From Guantanamo Bay
by Dave DeCamp | Feb 9, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
With calls growing for President Biden to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, an inmate of the notorious detention facility appealed to the president for his release in an article for the Independent. Ahmed Rabbani described the nightmare he has lived since he was...
Mali and the Confiscation of Moral Sentiment
by Nick Weber | Feb 8, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Uncategorized
For fiscal year 2021, the total United States military budget has come in at a staggaring $934 billion dollars, which includes a base budget of $636 billion dollars plus ancillary Department Of Defense spending and Veterans Affairs related expenses. This easily dwarfs...
Does Oregon’s Decriminalization Signal An End to the War on Drugs?
by Bradley Thomas | Feb 6, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Oregon became the first state to decriminalize possession of otherwise illegal drugs. According to this Feb. 1 Associated Press article, “Police in Oregon can no longer arrest someone for possession of small amounts of heroin, methamphetamine, LSD, oxycodone and other...
Joe Biden’s Plan to Repeal the Second Amendment
by Matt Agorist | Feb 6, 2021 | Featured Articles, Politics
HR127, known as the Sabika Sheikh Firearm Licensing and Registration Act introduced by Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18], is, without a doubt, the most tyrannical gun control bill ever proposed. Like all gun control measures, this bill would hit the poor and minority...
TGIF: Imperial America, Which Never Left, Is Back
by Sheldon Richman | Feb 5, 2021 | Foreign Policy, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
In a cliche-ridden foreign-policy speech delivered at the State Department on Thursday, President Joe Biden declared that "America is back"--on the global stage, presumably, as policeman of the world, but certainly not a disinterested policeman. The problem is that it...
‘Incitement’ Is A Fake Crime
by Ryan McMaken | Feb 5, 2021 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Former president Donald Trump has been impeached for “incitement to insurrection.” The House Democrats’ claim is that Trump made an inflammatory speech which—a week later—led to the Capitol riot of January 6. The Senate is now considering whether or not to convict...