The U.S. House Of Representatives Homeland Security Committee Hearing On Domestic Terrorism, 7 May 2019 https://youtu.be/BxRJs99A1wc https://homeland.house.gov/about/committee-membership CHAIRMAN: Rep. Bernie G. Thompson (D) Mississippi 2nd District 3:16, Opening...
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Foreign Correspondent: The Secret Behind Chinese Trepangs
by Reese Erlich | May 25, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Reese Erlich is on assignment in Moscow. He offers this humorous memory about a long ago visit to that famed city. I was nineteen when I first visited the country, then known as the USSR, with my parents and sister in 1966. It was quite exotic for Americans to visit...

Waco Survivor Speaks Out. David Thibodeau and Keith Knight Ep. 117
by Patrick Macfarlane | May 25, 2019 | Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Vital Dissent
https://youtu.be/RSJByyHMWD8 Keith Knight interviews Waco survivor David Thibodeau. Buy David's Book "A Place Called Waco: A Survivor's Story" Episode 117 of the Liberty Weekly Podcast is Brought to you by: The Liberty Weekly Podcast is now on Bitbacker.io Support...

Trump May Pardon US Troops Accused or Convicted of War Crimes
by Jason Ditz | May 20, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
While the Pentagon rarely goes to the lengths of pursuing war crimes charges against American troops, the sheer number of US wars at any given time mean there will inevitably be some. Officials say President Trump is preparing to pardon some of them. President Trump...

The Parallel Universes That Are America
by Wendy McElroy | May 20, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Many see recent attacks on Attorney General William Barr not as politics as usual but a call to overthrow the status quo. The intransigence of the Republican response indicates that many now view current affairs as a battle to destroy or preserve America’s defining...
Prescription For Violence: The Corresponding Rise of Antidepressants, SSRIs & Mass Shootings
by Sam Jacobs | May 20, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), a mass murder occurs when at least four people are murdered, not including the shooter, over a relatively short period of time during a single incident. Over the last 30 years, the United States has seen a...
Do We Really Have a Decade Left to Solve Climate Change?
by Robert Murphy | May 20, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Wise alecks on social media noted with amusement how Beto O’Rourke recently claimed humans had only ten years to act on climate change, thus one-upping Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who had previously gone out on a limb by putting the deadline at twelve years. Snark aside,...
Mixed Economy and the Danger of Central-Planning
by Germinal Van | May 15, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
In 1944, Friedrich von Hayek, one of the greatest economists and political philosophers in modern history; published his magnum opus entitled The Road to Serfdom. In his book, Hayek warned free societies about the dangers of government intervention. He argued that...