Will Porter returns to FPF to discuss Trump's deployment of well-armed federal agents to Portland. The feds are carrying out mass abuses of protesters, including arresting people for an unnamed reason and throwing the detainees into unmarked minivans. Several...
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CATO 2020 National Survey Results: 63% Of Americans In Favor Of Ending Qualified Immunity For Police
by Steven Woskow | Jul 19, 2020 | Blog
From Emily Ekins at CATO Survey results show good news for police reform. 63% of Americans support ending qualified immunity for police. The problem is those in power don't - a majority of Republicans, police (as represented by the unions) and the judicial system....
What Happened After Breonna Taylor Was Shot
by Steven Woskow | Jul 18, 2020 | Blog
No one came to her aid. From Courier Journal "For more than 20 minutes after Taylor was fatally shot at approximately 12:43 a.m. by Louisville officers, the 26-year-old emergency room technician lay where she fell in her hallway, receiving no medical attention,...
Police: Rabid Animals
by Scott Horton | Jul 17, 2020 | Blog
Like in this case for example.
The Government of Louisville, Kentucky is at War Against Its Population
by Scott Horton | Jul 16, 2020 | Blog
Here their paramilitary SWAT team accosts a house painter, his girlfriend and her 10-year-old daughter because they are so crazy and stupid they raided the same house twice, the second time weeks after successfully arresting the guy they were looking for, who was...
87 people Arrested At Breonna Taylor Protest
by Steven Woskow | Jul 16, 2020 | Blog
From CBS News "In total, 87 people were arrested," LMPD said in their statement. "Due to their refusal to leave the property and their attempts to influence the decision of the Attorney General with their actions, each person was charged with Intimidating a...
Commissar Weiss Quits the Times
by Scott Horton | Jul 15, 2020 | Blog
Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton remind us that Bari Weiss made her entire career trying to silence Palestinians and those who care about them. However, they suspect that she only quit to drum up publicity for her next big project which will surely be about how the only...
BLM Protesters Sit In at Kentucky AG’s House, Arrested
by Scott Horton | Jul 15, 2020 | Blog
87 people were arrested and charged with felonies(!) for sitting in at the Kentucky Attorney General's house to let him know that he better charge the cops who murdered Breonna Taylor. (ACLU is protesting against the felony charges. They're almost sure to be dropped.)...
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GDP is a Scam, Here’s How to Measure Wealth
https://youtu.be/mYfH_9arsRk In 1981, the cheapest IBM personal computer cost $4,459 (in 2018 U.S. dollars), or 210 hours of labor. An Insignia tablet and keyboard combo cost $120 in 2018, or 5.6 hours of labor. - Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know, CATO...
The Democratic Policy Which Keeps Poor People Poor – Walter E. Williams
To criticize occupational licensing laws is not to argue that information about the quality of a licensee's services is not important to consumers. However, it is by no means clear that licensing is the most effective way to provide that information. Indeed, licensing...
How Economic Regulation Hurts the Poor – Walter E. Williams
In the name of protecting public health, California requires that an individual who seeks to perform any kind of hairstyling service must complete nine months (1,600 hours) of classes at a state-approved cosmetology school, at a tuition cost of at least $5,000, before...
My Body My Choice: Abolish Occupational Licensing
The most immediate effect of licensing is to restrict the number of practitioners because of the higher entry costs involved in meeting the qualifications of the activity. Some licenses, as in the cases of cosmeticians and barbers, require many months of schooling....
Progressives Are Domestic Imperialists
Progressives will fight tooth and nail to make sure every citizen gets a 1 in 100,000,000 vote between two politicians every four years since it allows the political system to reflect the wishes of the population at large. However, when those very same voters try to...
Leaked Pentagon Documents: A Thread
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...
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