Danny Sjursen talks about the Mexican-American War, a seldom-discussed conflict that he maintains holds lessons for America today. Sjursen describes a pattern that by now—with our long experience of the war on terrorism—should be all too familiar: a U.S. president...
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Democrats & Jim Crow: A Century of Racist History the Democratic Party Prefers You’d Forget
by Sam Jacobs | Jun 19, 2020 | Featured Articles
The history of Jim Crow in the American South is a history one the Democratic Party would rather you forget.

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...
Risk? We don’t Need No Stinking Risk!
by Tom Luongo | Apr 11, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
We’ve crossed the monetary Rubicon. There is no going back to the way things were. With the creation of a series of Special Purpose Vehicles (SPV) the Treasury Dept. and the Federal Reserve have fundamentally altered the financial landscape of the United States. We...
Family Who Says They Do Not Have COVID-19 Under ‘Forced Quarantine’ by Police
by Matt Agorist | Mar 18, 2020 | Featured Articles
Nelson County, KY — A family has been forcibly quarantined in their home this week with police officers keeping them under 24-hour surveillance because a man in the home is accused of having the COVID-19 virus. According to multiple news reports and even Kentucky...
U.S. Foreign-Policy Perpetual Perfidy
by Jim Bovard | Feb 25, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Washington establishment was aghast in October when Donald Trump appeared to approve a Turkish invasion of northern Syria. The United States was seen as abandoning the Kurds, some of whom had assisted the United States in the fight against ISIS and other terrorist...
U.S. Foreign-Policy Perpetual Perfidy
by Jim Bovard | Feb 24, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Washington establishment was aghast in October when Donald Trump appeared to approve a Turkish invasion of northern Syria. The United States was seen as abandoning the Kurds, some of whom had assisted the United States in the fight against ISIS and other terrorist...
In A True Free Market, It’s Hard To Be Rich
by Zack Sorenson | Feb 7, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
One interesting feature of libertarian theory is its ability to offer a critique of corporate capitalism from the perspective of laissez faire economics. The political economics of societies with large corporations are troublesome, and if you read left-wing literature...
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The F35 Follies: The Grift Keeps on Giving
I took months off to work on other projects and catch up on other business. I'm back. The F35 continues to be the gift that keeps on grifting. The F35B and C models are the Marine Corps Short Takeoff/Vertical Landing (STOVL) and US Navy aircraft respectively. Both the...
Trucking w/Gord
Gord is back to discuss the problems being exposed in the trucking industry.
Capitalism Civilizes
"Participation in capitalist markets and bourgeois virtues has civilized the world. It has 'civilized' the world in more than one of the word's root senses, that is, making it 'citified,' from the mere increase in a rich population. It has too, I claim, as many...
Hope for Gen Z w/J. Burden
J. Burden joined me to discuss the major problems conflicting Gen Z.
My Fabric, My Choice: On Trump’s EO Banning Flag Burning
On August 25, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at people who burn or desecrate the American flag. The order instructs the U.S. attorney general to “vigorously prosecute” offenders, imposes a mandatory one‑year jail sentence for anyone who...
Many Lives, One Suburb.
She just turned ninety, her body withering along with her mind. She dithers and smiles, walks slowly among the isles, she is never alone when outside, she remains lonely. She has always been a pensioner, never worked. Her husband died thirty years ago, now with three...