After a fiery year of cultural outrage against the state of policing in America, President Joe Biden's administration has announced that they have heard the pleas of the people. They will not stand by while a nefarious force maliciously targets the African American...
Progressives
Episode 544: The Progressive War On Our Food and ‘Tower Power’ Explained
by Peter R. Quiñones | Mar 1, 2021 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
54 Minutes Some Strong Language Doc is a friend of Pete's from Twitter who comes on the show to talk about a couple subjects. First, he talks about his time working for The Humane Society undercover at farms and facilities where he was supposed to get secret video...
How Not To Argue Against the Minimum Wage
by Bradley Thomas | Jan 26, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
Among the hotly contested list of Joe Biden’s promises is an increase of the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. There are plenty of sound reasons to oppose government minimum wage laws, but there is one objection making the rounds that is based on bad economics and...
Don’t Throw Away ‘Acceptable’ Because You Won’t Get ‘Perfection’
by Peter R. Quiñones | Dec 15, 2020 | Blog
In episode #511 of my podcast, Jeff Deist states that with the control of the levers of power firmly in the hands of Left AND Right Progressives, “separation” is the only solution. I interpret his use of the term separation as radical decentralization and even...
The Libertarian Party Will Never Have Political Power
by Peter R. Quiñones | Nov 23, 2020 | Libertarianism, Peter Quinones, Politics
Just give it up already. Those who are holding onto the dream that the LP will be able to wield any significant political, or cultural power have not thought this through. An ideology of non-aggression and voluntary interactions has no place in the political sphere...
Kamala Harris Says ‘We All End Up in the Same Place’
by Richard Booth | Nov 2, 2020 | Blog
Recently Kamala Harris tweeted a video where she's talking nonsense about "equity" and "equality" -- pandering to the left's progressives -- which ends with her saying, “equitable treatment means we all end up in the same place." End up at the same place. Well, it's...
The Threat of a Digitized Currency
by Ron Paul | Jul 28, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
If some Congress members get their way, the Federal Reserve may soon be able to track many of your purchases in real time and share that information with government agencies. This is just one of the problems with the proposed “digital dollar” or “fedcoin.” Fedcoin was...
How Could I Have Known?
by Steven Woskow | Jul 25, 2020 | Blog
ex-California Senator Barbara Boxer: "DHS was a mistake, I regret voting for it! I never imagined a President like Trump when I voted to create The Department Of Homeland Security." But, where were the libertarians? Why didn't they speak up. We are right were we...
Blog
Democracy and Free Stuff
Democracy: the matching up of people who want free stuff with politicians who promise free stuff. Problem: free stuff as they all imagine it does not exist. However, it does exist in the market, as explained by Frédéric Bastiat in Economic Harmonies, chapter 8,...
They Kept Sending Us Bombs…Anti-War Blog
As I saw the photos of US politician Nikki Haley scribbling on an Israeli shell bound for Rafah, it’s metal splinters and high explosives likely to rip a small child too pieces, it had me thinking. I once saw a clip of a US Air Force man who was asked why they were...
Frigate Failure Follies
I am currently doing a podcast series on what appears to be a droll subject but it is critical to getting big projects right. If you can't articulate and create a rational and effective Concept of Operations, you will fail. Th Navy never disappoints in failure lately....
History and Peace
"[E]very person must take his life and every nation must take its history as it comes; nothing is more useless than complaining over errors that can no longer be rectified, nothing more vain than regret. Neither as judges allotting praise and blame nor as avengers...
History and Conflict
"We cannot eradicate the past from our memories. But it is not the task of history to kindle new conflicts by reviving hatreds long since dead and by searching the archives for pretexts for new conflicts. We do not have to revenge crimes committed centuries ago by...
Around Us the World dies in hate (poem thing) -Anti-War Blog
In the time that the smoke ate the sun, Poison that blinded my eyes washed by tears, Tears that fall from fear because we shall never have years, Maybe days or if so lucky weeks. The sirens yawn more than we can sleep, The birds have left though the sky is...