On Conflicts of Interest #36, Kyle is joined by the great Mike Maharrey from the Tenth Amendment Center to talk about the president's war powers. Mike recently published two articles on how the president claims the authority to wage war in Somalia and Yemen. Mike...
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Cops Frame Dozens of Innocent People With Fake Heroin
by Scott Horton | Sep 11, 2020 | Blog
In Raleigh, NC. Oh well though that's just "collateral damage" in the great drug war right folks? Like my friend's sister who they killed with an "experimental" new pain killer since her doctors were afraid of what the federal cops might do if they found out he was...
Background Checks Lead to Gun Confiscation in California
by K. Lloyd Billingsley | May 27, 2020 | Featured Articles
Since last July 1, California has required background checks for those purchasing firearm ammunition. As we noted, by December 2019 the state had run 345,000 background checks and rejected 62,000 Californians legally entitled to purchase ammunition, including off-duty...
N.C. Judge Dies of Black Market, Fentanyl-Spiked Heroin Overdose
by Scott Horton | Oct 20, 2019 | Blog
Now, if you are stupid, then you think "Jeez, I wonder why the law was unable to prevent such a thing from happening." If you're a libertarian then you understand that it was the law that killed him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sawjmW7LL1I
NY Times: What Heroin Addiction is Like
by Scott Horton | Dec 23, 2018 | Blog
What kind of kook could read this and think the answer is the penitentiary?
Choose Your Associations Wisely
by Peter R. Quiñones | Jun 8, 2018 | Blog
Mama said, “People will judge you by those you associate with!” Yes, it sounds like something out of a movie, but my mother did promote that idea. Dad too. Of course, it didn’t matter. I was going to spend time with who I wanted to because I can make my own decisions...
10/31/17 Mark Thornton explains why ending heroin prohibition will solve America’s opiate crisis
by Damon Hatheway | Oct 31, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Mark Thornton returns to the show to discuss his latest articles for the Mises Institute "The Real Cause of America's Opioid Epidemic" and "Big Pharma Makes Drugs that Please Regulators, Not Customers." Thornton makes the case for why legalizing heroin—and all...
10/31/17 Mark Thornton explains why ending heroin prohibition will solve America's opiate crisis
by Damon Hatheway | Oct 31, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Mark Thornton returns to the show to discuss his latest articles for the Mises Institute "The Real Cause of America's Opioid Epidemic" and "Big Pharma Makes Drugs that Please Regulators, Not Customers." Thornton makes the case for why legalizing heroin—and all...
Drug Overdose Deaths, 2016: Casualties of War
by Thomas L. Knapp | Jun 12, 2017 | Blog
Drug overdose is now the leading cause of death among Americans under 50, the New York Times‘s Josh Katz reports. In 2016, overdoses claimed somewhere between 59,000 and 65,000 lives. That’s more American lives than were lost in the Vietnam war. It’s 20 times the...
Reverse Gateway Drug: Opioid Deaths Plummeting in States with Legal Weed
by James Holbrooks | Mar 29, 2017 | Blog
This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. As Attorney General Jeff Sessions continues to lament what he views as a blight on society, a new study is showing that states with medical marijuana programs are seeing drastic reductions in opioid-related...
Opioid Deaths: Another Drug War Failure
by Steve Chapman | Mar 20, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice
Illicit drug use is an old phenomenon, and Jeff Sessions has an old solution: take off the gloves. "We have too much of a tolerance for drug use," the attorney general complained to an audience of law enforcement officials Wednesday, promising more aggressive...
Losing Hearts and Minds: The Failed Drug War in Afghanistan
by Scott Burns | Nov 4, 2016 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
This week, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported that opium production in Afghanistan rose by 43 percent in 2016. The report is disturbing on many levels. But it is especially disturbing considering the billions of dollars the U.S. government...
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Military Conscription is Slavery: Woodrow Wilson Edition
By the guidelines set down by the Selective Service Act, all males aged 21 to 30 were required to register to potentially be selected for military service. At the request of the War Department, Congress amended the law in August 1918 to expand the age range to include...
The Capitalist Competition Myth
Capitalism involves far more cooperation than competition—think of the number of mutually beneficial transactions you’ve had today compared to the number of competitions you’ve been in today - Chris Freiman, author of Why It's OK to Ignore Politics Democratic...
Blame Mexico? Blame Neocons! Blame Big Pharma! Blame the USA!
ABC News: If fentanyl is so deadly, why do drug dealers use it to lace illicit drugs? I have an alternative explanation. America has been fighting endless wars almost the entire century. Many have come home from these never-ending wars with injuries and pains. Doctors...
My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
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