Five days after shooting 21-year-old Duncan Lemp in a predawn raid, the Montgomery County, Maryland, Police Department announced Tuesday that the killing was immaculate. Under pressure by media criticism, the police department issued a detailed statement...
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Direct Payments From Government is Not the Way to Stimulate the Economy
by Bradley Thomas | Mar 18, 2020 | Economics, Events, Featured Articles
The latest in the Federal government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic is President Trump’s announcement of a “stimulus package” estimated between $850 billion to $1 trillion. The plan reportedly includes $50 to $100 billion bailouts to the airline industry, $200...
SCARE!
by Kym Robinson | Mar 17, 2020 | Events, Featured Articles
It has arrived, a pandemic. It swept the world, we watched, laughed and ignored it. Memes were made, media excitedly reported and millions speculated. It was fun to tinker inside of our minds what we would do should the zombie hoards arrive. We had seen the movies,...
Could the Coronavirus Be Fatal for the EU?
by Alasdair Macleod | Mar 16, 2020 | Events, Featured Articles
Since the EU’s debt crisis over Greece in 2009 and the subsequent problems with Italy, Spain, and Portugal, eurozone banks have dedicated their balance sheets to financing government deficits. At a cost to the commercial banks’ own cash flows, negative deposit...
Corona Crow is a Feast Fit for Kings
by John Dangelo III | Mar 16, 2020 | Events, Featured Articles
Sympathy and hope for “fear and loathing” in these uncertain days If only the chemically constricted pupils of Hunter S. Thompson could see us now. I wonder if he’d look up from his gourmet-plated cocaine and through the smokescreen of cigarettes and...
Did Maryland Police Shoot And Kill A Sleeping Man?
by Jim Bovard | Mar 15, 2020 | Events, Featured Articles
The constitution is dead” was the last tweet ever sent by 21-year-old Duncan Socrates Lemp. On Thursday morning at 4:30 a.m., a Montgomery County SWAT team killed Lemp during a violent attack on his family’s home in the affluent Washington suburb of Potomac,...
‘The Person Advocating Violence Is The Fed!’
by Peter R. Quiñones | Jan 27, 2020 | Events, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Op Eds, Peter Quinones, Politics
A lot of people have heard my “liberty story.” It’s the common, “I saw Ron Paul confront Rudy Giuliani on the debate stage in 2007” narrative. Then the reading started; pretty much every “libertarian” book I could get my hand on. For two years all I did was read....
Law Enforcement Respects The Constitution?
by Peter R. Quiñones | Jan 21, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Events, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Peter Quinones, Politics
With the 2nd Amendment rally scheduled for Richmond, Virginia’s “Lobby Day” now completed, those who warned against “agent provocateurs,” and other possible hazards, get to breathe a sigh of relief and be thankful for being wrong. The narrative that this was going to...