Last month, New York City homeowner Adele Andaloro was arrested after changing the locks on a house that had been seized by squatters. According to The New York Post: "Andaloro was charged with unlawful eviction because she had changed the locks and hadn’t provided a...
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The Social Security and Medicare Scams
by Laurence Vance | Apr 1, 2024 | Featured Articles
Charlotte Cowles is a financial advice columnist for The Cut, “a New York Magazine site dedicated to women’s lives and interests, including politics, work, money, relationships, style, and parenting.” She recently lost $50,000 when she fell for a scam, put that amount...
3/28/24 Matthew Hoh on his Speech to the UN Security Council
by Scott Horton | Mar 30, 2024 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott brings Matthew Hoh back on to talk about a speech he gave to the UN Security Council earlier this month. They discuss the very real risk of the war in Ukraine going nuclear, the incompetency of America’s so-called national security “experts”...
3/21/24 Ted Snider on the Western Troops in Ukraine and Putin’s Re-Election
by Scott Horton | Mar 28, 2024 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Ted Snider returns to the show to discuss some developments related to the war in Ukraine. Scott and Snider start with the sudden admissions from a number of high-level officials that various Western countries have troops on the ground in Ukraine....
IDF Officer: ‘We Are Demolishing Everything Before Entering’
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 27, 2024 | News
A senior Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officer said that Tel Aviv is engaged in an overly wasteful war in Gaza. The soldier went on to estimate that Israelis could have achieved similar results against Hamas with only ten percent of the destruction inflicted upon the...
In Defense of Inaction
by Brad Pearce | Mar 27, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism
On March 17, The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by a woman named Mary Anastasia O’Grady titled, “Giving up on Haiti Isn’t a U.S. Option.” She argues, in short, that Americans don’t have a choice but to continue doing all the things that have failed in the past...
3/18/24 Brad Pearce on the CIA’s Activities in Ukraine Before the War
by Scott Horton | Mar 20, 2024 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott was joined by Brad Pearce to talk about Ukraine. They discuss the report in the New York Times detailing the CIA’s long-time presence in Ukraine, the stupidity of those in charge of American foreign policy, the absurdity of NATO’s security...
3/18/24 Michael Tracey on Why the Latest Attempt to Ban TikTok is a Scam
by Scott Horton | Mar 20, 2024 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Michael Tracey returned to the show to discuss the bill Congress is trying to pass to ban the social video-sharing app TikTok. Tracey explains what the bill actually says and the two talk about what the government could do going forward if it...
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Democracy and Free Stuff
Democracy: the matching up of people who want free stuff with politicians who promise free stuff. Problem: free stuff as they all imagine it does not exist. However, it does exist in the market, as explained by Frédéric Bastiat in Economic Harmonies, chapter 8,...
They Kept Sending Us Bombs…Anti-War Blog
As I saw the photos of US politician Nikki Haley scribbling on an Israeli shell bound for Rafah, it’s metal splinters and high explosives likely to rip a small child too pieces, it had me thinking. I once saw a clip of a US Air Force man who was asked why they were...
Frigate Failure Follies
I am currently doing a podcast series on what appears to be a droll subject but it is critical to getting big projects right. If you can't articulate and create a rational and effective Concept of Operations, you will fail. Th Navy never disappoints in failure lately....
History and Peace
"[E]very person must take his life and every nation must take its history as it comes; nothing is more useless than complaining over errors that can no longer be rectified, nothing more vain than regret. Neither as judges allotting praise and blame nor as avengers...
History and Conflict
"We cannot eradicate the past from our memories. But it is not the task of history to kindle new conflicts by reviving hatreds long since dead and by searching the archives for pretexts for new conflicts. We do not have to revenge crimes committed centuries ago by...
Around Us the World dies in hate (poem thing) -Anti-War Blog
In the time that the smoke ate the sun, Poison that blinded my eyes washed by tears, Tears that fall from fear because we shall never have years, Maybe days or if so lucky weeks. The sirens yawn more than we can sleep, The birds have left though the sky is...