First it was the generals who took control over U.S. foreign policy, preventing President Trump from bringing the troops home from the Middle East and Afghanistan, as he said he was going to do. And now, it’s the federal bureaucracy that has absorbed Trump. According...
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The Roots of Mass Incarceration
by Mike Swanson | Dec 27, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton (Harvard University Press, 2016), 449 pages. Before the war on the drugs there was the war on crime. In 1975 the police department of Washington, D.C.,...
12/20/19 Jim Bovard on the Illusion of FBI Power and Competence
by Scott Horton | Dec 23, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Jim Bovard talks about America's lack of faith in the FBI, as represented by both the film Richard Jewell and also the Inspector General's report about the Bureau's failures in conducting the "Russiagate" probe. The FBI's history of incompetence and outright malice...
When It Comes To War Their Is One Political Party
by Steven Woskow | Dec 6, 2019 | Blog
Are you a Republicans or Democrat? In Washington D.C. their is no distinction when it comes to war. Both party's support it . Presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, could force a House vote next week that would require President Donald Trump to withdraw the...
A Farewell to Mars
by Phillip Pittman | Nov 19, 2019 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
I hate to admit that my amazing title for this article was shamelessly stolen from one of my favorite books of the same title. The aforementioned book is by Evangelical Pastor, Brian Zahnd. He seems to be proposing a way to view violence and militarism that differs...
War Is Not a Conservative Thing
by Michael Maharrey | Nov 8, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism
Perpetual war and aggressive interventionism have become the hallmark of Republican foreign policy. But war is not a conservative thing. Last month, I saw somebody assert unironically and in complete seriousness that Californians need to reelect Rep. Maxine Waters...
The Conservative Attack on Market Freedom
by Ryan McMaken | Oct 14, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles
I haven't run an empirical study on the number of articles published, but it sure seems like conservatives are writing more articles than usual condemning economic freedom, and the people who advocate for it. This would make some sense in the Age of Trump when the the...
9/23/19 Hannah Cox: the Death Penalty is Just Another Failed Big Government Program
by Scott Horton | Sep 25, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Hannah Cox, from Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty, who explains why anyone who favors smaller government should oppose the death penalty. Among the problems she cites: one in nine death penalty convicts are later outright exonerated,...
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Anti-War Blog – Peace Be With You
Easter Time used to mean a lot to me. I was once a Christian. I would pray every day and I believed in a creator, the Lord. I felt pain when I imagined the journey of Christ as he carried the cross, just a man who was burdened with all of our sin. The son of God. The...
Provoked: The Audiobook Chapter 2 Bill Clinton Part 2 Now Available
Shock Therapy, The Founding Act, Kosovo, Pipeline Wars, Chechnya, The Color Revolutions, Imperial Hubris, Right from the Beginning Subscribe at scotthortonshow.com.
War is the Health of the Stock Exchange
Some genius will be able to determine what percentage of Israeli "aid" packages essentially never leave the DC/VA corridor. That handout of taxpayer funds to Israel coupled with Israel’s, and global, demand increasing for weapons in a period of instability, has been...
Decent Fight Scene Outrages the Memers
The cancel culture mob is upset over a piece of media, this time it’s because a girl character in a television show based on a video game did something that they were OUTRAGED about. A fictional character was able to defeat a man in an unarmed struggle. Her being...
The Greatest Threat to Free Speech
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Royal Navy Carrier Deployment: Failure is in the Cards
HMS Prince of Wales will lead Carrier Strike Group 25 on a deployment to the Pacific. The Prince of Wales has suffered many propulsion issues (it’s a non-nuclear carrier) and engineering casualties. Non-nuclear carrier operations in war in the 21st century rely on...
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