On FPF #210, I discuss a brief ceasefire in Afghanistan. The ceasefire held for three days at the end of the Islamic holy month. After the ceasefire expired, fighting resumed with the Taliban killing as many as 50 Afghan soldiers. I address the massive Department of...
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Just War? Christian Leaders Must Avoid Becoming Court Prophets
by Jeff Wright | Jun 8, 2018 | Featured Articles, Politics
Disappointingly (but not surprisingly), a prominent evangelical leader has once again provided alleged moral justification for war in the Middle East. Russell Moore is to be commended for the cautious and thoughtful manner in which he approached this crucial question....
News Roundup 5/3/18
by Kyle Anzalone | May 3, 2018 | News Roundup
A Puerto Rican Air National Guard plane crashed in Georgia killing all nine on board. [Link] The US is advancing testing of a new nuclear gravity bomb. [Link] The proposed AUMF will give the president power to detain Americans indefinitely. [Link] The US transferred...
4/27/18 Samuel Oakford on the Atrocities Committed in Mosul and Raqqa
by Scott Horton | Apr 27, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Airwars reporter Sam Oakford returns to the show to discuss his latest work, "Raqqa: A City Destroyed Then Forgotten" and "They're Still Pulling Bodies out of ISIS' capital." Scott begins by asking—what do we know about Mosul and the coalition assault to take the city...
US Presidents are No Match for the Deep State
by Marc Joffe | Apr 24, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Our three most recent Presidents were elected on relatively non-interventionist platforms but became decidedly more hawkish once in office. Although much is made of the exceptionalism of Donald Trump’s presidency, like George W. Bush and Barrack Obama before him, he...
Against War in Syria
by Jeff Deist | Apr 13, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
By the Editors of the Ludwig von Mises Institute: President Donald Trump has announced that he plans new missile strikes against the Syrian regime in response to an alleged chemical attack on Syrian civilians in a rebel-held suburb of Damascus. The US has offered no...
News Roundup 4/9/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 9, 2018 | Blog
Peter Van Buren explains the dangers of forcing journalists to register as Foreign Agents. [Link] A Chicago detective is accused of framing over 50 people for murder. The cop is now retired, a free man, and collects a $75,000 pension from the city. Some of his victims...
On Scott Horton’s Conversion To Islam; Relocation To Iran
by Zack Sorenson | Apr 1, 2018 | Blog
I know that many of us are a little surprised by Scott's sudden announcement, but in truth, it's not as bad as some make it out to seem. Because, come on guys, I'm yanking your chain. Everyone knows that if Scott moved somewhere it would be RUSSIA. April...
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Time to Separate Medicine and State
The "progressive" coverage of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson's murder has an unspoken premise: namely, that we could have had a system in which medical care was instantly superabundant and free for everyone. There is no such system. We live in a world of...
No Need for DOGE
We don't need a Department (sic) of Government Efficiency. (It's a nongovernment thing.) We need a "Department" of What the Hell Should the Government Be Doing in the First Place? Efficiency implies that you know the objective of a course of action and want to avoid...
Anti-War Blog – Osama Bin Laden won
Bin Laden Won He won and the US warmasters are celebrating. Imagine rejoicing after a government falls to the descendants of Al-Qaeda. We don’t have to because the Washington gang are doing just that. The Islamo-Fascist Jihadis who terrorised the minds of the West for...
We Can’t Consume Our Way to Prosperity
Once upon a time, John Stuart Mill could write these words truthfully ("Of the Influence of Consumption on Production," 1844): It is no longer supposed that you benefit the producer by taking his money, provided you give it to him again in exchange for his goods. He...
Pearl Harbor: Not What You May Think it Was
I have always had my doubts but Jane Shaw brings the receipts. RedDR needed the war because his communist takeover of America was failing bigly and a war empowered government like nothing else. A decade ago I began to research the history of the Pearl Harbor attack....
Anyone Can Be a Capitalist, part 2
"It might be argued that only the 'rich' can afford to be capitalists, i.e., those who have a greater amount of money stock. This argument has superficial plausibility, since ... for any given individual and a given time-preference schedule, a greater money stock will...
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