Editor's Note: The case of Michael Whiteley was previously reported on by the Libertarian Institute's late managing editor, William Norman Grigg. I'm the voice of Michael Whiteley; a slight stutter when frustrated, a laugh rarely and irritation always just below the...
In 2015, the “Defend the Guard Act” was introduced in the West Virginia legislature, aiming to bring sanity to our nation’s foreign policy and the legal abuses foisted upon our servicemen within our state’s National Guard. This proposed law emerged from long forgotten...
First of all, happy new year to all you good folks who enjoy reading what I write. Now, for the obvious: not every kind of email will float everyone's boat. Maybe today's won't do anything for you. But doggone it, I like it. John Podhoretz is editor of Commentary...
It has become fashionable once again for regime apologists to denounce as “simpleminded,” even immoral, any assertion or intimation of moral equivalence between government killers and the factional fighters who undertake violent retaliation against them. Throughout...
“People shouldn’t expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the ‘fringe’ media.”- Ted Koppel It’s called the fog of war for a reason, and yet it is with viciousness, fortified by bias and outrage, that we witness a certain eagerness to...
U.S. administrations have repeatedly condemned foreign adversaries for engaging in ethnic cleansing of minority populations. That has been an explicit grievance against the People’s Republic of China (PRC) because of Beijing’s treatment of its Uygur population in...
It has been a little over a week since Hamas attacked Israel. In that week, we have learned more of what 5th Generation Warfare looks and feels like in the context of actual battles taking place in a geographic theater of war. Although the Israel-Palestine conflict...
“Soldier and civilian, they died in their tens of thousands because death had been concocted for them, morality hitched like a halter round the warhorse so that we could talk about 'target-rich environments' and 'collateral damage'—that most infantile of attempts to...
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...
Today the front pages and bookstores are filled with tales of the so-called "China Threat." From spy balloons to Fentanyl pipelines, genocide to dreams of world domination: CHINA! But is it all true? Is any of it? Now, for the first time, the speciousness of these and...
