Daniel McCarthy, editor-at-large of The American Conservative, discusses the poor showing of libertarian politicians in 2016, despite Ron and Rand Paul's national prominence and two strongly disliked presidential candidates in Clinton and Trump; and how "virtue...
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Remember Waco.
by Scott Horton | Feb 23, 2017 | Blog
So the Houston Chronicle is running a story about the real victims of the Waco Massacre -- the ATF paramilitary forces which launched their "Operation Showtime" raid on a peaceful home/church on a Sunday morning, killing 6 innocent people, and getting four of...
2/24/17 Gareth Porter on why Trump’s Iran policy will be much like Obama’s, despite all his tough talk
by Scott Horton | Feb 22, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, an independent investigative journalist and author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, discusses why Trump's anti-Iran talk is not much different than that of the last several administrations' before his, going back to...
1/29/17 Gareth Porter on the think tanks pushing Trump to escalate the Syrian war
by Scott Horton | Jan 29, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, an independent journalist and historian, discusses the coalition of pro-intervention US think tanks trying to sell the Trump administration on a more muscular anti-Assad policy in Syria - a policy that has been repackaged from the previous version...
Don’t Like Militarized Police and Mass Incarceration? Blame Progressivism.
by Thaddeus Russell | Jan 24, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
Talking about racism won't end these problems. Our cities are saturated with militarized law enforcement officers. An extraordinarily high number of American civilians are killed by police each year. The U.S. prison population is the largest in the world. And we are...
1/11/17 Philip Giraldi on Russian hacking claims, and Washington’s long history of interfering in elections abroad
by Scott Horton | Jan 11, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses the intelligence community's weak evidence pointing to Russian involvement in the DNC and John Podesta email leaks that may or may not have led to Hillary Clinton's election defeat; and the privately-sourced 35-page report...
The Utter and Complete Shamelessness of Hillary Clinton
by Scott Horton | Dec 16, 2016 | Blog
It's so funny my sides hurt from laughing.
News Roundup 12/15/16
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 15, 2016 | Blog
Georgia's Secretary of State confirms that someone from DHS attempted to hack into their voter database ten separate times. [Link] The FED announced a rate hike yesterday. Rates will increase .25% and will now be between .5%-.75%. This is the FED's first rate hike...
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Dumpsters Afloat: The Zumwalt Chronicles Continues
The weapons system removed from the Zumwalt They were going to build 30 and ended up building three of these dysfunctional monstrosities. Commissioned in 2016, it has only taken them eight years to retrofit the weapons system. The Navy's priorities have changed since...
Lawrence Premieres in London
On this day, 62 years ago, David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) premiered in London, UK. My favorite movie of all time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULsFcSpaVO0
The Health-Care Nirvana Fallacy
Someone explain how coercive centralized bureaucratic control of medical decision-making and the purse can beat the decentralized free market with its undistorted price system. The government has many things besides medical care it wants to spend tax money on, and...
DEI Kills: Boeing Bumbling on Parade Part CXXVII
Editor's Note: Just returned from business travel so my blogging frequency should bump up again. Boeing continues o provide legions of future business historians the fodder for hundreds of books and cautionary tales on how engineering can fall of a cliff once...
What’s Behind HTS Rebranding and the Rise of Geopolitical Tensions? New Episode of the Kyle Anzalone Show
Al-Qaeda's Takeover in Syria: Truth Behind the Headlines! Al-Qaeda's recent control over Syria marks a significant shift in the region, and we need to unpack its implications. While mainstream media may portray this as a victory for freedom and justice, the reality is...
Time to Separate Medicine and State
The "progressive" coverage of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson's murder has an unspoken premise: namely, that we could have had a system in which medical care was instantly superabundant and free for everyone. There is no such system. We live in a world of...
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