8/8/19 Ben Freeman on the Military-Industrial Jobs Scam

Ben Freeman talks about President Trump's friendship with Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson and what it means for the military-industrial complex. Trump likes to boast about keeping businesses—particularly those related to military industries—open and hiring in the United States, but Freeman explains the reality that these companies do not create any net jobs at all. Scott references David Stockman's "Great Deformation", a concept describing the unseen effects on the economy when politicians interfere. For example, rust belt voters see the concentrated effect of a factory in their town...

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Iraqi National Who’d Lived Whole Life in US Dies Shortly After Being Deported to Iraq

CNN: An Iraqi national who had lived in the US since he was an infant died shortly after being deported to Iraq as part of the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration. Jimmy Aldaoud, 41, died from complications of diabetes, his attorney Edward Bajoka told CNN. Aldaoud, who had a long criminal record, was deported in early June to Iraq, where he had no family or contacts and did not speak the language. His body was found Tuesday at an apartment he shared with another Iraqi American deportee. "He was not able to get insulin in Iraq. That was essentially the cause of his death,"...

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Montana Man Attacks Little Boy for ‘Disrespecting the National Anthem’

Don't you upset my little feelings during government's special song, boy! Or else!: A Montana man allegedly assaulted a 13-year-old boy who he believed had disrespected the American national anthem at a county fair in the state. Curt James Brockway, 39, of Superior, is accused of assaulting the boy at the Mineral County Fair and Rodeo at around 11 p.m. on Saturday. "There was a little boy lying on the ground," Taylor Hennick, who was as the rodeo, told Missoulian. "He was bleeding out of his ears, seizing on the ground, just not coherent." According to KPAX, witnesses saw a man pick up a boy...

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Speech in Fort Worth Saturday Night

Liberty Fest Hosted by: Tarrant County Libertarian Party Saturday, August 10th 6-10pm River Bottom Pub 7920 Randol Mill Rd. Fort Worth 76120 Stage Schedule: 6pm- Chairperson Introduction 6:30- Patrick Smith 6:45- Shaun McAlister 7:00- Scott Horton 7:20- Aubrey Cowart 8pm- Loyal Sally Band 9pm- House on Fire Band

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‘The answer to a murderer targeting immigrants is…more immigration control, according to the president.’

Elizabeth Nolan Brown at Reason: On Monday morning, Donald Trump reacted to the two recent mass shootings by offering what sounds like a quid pro quo to liberals: Give me my border plans, and I'll give you gun control. This weekend saw two mass shootings in America, the first in El Paso, Texas, and the second in Dayton, Ohio. We cannot let the victims of these shootings "die in vain," Trump tweeted. "Republicans and Democrats must come together and get strong background checks, perhaps marrying…this legislation with desperately needed immigration reform." ….this legislation with desperately...

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