Matt Agorist on the murder of Atatiana Jefferson: On the night of October 12, 2019, Atatiana Jefferson, 28, had committed no crime, had harmed no one, and was playing video games with her 8-year-old nephew when she heard a noise in the backyard and went to...
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Judge Says She Is “Concerned” Detective May Have Lied To Get Breonna Taylor Search Warrant
Cops Lie - Judge concerned LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Louisville judge who signed a search warrant for Breonna Taylor’s home that ultimately led to her death said Thursday she is concerned that the detective may have lied to obtain the warrant. But Jefferson Circuit Judge...
Year Zero: No More Compromise
In Episode 59 Tommy explores the idea that there is no true "Left" in America. He contends there is a "Left" that is growing and underrepresented in the narrative. But the "Left" is not what you might expect. Listen to Year Zero Here
Year Zero: Liberty at Home or Life Abroad
In Episode 52, with the annual celebrations of Independence Day, Tommy looks at the American Revolution. When constricting the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson set an extremely high bar for the state to live up to. 13 years later yet another bar was set...
For You Religious Types
"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever. ... The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest." Thomas Jefferson said this about slavery. He could have just as easily been talking...
Libertarian Lessons: Property Rights
Borrowing heavily from the Whig philosopher John Locke (1632-1704), Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that all of us have the right to our lives, to our liberty, and to the pursuit of happiness. Less than a century earlier, Locke had offered a...
The Dark Side of Thomas Jefferson
Originally published October 2012 A new portrait of the founding father challenges the long-held perception of Thomas Jefferson as a benevolent slaveholder With five simple words in the Declaration of Independence—“all men are created equal”—Thomas Jefferson undid...
The Jefferson Nobody Knows
Following up on his successful and highly regarded James Madison and the Making of America (St. Martin’s, 2012), Kevin Gutzman has returned with a fresh look at Jefferson in Thomas Jefferson, Revolutionary: A Radical’s Struggle to Remake America. It could well have...
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Domestic Imperialism: Nine Reasons I Left Progressivism
Imagine the Catholic Church (or any person or group of people) doing what the government does every day: Everyone who doesn’t give the Catholic Church 25% of his annual income every year will be put in jail. If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has the right...
Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania
FOREWORD BY JAY BHATTACHARYA, MD, PHD Diary of a Psychosis is different from all other books on Covid: it traces the development of the government response as it happened, bit by bit, and subjects it to relentless scrutiny: did any of it do any good? It thereby...