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What Social Animals Owe to Each Other

by | Jul 27, 2020 |

Hooray! Announcing the publication of executive editor Sheldon Richman's new book, What Social Animals Owe to Each Other! These essays, written over the past 20 years, have a single underlying theme: namely, that we human beings, as social animals, need individual...

Cops Kill Man

by | Jun 11, 2020 |

Like George Floyd, Oklahoma cops crushed Derrick Scott to death for fun. “I can’t breathe,” Scott said as cops held their weight on top of him. “I don’t care,” one of the officers, Jarred Tipton, can be heard replying to Scott.

Complying with White House Orders for a Pandemic Mask

by | Apr 7, 2020 |

White House sez wear a mask, I wear a mask. But I don’t expect to get hired as a mask consultant. For the record: I’ve been wearing masks for several weeks.  In my March 24 Daily Caller oped on Pandemic Security Theater, I wrote: “Before granting politicians any more...

Olli Heinonen is a Liar

by | Jun 5, 2019 |

Here he tells Israeli Army Radio, "Iran is actually weaponizing uranium enrichment without making a weapon." Even the Times of Israel, a rightwing paper, characterized this as a "claim," since it's obvious on the face of it that Heinonen is lying. Iran is either...

‘Parallel Construction’

by | Jan 9, 2018 |

Human Rights Watch has a new report out about cops violating people's rights to obtain evidence and then lying about its origins. This should be a huge scandal. No word yet if HRW is calling for invasion and regime change in Washington.

'Parallel Construction'

by | Jan 9, 2018 |

Human Rights Watch has a new report out about cops violating people's rights to obtain evidence and then lying about its origins. This should be a huge scandal. No word yet if HRW is calling for invasion and regime change in Washington.

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Good Plan Means My Plan

"All this passionate praise of the supereminence of government action is but a poor disguise for the individual interventionist’s self-deification. The great god State is a great god only because it is expected to do exclusively what the individual advocate of...

Who Needs What?

"[I]t is evident ... that the man, who first made himself clothes and built himself a cabin, supplied himself with things which he did not much want, since he had lived without them till then; and why should he not have been able to support in his riper years, the...

Whose Plan?

"The alternative is not plan or no plan. The question is whose planning? Should each member of society plan for himself, or should a benevolent government alone plan for them all? The issue is not automatism versus conscious action; it is autonomous action of each...

What Full Liberalism Is Not About

"Liberalism is a doctrine directed entirely towards the conduct of men in this world. In the last analysis, it has nothing else in view than the advancement of their outward, material welfare and does not concern itself directly with their inner, spiritual and...

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Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty

Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty

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Americans today have “freedom” to be fleeced, groped, injected, harassed, surveilled, vilified, disarmed, beaten, detained, and maybe shot by federal agents. From hapless homeowners hit by SWAT raids to pandemic lockdowns pointlessly paralyzing lives, government...

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