Jim Bovard discusses the recent rumblings about "domestic extremism," which the Biden administration and many Democrats have been warning is a rising problem in America. So far, Biden has only issued executive orders about so-called extremism, but some politicians are...
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News Roundup 2/9/21
US News Facebook will crack down on vaccine misinformation. [Link] Cass Sunstein joins Biden’s DHS to craft immigration policy. [Link] A proposed House bill will make gun ownership highly regulated and establish a gun database. [Link] A federal appeals court ruled it...
News Roundup 2/2/21
US News Wikipedia is introducing new standards to increase diversity and target harassment. [Link] The cop who murdered Ryan Whitaker will not face charges. [Link] Biden is signing a large number of executive orders in his first weeks in office. [Link] Biden gives...
News Roundup 8/7/20
US News LA’s mayor says the city will cut power and sewer services to family homes where lockdowns are violated. [Link] Trump’s Operation Legend is expanding its deployment of federal police to St. Louis and Memphis. [Link] Foreign Policy Trump’s Envoy to Iran, Brian...
8/26/19 Jacob Hornberger on the Trump Economy and Jeffrey Epstein
Jacob Hornberger explains why the American president has become a democratically elected dictator, largely through the president's power to manage the economy by threatening businesses, negotiating trade agreements with foreign countries, and issuing executive orders...
6/10/19 Patrick Eddington on the US Spying Apparatus
Scott interviews Patrick Eddington about the surveillance of U.S. citizens and the legislation that allows it. Although the USA Freedom Act ostensibly rolls back the NSA's metadata program, it really only tweaks a technicality of whom the organization allowed to spy...
How Pro-Israel advocacy groups write public policy word for word
Copy, Paste Legislate a collaboration between USA Today, The Arizona Republic and The Center for Public Integrity The front lines in a bitter debate between Israel’s defenders and critics lie in an unexpected place: state capitals across America. Palestinian...
This Week in Congress: Hearing Edition
While there may not be that much excitement on the floor, the House of Representatives will hold a number of significant hearings this week. The House Intelligence Committee will hold its first hearing of the year, but you won’t find out much about it because the...
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Israel Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War
From the Foreword by Lawrence B. Wilkerson: “[T]he debate over whether oil was a principal reason for the 2003 invasion has waxed and waned, with one camp arguing that it absolutely was, while the other argues the precise opposite.” “Mr. Vogler, himself a former...
Domestic Imperialism: Nine Reasons I Left Progressivism
Imagine the Catholic Church (or any person or group of people) doing what the government does every day: Everyone who doesn’t give the Catholic Church 25% of his annual income every year will be put in jail. If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has the right...
Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania
FOREWORD BY JAY BHATTACHARYA, MD, PHD Diary of a Psychosis is different from all other books on Covid: it traces the development of the government response as it happened, bit by bit, and subjects it to relentless scrutiny: did any of it do any good? It thereby...