Scott interviews Trevor Timm about a recent U.S. senate vote that would grant the government access to Americans' browser history without a warrant. This shameful vote is surprising to those who thought that even Washington insiders would have stood up to a civil...
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5/15/20 Mike Maharrey on the Federal Erosion of Constitutional Rights
by Scott Horton | May 19, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Mike Maharrey of the Tenth Amendment Center discusses a recent U.S. Supreme Court case that overturns a Kansas Supreme Court decision concerning a potentially unconstitutional traffic stop. The police officer in the incident in question pulled a car over because his...
5/15/20 Ben Freeman on the Qatar Lobby in Washington
by Scott Horton | May 19, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Ben Freeman about his report, "The Qatar Lobby in Washington D.C." Freeman goes over the recent history of Qatar's efforts to influence U.S. policy, including their apparent success in winning over the Trump administration to their side in a dispute...
5/15/20 Pete Quinones on the Killings of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor
by Scott Horton | May 18, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Pete Quinones discusses the recent killing of Ahmaud Arbery and the response from Americans on both sides of the political aisle. In a recent article at the Libertarian Institute, he discusses the incident from the perspective of the gun-owning community, arguing that...
When the Government’s ‘Cure’ Aids the Disease
by Michael Maharrey | May 18, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
Remember all of the government bailouts and stimulus in response to the 2008 financial crisis? Conservatives threw a fit. The Tea Party movement grew out of worry about the impact of all of the stimulus, money-printing, and the taxes they knew were coming down the...
5/15/20 Danny Sjursen on America’s Long Involvement in Somalia
by Scott Horton | May 16, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Danny Sjursen talks about America's long history of intervention in Somalia, beginning after World War II, continuing during the Cold War, and persisting today through the War on Terror. Too often, he says, the mainstream narrative around U.S. interventions starts...
5/11/20 Ramzy Baroud on 100 Years of Israeli Annexation and Ethnic Cleansing
by Scott Horton | May 14, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Ramzy Baroud discusses the 100-year history of Jewish Zionism, which has resulted in a century of Palestinians being subjugated, killed, and forced off of their land. Palestinians have sometimes been criticized for not accepting the offer made at the time of the...
News Roundup 5/14/20
by Kyle Anzalone | May 14, 2020 | News Roundup
US News A list of government officials who “unmasked” Flynn has been released. The list includes Comey, Clapper, Brennan, and Biden. [Link] 1.4 million healthcare workers have been laid off since the start of lockdowns. [Link] The Senate failed to defeat a measure...
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Language, Race, and Man
“Man belongs neither to his language nor to his race; he belongs to himself.” --Ernest Renan
The Frigate Follies Get Worse and Worse
Déjà vu, it's happening again. The surface navy failures manifested in the Littoral Combat Ship, the Zumwalt and the USS Ford will soon have another ship to add to that gallery of maritime incompetence that showcases the modern US Navy. I say again, construction...
Democracy and Free Stuff
Democracy: the matching up of people who want free stuff with politicians who promise free stuff. Problem: free stuff as they all imagine it does not exist. However, it does exist in the market, as explained by Frédéric Bastiat in Economic Harmonies, chapter 8,...
They Kept Sending Us Bombs…Anti-War Blog
As I saw the photos of US politician Nikki Haley scribbling on an Israeli shell bound for Rafah, it’s metal splinters and high explosives likely to rip a small child too pieces, it had me thinking. I once saw a clip of a US Air Force man who was asked why they were...
Frigate Failure Follies
I am currently doing a podcast series on what appears to be a droll subject but it is critical to getting big projects right. If you can't articulate and create a rational and effective Concept of Operations, you will fail. Th Navy never disappoints in failure lately....
History and Peace
"[E]very person must take his life and every nation must take its history as it comes; nothing is more useless than complaining over errors that can no longer be rectified, nothing more vain than regret. Neither as judges allotting praise and blame nor as avengers...
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