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In the Killing of Alex Pretti, Only Libertarians Get it

by Jack Hunter | Feb 2, 2026 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Politics

On January 24, protester and legal gun owner Alex Pretti was shot and killed by United States Customs and Border Protection agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, making national news. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem almost immediately said that Pretti brandished a gun and attacked the officers, yet the footage available from multiple angles demonstrated that this was not the case. In fact, Pretti had been disarmed before he was shot. Many conservatives, both influencers and politicians, rushed to justify the agents’ actions, with a particular emphasis on the reported politics and past...

Mike Huckabee Lectures the World’s Oldest Christian Churches

by Jack Hunter | Jan 26, 2026 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

This month a statement from leaders of some of the most ancient Christian churches around Jerusalem condemned “damaging ideologies, such as Christian Zionism” that “mislead the public” and “sow confusion” that “have found favor among certain political actors in Israel and beyond who seek to push a political agenda which may harm the Christian presence in the Holy Land and the wider Middle East.” Christian Zionism is a belief prevalent among many evangelical Christians that Jews of the Old Testament also represent the current state of Israel formed in 1948 and that true believers should...

Britain’s Example Vindicates Rand Paul’s Opposition to ‘Kids Online Safety Act’

by Jack Hunter | Sep 4, 2025 | Featured Articles, Politics

In July 2024, Rand Paul (R-KY) was one of only three senators who voted against the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), legislation that sought to protect children from harmful material online. The other two were Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR). Senator Paul said of his decision: “How would platforms comply with KOSA’s requirement to mitigate and prevent undefined harms such as anxiety, depression, and eating disorders? Should platforms stop children from seeing war coverage because it could lead to depression? Should pro-life messages be censored because platforms worry it...

Are Democrats More Neocon Than Republicans Now?

by Jack Hunter | Aug 25, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics

Last week as Donald Trump met separately with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine head Volodymyr Zelensky to potentially seek an end to the years long war between their countries, Democrats have been very upset. That peace might happen. They are worried Ukraine might have to make concessions to Russia to reach an agreement, including land. Never mind that it is Ukrainians who are dying. Never mind that most Ukrainians themselves want to end this war. According to a recent Gallup poll, 69% of Ukrainian respondents want a negotiated end to the war as soon as possible, while only 24%...

New Russiagate Allegations Get Cold Shoulder from Media

by Jack Hunter | Jul 29, 2025 | Featured Articles, Politics

On July 18, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard claimed to have “overwhelming evidence” that President Barack Obama himself, as well as key members of his administration, “manufactured and politicized intelligence to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President Trump.” In other words, the basis for the Russiagate collusion hoax claimed by Democrats after the 2016 presidential election in which President Donald Trump allegedly conspired with Russia to win. After a two-year investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, nothing was found that...

Does Superman Make Israel the Villain?

by Jack Hunter | Jul 17, 2025 | Featured Articles

Many say the new Superman movie is a commentary on Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza in which Israel is the villain and the movie’s hero fights for the Palestinians. Director James Gunn has insisted that his movie is not political. If so, why are so many people seeing the same foreign policy parallels in the movie? Let’s examine. Boravia is a fictional country that first appeared in Superman comics in 1939, almost a decade before Israel was founded in 1948. In this movie, Boravia’s president, Vasil Ghurkos, is approached by Superman’s arch nemesis Lex Luthor who offers to provide weapons and...

The Smallness of Mark Levin

by Jack Hunter | Jul 10, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

In 2009, I was working part time in talk radio in Charleston, South Carolina as an on-air personality. I was also the token conservative columnist for the local, liberal free weekly paper. I wasn’t making a lot of money, but I was working in the field I was most interested in at the time. Paying my dues. This is when I was personally targeted by nationally syndicated talk show host Mark Levin. This might sound bizarre. It was. Allow me to explain. In my radio “career” during this time, my antiwar libertarianism was not shared by many of my fellow South Carolinians, but in a post-Ron Paul...

A Neocon Will Always Lie to Get What He Wants

by Jack Hunter | Jun 4, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics

When Barack Obama bombed Libya in 2011, a number of conservative voices spoke out against the president starting an unconstitutional war. Those Republicans insisted that presidents must go through Congress to declare war, as Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution requires. As James Madison wrote to Thomas Jefferson in a 1798 letter: “The Constitution supposes, what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care, vested the question of war in the legislature.”...

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