New York Times finally takes on the role of American SWAT Teams. Nah, they're criticizing Brazil (which is pretty bad).
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Federal Confiscation Reflects Mission Creep and the Expanding Police State
by Randall Holcombe | Feb 26, 2020 | Featured Articles, Justice
In 2019, the Transportation Security Administration seized $181,000 in cash from an employee of a Tampa trucking company while he was going through a TSA checkpoint for a flight from Tampa to Cleveland. According to the employee and his employer, the worker...
News Roundup 2/26/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 26, 2020 | News Roundup
US News A new California bill would require adult entertainers to get professional licenses from the state. [Link]On the first day of his extradition hearing, Assange was handcuffed 11 times and stripped naked twice. He also had his case files confiscated. [Link]Trump...
When It Comes to Raw Power, Few Have More of It Than Central Bankers
by Per Bylund | Feb 24, 2020 | Featured Articles
A common retort to the claim that in voluntary exchange both parties expect to become better off (or they wouldn’t do it) is that exchanges are seldom, if ever, a matter of horizontal, equal exchange of values. Instead, any such interaction between people is...
Rich People Suck
by Scott Shearin | Feb 22, 2020 | Blog
Barack Obama: “If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” Bernie Sanders: “I don’t think that billionaires should exist.” AOC: “No one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion dollars. People become billionaires only by...
Oh Sure. Russia Supports Sanders Now.
by Scott Horton | Feb 21, 2020 | Blog
What percentage of American idiots are still buying this crap? This morning it was Trump again, now Sanders. How much are the Russians paying me to not notice that Buttigieg is the one they are really afraid of?!
Taliban: No Peace Deal If US Troops Stay in Afghanistan
by Jason Ditz | Feb 20, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Deputy leader says withdrawal is main thing the Taliban wants With a potential US-Taliban peace deal in Afghanistan potentially at hand, Taliban Deputy Leader Sirajuddin Haqqani wrote an op-ed in the New York Times clarifying exactly what the Taliban hopes to get out...
Cops Kill Man
by Scott Horton | Feb 20, 2020 | Blog
A completely innocent man. "Call the police!" he cried. But it was the police. They were there to murder him. And so they did.
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Muslim Network News: The al Zawahiri Drone Strike and “We Kill Because We Can”
Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid and Laurie Calhoun discuss the Zawahiri drone strike and "We Kill Because We Can" on Muslim Network News - August 2, 2022. Drone discussion begins at 15:36 and lasts 15 minutes. https://youtu.be/sh1ZEQYuhIA
Drone Assassination: Inconvenient Facts
On the assassination of Ayman al-Zawahiri by U.S. drone in Kabul (from Accuracy.org): [Laurie Calhoun] said today: “President Biden has pivoted from the multiple crises of his administration — inflation, heightened tensions with China and Iran, and even the very real...
The Brief Case for Pacifism – Bryan Caplan, Ph.D.
“My case for pacifism, to recap, comes down to three simple premises. The first two are empirical: Premise #1: The short-run costs of war are clearly awful. [Empirical claim about immediate effects of war]. Premise #2: The long-run benefits of war are highly...
Why We Should Study China
I would posit that there is no civilization so utterly foreign to Americans than China. Often, American impressions of China are informed by preconceptions, myth, and fear of the other. For the average American, the sum of all knowledge about China is derived...
Kennedy Tonight
Tonight I'll be back on Kennedy Nation talking central banking and war. Update:
Cuban Missile Crisis Things
This old New Yorker piece about Curtis LeMay has some details about the Missile Crisis that I did not know and want to save here for someday. So we all already knew that 1: the USSR did already have operational short and medium range missiles in Cuba, but Khrushchev...
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