Yesterday was a very important day. It’s the day the America First movement exiled the most despicable, most debased Swamp Monster on Capitol Hill. Yesterday Liz Cheney lost renomination for Congress after three terms of using and abusing the people of Wyoming. The...
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Did the FBI Win Joe Biden the 2020 Election?
by Jim Bovard | Aug 11, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Politics
Joe Biden won the 2020 election as a result of 43,000 votes in three states. The election was far closer than the media has usually admitted. There were plenty of dubious factors that could have tipped the scales for a Biden victory, including machinations by the...
‘Coup’ Means Whatever the Regime Wants It to Mean
by Ryan McMaken | Aug 10, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
In the immediate aftermath of the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, many pundits and politicians were eager to describe the events of that day a s a coup d'etat in which the nation was "this close" to having some sort of junta void the 2020 election and take power...

Why I Won’t Vote For Donald Trump in 2024
by Alan Mosley | Aug 8, 2022 | Featured Articles, Politics
Will he or won't he? That was the question on people's minds as news broke last month of former president Donald Trump suggesting he has made up his mind on running for president again. Grover Cleveland first won the presidency in 1884, and won the popular vote in the...

TGIF: About Those January 6 Committee Extravaganzas
by Sheldon Richman | Aug 5, 2022 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
I admit it: I watched nearly every moment of the House committee extravaganzas on the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. I did more than that. I was transfixed. I couldn't even multitask. Were the mislabeled "hearings" beyond all criticism? Of course not. They were...

The Loneliness of Ron Paul: By the Numbers, 1975-1985
by Brandan P. Buck | Aug 2, 2022 | Featured Articles, Politics
In 2022, the ideological landscape of American foreign policy opposition is the most dynamic and diverse it has been in over eight decades. This newfound disorder is especially true for the right, as a new crop of libertarian-leaning and populist Republicans are...
TGIF: The Limits of Ideology
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 29, 2022 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
I have defended the idea of ideology per se and have disparaged the idea that anyone can operate without an ideology. The self-proclaimed non-ideological person is really one who has an implicit and therefore unexamined or underexamined ideology. No one really judges...
TGIF: Complete Liberalism
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 22, 2022 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Many people formerly of the left, who have bid good riddance to their former political home, believe they can retain the mantle of authentic liberalism while ignoring its free-market component. They don't want socialism, and they appropriately dislike the right-wing....