The Biden administration's rhetoric on the debt ceiling has become nothing short of apocalyptic. The Treasury Department has announced that a failure to increase the debt ceiling "would have catastrophic economic consequences" and would, as NBC news claims, constitute...
83 Minutes PG-13 Mark Metz is the proprietor of The Emergent at MarkMetz.Substack.com, and Adam Patrick is the host of Yer Talkin Over Me. Adam and Mark join Pete to talk about Mises-style liberalism and whether it opens the door for totalitarianism. They also talk...
China US officials slammed China for Chinese flights over the southwest corner of Taiwan’s air identification zone. [Link] Taiwan wants to build a deeper partnership with Australia as it prepares for a potential war with China. [Link] Biden’s trade representative with...
Footage of police violence and the tantrums of the mob during the recent lockdown protests, not just in the Australian state of Victoria but the world over, depict a division between the powerful armed professionals of the government and the angry rage from some parts...
After the death of Eric Garner in 2014 shook the nation, the phrase “I can’t breathe” has become a chilling symbol for violence doled out at the hands of the state. TFTP has reported on multiple instances in which entirely peaceful and often innocent people have...
Kyle Anzalone, Connor Freeman, Patrick MacFarlane, and Joanne Leon give their takes on the Soho Forum debate featuring Bill Kristol and Scott Horton discuss US foreign policy. The panel breaks down the arguments and questions asked to the debaters. The result of the...
Scott is joined by Peter Van Buren to discuss some recent articles he wrote for The American Conservative. Van Buren used the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to reflect on his experience on that day, as well as how the attacks fit into the larger story of...
Great Power The US and Russia agree to continue arms control talks. [Link] Russia says the AUKUS defense pact threatens nuclear non-proliferation. [Link] US and UK spy plans are circling the Russian exclave Kaliningrad. [Link] Taiwan reports a surge in the number of...
On COI #171, Matthew Hoh returns to the show to discuss his experience with the mainstream media after becoming a whistleblower in the early Obama presidency. Hoh appeared in and on the most important US print and television outlets. However, because he was speaking...
Prices convey information, even the price of zero. There is often more latent intelligence signaled by prices than by the claimed good intentions of political zealots—even those on the side of peace and liberty. On the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, I tromped...
