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TGIF: Pursue Your Happiness and Forget the Rest
by Sheldon Richman | Dec 31, 2021 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
How about we do something novel in the new year? Let's stop worrying about the stuff most politicians, pundits, and activists want us to worry about and instead think about ourselves, our families, our friends, and whatever communities we choose to be part of. Let's...
Vaccines, Autonomy, and Mandates: A Libertarian Analysis
by David D'Amato | Dec 30, 2021 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Prefatory Note Given the subject matter discussed below, I believe it prudent to state at the outset that I am not at all opposed to vaccinations themselves: indeed, I have received a COVID-19 vaccine, as well as all other normal-course vaccinations recommended for...
Salafis Throwing Bombs: How American and British Planners Partnered With Al-Qaeda Affiliated Groups At the Start of the Syrian Civil War
by William Van Wagenen | Dec 28, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Introduction In the mainstream view, al-Qaeda did not play a role in the Syria conflict until Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dispatched his deputy, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, to Syria in August 2011 to establish a wing of the group there, called...
Lunatic With a Plan: Erdogan and Turkey’s Economic Woes
by Tom Luongo | Dec 28, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Since the first assault on Turkey’s finances in 2018, which I wrote about multiple times (here, here, and here), I’ve been the lone voice telling everyone that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a lunatic but he’s a lunatic with a plan. That plan is to de-dollarize the...
Is Virtue Signaling Vicious?
by Laurie Calhoun | Dec 27, 2021 | Featured Articles
Virtue signaling—the practice of highlighting what one takes to be one’s own moral superiority, often by loudly denouncing the character and comportment, including the speech, of other people—has become a dominant mode of rhetoric throughout social media and network...
The Antiwar Comic: The Ideology of Power
by Tony DiGerolamo | Jun 19, 2021 | Blog
Our politics in a nutshell. More comics at the Webcomic Factory. Also, wanna check out my books? Here's a novella series that's all about 2A, The Pineys.
Opinion: Not Calling Witnesses Has Nothing To Do With Protecting Trump
by Peter R. Quiñones | Feb 1, 2020 | Blog
It's about not putting on trial the deals done with overseas oligarchs that MANY Washington politicians use to enrich themselves. If this trial had come down to being about Hunter Biden, Ukraine and Burisma, it would shine a light on an old method that the Washington...
Government Employee, Trained By Government How to Kill, Massacres Fellow Government Employees
by Scott Horton | Jun 1, 2019 | Blog
They had apparently a slight difference of opinion, so DeWayne Craddock unleashed indiscriminate violence upon them. One innocent civilian bystander was also murdered by Craddock while waiting for a government "permit" to engage in consensual business activity.
AIPAC to Forgo Political Fundraising for 2020 Races to Prove Ilhan Omar Wrong
by Scott Horton | Mar 5, 2019 | Blog
Nah, just kidding. They're going to raise money and organize a primary challenger against her. No word yet if the opinion editor of The Forward will denounce AIPAC for engaging in an anti-Semitic trope.
Another DC Hawk Pundit Exposed as a Fraud
by Scott Horton | Nov 4, 2016 | Blog
This time it's Robert Caruso. Expose by Brendan James in The Concorse. "Let’s begin with his résumé. Several sources close to Caruso say they never heard of him holding a job that went beyond an administrative assistant. 'His opinions should not be taken seriously,'...
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My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
Empower the Workers: Decriminalize Economic Activity Between Consenting Adults
The most reliable and effective protection for most workers is provided by the existence of many employers. As we have seen, a person who has only one possible employer has little or no protection. The employers who protect a worker are those who would like to hire...
Chris Rock’s New Special Exposes His Political Ignorance
A common claim among Democrats is that, "It's not that people don't want to be educated, they just haven't been given the opportunity, thus government spending on education needs to increase." If there were ever a group of people capable of "educating" themselves it...
War and Delusion: A Critical Examination
In this episode of the Protestant Libertarian Podcast, Alex Bernardo sits down once again with Laurie Calhoun. Laurie is a philosopher, a cultural critic and an author. She is a senior fellow at the Libertarian Institute, where she regularly writes articles analyzing...
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