Tomorrow is Election Day. There’s going to be a lot of candidates and a lot parties on the ballot—Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, etc. Someday, when I enter the booth in my local polling station to pull that lever of democracy, I hope to see the words...
Democracy
Biden Goes Begging for Saudi Barrels
by Jim Bovard | Nov 7, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Why don’t you talk about something that matters?” President Biden replied to a journalist asking about why he fist-bumped Saudi dictator Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) during his “begging for barrels” trip to the Middle East in July. Biden hoped the Saudis would rescue his...
TGIF: Election Day 2022
by Sheldon Richman | Nov 4, 2022 | Featured Articles, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Another election day is upon us. We're told that we have a duty to vote because so many Americans gave their lives for that right. But perhaps it ought to be spelled R-I-T-E, as in a religious ritual. Is it a duty or a right? Let's make up our minds. In 21 countries...
Libertarian Principles Perfectly Complement Clausewitz’s Theories of War
by Finn Andreen | Nov 2, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism
The ongoing war in Ukraine has forced many Westerners to consider the realism of Carl von Clausewitz’s classic On War. The Prussian military theorist famously wrote that: “War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.” Though this...
The Pentagon Is Neither Woke Nor Based
by Laurie Calhoun | Nov 1, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The U.S. military has in recent times been making a big show of its “wokeness,” not only by changing the names of institutions to comply with the demands of race activists who wish to expunge from history all traces of the Confederacy, but also in its affirmation and...
25 Premises That Guide Your Politics
by Jim Cardoza | Nov 1, 2022 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
A premise is a fundamental proposition that one accepts to be true. It is used as a starting point for reasoning or taking actions. If they are wrong, so is the reasoning or actions that follow. Our premises not only determine our politics, they are basic to our...
Power as Property: Inside the Mind of a Politician
by Tommy Salmons | Oct 27, 2022 | Blog
The defense of property is a relatively undisputed right of the citizenry. If someone threatens the safety of you or your family, or insinuates a threat by trespassing, breaking and entering, or burglarizing your property most people won’t blink at the use of force in...
Congress, NGOs Pressure White House to Sanction Africans
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Oct 24, 2022 | News
The Joe Biden administration is resisting pressure from Congress and humanitarian orgs to blacklist African leaders, Robbie Gramer reported in Foreign Policy. Lawmakers and several NGOs have argued the sanctions are needed to punish human rights abuses across the continent.
Blog
Dust to Dust: Imperial Decline is Baked into the Statist Recipe
Nothing is working for anyone with a clear eye to reform in the Department of Defense. We may find some reform will take place now but I am cynical and not holding out much hope. Nothing. "Fixes are proposed; panels are held; good, sensible reforms are constantly...
The Biggest Heist in Human History
Thought experiment: what if it turns out that the happy warriors for the socialist & government supremacist projects claiming aspirations of altruistic and shining ambition for the betterment of humankind were insincere and all of it was actually a gigantic grift...
The Past is Future Tense, Always
The Wayback Machine reminds us of all past tense showing us the future. The base in Balakliya, near Kharkiv, is around 100km (60 miles) from fighting against Russian-backed separatists in the eastern oblasts (2017). 2017: “The Ukrainian SBU – the equivalent of the FBI...
Vance in Munich w/Kyle Matovcik
Kyle joined me to listen and discuss Vance’s fiery speech at the Munich Security Council last week.
It Begins: Blow-back Will Commence Once Festivities Begin
United States declares eight Latin American drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. This will not go well and the sophisticated ratlines, logistics enterprises and support networks will be leveraged to the highest order for retaliatory strikes in CONUS....
Hinting at War and Disaster: Mexico Will Go Up in Flames
Here are some news items from the war on cartels. This is a very ominous development. After two weeks of US Air Force RC-135V/W Rivet Joint reconnaissance aircraft conducting multiple signals intelligence (SIGINT) operations along the US-Mexico border and in...
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