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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Rules for Radicals: A Word About Words w/John Weeks
John and I continue to read and comment on Rules for Radicals
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Trump’s Iran War Is a Catastrophic Miscalculation! US to Lift Sanction of Iran as Oil Prices Spike
$200 billion is not a rounding error, it’s a signal that Washington is settling in for a long Iran war while pretending it can buy its way out of the consequences. We walk through the Pentagon’s latest funding push, why leaders keep hinting the price tag will rise,...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Netanyahu vs. Trump: Inside Israel’s SECRET Battle to Keep the Iran War ALIVE?!
The part that doesn’t get said out loud often enough is this: you can be “aligned” in a war and still be on a collision course. We dig into why U.S. goals in Iran and Israel’s goals in Iran don’t just differ, they actively clash and how that clash shows up in...
‘The Iron Giant’ and Generational Militarism
Among the films that formed my childhood, the Iron Giant is a black sheep. From its loving treatment of classic sci-fi horror to its somber handling of nuclear holocaust, the film is deeper than any of us realized as kids. Of course now, as adults, and especially as...
When They Came
First, they came for the writers, but I could not read. Then, they came for the artists, but I could not see. When they came for the musicians, I was unwilling to hear. Eventually they came for me, but I could no longer think.
Time Marches On… a Patrick MacFarlane Update
This post first appeared on Pat MacFarlane's email list, "What They're Not Tellin' You" Sign up for that here. The last few months I've been especially conscious of how time is passing us by. This being my original Liberty Weekly mailing list, some of you have been...
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