A couple years ago, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) gave a powerful speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Scott talked about how he had been repeatedly pulled over by police officers who seemed to be suspicious of a black man driving a nice car. He added that a black...
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BREAKING: Texas Border Patrol Agent Arrested in Serial Killer Case
by Ben Keller | Sep 18, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
Border patrol agent Juan "JD" Ortiz has been detained and arrested in connection with three murders in Laredo, Texas. Now, a fourth body of a female has been found just hours after Ortiz had been initially detained. "The community can rest assured they have the serial...
Keith Knight Interviews Sheldon Richman
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 17, 2018 | Blog, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism
Happy Constitution Day
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 17, 2018 | Blog, Justice, Libertarianism
You Might Be an Anti-Semite
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 14, 2018 | Blog, Justice
Kenneth Marcus, head of the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, is the Jeff Foxworthy of the American Israelist movement. When he says, "If you do X (call Israel a racist endeavor, express sympathy for Palestinian self-determination, support BDS, and so...
TGIF: Are We Sure It Can’t Happen Here?
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 14, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
One runs a risk whenever one cites the 20th century’s great terror states while discussing current ominous developments in the western democracies. Apparent comparisons of the United States or western and central European countries to Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia...
TGIF: Trump, Spinoza, and the Palestinian Refugees
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 7, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
As though we had any ground for doubt heretofore, we can now clearly see -- in light of his end to $350 million in annual humanitarian assistance to five million Palestinian refugees -- Donald Trump’s cruel and spiteful nature. It was not enough to stack the so-called...
Woman Dies In Jail Over Unpaid Traffic Tickets, Begging for Help as Officers Ignored Her
by The Free Thought Project | Sep 6, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
Mineral County, NV — (RT) Unpaid traffic tickets saw a Nevada woman in jail, where she began to suffer drug withdrawals and seizures. Days later she was dead, after being denied medical care. A report by state investigators, published this week and revealed by the...