Highlighting the pervasive issue of police abuse, a North County Police Cooperative (NCPC) officer in St. Louis County, recently found himself on the receiving end of criminal charges. The charges came after a shocking revelation—this officer allegedly allowed his own...
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Taking Notes Out of Rothbard’s Taiwan Playbook
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | May 16, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Writing pseudonymously in a series of articles for Faith and Freedom in the 1950s, Murray Rothbard took on the question of whether or not the United States should defend Formosa (Taiwan) from attack by mainland China. While his conclusions will surprise no one...
With Upgraded Missiles, Ukraine Prepares to Strike Russian Heartland Despite Assurances
by Ted Snider | May 16, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
It’s a pattern Ukrainian officials have commented on before: be patient. The West says no to more advanced weapons and then comes around to sending them. It happened with HIMARS rocket systems, tanks, and fighter jets. The pattern seems to have been repeated again....
Only a Society That Values Life Can Protect Against Mass Shootings
by Ron Paul | May 16, 2023 | Featured Articles
Gun control advocates continue to claim that only restrictions on gun ownership will keep people safe from mass shooters and other criminals. However, good people with guns can stop bad people with guns. And bad people will still have guns despite gun control laws....
The Biden Crime Family and Our Corrupt Foreign Aid
by Jim Bovard | May 15, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
I know Romanian corruption. When I was exiting the country after investigating its collapsing economy in 1987, I made sure to bribe every guard who searched my luggage at the Bucharest airport with a pack of Kent cigarettes. But I neglected to give a pack to the...
On Korea, Joe Biden Is Choosing Every Bad Option
by Ted Galen Carpenter | May 15, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Joe Biden has managed to embrace nearly all of the worst, most dangerous options with respect to U.S. policy on the Korean Peninsula. Washington’s policy toward North Korea is utterly sterile and ineffective. The glimpses of hope during Donald Trump’s administration...
Did the NSA Spy on Devin Nunes?
by Ken Silva | May 15, 2023 | Featured Articles
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson recently said that the “head” of the House Intelligence Committee once told him that the National Security Agency was reading the congressman’s texts. Evidence suggests that Carlson was speaking of former congressman Devin Nunes,...
TGIF: Ducking Hayek
by Sheldon Richman | May 12, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
May 8 marked the 124th anniversary of the birth of F. A. Hayek, the 1974 Nobel-winning economist of the Austrian school. (He died in 1992.) That makes it a good time to acknowledge one of his many contributions, his epistemic case for the free and competitive market...