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News Roundup 3/21/18

by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 21, 2018 | Blog

The police officer who shot and killed Justine Damond has finally been charged with murder. [Link] Sacramento police shoot and kill a young man. Police report mistaking a cell phone for a gun. The two police officers shot the man 20 times. [Link] The Senate votes to...

The US and Russia Must Stop the Race to Nuclear War

by Mikhail Gorbachev | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

When I became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, I felt during my very first meetings with people that what worried them the most was the problem of war and peace. Do everything in order to prevent war, they said. By that time, the superpowers had accumulated...

Military Industrial Complex Famous Quotes

by Mike Swanson | Jan 25, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Of course the most famous quote about the military-industrial complex comes from President Dwight Eisenhower’s farewell address, but there are many more famous quotes about it. James Madison wrote that “no nation can maintain its freedom in the midst of continuous...

5/8/17 Conn Hallinan: the New Nuclear Arms Race

by Scott Horton | May 9, 2017 | Hotter Than the Sun, The Scott Horton Show

Conn Hallinan, a Foreign Policy In Focus columnist, discusses how improvements in the accuracy of US submarine-based nuclear missiles are ending an era of mutually assured destruction (MAD) nuclear policy, and leading to a dangerous first-strike doctrine. Other...

China Just Issued a Nuclear Warning to Donald Trump and the United States

by James Holbrooks | Jan 24, 2017 | Blog

This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. Beijing — Following comments made by White House spokesman Sean Spicer on Monday in which he said the United States would absolutely protect its interests in the South China Sea, the Asian superpower has fired...

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Empower the Working Class: Abolish Occupational Licensing

It's time to consistently apply the "my body my choice" principle. If consenting adults want to engage in economic activity, no third party should forcibly stop them. Democrats always say "voting once every two years between two politicians is how you express...

Death By Climate: Down 97% in Last 100 Years

Our schools provide many hours of lessons on climate change, but I wonder how many teachers, let alone pupils, are aware that climate-related deaths have decreased by as much as 97 per cent over the past 100 years, as the OFDA / CRED data show. - Why don’t we ever...

Black Youth Unemployment: Before and After Progressives Started “Helping”

A constant trend is progressivism is to use the state to coercively control others under the guise of "helping" them, make things worse, then ignore the problems you caused and never apologize. Sallie Mae loans didn't make college affordable. The Federal Reserve...

What Kind of Liberal?

Not to put too fine a point on it, but I am a Locke-Smith liberal.

The Tale of the Steak – A Lesson in Economics by Walter E. Williams

Consider filet mignon and chuck steak. Assume-realistically-that consumers prefer the former. Then the question becomes: why is it, despite consumer preferences, that chuck steak sells at all? The fact is that chuck steak outsells filet mignon. How does something less...

My Favorite Michael Malice Quote

If the government didn't have a monopoly on security, only rich people would be able to have security just like when the government got out of other businesses, the only cars produced were limousines, the only clothes produced were tuxedos and the only food produced...

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