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9/4/20 David Henderson on the Supposed Economic Threat of China

by Scott Horton | Sep 6, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott interviews David Henderson about the threat to the U.S. posed by China's growing stature as an economic powerhouse. In general, Henderson thinks that such concerns are overblown, citing the real economic figures behind the trade relationship. In particular, he...

The Greatest Enemies of Free Speech in America: the Israeli Government

by Scott Horton | Sep 3, 2020 | Blog

I know you might have thought it was the cancel culture crazies on Twitter. Yeah right. They're nothing compared to the Israeli government and their traitorous American fifth column pushing to outlaw criticism of their lousy, lawless, Jim Crow, apartheid police state....

News Roundup 9/2/20

by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 2, 2020 | News Roundup

US News The DEA stole $43,000 from Stacy Jones as she attempted to travel through an airport. Jones is now a part of a class-action lawsuit against the DEA. [Link] Facial recognition systems make a large number of errors when people wear masks. [Link] The Department...

8/31/20 Ramzy Baroud on the Israeli Bureaucracy Forcing Palestinians From Their Homes

by Scott Horton | Aug 31, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Ramzy Baroud shares the heartbreaking story of Ahmed Amarneh, an engineer who decided to build a home for his family in a network of caves near their town after getting repeatedly denied building permits for a real house by the Israeli government. Now that he has...

8/31/20 Phil Weiss on Ultra-Pro-Israel Presidential Candidate Joe Biden

by Scott Horton | Aug 31, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott interviews Phil Weiss about the deplorable state of the Democratic Party when it comes to Israel policy. Weiss calls Joe Biden the most pro-Israel candidate of all time, which is somewhat ironic given that he's running against the most pro-Israel president of...

Hillary Clinton Gave State Dept. Job to Ghislaine Maxwell’s Nephew

by Scott Horton | Aug 25, 2020 | Blog

Alexander Djerassi gets to help decide America's Middle East policy. Not you. According to his online profile, Mr. Djerassi was chief of staff and special assistant in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, covering U.S. relations with Arab...

How State Policy Reducies Access to Hospital Beds

by Frank A. Greco | Aug 25, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles

We can all repeat the mantra without missing any beat: the lockdown was required to flatten the curve so that our hospital resources would not be overwhelmed during the pandemic. That argument is, by the way, quite correct. Anyone looking at the footage of the...

News Roundup 8/24/20

by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 24, 2020 | News Roundup

US News Arizona police stole a $15,000 Jeep over an alleged $25 pot sale. [Link] A police officer who kneed a man in the face 20 to 30 times gets qualified immunity. [Link] John Durham’s investigation questioned John Brennan for eight hours. The investigation said...

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Pentagon: 7-0 in Pristine Record of Audit Failure

Don't believe the Pentagon is capable of not only accounting for its present year's spending but the aggregate of materiel and expenditure on its books from past years. Boldly matching their record for military success, the DoD continues to cook the books it can't...

The Value of Selfishness

"The welfare school pretends not only to stand for the interests of the whole of society as against the selfish interests of profit-seeking business; it contends moreover that it takes into account the lasting secular interests of the nation as against the short-term...

Tyson vs Paul- We all Run out of Time

Netflix put on its first boxing event, it’s content was plugged from Squid Games to Cobra Kai and Mike Tyson, 58 years of age, fought Jake Paul, 27 years of age. A battle of nostalgia versus the modern celebrity culture that has used boxing well as a promotion...

Mises on Equality and Inequality

"The liberal champions of equality under the law were fully aware of the fact that men are born unequal and that it is precisely their inequality that generates social cooperation and civilization. Equality under the law was in their opinion not designed to correct...

Woke Club Rules

The anti-human creed of woketopia appears to be on the ropes. First Rule of Woke Club: you have zero accountability for any personal failure or rake-stomping you do. Second Rule of Woke Club: whatever skin suit you wear, your core being is victim-hood. Third Rule of...

The Worker as Free Person

"In the market economy the worker sells his services as other people sell their commodities. The employer is not the employee’s lord. He is simply the buyer of services which he must purchase at their market price. Of course, like every other buyer an employer too can...