What follows are highlights from the trove of leaked US government documents that appeared on the internet sometime last month, including a handful of the documents themselves, reporting on the material, my own observations, as well as official statements and...
The libertarian’s basic attitude toward war must then be: it is legitimate to use violence against criminals in defense of one’s rights of person and property; it is completely impermissible to violate the rights of other innocent people. War, then, is only proper...
https://youtu.be/OL03LyD1NAU But the number of blacks in professional, technical, and other high-level occupations more than doubled in the decade preceding the Civil Rights Act of 1964.38 In other occupations, gains by blacks were greater during the 1940s—when there...
https://youtu.be/MqH_dqnZmEY Furthermore, those who originally agreed to the Constitution, could thereby bind nobody that should come after them. They could contract for nobody but themselves. They had no more natural right or power to make political contracts,...
Listeners of “The Tom Woods” show know I celebrated my 2000th episode last year with a live event in Orlando, Florida. My special surprise guest was the one and only Libertarian Institute Director Scott Horton. Scott entertained my audience with some original comedy,...
Over the weekend, Jamee Kimble was on her way to the grocery store to buy food for her two children when all of a sudden her family's life was at stake. As she waited at a traffic light, a police cruiser came barreling into her car, head-on—with both of her children...
Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday that Taiwanese troops fired warning shots at a Chinese drone that was flying in airspace over Kinmen County, an archipelago of Taiwanese-controlled islands off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The Taiwanese Army’s Kinmen...
Jeff Schogol of Task & Purpose details the battle between the Department of Defense and Congress over the future of the Littoral Combat Ship program. The Pentagon is seeking to scrap five of its LCS, including four ships that are less than five years old. However,...
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https://youtu.be/Gah1kDo0UcE The very same people who say that government has no right to interfere with sexual activity between consenting adults believe that the government has every right to interfere with economic activity between consenting adults. – Thomas...
The latest point of confrontation between NATO and Russia is the Svalbard archipelago, located midway between Norway and the North Pole. Moscow claims Oslo is restricting trade with the island’s hundreds of Russian residents.
In March, a tragedy unfolded in Philadelphia after a 12-year-old boy was shot in the back and killed. The boy was running from several police officers when two of them opened fire. Police have since claimed that even though 12-year-old Thomas Siderio was running away,...
As Ramadan gets started, the UN announced a surprise breakthrough on the ceasefire in Yemen, which appeared unlikely until today. They now say both sides have agreed to a full two-month ceasefire, beginning Saturday. This will be the first nationwide truce in Yemen in...
I’ve been contemplating recording an episode where I give my thoughts on what we see going on around us. We live in a world at war, inflation is running rampant, and the future is uncertain, so I wanted to put something out there to help make sense of what we’re...
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