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Project 2025: The Good, the Bad, and the Frustrating
Anyone following the 2024 presidential election has undoubtedly heard about the political establishment’s latest villain, Project 2025. This policy agenda — technically named the 2025 Presidential Transition Project — was produced by a group of conservative policy...
As Russian Forces Advance, Ukraine Struggles to Build New Defensive Lines
Russian forces are advancing in several places across the 600-mile frontline in Ukraine, straining Kiev’s ability to build rear fortifications. Some in the Ukrainian military fault the country’s leadership for not building stronger second and third-line defenses last...
Another Government Bureaucracy That Can’t Do Their Job: Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
The 150 million dollar Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) was created to replace the scandal plagued Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC). More than 81,000 Americans remain missing from WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and the Gulf...
TGIF: Where Socialists Go Wrong
Since socialism is "in" today -- even though many people who say they favor it have no idea what it is -- F. A. Hayek's last book, The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (1988), is worth checking out. Hayek, the late great Nobel-laureate economist of the Austrian...
TGIF: Governments Create Problems; Markets Fix Them
My article "Complete Liberalism" prompted an unexpected challenge. An interlocutor, who says he owns a business and thus is not antibusiness, claimed that my article suggested that, unlike government regulators, businesses never get things wrong. Yet business failures...
Episode 659: The Irrationality Of Policing w/ Former LEO Pat Watson
81 Minutes Strong Language Pat Watson is former military/law enforcement and is the host of the Uncensored Tactical Podcast. He has written two books and his latest is titled, "Fuck Bureaucracy" Pat joins Pete for a special episode in which he has designed a line of...
Episode 523: The Prison Nightmare and Bureaucracy w/ Former Correction’s Officer J Flintlock
44 Minutes Not Safe for Work J Flintlock is the host of the Flintlock Faction Podcast. He served in the military and is a former prison guard J joins Pete to give him an inside look into the bureaucracy that is the US prison system and to give insight into just who is...
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Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much? In Provoked: How...
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Domestic Imperialism: Nine Reasons I Left Progressivism
Imagine the Catholic Church (or any person or group of people) doing what the government does every day: Everyone who doesn’t give the Catholic Church 25% of his annual income every year will be put in jail. If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has the right...