On the morning of April 19, 1995, a truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, including 19 children at a day care center in the building, and injuring hundreds more. As the FBI website tells readers, a...
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TGIF: Say No to a Sovereign Wealth Fund
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 14, 2025 | Economics, Featured, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Donald Trump wants to create a sovereign wealth fund (SWF). It's a bad idea if your standard is freedom, free enterprise, and free markets. That's not Trump's standard, but we already knew that. A sovereign wealth fund is a government-run investment program. Where...

TGIF: A New Washington Post?
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 7, 2025 | Economics, Featured, Justice, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
If Jeff Bezos is as good as his word, the advocates of full liberty will owe him a standing ovation. As everyone knows by now, Amazon.com founder Bezos, one of the greatest entrepreneurs of all time—a man whose profit-making activities have benefitted mankind...

TGIF: Birthright Citizenship and the Constitution
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 31, 2025 | Featured, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.... —U.S. Constitution, Amendment XIV Donald Trump says he wants a "revolution of common sense." If he means it, he will abandon his...
The FBI’s Failure to Comply with FOIA: Reform Necessary After Lawsuits Detail Pattern of Deception
by Richard Booth | Aug 18, 2024 | Featured Articles, OKC
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), as a federal agency, is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which requires the release of certain records upon request from the public. FOIA compels the release of these records unless the...
Who Helped McVeigh Blow Up Oklahoma City?
by Richard Booth | Aug 18, 2024 | Featured Articles, OKC
“How do 5 or 6 people see something and describe generally the same thing if it doesn’t exist?” — Dan Vogel, FBI Special Agent, Oklahoma City Field Office “If only one person had seen that, or two or three…but twenty-four? Twenty-four people say, yes I saw him...
The Lies Behind the Oklahoma City Bombing
by Richard Booth | Aug 18, 2024 | Featured Articles, OKC
Despite the seemingly simple conclusion behind the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing, the investigation was exceedingly complicated. To this day, it is still the FBI’s most massive investigation, comprised of millions of pages of evidence. Careful analysis of this paper...
The Oklahoma City Bombing Surveiled: What Do the Videos Show?
by Richard Booth | Aug 18, 2024 | Featured Articles, OKC
Today, closed-circuit surveillance cameras are ubiquitous. You find them everywhere: at gas stations, stoplights, on government property, on private property. At the time of the April 19th, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, you could find surveillance cameras mounted at...