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A 12-Year-Old Is Suing Attorney General Sessions to Legalize a Medicine That Keeps Her Seizure-Free

by Rare | Nov 13, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice

Attorney General Jeff Sessions might be a little shocked at the latest lawsuit filed against the government. Alexis Bortell’s lawsuit to legalize medical marijuana was inspired by her move to Colorado a few years ago, reports Denver’s FOX 31. The 12-year-old was diagnosed with epilepsy when she was a little girl. As her seizures became worse, her pediatrician told her about an out-of-state treatment that might aid her and make serious brain surgery unnecessary: medical marijuana. Her family took the information and left their home in Texas in search of cannabis. “As the seizures got worse,...

Dennis Rodman Could Save Us All from Nuclear War

by Rare | Sep 11, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics

Former Bulls star and North Korea’s leader are an unlikely pair that just may save us all – well, at least from a nuclear disaster that is. Dennis Rodman, who has also paid several visits to Kim Jong Un, says the two talk about everything but politics during Rodman’s trips to North Korea. “I basically hang out with [Kim] all the time,” Rodman who was being interviewed on “Good Morning Britain” this past Wednesday. “We laugh, we sing karaoke, we do a lot of cool things together. We ride horses, we hand out, we go skiing.” Rodman is not only a five-time NBA champion but he is also one of the...

There’s No Reason to Worry About the Supposed “Libertarian to Alt-Right Pipeline”

by Rare | Sep 8, 2017 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism

Much ink has been spilled in the aftermath of Charlottesville about the supposed direct connection between libertarians and the alt-right. “Many prominent leaders of the alt-right have, at some point, identified as libertarian,” Matt Lewis notes in his seminal piece on the subject for the The Daily Beast, pointing to figures like Christopher Cantwell, Stefan Molyneux and Augustus Invictus. “It seems observably true that libertarianism is disproportionately a gateway drug to the alt-right,” he concludes. Lewis’ article incited a firestorm of responses for and against his thesis, from The...

There's No Reason to Worry About the Supposed "Libertarian to Alt-Right Pipeline"

by Rare | Sep 8, 2017 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism

Rand Paul Wants Harvey Relief to Come From Spending Cuts

by Rare | Sep 7, 2017 | Featured Articles, Politics

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is proposing that the United States use spending cuts to fund approximately $8 billion in aid for areas hit by Hurricane Harvey. The senator says that the GOP should add spending cuts to the House-passed hurricane bill once it reaches the Senate. For now, Republicans are expected to attach a deal that would continue to fund the government and raise the debt ceiling for three months. Being against deficit spending and increasing the debt ceiling is nothing new for Paul. “As the Senate prepares to vote on hurricane aid, I will be introducing an ‘America First’ amendment...

Prison Food Contractor Funding Efforts to Keep Pot Illegal

by Rare | Oct 19, 2016 | Featured Articles, Justice

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Domestic Imperialism: Nine Reasons I Left Progressivism

by Keith Knight

Imagine the Catholic Church (or any person or group of people) doing what the government does every day: Everyone who doesn’t give the Catholic Church 25% of his annual income every year will be put in jail. If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has the right...

Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania

by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

FOREWORD BY JAY BHATTACHARYA, MD, PHD Diary of a Psychosis is different from all other books on Covid: it traces the development of the government response as it happened, bit by bit, and subjects it to relentless scrutiny: did any of it do any good? It thereby...

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