According to a CNN report, President Joe Biden plans to reinstate Obama-era limits on a federal police militarization program. While this sounds like progress toward ending the militarization of local police departments, the Obama limits were little more than...
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How Reddit Killed Stakeholder Theory
by Jeff Deist | Feb 4, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
The GameStop saga shows some "equity" movements are more equal than others. Stakeholder theory, the corporate version of social justice, attempts to install this hopelessly amorphous concept of "equity" in the business world. Equity, unlike equality, demands different...
The Last Thing Burma Needs Is the U.S. Military
by Doug Bandow | Feb 4, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On Sunday night—Monday morning in Burma (or Myanmar)—the Tatmadaw, or military, long noted for its venality and brutality, staged a coup. Troops detained Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s informal head of government, along with other leading members of her party....
2020 – The Longest Year of My Life In Review
by Peter R. Quiñones | Feb 3, 2021 | Libertarianism, Op Eds, Peter Quinones, Politics
A Requiem on Facts If you’ve ever heard me share my “origin story” you know that it’s a pretty common story for many. I was watching a 2007 presidential debate and this guy I had never heard of before, in the middle of the “War on Terror,” states plainly that the...
The Macabre ‘Normalcy’ of Joe Biden
by Connor Freeman | Feb 3, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
The laughable campaign sales pitch the American people were suffocated with over the past year and before was that Joe Biden, apartheid “Israel’s man in Washington” as well as the de facto author of the Patriot Act, was going save us from President Donald Trump’s...
New Report Obscures Killing of Duncan Lemp
by Jim Bovard | Feb 3, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
One of the most positive developments from last year's political strife was a stronger focus on police abuses and no-knock raids. Some states and cities have imposed new restrictions, others are working toward greater transparency when it comes to police...
Federal Police Beat Veteran, Supreme Court May Hear Case
by John Kramer | Feb 2, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
José Oliva survived the bloodiest year in Vietnam, but he most feared for his life when he was brutally beaten in an unprovoked attack by federal officers in a Veterans Affairs hospital in his hometown of El Paso, Texas that left him with several injuries, two of...
‘Libertarian Terrorists’
by Ron Paul | Feb 2, 2021 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
The Department of Homeland Security issued on Wednesday a nationwide terror alert lasting until April 30. The alert warns of potential terrorist attacks from Americans who are “ideologically motivated” and have “objections to the exercise of government authority and...