In December 2017, the Free Thought Project reported on the tragic death of 6-year-old Kameron Prescott whose life was stolen from him when police opened fire on an unarmed woman suspected of stealing a car. In June of 2018, the family of the little boy who was gunned...
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Myths and Hoaxes of Sexual Abuse Stoke ‘Politically Useful’ Fear
by Wendy McElroy | Jul 22, 2020 | Featured Articles
"[S]ince love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved."—Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, 1513 For those who want to control a population, fear is more useful than love and far easier to elicit. A...
Want Less Police Brutality? Write Less Laws
by Justin Murray | Jul 22, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
One of the most perplexing displays of cognitive dissonance this year is the strong support for a large state can be found within the various protest movements that are targeting the issue of law enforcement misconduct. Logically, groups opposing police misconduct...
The Breonna Taylor Tapes
by Scott Horton | Jul 9, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Justice, Scott Horton
If this one hadn't gone viral, the "law" would have buried innocent slain victim Breonna Taylor's heroic boyfriend Kenneth Walker under the prison for attempting to murder a cop. Now the tapes of his interrogation have been released. As NBC News explains: Walker was...
News Roundup 7/9/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 9, 2020 | News Roundup
US News MIT and Harvard file a lawsuit against a Trump decision to bar foreign students from remaining in the US if they are only taking online classes. [Link] The California prison system moved prisoners with coronavirus to the San Quentin Prison. A third of the...
How State Regulations Perpetuate Overpriced Housing
by Mitchell Harvey and Tam Alex | Jul 9, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
In Economic Facts and Fallacies (2011), Thomas Sowell argues that housing regulation and zoning laws, not markets, are to blame for the modern scourge of unaffordable housing. Sowell is still right. Government housing regulations have exacerbated construction costs,...
Prisoners of Your Health: The Flemington and North Melbourne Public Housing Towers Blockade
by Kym Robinson | Jul 8, 2020 | Featured Articles
COVID-19 has claimed its share of victims, most of whom have not even contracted the virus. Instead, across the world it has been the reaction of governments often under the guise of benevolence and concern for health that has impacted and harmed more people. Whether...
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
by Thomas Jefferson | Jul 4, 2020 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
In Congress, July 4, 1776. When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of...
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Winter is Coming to an American City Near You
It is much worse than Shawn Ryan thinks per his reactions during the interview. Sarah Adams discusses a forecast of an attack on the US from 1:12:00 to 1:25:00. There will be far more than 1k fighters (think train the trainer) because the aQ et al planners will...
Ruminations on War in the 21st Century
Agreed, Armchair Warlord nails the paper tiger posing as the US military. My additions: There is no Auftragstaktik in the modern western militaries despite their "embrace" of Mission Command. Carriers are the crossbow and chariot of the 21st century. A tremendous...
USS Liberty Incident Rises from the Ash Heap of Inconvenient History
Medal of Honor citation for Commander William L. McGonagle, USN, Commanding Officer, USS Liberty (AGTR-5) Thanks to Candace Owens for lifting this incident from the dead. One receives the Medal of Honor for engaging in a fight in enemy action. "For conspicuous...
Natural Economic Law Can’t Be Repealed
If the government restricts supply and subsidizes demand, out-of-control prices, resource shortages, and unpleasant ad hoc coping restrictions will follow. That is the natural (economic) law. The government cannot repeal it. But it can stop its attempt to plan.
Dumpsters Afloat: The Zumwalt Chronicles Continues
The weapons system removed from the Zumwalt They were going to build 30 and ended up building three of these dysfunctional monstrosities. Commissioned in 2016, it has only taken them eight years to retrofit the weapons system. The Navy's priorities have changed since...
Lawrence Premieres in London
On this day, 62 years ago, David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) premiered in London, UK. My favorite movie of all time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULsFcSpaVO0
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