Download Episode. Ted Snider is back to discuss his recent article for the Libertarian Institute. In it, Snider documents the many chances that were missed to avoid the war in Ukraine and a handful of opportunities to stop the war after Russia invaded. In this...
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Sales Tax Is Still Theft
A group of House Republicans is supporting legislation that would replace federal income, payroll, estate, and gift taxes with a 30 percent national sales tax. The bill also eliminates the Internal Revenue Service, giving states the responsibility to collect the sales...
1/27/23 Arthur Bloom on Don Reynolds and the Fast and Furious Scandal
Download Episode. Scott talks with journalist Arthur Bloom about the case of Donald Reynolds. Reynolds is currently serving a life sentence plus 75 years in a Communications Management Unit (CMU), a prison for terrorists. But Reynolds is not a terrorist, he’s in on...
Tyre Nichols’ Killing Proves Why We Must End ‘Qualified Immunity’ for Police
The brutal death of Tyre Nichols at the hands of Memphis police officers is one of the most egregious examples of police misconduct in living memory. On January 7th, officers stopped Nichols, a 29‐year‐old Black man, for alleged “reckless driving” (though Memphis...
A Genuine Check and Balance: Privatize Law and Order
This article has been reprinted with permission from Fake Noûs, the official Substack of Michael Huemer. Here, I explain the anarcho-capitalist solution to the basic social problem (from fakenous): Recap from two previous posts: - The basic problem of human...
1/27/23 James Bamford on the Many Failures of American Counterintelligence
Download Episode. Scott interviews James Bamford about some of the stories he collected for his new book about the collapse of America’s counterintelligence apparatus. They start with Russiagate and talk about how, while the government and media were screeching...
Bubbles R-Us
The Wall Street Journal today brings word that a professor Efraim Benmelech of the finance department at Northwestern University thinks the Fed is hurting housing and the consumer too much. Opined he, ...those higher interest rates are making mortgages more expensive...
Your Social Security Money Is GONE, Understand?
After French protestors took the street to complain about the increase in the retirement age, I read quite a few jokes in social media about how protesting in France is the local pastime. That may be true, but let it not be said that Americans don't feel very, very...
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