Police in Tempe, Arizona, announced plans in July for a “positive ticketing” campaign to pull over drivers who had violated no traffic laws. A Phoenix TV station reported that the police would give the people they targeted free soft-drink coupons for Circle K as a...
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Crime and Punishment
by Jim Davidson | Nov 11, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
“A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment The guard closed the door. There was an inch of raw sewage water on the floor, and about twenty men were detained in the holding cell. David Mayer and I had been arrested on charges...
The Hidden Costs of Health Care “Coverage”
by M. Todd Rice, MD | Nov 6, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
I'm a healthy 48-year old anesthesiologist. At least I was healthy until an unintentional 20 pound weight loss over the summer, accompanied by unquenchable thirst, insatiable appetite, blurry vision, and the bathroom frequency of an elderly prostatic. My lab workup...
3D-Printed Firearms and Defense Distributed: A Guide to Understanding “Ghost Guns”
by Sam Jacobs | Nov 4, 2019 | Featured Articles
Disclaimer: This guide is intended to be informational only surrounding the topic of ghost guns and 3D-printed firearms. It is not legal advice. Ever since the landmark ruling on 3D-printed firearms, outrage and moral panic have surrounded so-called “ghost guns.”...
The Fed Looks Increasingly Concerned About Liquidity and Growth — Even If it Says Otherwise
by Ryan McMaken | Nov 3, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles
The Federal Reserve lowered its benchmark interest rate on Wednesday, cutting the target federal funds rate by 0.25 percent to a range of 0.5 to 0.75 percent. The Fed's rate-setting committee, the FOMC, has now cut rates three times this year. The committee's rhetoric...
A Beer City Drowning in Regulations
by Nick Weber | Nov 1, 2019 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
On a recent outing to Odell Brewing’s new brewhouse and taproom in Denver’s RiNo neighborhood, a burgeoning part of town filled with breweries, coffee shops and twenty-somethings, I’m reminded of just how pervasive government is when it comes to influencing what can...
10/25/19 Kieren McCarthy on the FBI’s National Security Surveillance Lies
by Scott Horton | Oct 28, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Kieren McCarthy discusses the recent revelation that the FBI has access to the NSA's national security database, and has queried it tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of times. The database, gathered under special surveillance powers by the NSA and CIA, is not...
Who is to Blame for the Dangers of Being a Cop?
by Steve Anthony | Oct 23, 2019 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
My colleague sent me a blog post of the wife of a cop who was lamenting the dangers that her husband faces in his profession. I get it, it’s got to be nerve-racking having a loved one with a job where there are serious health and life risks. But this blog post...
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Julian Assange and the Criminalization of Journalism
Julian Assange was persecuted for over a decade for heroically exposing the criminal organization in Washington, DC. His crime was doing journalism.
About Bloody Time They Let Him Go…BUT…
“About Bloody Time,” the common Aussie utters to the news that Assange is now free. They are letting Assange go free, to return to Australia. The condition was that he had to reach a plea deal. Admit he was guilty. A compromise that removes a man from his legal limbo,...
The Continuing US Icebreaker Fiasco
There will be no more new US icebreakers. There is no capability in the manufacturing base. There are no industrial design talent stacks or ability to build icebreakers that work under government contracts. The shipyard throughput is a little above zero. The Arctic is...
Kyle Anzalone on the Tom Woods Show!
Our very own news editor Kyle Anzalone has hit the Big Time. Check out his first (but surely not last) appearance on the Tom Woods Show, where he discussed all the latest in foreign policy news, from the Middle East to Eastern Europe.
The Yemeni Mouse That Roared
The picture above is the anti-ship missile employed by the Houthi in Yemen. American taxpayers have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on the world's most advanced naval force. The U.S.-led campaign against the Houthi rebels, overshadowed by the Israel-Hamas war in...
American Zampolit: The Coprophilia Military Media Complex
The Modern War Institute at West Point, like the War on the Rocks website, has been institutionally captured by a curious hybrid of left-wing culture warriors and the neoconservative "war on the world" fetishists. I used to have great admiration for a considerable...
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