In November 2021 I wrote a piece entitled “Have We Finally Reached Peak Davos?” This article was scarily spot on. When you’ve written as much as I have over the past five years, however, it’s easy to look back and point at how prescient you were. Even if you’ve gotten...
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The Duke in the Shining Attack Helicopter
by John Weeks | Jan 23, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
A January 6 CNN headline read, "Prince Harry criticized by UK military figures—and Taliban—after claiming he killed 25 fighters in Afghanistan." Dear God, I thought. Had Henry Charles Albert David, aka Prince Harry, succumbed to the type of war zone fabrications made...
US Expands Training of Taiwanese Military With National Guard
by Dave DeCamp | Jan 20, 2023 | News
A source told Nikkei that the training began sometime before spring 2022. In May 2022, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen announced cooperation with the National Guard while hosting Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) in Taipei.
Instead of Saving Face, Let’s Save Lives in Ukraine
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jan 18, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Whenever asked about whether the U.S. will change its policy regarding the conflict in Ukraine, to start pushing for Kiev to enter negotiations rather than apparently providing as much money and as many weapons as they ask for, the Biden administration’s refrain has...
The IRS Straps on Their Jackboots to Enforce Biden’s Tax Laws
by Jim Bovard | Jan 9, 2023 | Featured Articles
The Internal Revenue Service is perhaps the ultimate sacred cow in Washington. It is the “goose that lays the golden eggs” for the city’s power and prestige, delivering trillions of dollars to politicians to work miracles (or at least get reelected). When criticism...
Will the War Party Wield the Speaker’s Gavel?
by Dan McKnight | Jan 5, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
We’re witnessing a fascinating thing: Congress is actually debating and voting on something. Remarkable! For the first time in a century—and only the second time since the Civil War—the vote for the next Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives has entered...
US Says Approach to Venezuela’s Maduro ‘Not Changing,’ Will Maintain Sanctions
by Dave DeCamp | Jan 4, 2023 | News
The State Department said Tuesday that the US approach toward Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is “not changing” and said crippling economic sanctions on the South American country will remain.
Self-Determination for Thee, But Not for Me
by Ryan McMaken | Dec 22, 2022 | Featured Articles
Opponents of secession in the United States often choose from several reasons as to why they think no member state of the United States should be allowed to separate from the rest of the confederation. Some antisecessionists say it’s bad for national security reasons....
Washington Erases Red Lines, Escalates Proxy War with Russia
by Connor Freeman | Dec 15, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Since the Cuban Missile Crisis, the possibilities of nuclear war have never been higher. The American ruling class and NATO picked a fight with Russia on its borders and have sought to use Ukraine as a human battering ram to “weaken” Moscow, eying a larger, future...
Skynet Delayed: Killer Robot Proposal Defeated in San Francisco
by Michael Maharrey | Dec 13, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Under intense pressure from grassroots activists, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors reversed course and banned killer robots in the city. The San Francisco Police Department’s plan to arm robots came to light under a police militarization transparency law passed...
Joe Biden, Executor-In-Chief
by Jim Bovard | Dec 7, 2022 | Featured Articles
On July 4, President Biden declared, “Liberty is under assault…rights we assumed were protected are no longer.” Biden, however, was referring solely to a few Supreme Court decisions he deplored, not to the federal supremacy he championed for almost 50 years in the...
Repeal All Laws Against the Phony Crime of ‘Seditious Conspiracy’
by Ryan McMaken | Dec 5, 2022 | Featured Articles
On Tuesday, a District of Columbia jury convicted Stewart Rhodes and Kelly Meggs of seditious conspiracy in relation to the January 6, 2021 riot at the US Capitol building. Three other defendants were acquitted of seditious conspiracy but convicted of other felonies....
Justice Denied: The Contrast of Ross Ulbricht and Sam Bankman-Fried
by Matt Agorist | Nov 30, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
“How did this dude steal billions of dollars and is now speaking at a summit as a free man? Make it make sense.”- the internet. This is the question that millions of people are asking after weeks have now passed since Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX scandal unfolded....
Prophetic Patrick Henry’s Warning on the Constitution’s ‘Implied Authority’
by TJ Martinell | Nov 30, 2022 | Featured Articles
Patrick Henry’s impassioned remarks during the final days of the Virginia Ratifying Convention were the culmination of week-long arguments between skeptics of the proposed Constitution and its supporters, such as James Madison. In modern context, it is easy at first...
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War is a Euphemism for Mass Murder
To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest crime — waging war on another...
Empower the Working Class: Abolish Occupational Licensing
It's time to consistently apply the "my body my choice" principle. If consenting adults want to engage in economic activity, no third party should forcibly stop them. Democrats always say "voting once every two years between two politicians is how you express...
Death By Climate: Down 97% in Last 100 Years
Our schools provide many hours of lessons on climate change, but I wonder how many teachers, let alone pupils, are aware that climate-related deaths have decreased by as much as 97 per cent over the past 100 years, as the OFDA / CRED data show. - Why don’t we ever...
Black Youth Unemployment: Before and After Progressives Started “Helping”
A constant trend is progressivism is to use the state to coercively control others under the guise of "helping" them, make things worse, then ignore the problems you caused and never apologize. Sallie Mae loans didn't make college affordable. The Federal Reserve...
What Kind of Liberal?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I am a Locke-Smith liberal.
The Tale of the Steak – A Lesson in Economics by Walter E. Williams
Consider filet mignon and chuck steak. Assume-realistically-that consumers prefer the former. Then the question becomes: why is it, despite consumer preferences, that chuck steak sells at all? The fact is that chuck steak outsells filet mignon. How does something less...
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