Prior to 1968, most adults in the United States could purchase a firearm without state interference. Guns were available in local retail stores, as well as mail-order catalogs, and as long as you hadn’t been convicted of a felony and you had the funds, there weren’t...
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News Roundup 12/3/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 3, 2018 | News Roundup
A postal worker admits to stealing $5,200 from greeting cards. [Link] The Department of Justice awards $17 million to the victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting. [Link] A Dallas police officer who killed a man after entering his apartment has been indicted for murder....
News Roundup 9/10/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
The House passed a bill that will reclassify dozens of crimes as crimes of violence. The reclassification will allow for more crimes that could result in deportation. [Link] A Dallas police officer shoots and kills an innocent man after mistakenly entering his...
Trump’s Supporters: Beasts of Burden
by Craig Cantoni | Jul 1, 2018 | Economics
Lower-middle-income workers comprise the majority of Trump supporters. According to a recent Cato Institute study written by John F. Early, former assistant commissioner at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, those in this income group often have more than one job and...
Splitting California into 3 Pieces Is Long Overdue
by Ryan McMaken | Jun 15, 2018 | Featured Articles, Politics
It now looks like California voters will have the chance to vote on whether or not the state ought to be split up into three pieces. The Los AngelesTimes reports : If a majority of voters who cast ballots agree, a long and contentious process would begin for three...
Yountville Shootings Another Cost of War
by Marc Joffe | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Last Friday, an Afghanistan War veteran suffering from PTSD took hostages at a Northern California veterans home, ultimately killing three female employees and himself. And so, the senseless and endless US intervention in Afghanistan has claimed four more lives, right...
Time for a New Works Progress Administration
by Craig Cantoni | Feb 14, 2018 | Blog
My fellow libertarians will become hysterical with this commentary and send me to the intellectual gulag. Conservatives and liberals will join hands with them. Why? Because they won’t like my alternative to Trump’s plan to rebuild America’s infrastructure. Instead...
News Roundup 10/4/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 4, 2017 | Blog
The Trump administration is finalizing a plan for a $29 billion disaster relief bill. [Link] A Dallas police officer has been given nine months probation for shooting and killing a man. The shooting occurred after a high-speed chase. The man killed did not fire a...
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Best page out of Nixon’s memior “RN”
Ron Paul and Elon Musk Alliance?
Ron Paul shares his thoughts on the election with David Gornoski. I loved the part around 7min and 33sec where Paul discusses the implications of JD Vance coming around to seeing the Central Bank as the enemy of mankind as it is. Watch...
The Dems Are What They Claim to Hate
As I said in 2016 (or was it 2015?), I despise Trump and I despise most of the people who despise Trump. I will never forgive the Democrats for making it necessary for me to defend him against their lies.
Fat Amy Follies: Part XXIV
The grift that keeps on giving and the poor performance across the board of the aircraft and the sticker shock of the high price for that mediocrity. I am going to say out loud: stealth is over-rated, the ea of manned combat aircraft is coming to a close and this...
The Girl in the Mall
She could be anywhere from sixteen to her early twenties, a strewn mess of hair rests tangled above and over her face. A regular at the Seaford Shopping Centre, she watches families walk by, smiling at children and when no one is nearby she talks to herself. In the...
Halloween Election
Halloween is upon us again and it happens to be before the next Most important election in history. The sacred ritual of the democracy ghouls, when the imperial citizens of the United States vote for their executive, though other candidates exist it is relegated to...