In 2019, the Transportation Security Administration seized $181,000 in cash from an employee of a Tampa trucking company while he was going through a TSA checkpoint for a flight from Tampa to Cleveland. According to the employee and his employer, the worker...
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Foreign Aid Just Empowers Corrupt Regimes. End It.
by José Niño | Feb 13, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Senate’s vote to acquit Donald Trump on both articles of impeachment this month brought a much-needed end to the tiring impeachment saga America has been subject to in the last few months. The impeachment controversy arose when President Donald Trump initially...
Deplatformed: How Big Tech Companies & Corporate America Subvert the Second Amendment
by Sam Jacobs | Feb 3, 2020 | Politics
Twitter permanently banned the libertarian financial website Zero Hedge from the platform on Friday—January 31st after it published an article questioning the involvement of a Chinese scientist in the outbreak of the deadly Coronavirus. Anyone familiar with...
The Theory and Brief History of Money and Banking
by Robert Murphy | Jan 30, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
The ultimate purpose of this booklet is to give the reader a solid grasp of how money works in today’s world. Yet before diving into the particulars of central banks, repo markets, and LIBOR—all topics that will be covered in future chapters—we should first provide a...
1/10/20 Grant Smith on the Rise of the Virginia Israel Advisory Board
by Scott Horton | Jan 13, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Grant Smith discusses his new book, The Israel Lobby Enters State Government, which tells the scandalous story of the Virginia Israel Advisory Board, a branch of the Virginia state legislature tasked with promoting Israeli business interests in the state. Unlike a...
Where were all the Constitution’s defenders when the feds raised the smoking age?
by Rob Natelson | Jan 10, 2020 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
On December 20, President Trump signed legislation purporting to impose a single national age of 21 for selling tobacco products. Obviously, the measure reduces the freedom of millions of Americans who are legally adults in almost every other respect—including...
Two Sets of 100 yr Periods in American History — Each Guided by Completely Opposite Ideas
by Chris Rossini | Jan 9, 2020 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
The great Austrian economist Ludwig Von Mises wrote: "History is a struggle between two principles, the peaceful principle, which advances the development of trade, and the militarist-imperialist principle, which interprets human society not as a friendly division of...
Black America Before LBJ: How the Welfare State Inadvertently Helped Ruin Black Communities
by Sam Jacobs | Jan 9, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Economics, Events, Politics
The dust has settled and the evidence is in: The 1960s Great Society and War on Poverty programs of President Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) have been a colossal and giant failure. One might make the argument that social welfare programs are the moral path for a modern...
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Fraud on Fraud: Compounding The LCS Follies
It only took the DoJ eight years to levy a fine for ripping off tax dollars. Imagine if journalists on the Pentagon beat actually went after the fraud and inefficiencies of the military industrial complex with investigative lenses and FOIA festivals that could shed...
Indefensible: Homeland Defense is Not Available at This Time
I have a challenge for my readers and listeners. The US DoD has spent trillions of dollars and still can't defend the homeland against the ICBM/IRBM threat. "U.S. defense officials have stated that both existing terrestrial- and space-based sensor architectures are...
Submarine News: Hold My Beer!
Who knows how expensive this will be and challenging for new rules and culture shifts. They new Virginia’s have “gender neutral” bathrooms. Basically, everyone gets a private stall to themself. Gaucher added, per the outlet, that all future nuclear-powered attack...
Lessons From September 11th, 2001
https://youtu.be/6tMWiBqfZWU Lessons From 9/11: Do not let tragedies put you in a state of mind which allows you to be manipulated into becoming the very thing you claim to oppose. Warfare is based on lies. Politicians engage in 'threat inflation' (and explicit lies),...
Hunter Called the Ball
Thompson said this on 12 September 2001. In the 21st century, the US conducted military campaigns in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, NW Pakistan, Somalia, Uganda, Niger and the Horn of Africa. America is no safer and no more prosperous.
Anti-War Blog – A Razz Through X
I log onto X (formerly Twitter) for the first time in awhile. The news feed is aghast with Trump vs Harris post debate ‘analysis’ and ‘9/11’ ‘evidence’ and memes. The Truther stuff, central bankers planned the sinking of the Titanic sort of thing. The usual George...
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