On New Year's Eve, Anthony Maclin, 24, was asleep in his car in his grandmother's driveway. He had committed no crime, was not suspected of a crime, and harmed no one. However, none of this was a defense against three police officers surrounding his car, firing for...
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A Defense of Mutual Aid Societies
by Zack Sorenson | Jan 19, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
The libertarian community is unique on account of its ability to ignore standard political and social conventions. Libertarians value freedom and understand why it needs free markets. However, libertarians do not possess a conservative loyalty to the system as it is...
Navy Fights With Congress to Decommission Little Crappy Ships
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 24, 2022 | Blog
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,...
Armed ‘Good Samaritan’ Stops Mass Shooter in Indiana, Long Before Police Arrive
by Matt Agorist | Jul 19, 2022 | Featured Articles
In Greenwood, Indiana, residents who visit the Greenwood Park Mall are not allowed to carry guns. This policy makes the mall an easy target for deranged psychopaths who wish to cause harm to others as they know their victims won’t be able to defend themselves. This is...
Elon Musk is Angering the Right People
by Ryan McMaken | Apr 26, 2022 | Featured Articles
The Wall Street Journal reports today that Twitter’s senior management and Elon Musk are in the final stages of agreeing on terms for Musk’s proposed takeover of the social media platform. Musk had announced on April 21 that he had $46.5 billion lined up—half in cash,...
Family Sues After Cop Attempts to Shoot Their Dog, Kills Their Daughter Instead
by Matt Agorist | Jul 20, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
As readers of the Free Thought Project know, police killing or attempting to kill dogs is an all too common occurrence—happening so often that it is caught on video much of the time. Also, as the following tragic case our of Arlington, TX illustrates, all too often,...
News Roundup 7/15/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 15, 2021 | News Roundup
US News Over the second half of 2020, Twitter says it got over 350 requests from governments to remove content from the accounts of nearly 200 verified journalists. Twitter reports removing five of the tweets. Twitter received 14,500 requests for information from...
The Malevolence of Prison Managers
by John Kiriakou | Jun 28, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Many of you know that I’ve written about whistleblower Marty Gottesfeld in the past. Marty was sentenced to a draconian 10 years in prison for initiating a denial-of-service attack against a hospital in defense of a young girl whom the hospital’s doctors were later...
When Murray Rothbard Predicted the Menthol Ban
by Murray N. Rothbard | Apr 30, 2021 | Featured Articles
Murray Rothbard wrote the following article in August 1994. Quick: Which is America’s Most Persecuted Minority? No, you’re wrong. (And it’s not Big Business either: one of Ayn Rand’s more ludicrous pronouncements.) All right, consider this: Which group has been...
Cop Attempts to Shoot Cow, Shoots Fellow Pig Instead
by Matt Agorist | Mar 25, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Despite much of their training consisting of shooting their weapons, police officers often shoot and even kill innocent bystanders while trying to kill something else. This happens so often that even their fellow officers aren’t safe from the crossfire. Illustrating...
If Face Masks Are Mandatory, Then It’s Time to End Mask Patents
by Nick Hankoff | Apr 22, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
President Trump is convening with governors to reopen the economy, which will likely mean some sort of compulsory face mask order. Now is the time to seriously consider scrapping the patents on masks such as the N95. Government at all levels has severely overreacted...
Essential, Yet Illegal?
by Craig Cesal | Apr 20, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
The U.S. federal government does a bunch of things that mystify me. They cannot discriminate in conferring benefits based on race, oh, unless it is affirmative action. Government agents cannot search you or your home without first earning a warrant, unless they think...
New Lawsuit Asks Whether State Agents Can Trespass and Place Cameras on Private Land in Tennessee
by Andrew Wimer | Apr 14, 2020 | Featured Articles, Justice
Camden, Tenn.—Terry Rainwaters lives, farms and hunts on the 136 acres he owns along the Big Sandy River in rural Tennessee. It’s clear that the farm is private property, with a “no trespassing” sign on the gate. Yet agents of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency...
Senate Passes Iran War Powers Resolution
by Jason Ditz | Feb 13, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In a vote of 55-45, the Senate passed the Iran War Powers Resolution on Thursday afternoon, setting out opposition to any unauthorized war with Iran, and instructing the president not to deploy troops for such a war. Voting was heavily along party lines, with...
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Blame Mexico? Blame Neocons! Blame Big Pharma! Blame the USA!
ABC News: If fentanyl is so deadly, why do drug dealers use it to lace illicit drugs? I have an alternative explanation. America has been fighting endless wars almost the entire century. Many have come home from these never-ending wars with injuries and pains. Doctors...
My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
Empower the Workers: Decriminalize Economic Activity Between Consenting Adults
The most reliable and effective protection for most workers is provided by the existence of many employers. As we have seen, a person who has only one possible employer has little or no protection. The employers who protect a worker are those who would like to hire...
Chris Rock’s New Special Exposes His Political Ignorance
A common claim among Democrats is that, "It's not that people don't want to be educated, they just haven't been given the opportunity, thus government spending on education needs to increase." If there were ever a group of people capable of "educating" themselves it...
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