House Speaker Mike Johnson betrayed liberty and the Constitution by making a full-court press to get a “clean” reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Act through the House. Section 702 authorizes warrantless surveillance of...
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US Will Try to Rally Other Nations to Sanction Iran Over Israel Attack
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 16, 2024 | News
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will attempt to convince the international community to increase economic penalties on Iran as punishment for the drone and missile barrage Tehran launched at Israel. Iran’s attack followed Israel’s assassination of several...
FBI Records Link OKC Bomber to Bank Robbers, Suggesting Case is Still Unsolved
by Ken Silva | Apr 16, 2024 | Featured Articles, OKC
This Friday marks the 29th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, which killed at least 168 people, including 19 children in the deadliest domestic terrorist event in U.S. history. While that attack may seem like ancient history for some, one attorney in Utah...
US Official Says New Russian Arctic Pipeline ‘Dead in the Water’
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 15, 2024 | News
A top US official declared that Washington is using economic warfare to prevent Russia from completing a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) pipeline in the Arctic. Officials in Washington threatened the Nord Stream pipelines before explosions destroyed three of the four...
One Hundred Years of IRS Political Targeting
by Jim Bovard | Apr 15, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Politics
One hundred years ago, Senator James Couzens, a Michigan Republican, took to the Senate floor to denounce the Bureau of Internal Revenue for abusing its power and trampling innocent taxpayers. Couzens launched a sweeping Senate investigation of federal tax collectors....
Gold Is Doing Its Job
by MN Gordon | Apr 15, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
On Monday, the U.S. Commerce Department announced it was awarding Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) a $6.6 billion CHIPS Act subsidy for the fabrication of computer microchips in Phoenix, Arizona. TSMC will also receive up to $5 billion in low-cost...
Ukraine Tightens Rules on Military Service, Angering Soldiers
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 14, 2024 | News
Ukraine’s legislature advanced multiple new laws that tighten rules on conscription and extend military services for those already in uniform. The new rules angered some Ukrainian soldiers. On Thursday, the Ukrainian Rada passed a bill that tightened the requirement...
Good Resource on Antifa
by Bill Buppert | Apr 13, 2024 | Blog
All of us want fairness and whatever your position on the J6 protests, the Federal government response to that incident and the contrast in handling the very violent Antifa perpetrators and incidents makes one take pause on the behavior of the US DoJ and its tentacled...
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John Boyd: Persona Non Grata at the Pentagon
COL John Boyd was quite the maverick in the military ranks and rocked the boat all the time. You will not though incredibly capable, he was never promoted to flag rank. One of the best insights he ever gave was that when one distills strategy simply, it is:...
Class versus Identity Politics?
Parts of the "left" and "right" often lament that class politics has given way to identity politics. I don't get that. Class was the original modern political identity, and state privilege was part of the cause. Libertarians and classical liberals long warned that...
Trita Parsi Interview on Israel and Iran
A good one, by Michael Holmes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSuUSf2P5RU
An American Bombing
The most mainstream documentary about the truth behind the Oklahoma Bombing is now running on HBO. An American Bombing is a great, if partial, vindication of the great work of Glenn and Kathy Wilburn, J.D. Cash, Roger Charles, Jesse Trentadue, Richard Booth, Wendy...
The Waco Tragedy
Last year, I sat down with author David Hardy and filmmaker Dan Gifford for a 13-hour in-depth review of the ATF, FBI and US Army's slaughter of the Branch Davidians of Waco, Texas on this day in 1993. Also feat. James Tabor, Paul Fatta, David Thibodeau, Jim Bovard,...
TSA Gets a Raise
Are you bummed because inflation's got you again wit' yer broke ass? Well take heart. Federal Government employees are doing better than ever at your expense. So at least they've got that going for them.