Deepak Lal, a prominent, pro-market, development economist wrote the following words in his 2004 book, In Praise of Empires: Empires have been natural throughout human history. Most people have lived in empires. Empires and the process of globalization associated with...
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Don’t Throw Away ‘Acceptable’ Because You Won’t Get ‘Perfection’
by Peter R. Quiñones | Dec 15, 2020 | Blog
In episode #511 of my podcast, Jeff Deist states that with the control of the levers of power firmly in the hands of Left AND Right Progressives, “separation” is the only solution. I interpret his use of the term separation as radical decentralization and even...
11/6/20 Jeff Deist on the Cancerous Growth of America’s Federal Government
by Scott Horton | Nov 7, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Jeff Deist discusses the idea that the best path forward for America may be some kind of peaceful breakup. He reminds us that America has never truly been one country, the way that, for instance, many small European nations are—and indeed the United States was never...
Why the NRA Should Seek Refuge Outside New York
by José Niño | Oct 11, 2020 | Featured Articles
The state of New York has wasted no time reminding Americans about its pathological disregard for personal freedom. Its COVID-19 lockdown policies were among the most heavy-handed responses implemented by a state government in the country. Controversies surrounding...
Making Politics More Like a Free Market
by Sukhayl Niyazov | Sep 10, 2020 | Featured Articles, Politics
Free-market capitalism is the most successful economic system in history, as it has brought unprecedented prosperity and powered vast improvements in all aspects of human well-being. However, in spite of capitalism’s success, the application of economic ideas to...
Hey Feds: Hands Off Our Cities
by Ryan McMaken | Aug 2, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
The violence and the utter disregard for basic human rights displayed by the Left in recent years—combined with its support for war crimes when a Democrat is president—have made me inclined to play nice with conservatives these days. At least conservatives aren't...
Three Ways the Coronavirus Is Benefitting Political Decentralization
by Tho Bishop | May 23, 2020 | Featured Articles
The coronavirus pandemic, and resulting government response, has created one of the greatest disruptions to daily life in modern American history. With much of the country now focused on “reopening,” pundits and policymakers have focused their attention on what the...
5/15/20 Mike Maharrey on the Federal Erosion of Constitutional Rights
by Scott Horton | May 19, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Mike Maharrey of the Tenth Amendment Center discusses a recent U.S. Supreme Court case that overturns a Kansas Supreme Court decision concerning a potentially unconstitutional traffic stop. The police officer in the incident in question pulled a car over because his...
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The Carrier Narrative is Dying
Carrier skeptics have been hammering away at the anachronistic cargo cult of the aircraft carrier. The Navy has invested a significant amount of political capital and mountains of budget dollars to maintaining a fleet of these allegedly deadly weapons of war that were...
Darryl Cooper on the Holocaust
Cooper is an American hero. Whatever the giant-jawed Zionist propagandists at Reason magazine say, the truth is always the opposite. Subscribe to the MartyrMade podcast here.
Tanks for Nothing: The Era of Manned Armor is Over
The beat goes on. I have made the outrageous claim that the era of the carrier is over and also infer that manned tanks are also way past their expiration date due to the demonstrative lop-sided opportunities in salvo competition that is seeing 7-10 million dollar...
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Does anyone have the CRS or GAO report of the completed F35 OT&E [Pentagon’s Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E)]? Any documentation will do. They fielded the 1,000th airframe and it has NEVER jumped from initial operational capability (IOC) to...
Carrier Blues: Even the Mainstream is Waking Up
The ice is breaking on the stonewalling of the defense community and external observers to have an honest conversation on the aircraft carrier; they may be getting the message on how indefensible and anachronistic this extraordinarily expensive weapons system is. The...