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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Blackadder Was Ahead of His Time: The UK Military Death Spiral
"Tomorrow we attack the Germans" "Let me guess Sir, we climb out of our trenches and do a frontal assault" "Damn it, Blackadder, that's supposed to be a secret" "We've tried it 17 times before and always failed" "Ah, but they will never expect it an 18th time!" ***...
The Kyle Anzalone Show [GUEST] Darryl Cooper: Khamenei Martyred, Iran in Chaos — What the West Isn’t Telling You
Air defense looks clean on a diagram. In real war, it is messy, conditional, and expensive in ways most people never see until the alarms are late and the interceptors are flying in bunches. We sit down with Daryl Cooper to translate the jargon and show what “layered...
The Kyle Anzalone Show [GUEST] Matt Hoh: The Iraq War Playbook Is Back — This Time for Iran
They’re dragging a disproved Iraq War storyline out of storage to sell a new war with Iran, and it matters because it’s the kind of myth that can get people killed. We sit down with Captain Matt Ho to dissect the EFP hoax: what explosively formed penetrators were, how...
The Age of Revelation, a Conversation w/Buck Johnson
I invited Buck Johnson of Counterflow on to have a nice relaxing conversation about things revealed and how it plays into our daily lives and worldview.
The Kyle Anzalone Show [GUEST] Harrison Berger: Will Trump Draft Americans for Israel’s War in Iran? Did Iran Try To Kill Trump?
A headline-friendly story says Iran tried to assassinate Donald Trump. We pull the threads and find a different picture: an FBI-driven sting targeting Asif Merchant, two undercover “hitmen,” no money to fund the job, and no credible evidence that Tehran ordered...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Trump Demands Iran’s UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER
A president calls for Iran’s “unconditional surrender,” then floats picking the next government and rebuilding a nation of 90 million. We unpack how a mission that began as punitive strikes ballooned into de facto nation building, why timelines quietly stretched from...
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