Rhetoric has recently trumped reality. It has become a misconceived bit of common “knowledge” that the United States of America is a bastion of free trade. Little could be further from the truth. The “freest” nation on earth, as we are taught to believe, imposes a...
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Kiriakou on WikiLeaks and Trump
by Emma Grey Ellis | Mar 15, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice
John Kiriakou knows a lot about leaking classified information. He went to prison for it. A former CIA agent who said too much about the Bush-era torture program, he’s also the first CIA leaker to go to jail for his trouble. Kiriakou served just under two years in...
The House GOP Leadership’s Health Care Bill Is ObamaCare-Lite — Or Worse
by Michael F. Cannon | Mar 7, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles
During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised legislation that “fully repeals ObamaCare.” Monday night, the Republican leadership of the House of Representatives released legislation it claims would repeal and replace ObamaCare. Tuesday afternoon, Vice...
News Roundup 3/5/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 5, 2017 | Blog
The Russia-gate conspiracy theory could push Trump to take a dangerous hard-line approach against Russia. [Link] Trump claims that President Obama was eavesdropping on phone calls. Trump has yet to provide proof this was happening. [Link] TSA patdowns will become more...
Obama’s foreign policy legacy undermines his C-SPAN ranking as 12th best president
by Jerrod Laber | Feb 21, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
C-SPAN recently released the 2017 Presidential Historian Survey, in which a group of presidential historians rank all previous presidents from best to worst. President Obama did extremely well, coming in as the 12th best president of all time. Obama was commended for...
Taming IRS Imperialism
by WSJ editorial | Feb 13, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles
In the tiny Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, the leader of the opposition coalition in parliament, recently did something no other world leader has done: She read the U.S. Republican Party platform. There she discovered that the GOP had...
Federal Spending Grew More Under Bush and Reagan than Under Obama
by Ryan McMaken | Feb 12, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles
Now that 2016 is gone and President Obama is a thing of the past, we can take a look back at just how much government spending grew during his tenure. It seems that in his eight year tenure, Obama never managed to top the enormous increases in government spending that...
Highway Robbery Gets Presidential Seal of Approval
by Brittany Hunter | Feb 10, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice
Donald Trump is going after one of the few issues proven to be a unifier across party lines: civil asset forfeiture. This legal tool allows law enforcement to seize money and physical property from those merely suspected of criminal behavior. Unfortunately, there is...
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Capitalism Civilizes
"Participation in capitalist markets and bourgeois virtues has civilized the world. It has 'civilized' the world in more than one of the word's root senses, that is, making it 'citified,' from the mere increase in a rich population. It has too, I claim, as many...
Hope for Gen Z w/J. Burden
J. Burden joined me to discuss the major problems conflicting Gen Z.
My Fabric, My Choice: On Trump’s EO Banning Flag Burning
On August 25, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at people who burn or desecrate the American flag. The order instructs the U.S. attorney general to “vigorously prosecute” offenders, imposes a mandatory one‑year jail sentence for anyone who...
Many Lives, One Suburb.
She just turned ninety, her body withering along with her mind. She dithers and smiles, walks slowly among the isles, she is never alone when outside, she remains lonely. She has always been a pensioner, never worked. Her husband died thirty years ago, now with three...
Interview: Establishing ‘Greater Israel’ By Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide
On the Kyle Anzalone Show, I explain how Israel has always aimed to control all of former Palestine—without the Palestinians.
Atrocities Quote
I thought I had put this in Enough Already -- or something? But I want to put it here for safe keeping at least. As told to me by a former marine on Twitter: “To get one to commit the greatest atrocities, you do not need to convince evil men to do evil. You need to...
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