Hillary Clinton referred to conservatives who supported Donald Trump as “deplorables.” In referring to working-class conservatives harmed by de-industrialization, Barack Obama said: "They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't...
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Spooks Spooking Themselves
by Nick Sibilla | Jun 5, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
With the news that a Cambridge academic-cum-spy named Stefan Halper infiltrated the Trump campaign, the role of the intelligence agencies in shaping the great Russiagate saga is at last coming into focus. It’s looking more and more massive. The intelligence agencies...
FPF #197 – Libyan Style
by Kyle Anzalone | May 23, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #197, I discuss John Bolton's plan for North Korea to undergo Libyan style denuclearization. In December 2003 Libya quickly gave up a nuclear weapons program. In 2011, NATO, led by the US, went to war with Libya. The war was based on myths pushed by Hillary...
After the FBI’s Pulse nightclub failure, why should we trust James Comey?
by Jim Bovard | Apr 5, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The FBI suffered another debacle on Friday when an Orlando jury returned a not guilty verdict for the widow of Omar Mateen, who killed 49 people and wounded 53 in his attack on Orlando’s Pulse nightclub in June 2016. The biggest terrorism case of the year collapsed...
After the FBI's Pulse nightclub failure, why should we trust James Comey?
by Jim Bovard | Apr 5, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The FBI suffered another debacle on Friday when an Orlando jury returned a not guilty verdict for the widow of Omar Mateen, who killed 49 people and wounded 53 in his attack on Orlando’s Pulse nightclub in June 2016. The biggest terrorism case of the year collapsed...
The Difference Between Good Globalism and Bad Globalism
by Ryan McMaken | Mar 29, 2018 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
"Globalism" and "globalization," are terms that suffer from a lack of any precise definition. The terms are used freely by a wide variety of commentators to mean both good and bad things — many of which are opposites of each other. Sometimes globalism means lowering...
Do Facts Matter in the Immigration Debate?
by Craig Cantoni | Mar 18, 2018 | Blog
Before answering the above question, three egghead points are in order about facts, beliefs and public policy in general. Egghead Point One: Few public policies come about through the following reasoned sequence: First, facts are brought to light; second, the facts...
Conservative Erectile Dysfunction
by Craig Cantoni | Mar 16, 2018 | Featured Articles, Politics
I don’t have a rooster in the ongoing cockfight between liberals and conservatives. But I do pay attention to both liberal and conservative media. Paying attention serves as an early warning system of when they are hatching plans separately or jointly to steal...
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Contours of The Global Imperial Architecture
Antiwar.com recently published an article jointly written by Institute Director Scott Horton and this author (Weeks). The piece, “Strategic Treason: The Empire Fetes Man Who Killed US Troops,” discussed Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s trip to New York City, which...
The Most Important Chapter of Hayek’s Most Important Book
Economist Friedrich Hayek's most popular book, The Road to Serfdom, contains a particularly important chapter titled "The End of Truth." That chapter, with a new foreward by economist Daniel D. Klein of George Mason University, is now available to read with updated...
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...
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