With the violent crime rate increasing disproportionately in urban communities, it's no surprise that a recent phone survey of black voters found that 80 percent felt gun violence was an “extremely serious” problem. However, it seems this surge in violence actually...
Politics
Reaching Out To The Exhausted and Politically Homeless
by Jennifer Monroe | Aug 22, 2019 | Jen the Libertarian
In my quest to reach out to the politically homeless I made a response to Bridget Phetasy's piece on the topic with (hopefully) helpful suggestions as to how libertarians can reach out to the ever increasing numbers of people leaving or being pushed out of their...
Why Facts and Data Are Less Persuasive Than Moral Appeals
by Bradley Thomas | Aug 20, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
When’s the last time you heard somebody say: “that statistical table really changed my view of how society should be organized”? Probably never. That’s because facts don’t persuade, but emotions do. People’s views are shaped by their moral intuitions first, reasoning...
America’s Benevolent Bombing of Serbia
by Jim Bovard | Aug 20, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton commenced bombing Serbia in the name of human rights, justice, and ethnic tolerance. Approximately 1,500 Serb civilians were killed by NATO bombing in one of the biggest sham morality plays of the modern era. As British...
This Is Your Brain on Government Intervention (in the War on Drugs)
by Matthew Freeman | Aug 18, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Ludwig von Mises, in his Critique of Interventionism, stated that one government intervention in the market creates unintended consequences, which inevitably justifies the next government intervention. Nowhere is this more true than in the healthcare and drug...
White Collar Welfare: What It’s Like to Work for the Federal Government
by Doug French | Aug 18, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Shannon O’Toole, according to the author's biography on Amazon, “worked extensively to identify fraud in multiple government programs. She received countless accolades and honors for her achievements and finally the prestigious HUD Secretary’s Award for her work.” The...
Left and Right: ‘No’ Prospects for Liberty
by Peter R. Quiñones | Aug 13, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Peter Quinones, Politics
Social Media is a sewer. Sure, it’s a medium that makes it easy to reach out to family, share photos and even documents; but places like Facebook, and especially Twitter, have become digital war zones in which the extremes on both sides of the political spectrum go to...
It Is All About the Benjamins
by Scott Horton | Aug 11, 2019 | Blog
Wealthy Jewish donors meet to decide how to spend their money influencing American politics to help Israel. In this case, they've decided to go after Rep. Rashida Tlaib for supporting BDS. Ron Kampeus writes: At the Jewish federation round table, there was a...
Blog
Drone Detection Balloon Destroyed by Drone
Unpossible! 230 million dollars for a balloon. Then the vaunted IDF says this: “Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, Israel’s military spokesman, confirmed that a Hezbollah drone had scored a direct hit on Sky Dew but added there were no casualties and that it “had no impact...
My Speech Again Nominating Angela McArdle for Natl. LP Chair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGIXPIRZzDY
The Zumwalt: Hit or Miss? Mostly Miss
The corporate/access media press is gushing about removing the 155 mm Advanced Gun System (AGS) to replace it with the Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) missile on the ugly Zumwalt-class ship in the US Navy. The AGS was designed in the 1990s to increase the ability of...
Mossad Chief Threatened to Murder ICC Prosecutor’s Family
I believe it.
My LP Speech Regarding Donald Trump’s Appearance at Our Convention
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLOhpv6r1v8
A Worthy Cause
At the LP convention a friend asked me to please publicize this GoFundMe for the kids of a lady he knows who recently died, Brittoni Estrella. She had been a great crusader against police abuse after they had killed her husband. Please do help out if you can.
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