This old New Yorker piece about Curtis LeMay has some details about the Missile Crisis that I did not know and want to save here for someday. So we all already knew that 1: the USSR did already have operational short and medium range missiles in Cuba, but Khrushchev...
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What Happens When a Town’s Entire Police Force Quits?
by Matt Agorist | Jul 25, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
This month, without warning, the taxpayers of Kenly, N.C. found out that the police department they have been paying for “protection,” no longer wished to serve them. The entire department, including the police chief and every single officer on the force, turned in...
Cop Involved With Breonna Taylor’s Murder Has Record Expunged Clean
by Matt Agorist | Jul 21, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
On September 23, 2020, knowing that there would be backlash for their decision, streets in downtown Louisville were blocked off officials, police put on high alert, and government buildings were boarded up as officials announced the charges against former officer...
A Veteran Explains Why People Aren’t Joining the Military
by John Vaughn | Jul 20, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
A new report from NBC news has generated a lot of discussion about the relationship between the military and American society. Especially from right-leaning commentators, much of the blame is placed on the current administration and the apparent increase of “woke”...
News Roundup 7/20/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 20, 2022 | News Roundup
US News Army officials said the service will fall about 10,000 soldiers short of its planned end strength for this fiscal year, and prospects for next year are grimmer. AP The U.S. Department of Defense is nearing an agreement with Lockheed Martin Corp for around 375...
Top Senators Back DoJ Plan to Use RICO Laws to Target Russian Assets
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 19, 2022 | News Roundup
The Department of Justice consulted with the Senate Judiciary Committee on a proposal to use laws designed to target the mafia to seize Russian assets. The DoJ legal scheme won immediate support from the committee's top members. The Department's plan calls for the...
The Antiwar Comic: News of Two Worlds
by Tony DiGerolamo | Jul 15, 2022 | Blog
Which reality will we end up in? More comics at the Webcomic Factory.
Turkey Says Ukraine and Russia Reach Agreement on Ukrainian Grain Exports
by Dave DeCamp | Jul 14, 2022 | News Roundup
Turkey on Wednesday said it will sign a deal next week with Russia, Ukraine, and the UN to facilitate the export of grain from Ukraine.
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Is the Medal of Honor Now Subject to Woke Revisionism?
Note: We just returned from a short vacation visiting new grandchildren hence the brief interregnum of posting. The Medal of Honor is the highest citation for combat action in the US military. It's premature to say exactly what direction this is going because the DoD...
6 Hours of Scott Horton: On with Smith, Murphy, Woods & Russell
Scott's been making the libertarian podcast rounds with our friends Dave Smith – the very failed comedian – the great economist and successful comedian (on Twitter) Bob Murphy, historian and email marketing master Tom Woods, and Clint Russell of the Liberty Lockdown...
Restricting Production
"At the bottom of the interventionist argument there is always the idea that the government or the state is an entity outside and above the social process of production, that it owns something which is not derived from taxing its subjects, and that it can spend this...
Ford Follies: The Carrier Grift That Just Keeps Giving
Stop building these things. Even the corporate/access defense media is starting to sound the alarm bells on the multi-billion carrier fiasco that is the USS Ford which is probably causing plenty of public relations professionals in the Navy to go apoplectic. As my...
“Capitalism” Is about Freedom, Not Capital
"Why 'capitalism'? Words have an unfortunate tendency to confuse. Free market capitalism is not really about capital, it is about handing control of the economy from the top to billions of independent consumers, entrepreneurs and workers, and allowing them to make...
Ticonderoga Leaves the Fleet: The US Surface Navy Continues to Shrink
The US Navy surface fleet continues to shrink. And every surface hull commissioned after the Arleigh Burke class in 1991 has been a failure. The Chinese Navy exceeds the US Navy in total warships deployed. What makes this even more astonishing is that the Chinese...
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