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Murray Rothbard, Mr. Libertarian, Turns 100

by Alan Mosley | Mar 2, 2026 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism

On March 2, 1926, Murray Rothbard was born in the Bronx, New York, an only child of immigrant parents. His father worked as a chemist and his mother encouraged his voracious reading. Early interests in history and logic foreshadowed a career in which he relentlessly scrutinized economic models, historical narratives and political myths. Rothbard enrolled at Columbia University at sixteen and earned a B.A. in mathematics and economics, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. He completed a Ph.D. under Joseph Dorfman with a dissertation on The Panic of 1819, showing how an early U.S. central bank triggered...

Immigration Policy Requires Facts, Not Sentimentalism

by Alan Mosley | Feb 26, 2026 | Featured Articles

When Alysa Liu glided across the ice in Milan to claim gold at the 2026 Winter Olympics, the celebration was immediate and well deserved. She is a remarkable athlete. What followed just as quickly, however, was a familiar rhetorical maneuver: the deployment of her story as evidence that America's immigration system needs no serious scrutiny. Liu's father immigrated from China, and within hours, the usual chorus had assembled. Nick Gillespie of Reason magazine captured the sentiment: By accepting large numbers of refugees--political, religious, economic--we not only improve their lives, we...

Jesse Jackson: Peace Abroad, War at Home

by Alan Mosley | Feb 19, 2026 | Featured Articles, Politics

When the Rev. Jesse Jackson died this week in Chicago at age 84, the tributes were predictable. Jackson was a protégé of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., a two‑time presidential candidate, and the most prominent black civil‑rights leader for decades. The Associated Press obituary noted that he continued to speak out for the poor and underrepresented and maintained a schedule of protests and speeches until his body failed him. His family called him a “servant leader” whose crusades spanned voting rights, jobs, education, and health care. At first blush, the narrative is obvious: the Rainbow...

It’s Still a Coverup

by Alan Mosley | Feb 10, 2026 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

When Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act in 2025, its supporters promised something approaching accountability. The bill, championed by Representatives Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA), ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release all unclassified records related to the investigation and prosecution of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplices, including materials on Ghislaine Maxwell, flight logs, travel records, and the names of individuals, including government officials, referenced in the investigation. The act allowed redactions only to...

Lockheed Martin To Ramp Up THAAD Missile Production

by Alan Mosley | Jan 29, 2026 | News

Lockheed Martin announced on January 29 that it will quadruple production of its THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) missile interceptors under a new Pentagon framework agreement. Annual interceptor output will rise from about 96 to 400 per year. “Today’s agreement to quadruple THAAD production means we will have more interceptors available than ever before to deter our adversaries,” said Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet. The announcement comes as part of a flurry of recent munitions-production initiatives: it follows a deal to more than triple production of Patriot PAC-3...

Netanyahu Blames IDF Losses on Biden

by Alan Mosley | Jan 28, 2026 | News

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a Jerusalem press conference on Tuesday, January 27, that Israeli soldiers died in Gaza because the United States imposed an “arms embargo” during Joe Biden’s presidency that left the Israel Defense Forces short of ammunition. Netanyahu said the alleged embargo ended when President Donald Trump took office, and he provided no number of deaths and no dates for when the shortage occurred. Former Biden officials Amos Hochstein and Brett McGurk rejected the claim, with McGurk calling it “categorically false.” Netanyahu raised the accusation at...

Isabel Paterson, A Founding Mother of American Libertarianism

by Alan Mosley | Jan 28, 2026 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism

January 22 is a convenient reminder that modern American libertarianism did not begin only in seminar rooms, courtrooms, or party platforms. It also began on the book page, where a few writers treated state worship as an intellectual mistake rather than a civic duty. In 1943, three books appeared that, as one later institutional summary puts it, “changed American politics forever.” Those books were Isabel Paterson’s The God of the Machine, Rose Wilder Lane’s The Discovery of Freedom, and Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. Together, they supplied a moral and analytic vocabulary that later...

Three Journalists Killed in Israeli Airstrike, Including CBS Cameraman

by Alan Mosley | Jan 26, 2026 | News

Three Palestinian journalists – including longtime CBS News freelance cameraman Abed Shaat – were killed on Wednesday, January 21, when an Israeli airstrike hit their vehicle in the Al-Zahra area southwest of Gaza City, according to Gaza’s civil defense agency. The Israel Defense Forces said troops struck “suspects” operating a drone “affiliated with Hamas,” while the Egyptian Relief Committee said the targeted vehicle was on a marked humanitarian mission. CBS mourned Shaat, but its published story did not denounce Israel for the strike. Civil defense officials identified the other two...

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