NYT: Not so fast: Advocates for police reform are making the case that the phrase “defund the police” doesn’t mean what many people think it means. “Be not afraid,” Christy E. Lopez, a Georgetown University law professor, wrote in The Washington Post. “‘Defunding the...
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Strikes Down Wisconsin’s Stay-At-Home Order
by Scott Horton | May 14, 2020 | Blog
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: The Wisconsin Supreme Court has struck down Gov. Tony Evers' order shutting down daily life to limit the spread of coronavirus — marking the first time a statewide order of its kind has been knocked down by a court of last resort. The...
Microchipped Children, Forced Testing, House Arrests; Welcome To The New World
by Steven Woskow | May 13, 2020 | Blog
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point...
A Nation of Snitches
by Scott Horton | May 5, 2020 | Blog
Our countrymen. Largely confined to their homes and worried about the spread of the coronavirus and its risks to their own health or that of loved ones, a segment of the United States has turned informant, calling the police, public health authorities and the...
Coronavirus Reaches Yemen as Trump Halts WHO Funding guest Will Porter
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 20, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
Will Porter returns to Foreign Policy Focus to talk about several top news stories. Will discuss Yemen's depleted healthcare system as we have the first recorded case of COVID in Yemen. In the midst of the pandemic, Trump froze US funding to the WHO. Will explains...
Was Julian Assange Given a Death Sentence? guest Will Porter
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 13, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #478, Will Porter returns to the show to discuss Julian Assange's perilous situation. A year ago, Assange was ripped from the Ecodurian embassy and thrown in UK top maximum-security prison. Over the year, Assange's health has declined. Adding to his health risk...
Israel Health Minister Who Claimed Coronavirus Was ‘Divine Punishment’ Against Gays Has It
by Scott Horton | Apr 6, 2020 | Blog
Yeah well these things happen.
Americans Hate Liberty’s Sorry Guts With a Passion
by Scott Horton | Apr 5, 2020 | Blog
Our countrymen: "We presented a nationally representative sample of 3,000 U.S. residents with eight possible policy responses to the outbreak, all of which may be unconstitutional, including forced quarantine in a government facility, criminal penalties for spreading...
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Standards!
Secretary of War Hegseth recently brought the perfumed princes to the Pentagram to give a short speech on standards. I am glad for the name change since the DoD has never troubled themselves with defending the nation. Someone: "How come there aren't any fat Marines?"...
Short Story – Context
He clenched his fist around the USB, impatience gripping him as he waited. He had just finished pacing only to sit down, unaware of his rocking back and forth. Once he saw her, he was back to his feet. He wanted to push it into her hand and disappear. Instead, she...
The Impasse
Liberty is only acceptable for a virtuous people.
The Great Enrichment Is Real
From about 1800 to the present the world's economy did something good, which looks to be permanent and looks to be justified. If contrary to the evidence we cling to our prejudices about economic history—our view that the Industrial Revolution was improverishng, or...
Where Are We?
A Lot of people have been asking me where we are politically. I don’t know if I have a good answer, but “When I am Weaker Than You, I ask you for Freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am Stronger than you, I take away your Freedom Because that...
Bertolt Brecht’s “A Worker Reads and Asks”
In 1935 while in exile Brecht wrote his poem challenging the aristocracy of history. The belief that events and the entire of human existence occurs because of a great man, the dear leader. In contemporary moments, politicians and influential people are looked at with...
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