Ars Technica: Millions of documents from >200 US police agencies published in “BlueLeaks” trove Millions of law enforcement documents—some showing pictures of suspects, bank account numbers, and other sensitive information—has been published on a website that holds...
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Getting the Police Issue Right
by James Reilly | Jun 17, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Now that folks are coming around on the idea that law enforcement needs serious structural transformation in this country, let's make our argument a little more robust. The tiniest fraction of people get killed by police. It is not useful to think of this problem as...
Rand Paul Proposes National Breonna Taylor Act
by Scott Horton | Jun 12, 2020 | Blog
Dear Senator, we like it very much when you do good things. Sincerely, Everybody Matt Agorist at the FTP says: Sen. Rand Paul (R) Kentucky, proposed to make this a nationwide ban in one of the most unprecedented anti-police state moves we’ve ever seen. “After talking...
Native American Boys: Forgotten Victims
by Wendy McElroy | Jun 3, 2020 | Featured Articles
A recent study by the Nebraska State Patrol and the Commission on Indian Affairs should change how the media and lawmakers view violence against Native Americans. They should look carefully at male victims, but it is far from clear that they will. The Omaha...
Kentucky Authoritarians Target Worshipers guest Mike Maharrey
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 17, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
Mike Maharrey returns to FPF to discuss our government's authoritarianism. The federal and state government have made several dictates that violate our Constitutional rights. In Kentucky, the governor made the rule that people are not allowed to attend church, a clear...
The Disgusting Amy Klobuchar
by Scott Horton | Feb 27, 2020 | Blog
She's a guilty accessory to murder. "At the same time she was ramping up sentences, Ms. Klobuchar was also building a tight relationship with law enforcement, which is common for prosecutors. Some civil rights leaders say that skewed her other priorities, and explains...
1/31/20 Sam Jacobs on Lavoy Finicum’s Death and Washington’s Management of Federal Land
by Scott Horton | Feb 2, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Sam Jacobs of Ammo.com discusses the 2016 Oregon standoff between federal agents and Ammon Bundy, Lavoy Finicum and their allies. Most listeners probably remember some of the details of the 2014 standoff in Bundy's native Nevada, which ultimately resulted in a judge...
Court Orders FBI to Expunge Website Records Under Privacy Act
by Scott Horton | Jan 17, 2020 | Blog
The Reporters Committee For Freedom of the Press on Antiwar.com's latest victory against the evil FBI: In late November, a judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California directed the Federal Bureau of Investigation to expunge certain records...
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Be Careful Who You Defend
ICE tactics in MN have been heavy handed and the “protesters” are funded by the same people that have funded every color revolution of the 21st century. You don’t have to be on either side.
The Slobbering Beast of Power
Beneath the uniforms, costumes of power or the suits of fashionable exuberance lurks naked flesh. Often flabby and unimpressive. The victims of such know the putrid stench on their breath, the sickly odour of sweat, the repulsive effluent of discharge as it penetrates...
Stop Funding the NGO: No Grift Overlooked
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are non-profit, voluntary, and independent citizen groups operating at local, national, or international levels. The very nature of NGOs needs a complete overhaul. The very term NGO has an undeserved cache of innocence and...
Recent Writing in Defense of Free Immigration
"The Trumpian Ice Age: The Frigidity of Collectivism" "Immigration Policy in an Nth-Best World" "Free Movement Increases Wealth" "Static Analysis Clouds Immigration Debate" "More on Immigration and Public Property" "Immigration Control Threatens the Rule of Law"...
Alex Wins Again
I was a technical climber as a young man and just watched the amazing Alex Honnold free solo the Taipei 101 tower in Taiwan. Individual achievement is the bedrock of pushing the envelope in human creativity and innovation. I think free solo is eventually going to kill...
Report Card
What's the problem? So far the Trump administration has been Pretti Good.










