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Cop Kills Man

by | Oct 16, 2020 |

Que? WATCH: Without Warning Cop Kills Unarmed Father of 3 Over Stop for No Headlights Felony stupidity is not supposed to be a death penalty offense.

The Death Penalty

by | Oct 4, 2019 |

I get it. You read some true crime news about some scumbag who tortures his own babies to death and think: take him out back and shoot him in the head. One and done. Easy. But the reality of the death penalty is the U.S.A. is more like this: Texas Wants to Execute...

Kamala the Cop

by | Aug 1, 2019 |

Mmm. How'd it taste? Tulsi takes down Kamala Harris over her record on criminal justice reform, the death penalty, and the war on drugs -TULSI2020 #DemDebate #Tulsi2020 https://t.co/7XQoiqHThu pic.twitter.com/epf58iQNYI — Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) August 1,...

Rocky Myers Doesn’t Belong On Death Row

by | Jul 22, 2019 |

The case of Rocky Myers is a window into so much that’s wrong with the death penalty in this country. The 53-year-old, who has an intellectual disability, was saddled with an incompetent lawyer, convicted on the evidence from a key witness who has since recanted his...

Elizabeth Warren is a Racist

by | Feb 23, 2019 |

Against anyone in Israel's way: "[O]ver time realities are bearing down on Israel, demographic realities, births and deaths. What the region looks like." Philip Weiss: "Warren parrots the 'demographics' talk that would be the death penalty for a liberal politician in...

Kamala Harris is a Monster

by | Jan 18, 2019 |

Insane power-monger worked to keep the wrongfully convicted in prison. "Rather than fulfilling the obligation [to seek justice], Ms. Harris turned legal technicalities into weapons so she could cement injustices." Bad on drugs, bad on covering up for lying crime lab...

US Facing Backlash Over UN Vote on Death Penalty

by | Oct 4, 2017 |

This article originally appeared at Anti-Media.    Last week, the U.S. was in the minority when it voted against a United Nations (U.N.) resolution encouraging countries to move toward abolishing the death penalty. In addition to arguing against the practice on...

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The “Rich Get Richer” Myth

Some 94 percent of Americans who reach “top 1 percent” income status will enjoy it for only a single year. Approximately 99 percent will lose their “top 1 percent” status within a decade. Now consider the top 400 U.S. income-earners—a far more exclusive club than the...

A Response to My Memorial Day Critics

My article against Memorial Day drew a lot of ire and attention. This should not have been surprising; I was making a controversial statement. What did surprise me, however, was that many critics were self-described libertarians or former libertarians. There were many...

Ignoring Political Gossip & Sticking to Principle

https://youtu.be/ZwWHjYVY4tg In the private sector, firms must attract voluntary customers or they fail; and if they fail, investors lose their money, and managers and employees lose their jobs. The possibility of failure, therefore, is a powerful incentive to find...

The Myth of “Hyper-Rugged-Isolationist-Individualism”

Myth #1: Libertarians believe that each individual is an isolated, hermetically sealed atom, acting in a vacuum without influencing each other.   This is a common charge, but a highly puzzling one. In a lifetime of reading libertarian and classical-liberal...

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