On COI #452, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman discuss the latest on the US surveillance state, China, and the Middle East. Connor covers a scandalous disclosure regarding the FBI snooping on US lawmakers, as well as a recent study exposing the devastating and...
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Mom Accuses FBI of Entrapping Her ‘Neurodiverse’ Teenager in Terrorism Scheme
by Ken Silva | Jul 26, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In June 2022, Colorado woman Deanna Meyer contacted her local sheriff’s office about violent and terroristic statements that her mentally ill 17-year-old son, Davin Meyer, was making at the time. The local sheriff, in turn, contacted the FBI, which then...
FBI’s Unapproved Snooping on US Lawmakers Fuels Debate Over Surveillance Powers
by Connor Freeman | Jul 25, 2023 | News
A newly declassified court document has revealed the FBI improperly searched a surveillance database seeking information about a US senator, a state senator, and a state judge. The disclosure comes during a heated Congressional debate over intelligence agencies’...
Enemies Above: The FBI and the Creation of the Brown Scare Myth
by Brandan P. Buck | Jul 19, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History
"Today's threat to our national security is not a matter of military weapons alone. We know of new methods of attack. The Trojan Horse. The Fifth Column that betrays a nation unprepared for treachery." Such were the remarks from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's...
‘The Most Massive Attack Against Free Speech in United States History’
by Jim Bovard | Jul 10, 2023 | Featured Articles
Sometime since January 2021, Biden administration policymakers decided that they were infallible—or a “close enough for government work” level of infallible. They claimed a divine right to suppress the online posts and comments of conservatives and anyone else who had...
GOP Pushes Back on White House Effort to Renew Intel Agencies’ Spying Tool
by Connor Freeman | Jul 5, 2023 | News
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, particularly in the GOP, are pushing back against the renewal of a law authorizing a tool used by US spy agencies, in the post 9/11 era, to conduct warrantless surveillance on foreign targets and Americans with whom they may be interacting.
Celebrate Fourth of July by Cussing Politicians
by Jim Bovard | Jul 3, 2023 | Featured Articles, Politics
America was founded by rowdy folks who enjoyed nothing better than applying tar and feathers to British tax collectors. For a couple centuries, Independence Day was an occasion for raising a ruckus with firecrackers and plenty of other friendly detonations. But in...
The Myth of the ‘Good Leaker’
by Ryan McMaken | Jun 28, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Daniel Ellsberg died on June 16, and he remains one of the nation's most prominent whistleblowers who leaked secret government information to the public. Upon his death the general consensus among the writers of memorials for Ellsberg was that he was right to leak...
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The Health-Care Nirvana Fallacy
Someone explain how coercive centralized bureaucratic control of medical decision-making and the purse can beat the decentralized free market with its undistorted price system. The government has many things besides medical care it wants to spend tax money on, and...
DEI Kills: Boeing Bumbling on Parade Part CXXVII
Editor's Note: Just returned from business travel so my blogging frequency should bump up again. Boeing continues o provide legions of future business historians the fodder for hundreds of books and cautionary tales on how engineering can fall of a cliff once...
What’s Behind HTS Rebranding and the Rise of Geopolitical Tensions? New Episode of the Kyle Anzalone Show
Al-Qaeda's Takeover in Syria: Truth Behind the Headlines! Al-Qaeda's recent control over Syria marks a significant shift in the region, and we need to unpack its implications. While mainstream media may portray this as a victory for freedom and justice, the reality is...
Time to Separate Medicine and State
The "progressive" coverage of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson's murder has an unspoken premise: namely, that we could have had a system in which medical care was instantly superabundant and free for everyone. There is no such system. We live in a world of...
No Need for DOGE
We don't need a Department (sic) of Government Efficiency. (It's a nongovernment thing.) We need a "Department" of What the Hell Should the Government Be Doing in the First Place? Efficiency implies that you know the objective of a course of action and want to avoid...
Anti-War Blog – Osama Bin Laden won
Bin Laden Won He won and the US warmasters are celebrating. Imagine rejoicing after a government falls to the descendants of Al-Qaeda. We don’t have to because the Washington gang are doing just that. The Islamo-Fascist Jihadis who terrorised the minds of the West for...
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