Recently, many of us digitally witnessed five armed police officers beat Tyre Nichols to death. Oftentimes it’s easy for us to be voyeurs to violence and then conjure up a context or make an excuse for what it is that we are seeing. It’s the privilege of distance and...
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Elizabeth Warren is Wrong to Call Crypto ‘the Preferred Tool for Terrorists’
by Jennifer Schulp Jack Solowey and Nicholas Anthony | Jan 31, 2023 | Featured Articles
Last week, the Justice Department announced criminal charges against Anatoly Legkodymov for violating anti‐money laundering laws while operating Bitzlato, an off‐shore crypto exchange alleged to have processed over $700 million in illicit funds over several years....
Our Naked Society
by Kym Robinson | Jan 23, 2023 | Featured Articles
In his 1964 book The Naked Society, Vance Packard challenged the ever increasing loss of privacy as technology and large institutions began wide spread surveillance that today has become acceptable. At the time, computer power, hidden cameras, and concealed...
US to Transfer Seized Russian Assets to Ukraine
by Will Porter | Jan 20, 2023 | News
The US government is preparing to hand Ukraine assets confiscated from Russian businessmen under a scheme proposed by the Biden administration last year, which aims to target the wealth of “oligarchs” and pass it on to Kiev.
Black Youth Unemployment: Before and After Progressives Started “Helping”
by Keith Knight | Jan 19, 2023 | Blog
A constant trend is progressivism is to use the state to coercively control others under the guise of "helping" them, make things worse, then ignore the problems you caused and never apologize. Sallie Mae loans didn't make college affordable. The Federal Reserve...
Living in the World Hamilton Designed
by Dave Benner | Jan 19, 2023 | Featured Articles
Today [January 11] in 1757, it is generally believed Alexander Hamilton was born. As John Adams put it, he was “the bastard brat of a Scottish peddler.” Born out of wedlock on the British isle of Nevis, Hamilton would become one of the most influential political...
The Tale of the Steak – A Lesson in Economics by Walter E. Williams
by The Libertarian Institute | Jan 17, 2023 | Blog, Uncategorized
Consider filet mignon and chuck steak. Assume-realistically-that consumers prefer the former. Then the question becomes: why is it, despite consumer preferences, that chuck steak sells at all? The fact is that chuck steak outsells filet mignon. How does something less...
No Charges Filed After Cops Kill Innocent Husband in Pursuit of Unarmed Suspect
by Matt Agorist | Jan 12, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
On the night of Aug. 21, 2021, Juan Olvera-Preciado, 59, had committed no crime, was not a suspect in any crime and harmed no one. These facts, however, were no defense against government-sponsored bullets being fired into his body, killing him. On the night he died,...
No More ‘Better Mousetraps’: How Financialization Discourages Technological Improvement
by Zack Sorenson | Jan 11, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
Capitalism is a social technology that directs resources toward valuable uses, increasing the total wealth in society. As a social technology, it organizes people and resources into systems and processes. When capitalism directs resources toward processes that...
The IRS Straps on Their Jackboots to Enforce Biden’s Tax Laws
by Jim Bovard | Jan 9, 2023 | Featured Articles
The Internal Revenue Service is perhaps the ultimate sacred cow in Washington. It is the “goose that lays the golden eggs” for the city’s power and prestige, delivering trillions of dollars to politicians to work miracles (or at least get reelected). When criticism...
Ashli Babbitt’s Mother Arrested for Peaceful Protest While Her Murderer is Still Free
by Keith Knight | Jan 8, 2023 | Blog, Uncategorized
The mother of Ashli Babbitt, who was fatally shot while participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, was arrested Friday afternoon for blocking traffic near the Capitol. Micki Witthoeft, 58, is charged with blocking and obstructing roadways,...
Can Wage Transparency Fix the Pay Gap?
by Walter E. Block | Jan 4, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
Will wage transparency reduce or eliminate the pay gap between men and women? Yes and no. Let’s take the no side first. Wage transparency will not reduce or eliminate this pay gap because it emanates from real differences in productivity (actually discounted marginal...
12/30/22 Daniel Davis: A Look at Where Things Stand in Ukraine
by Scott Horton | Jan 1, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott interviews Daniel Davis about the state of the war in Ukraine. Davis has been watching the war closely and works hard to correct for the biases of both sides. He gives Scott a rundown of where he thinks things stand and what developments are...
HOAX: Florida Police Dept. Releases Fake Video of Officer ‘Almost Dying’ From Touching Fentanyl (With Gloves)
by Matt Agorist | Dec 28, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In case you've been completely in the dark for the last decade, you've likely noticed that the United States is currently in the midst of an opioid crisis. This crisis knows no demographic, no race, no gender, no age limit, and no occupation—it hits them all. Due to...
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Reminder: Volodymyr Zelenskyy Almost Started a World War Based on a Lie
On November 15th, the Associated Press reported that "A senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people". Since Poland is a member of the North American Treaty Organization, that would mean that America along...
Christopher Hitchens Lied About the Cause of Terrorism
"The suicide murder community is almost perfectly faith based." - Christopher Hitchens On Real Time With Bill Maher, Hitchens claims that because an Islamist in the 1800's used the Koran to justify atrocities, it means that today the issue with Al-Qaeda is due to the...
War is a Euphemism for Mass Murder
To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest crime — waging war on another...
Empower the Working Class: Abolish Occupational Licensing
It's time to consistently apply the "my body my choice" principle. If consenting adults want to engage in economic activity, no third party should forcibly stop them. Democrats always say "voting once every two years between two politicians is how you express...
Death By Climate: Down 97% in Last 100 Years
Our schools provide many hours of lessons on climate change, but I wonder how many teachers, let alone pupils, are aware that climate-related deaths have decreased by as much as 97 per cent over the past 100 years, as the OFDA / CRED data show. - Why don’t we ever...
Black Youth Unemployment: Before and After Progressives Started “Helping”
A constant trend is progressivism is to use the state to coercively control others under the guise of "helping" them, make things worse, then ignore the problems you caused and never apologize. Sallie Mae loans didn't make college affordable. The Federal Reserve...
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