Francis Boyle explains why President Trump should be impeached—not for the charges of corruption and abuse of power in Ukraine, but for his war crimes in continuing the aggressive wars of the Bush and Obama administrations. Boyle thinks that Trump's behavior with...
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11/7/19 Francis Boyle: In Defense of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7
by Scott Horton | Nov 11, 2019 | Hotter Than the Sun, The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Francis Boyle about his attempts to help Liz McAlister and the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 in their legal battle for what he views as justified civil resistance. McAlister helped break into the Kings Bay nuclear base in order to peacefully and symbolically...

Mid-Atlantic States Enact Historic Reforms, But Remain Stalled on Legalization
by Patrick McKnight | Aug 22, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
New Jersey May Renew Push to Legalize Marijuana in 2019 Recent comments from Governor Phil Murphy and Senate President Steve Sweeney suggest one final legislative effort to legalize marijuana in 2019. “I think I’ve been consistent that I hoped we could have one more...

A National $15 Minimum Wage Would Be A Huge Mistake
by Germinal Van | Jul 9, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
The debate about raising the minimum wage is a hot topic among presidential candidates and voters across the spectrum. The whole Democratic Party is in favor of increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, and 56 percent of the American electorate agrees with...
State of Illinois To Wipe Arrest Records for Marijuana Convictions
by Steven Woskow | Jun 28, 2019 | Blog
Matt Agorist at The Free Though Project. On June 25, 2019, Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed HB 1438 into law which ends cannabis prohibition and replaces it with a system to tax and regulate cannabis for adults 21 and over. But the bill didn’t stop there, it also includes...
News Roundup 6/28/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 28, 2019 | News Roundup
US News Stephanie Grisham is named the new Press Secretary. [Link] The head of Customs and Border Patrol, John Sanders, steps down. [Link] Rep Duncan Hunter used campaign money to fund an affair. [Link] An Appeals Court rules the government is responsible for the...
5/24/19 Andrew Bacevich on the Blindness of Washington Insiders
by Scott Horton | May 27, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Professor Andrew Bacevich gives his take on the growing divide between the foreign policy views of the Washington political establishment and those of the rest of the country. Basically, he explains, Americans are sick of fighting endless wars in the middle east, but...
News Roundup 5/7/19
by Kyle Anzalone | May 7, 2019 | News Roundup
US News A St. Louis police officer has been charged with second-degree assault for shooting a woman instead of tasing her. [Link] Some Utah jails are charging over $11 for a 15-minute phone call. The high rate makes it difficult for prisoners to stay in contact with...
News Roundup 3/21/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 21, 2019 | News Roundup
US News A sexual abuse victim advocates group release a list of hundreds of Illinois clergy and lay people who sexually abused people. [Link] Columbus police disband their moral crimes division because the chief is accused of raping two women and committing several...

8-Year-Old Girl Walks Dog Around Block, Police and Child Services Investigate Mom
by Lenore Skenazy | Aug 23, 2018 | Featured Articles, Politics
Corey Widen let her 8-year-old do the most normal, cheerful thing in the world—walk the dog around the block. After the girl returned home, the doorbell rang. It was the police. The cops had received a call about an unsupervised child, and had to question the mom....
News Roundup 5/25/18
by Kyle Anzalone | May 25, 2018 | News Roundup
Justin Raimondo explains that Judge Napolitano was right Russiagate. [Link] The FBI entrapped a 17-year-old Texan and accused him of plotting a terror attack. [Link] Illinois police can remove a 13-year-old child from the home who has been left home alone. [Link]...
News Roundup 12/1/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 1, 2017 | Blog
Illinois detective tells kids they were being detained because they are white. [Link] The White House starts a rumor that Rex Tillerson may soon be fired. [Link] Moon of Alabama looks at the hypocritical US policy against Russian media. [Link] RT loses press...
Illinois Overwhelmingly Approves Bill to Protect the Innocent from Civil Forfeiture
by Nick Sibilla | Jun 25, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
Today, the Illinois House of Representatives passed a bill that bolsters transparency for civil forfeiture and strengthens due process protections for innocent property owners. Under civil forfeiture, law enforcement agencies can seize and then take title to cash,...
California, Illinois, and New York Keep Losing People to Other States
by Ryan McMaken | May 10, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles
It seems that many residents of the West Coast and the Northeast are leaving those regions behind. In March, for example, the Sacramento Bee reported that California "exports its poor to Texas...while wealthier people move in." Former Californians report that a...
Blog
The Truth About Discrimination – Walter E. Williams
If people are free to discriminate in favor of, or against, a university or wine, what argument can be made against their having that same right with respect to choosing based on the race or sex characteristics of their mates, employees, tenants, or club members? If...
Black Youth Unemployment Before Democrats Started “Helping”
Although most people are familiar with more recent statistics on black youth unemployment, not many are aware of the black/white statistics for earlier periods. Table 3.2 (below) shows that in 1948, the two were roughly equal. For that year, blacks aged sixteen to...
Political Discrimination vs. Market Discrimination – Walter E. Williams
Gross racial discrimination alone has never been sufficient to prevent blacks from earning a living and bettering themselves by working as skilled or unskilled craftsmen and as business owners, accumulating considerable wealth. The fact that whites sought out blacks...
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...