Download Episode. Dan McKnight returns to the show to talk about Defend the Guard’s recent success in Arizona and how you can help bring about another victory this Monday in Texas. Defend the Guard is state-level legislation that bars Congress from deploying...
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Arizona State Senate Passes ‘Defend the Guard Act’
[Yesterday], the Arizona Senate narrowly passed the Defend the Guard Act, a bill to require the governor to stop unconstitutional foreign combat deployments of the state’s National Guard troops. Passage into law would take a big step toward restoring the founders’...
Which Aspect of Government Do Anarcho-Capitalists Favor?
The short answer to that question, and an accurate one, is none of the above. That is the very definition of this philosophical perspective: the state is merely a gang of robbers and murderers, and the ideal is to banish it entirely. States Mr. Libertarian on this...
Arizona Senate Committee Passes ‘Defend the Guard’
Today, an Arizona Senate committee passed the Defend the Guard Act to require the governor to stop unconstitutional foreign combat deployments of the state’s National Guard troops. Passage into law would take a big step toward restoring the founders’ framework for a...
How COVID Lockdowns Shifted Population Growth
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has frequently bragged that Florida is in high demand among people looking to relocate. In a new report released this week from the Census Bureau, it seems that he's been correct. According to the Bureau's report: After decades of rapid...
Extinguishing Some Election Day Rumors
How much went right with Tuesday’s midterm election? A lot. Violence at the polls, much feared, didn’t happen. Nor did widespread intimidation. For all the talk of voter suppression, poll access was healthy and uneventful in the state of Georgia and pretty much...
The Public School Exodus Will Revolutionize Education
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, America’s parents have shifted nearly 2 million students from public schools to alternatives that include private schools and home schooling. For public schools, that represents a loss of about 4% of their enrollment....
Washington D.C.’s Colonialist Relationship With the 50 States
Those who believe Washington D.C. has the right to control Texas, Florida, Arizona, Nebraska, and Kansas are true imperialists. All the regulatory agencies that Democrats support literally are imperialist, i.e. one group arbitrarily imposing its will on another...
Want Health Care for Everyone? End the Regulatory Regime (feat. Blake Masters)
https://youtu.be/Yhcm5pegHPE Some critics of the free market argue that property rights are in conflict with “human” rights. But the critics fail to realize that in a free-market system, every person has a property right over his own person and his own labor, and that...
For First Time, Taiwanese Troops Take Aim at Chinese Drone
Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday that Taiwanese troops fired warning shots at a Chinese drone that was flying in airspace over Kinmen County, an archipelago of Taiwanese-controlled islands off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The Taiwanese Army’s Kinmen...
ACLU Sues Arizona Over Law that Criminalizes Filming Cops
The ACLU and media groups have filed a lawsuit against the state of Arizona. It aledges the state's law that prevents filming within eight feet of a police officer is Constitution's First Amendment right to record. The plaintiffs hope to prevent the law from taking...
SCOOP: Ray Epps Silent on 2015 Criminal Citation
On the heels of speaking to The New York Times about accusations of being an FBI informant who helped incite the January 6 Capitol Hill riot, Arizona man Ray Epps has declined to answer questions about a 2015 criminal trespass citation he received in Pennsylvania—a...
From Russia to Ohio…to the Cancer Ward
Residents of Piketon, Ohio have long suspected that the area’s sky-high cancer rate stems from the nearby Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PORTS), which served as a uranium enrichment facility for nuclear bombs throughout the Cold War. Recent reporting from Local...
Cops Wake Up Unarmed, Sleeping Man Just to Kill Him As He Raises His Hands
The city of Mesa, Arizona settled a lawsuit with the family of a young man who was killed by police in September of 2020. As TFTP previously reported, Angel Benitez was found asleep in a car which was reported stolen. Benitez, for whatever reason, drove away from...
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