The Trump Administration is bound and determined not to draw any conclusions about Saudi Air Force gunman Mohammed Alshamrani, who killed three people on Friday in Pensacola. There seems to be a palpable fear that anything terror-related would make the Saudis look...
Politics
Covering Bombs, Not Bombshells
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 8, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism, Politics
Weeks of impeachment hearings have produced a few sound bites and hundreds of headlines claiming “bombshell” testimony has doomed Trump. As Ukrainegate follows the pattern of Russiagate, anyone who reads beyond the headline recognizes that every alleged bombshell is...
Jacob Hornberger & Keith Knight Ep. 128
by Patrick Macfarlane | Dec 8, 2019 | Libertarianism, Politics, Vital Dissent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTFwrsPnqjg If you haven't already heard, Jacob Hornberger is running to be the Libertarian Party Presidential nominee. Because Keith is Keith, he has already interviewed Jacob Hornberger on his show, Keith Knight's "Don't Tread on...
Hobbits and Hooligans: Revisiting Jason Brennan’s Against Democracy
by Kollin Fields | Dec 5, 2019 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
In case you couldn’t tell through the inescapable barrage of media coverage, we have an election coming up, which means voters are mobilizing. To most Americans, democracy and voting are the pinnacles of freedom. Your vote is your voice, etc. etc. 2016 threw a wrench...

Trump’s Trade Policy Has Produced Damaging Tariffs but Little Else
by Daniel Griswold | Dec 4, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Farm exports to China are down, manufacturing job growth has stalled, and prices are up for many goods Americans are about to enter the third full year of President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff regime, which aims to promote US manufacturing, protect key...

Decrying Income Inequality Is a Tactic to Gain More Power for Government
by Edward Peter Stringham | Dec 2, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
The 2020 presidential field is saturated with candidates decrying wealth inequality and making the argument to soak the rich. One front-runner, for instance, is constantly denouncing “the millionaires and the billionaires.” Ominously, a New York Times poll found that...

Mexico Won’t Allow US Military Operations Against Cartels
by Jason Ditz | Nov 30, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism, Politics
Foreign Minister warns drone strikes would violate sovereignty President Trump’s move to declare Mexican cartels as terrorist groups is potentially going to be complicated, and Mexican President Obrador sought to establish a red-line, that Mexico will not allow the US...
The Power of the Meme – My Journey
by Peter R. Quiñones | Nov 29, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism, Peter Quinones, Politics
I’m fairly certain the first memes I experienced were on the once famous website Ebaum’s World. I probably didn’t know what to make of them at the time but they were usually funny and I would check back to the site often. After a while I started to see that even...