Born on July 19, 1814, in Hartford, Connecticut, Samuel Colt played a vital role in American culture and folklore. The inventor and creator of the first handheld revolver, Sam Colt made it possible to have a handgun that could fire rapidly without needing to be...
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News Roundup 7/16/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 16, 2021 | News Roundup
US News White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki says the Biden Administration wants Facebook to remove 12 accounts. The White House believes these accounts are creating a significant amount of what it labels as “vaccine misinformation.” [Link] Caribbean Biden said the...
TGIF: Who’s the Aggressor? Who’s the Victim?
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 16, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
When a libertarian says that the most basic individual right is the right not to be aggressed against, a clever interlocutor may accuse the libertarian of begging the question, of stuffing the rabbit into the hat. The trick, the critic will say, is in the word...
How Not to Treat Human Beings as Moral Persons
by Laurie Calhoun | Jul 16, 2021 | Featured Articles
Immanuel Kant, an eighteenth-century German philosopher, famously espoused the following maxim of morality: Act in such a way that you treat humanity...never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end. The terms of this principle, a formulation...
WATCH: Cop Says ‘You’re About to Die’ As He Shoots Handcuffed Man in Head During Police Booking
by Matt Agorist | Jul 16, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Nearly two years have passed since Sgt. Tyler Longman ran into a police booking office, gun drawn, threatened to kill the fully handcuffed Michael Chad Breinholt, and then pulled the trigger with the gun to his head. Despite the gruesome execution caught on body...
7/15/21 Ted Snider on Why the US Prefers Iranian Hardliners
by Scott Horton | Jul 15, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Ted Snider about America's relationship with Iran and Syria. Iran has just elected a new president, Ibrahim Raisi, who Snider says is much more of a hardliner than his predecessor, Hassan Rouhani. Rouhani was the one who worked with the Obama...
Episode 604: The Long-Awaited Bitcoin Episode w/ Car from Timeline Earth
by Peter R. Quiñones | Jul 15, 2021 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
56 Minutes PG-13 Car is one-third of the Timeline Earth Podcast. Pete asked Car to come on today to answer questions about Bitcoin and specifically the ideas that some hold to which is commonly called "Bitcoin Maximalism." Car on Twitter Timeline Earth Get Autonomy 19...
News Roundup 7/15/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 15, 2021 | News Roundup
US News Over the second half of 2020, Twitter says it got over 350 requests from governments to remove content from the accounts of nearly 200 verified journalists. Twitter reports removing five of the tweets. Twitter received 14,500 requests for information from...
COI #136: Legacy of US Intervention in Haiti Paved Way to Moise’s Assassination
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 15, 2021 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #136, Patrick MacFarlane – host of Liberty Weekly – returns to the show to discuss the assassination of Haiti's President Jovenel Moise. Over a century ago, in response to another presidential hit, the US invaded and occupied Haiti for 19 years. After...
America’s Gubernatorial Dictatorships
by Jim Bovard | Jul 15, 2021 | Featured Articles, Politics
There are no fact-checkers for victory laps. Last week, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo summarized his experience with the COVID-19 crisis: “Speaking for myself, it was a tremendous personal benefit.” Cuomo made that declaration in a speech concluding his one-year...





















