On January 11, 2021, Robert Wenzel authored a blog post entitled “Why I Would Like to See Twitter and Facebook Ban More Accounts.” In the post Wenzel makes the astute observation that social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter cannot kill off “deep thinkers from...
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Self Defense, Martial Arts, and the Individual
by Kym Robinson | Mar 19, 2021 | Featured Articles
Self defense is the instinct of all living things. The need to live and survive when attacked. It is only through the insulation of civilised comfort that we tend to ignore the reality of life and neglect the need for self defense. Forgetting that people and beasts do...
Officers Mistake Fellow Cop for Protestor, ‘Beat Him Like Rodney King’
by Matt Agorist | Mar 18, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
The trial for three St. Louis cops who beat one of their own officers during an undercover operation begins this week, hoping to bring justice to several badge-toting thugs. The three officers in question—Dustin Boone, Steven Korte, and Christopher Myers—were part of...
Yes, Republicans Are the Party of Drug Warriors
by Laurence Vance | Mar 16, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Politics
The federal government considers growing, distributing, buying, selling, possessing, or using marijuana to be a criminal offense, punishable by fines and imprisonment. Possession of marijuana will get you a maximum sentence of one year in jail and a minimum fine of...
Challenging George Mason University’s Cadre of Patent Enthusiasts
by Stephan Kinsella | Mar 12, 2021 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
I’ve previously criticized George Mason economist Alex Tabarrok’s views on patents.1 For example, as noted in Patent Policy on the Back of a Napkin, Tabarrok makes a Laffer-curve style argument that patent rights are currently “too strong.” Of course, he is correct...
SWAT Destroys Innocent Woman’s Home, Sends Her the Bill
by Matt Agorist | Mar 9, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In July of last year, Vicki Baker, 75, was excited to move on to the next chapter of her life in Montana by selling her home she owned for 12 years in McKinney, Texas. That sale would never take place on schedule, however, because the day before she was supposed to...
Reflections of a Political ‘Extremist’
by John deLaubenfels | Mar 8, 2021 | Featured Articles
It is popular in Congress nowadays to make endless sound-bytes decrying an alleged rise of dangerous "extremism" in America. But what I call living a peaceful, normal, moral life, those people define as "extremist," and since they're experts at everything, I must be...
News Roundup 2/24/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 24, 2021 | News Roundup
US News Twitter added a ‘hacked materials’ warning to an article published by The Gray Zone detailing how BBC, Reuters, and Bellingcat were paid by the UK Foreign Office. [Link] The US opened a new facility to cage migrant children. [Link] The New York police officers...
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The Icebreaker Follies Continue to Break the Bank and Not Deliver
Aiviq The US has 1.5 icebreakers because it has had to cannibalize one of its ancient and sclerotic icebreakers to make the remaining heavy work.But for all this, the same Coast Guard bought the Aiviq for $125 million late last year. And don't expect them to get this...
NGAD is DOA: The Air Force Continues to Fail
Sandboxx does a terrific overview of the problems inherent in this. While I have beaten the drum on the inherent challenges of emerging problems in Revolutions in Military Affairs throughout the 21st century, no one at the Pentagon is paying attention as they leap...
Anti-War Blog – They Are Not People
She looks up and pleads for mercy. Then the drone operator makes the decision to kill her. We get to see the life and death of war, the intimate terror as the mostly young are killed on the battlefield. Social media accounts share the misery with pornographic delight,...
New WarNotes Podcast Episode is Live Monday 27 January 2025
Ep 010 "Fixing Fight Club: Naval Warfare in the 21st Century" In the future near-peer and peer fight, salvo competition and missiles will be the preeminent means by which one country will kinetically overwhelm the other in a fight. I discuss the way the US Navy is...
Make The French Channel Great Again
Dear France, America will officially recognize that the French Channel is consistent with the identity of the Irish Sea. PS: Thanks for helping America defeat the English bastards from 1775-1783. For those interested in how the French and Spanish made American...
War on the Border: Considerations Left of Bang
There is talk of taking the war to the cartels in Mexico and I have questions: So how successful have drug interdiction efforts by the DEA and associated agencies and bureaucracies been so far? We'll just go back to 1972 to make the history simpler. Once you eliminate...
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