The standard is the olive drab variant of Chesterton’s Fence. Captain Kristen M. Griest and First Lieutenant Shaye L. Haver made history on August 21, 2015, as the first two women to graduate from Ranger School under incredibly fake conditions. They were part of an...
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A Western Civ Speech Only A Neocon Could Love
When one of my acquaintances expressed his enthusiasm for Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s October 7 speech from the Acropolis in Athens, Greece—seeing it as the de facto launching of a presidential campaign—I thought to watch the talk in its entirety. It was worth...
Everybody’s Hitler!
Piers Morgan recently said on his program of Russian President Vladimir Putin, “I do think he's the nearest thing to a modern day Hitler…” Libertarian Institute Director Scott Horton had something to say about that. “You know what?” Horton said. “Noriega's Hitler and...
South Korea Vows ‘Decisive Retaliation’ If North Korea Deploys Tactical Strike Weapons to Border
South Korea said it would retaliate against North Korea if it continues its provocations. The statement followed Pyongyang threatening to deploy tactical strike weapons to its southern border. “Now the situation of the southern border is very unstable,” Kim Yo Jong,...
10/16/26 Larry Johnson on Iran, Lebanon and Yemen
Download Audio. Scott brings Larry Johnson back on the show to talk about all the Middle East news they couldn’t get to last week. They discuss the Iran war and the status of Iran’s nuclear program, Israel’s war with Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Saudi’s escalating...
Hegseth Meets Netanyahu in Unannounced Visit to Israel
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth traveled to an Israeli air base housing US warplanes and met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The meeting occurred eight days before Israel’s election. Two sources with knowledge of the meeting told Axios that Hegseth met with...
10/16/26 Robert Wright on the Threats Posed by AI
Download Audio. Scott interviews Robert Wright, author of the book The God Test, about how AI will impact our future. They discuss the threats AI poses to our safety and our economies. And they talk about the right and wrong ways to minimize those risks without...
10/16/26 Joseph Solis-Mullen on the Concerning Collapse of Ethiopia
Download Audio. Scott interviews Libertarian Institute Fellow Joseph Solis-Mullen about what’s happening in Ethiopia. Solis-Mullen gives us the historical context of the escalating conflict, the broader geopolitical context in the region and explains how Washington...
Report: Iran Delaying Negotiations to Hurt Trump in Midterm Elections
Reuters reported on Tuesday, speaking with multiple senior Iranian officials who explained that Tehran is deliberately delaying negoations with the US to hurt President Donald Trump’s Republican Party in the upcoming midterm elections. "Iran is preparing for renewed...
The Republican’s Pathetic Midterm Pitch
Well, it’s election season, and the routine embrace of mindless partisanship has commenced. We are again being told by Republican politicians that we must ignore monetary inflation, the disastrous war of choice with Iran, the ever-expanding surveillance state, and the...
