The Supreme Court will hear a case on civil asset forfeiture. [Link] A judge rules that immigrant families who were separated cannot be deported within seven days of being reunited. [Link] Lockheed Martin wins a $451 million contract modification from the Defense...
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News Roundup 4/16/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 16, 2018 | Blog
Trump pardons Scooter Libby. [Link] The Kansas police officer who killed an innocent man, while responding to a fake "swatting" tip, will not face charges. [Link] Trump agrees to not interfere in states who have legalized marijuana. [Link] Civil Asset Forfeiture is...
News Roundup 3/8/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 8, 2018 | Blog
The SEC will now require crypto exchanges to register. [Link] Gary Cohn resigns as Trump's chief economic advisor. [Link] The US trade deficit increased to $56.6 billion in January. [Link] James Bovard explains how gun laws lead to federal government abuses. [Link]...
News Roundup 1/30/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 30, 2018 | Blog
New Jersey Representative Rodney Frelinghuysen will retire at the end of the year. [Link] The US Attorney Office for the Western District of North Carolina collected $23.5 million in asset forfeiture in 2017. [Link] Medhi Hasan releases the second episode of his...
News Roundup 1/25/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 25, 2018 | Blog
The Senate confirms Alex Azar as Health and Human Services Secretary. [Link] Sam Brownback confirmed as the at-large ambassador of religious freedom. [Link] Idaho looks to allow companies to offer health insurance plans that do not meet Obamacare regulations. [Link]...
The Voluntaryist Constitution
by Trey Goff | Oct 24, 2017 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Reprinted with permission from the Mises Institute. [Editor's note: The Mises Institute presents the "voluntaryist constitution" as a thought experiment, and is not presented here as an ideological or political ideal.] There have been a number of attempts to create...
News Roundup 9/13/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 13, 2017 | Blog
The Henry A Wallace Police Crime Database is a new database dedicated to tracking crimes committed by police officers. [Link] A former Cleveland police officer has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting two women at an illegal traffic stop with a sex toy. The officer...
News Roundup 8/8/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 8, 2017 | Blog
This article looks at the generals in Trump's administration. [Link] Police were able to seize $21,000 from a sex worker with civil asset forfeiture. [Link] The City of Chicago is using SWAT to manage mental health crises. [Link] The son of "El-Chapo" has been...
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Just Write Something Nice!
“Why don’t you write something nice? That will make people smile, and be happy?” I am certain that many writers past and present who occupy the field I am in, are asked this question. Why write about the misery of the world? Why look into the injustices? And peer...
The Kyle Anzalone Show guest COL. LAWRENCE WILKERSON: After 23 Years, Is the Iraq War Finally Over?
The Iraq War has been a “still going” story for so long that it barely feels real when someone says it might finally be ending. We sit down with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson to talk through what the last American forces leaving Iraq could actually mean, not just for...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Trump Prepares for a MORE War With Iran
“Only because I wanted to go further.” That single line from Donald Trump’s Time magazine interview changes how you should read the entire Iran war timeline. I’m solo today, digging into the most relevant sections of the interview and separating performative victory...
The Kyle Anzalone Show guest LARRY JOHNSON: Trump’s Iran War Threat Reaches the Brink
A lot of foreign policy talk collapses into slogans until you ask one simple question: if things are going fine, why are oil prices still telling a different story? We bring Larry Johnson back to sort through the gap between public claims and what the Strait of...
The Mog Abides
Operation Gothic Serpent 3 October 1993 Shughart: “Gordy’s gone man. I’ll be outside.” There is no doubt Mogidishu, Somalia was a bad conflict (American has not been involved in a good one since 1871) but the valor and sprezzatura of Gordon and Shughart is off the...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Showdown at the UN as the US and Iran Escalate Tensions
Trump takes the UN stage and talks about Iran the way politicians talk when they want options to expand a war without owning the cost. I walk through what he said, why it lands as bluster instead of strategy, and how that kind of rhetoric can still be dangerous when...











