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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Carrier Follies on Parade (Again)
Fact is more hilarious than fiction now. USS Repulse and USS Prince of Wales would be more appropriate names for these missile sponges and future fish apartments. The sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse by Japanese naval aviation was a naval engagement in World War...
Production Is Spiritual, Not Material
"Production is not an act of creation; it does not bring about something that did not exist before. It is a transformation of given elements through arrangement and combination. The producer is not a creator. Man is creative only in thinking and in the realm of...
NGIA, Please
Employees will start moving into new $1.7B NGA HQ in St. Louis, MO in Fall 2025. In other news, it’s a good thing the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency wasn’t called the National Intelligence-Geospatial Agency... Please. The budget is classified of course but...
Back to Basics: A Rare Instance of US Naval Sobriety
Navigation is fundamental. Every ship in the USN should do this yearly. Advanced, hand-computed celestial navigation is a full-time job. It required both of us to be on (or near) the bridge for approximately 18 hours a day, especially during the morning and evening...
Gaza’s Future and Trump’s Bold Rhetoric: New Episode of the Kyle Anzalone Show
Dave DeCamp from Antiwar.com joins us for an eye-opening exploration of Middle Eastern politics. Former President Donald Trump has issued a stark warning about Gaza, claiming "all hell will break loose" if hostages aren't released by his next tenure. Is this another...
RIP USMC: The Corps is Toast
Force Design 2030 murdered the USMC. The Marines are struggling to keep more than one Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) forward deployed at a time. Sometimes, two are forward deployed but only for limited periods. Each MEU has about two weeks of sustainment. Unless...
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