Timothy McVeigh fled the scene of the Oklahoma City bombing driving a battered old yellow Mercury Marquis that was missing a license plate. He was spotted fleeing the scene, with a passenger sitting next to him in the Marquis, by witness Gary Lewis. FBI agent John...
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A History of Libertarian Party Presidential Messaging, 1972-1996
by Hunter DeRensis | Oct 15, 2020 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
Friends of liberty inside and outside the Libertarian Party are waiting patiently—some passively—for three more weeks until the conclusion of the November presidential election. Not to find out whether Donald Trump or Joe Biden will come in first, but how many votes...
6/22/20 Vincent Bevins on the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
by Scott Horton | Jun 25, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews journalist Vincent Bevins about his latest book, The Jakarta Method, in which he lays out some of the history of the U.S. government’s support for violent right-wing coups all over the world. During the Cold War, America backed brutal extremists in...
5/29/20 Coleen Rowley on the Dangerous Failings of the FBI
by Scott Horton | May 31, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Coleen Rowley about the failures in America’s intelligence agencies that contributed to the 9/11 attacks, and that continue to plague us today. She reminds us that three FBI agents in three different states tried to pass very specific warnings to...
The Historical Inevitability of Libertarianism
by Zack Sorenson | Jul 10, 2017 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Marxism infamously puts forward a theory of history in which its utopian vision for human society is upheld as an eschatological certainty. According to Marx, irresistible political and economic forces will compel mankind towards a future of full equality and...
The Antiwar Comic: It’s All Part of my Libertarian Fantasy
by Tony DiGerolamo | Jul 8, 2017 | Blog
Hey, if you're gonna dream, dream big. For more comics visit the Webcomic Factory.
Federal Education Budget: Teapot, Meet Tempest
by Thomas L. Knapp | Jul 5, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles
The Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 requires the president of the United States to submit a budget proposal to Congress for each fiscal year. Congress isn’t required to honor that proposal. In fact its budget resolutions and actual appropriations seldom...
Libertarians Have Gone Missing on Campuses
by Craig Cantoni | Dec 8, 2016 | Blog
On visits to college campuses, I find overwhelming evidence of leftism but virtually no evidence of libertarianism. Libertarianism is akin to a lost civilization on campuses, worthy of study by students of archeology and anthropology. Perhaps if one were to dig deep...
Libertarianism as Extreme Middle-of-the-Roadism
by Per Bylund | Dec 5, 2016 | Blog
While the Libertarian Party’s presidential candidate Gary Johnson unsuccessfully tried to sell voters a lukewarm version of libertarianism as the good policies from both Democrats and Republicans but none of the bad (“neither too hot nor too cold”), there’s an...
Reoccurring Populism and History Ignored
by Remso W. Martinez | Nov 28, 2016 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
The attempt to forge a life that has no reverence for history is an unsustainable… Now, what does having been told that have anything to do to anything? I hear far too often the American-right go after secular progressives for one reason or another, but the same goes...
The American Conservative Presidential Symposium
by The American Conservative | Nov 4, 2016 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Two-dozen conservatives, libertarians, and independently minded progressives reveal how they look at the presidential election. A good magazine presents a robust discussion of the national life, and The American Conservative has aimed since the beginning to show that...
‘Be a Gary’?
by Julie Ershadi | Nov 2, 2016 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
I really wanted to believe in Gary Johnson. That might sound questionable to anyone who’s watched him. He is far from perfect, usually doesn’t make any sense in live interviews, and seems to see no problem with hedging on his positions till they’re not even really...
Gary Johnson’s 27% Showing in Another Military Poll Is a Warning Shot to Smug Interventionists
by Matt Welch | Oct 24, 2016 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Military Favors Johnson Over Clinton, University Prof Baffled
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Oct 22, 2016 | Blog
A new poll found that Gary Johnson is a more popular pick among active duty service members than Hillary Clinton. In a Thursday story at the Christian Science Monitor, Amanda Hoover set out to learn why. If you want to know how service members arrived at that...
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Christopher Hitchens Lied About the Cause of Terrorism
"The suicide murder community is almost perfectly faith based." - Christopher Hitchens On Real Time With Bill Maher, Hitchens claims that because an Islamist in the 1800's used the Koran to justify atrocities, it means that today the issue with Al-Qaeda is due to the...
War is a Euphemism for Mass Murder
To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest crime — waging war on another...
Empower the Working Class: Abolish Occupational Licensing
It's time to consistently apply the "my body my choice" principle. If consenting adults want to engage in economic activity, no third party should forcibly stop them. Democrats always say "voting once every two years between two politicians is how you express...
Death By Climate: Down 97% in Last 100 Years
Our schools provide many hours of lessons on climate change, but I wonder how many teachers, let alone pupils, are aware that climate-related deaths have decreased by as much as 97 per cent over the past 100 years, as the OFDA / CRED data show. - Why don’t we ever...
Black Youth Unemployment: Before and After Progressives Started “Helping”
A constant trend is progressivism is to use the state to coercively control others under the guise of "helping" them, make things worse, then ignore the problems you caused and never apologize. Sallie Mae loans didn't make college affordable. The Federal Reserve...
What Kind of Liberal?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I am a Locke-Smith liberal.
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