Thirty years ago, Waco radicalized a teenage grocery clerk in Austin, Texas. Scott Horton was horrified both by the televised carnage of the FBI assault and by the mindless support for the feds he heard voiced by suburban housewives. Unlike the national media, Scott...
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You’re Misunderstanding What the ‘Militia’ Is
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Apr 3, 2023 | Featured Articles
America’s latest episode of mass homicide has sparked renewed advocacy for restrictions on gun ownership. Once again, the accompanying debate has many gun control advocates claiming the Second Amendment’s reference to a “well regulated militia” narrows the amendment’s...
To Fight the State, Build Alternatives to the State
by Ryan McMaken | Mar 29, 2023 | Featured Articles
Throughout its history, liberalism—the ideology today called “classical liberalism” or “libertarianism”—has suffered from the impression that it is primarily against things. This is not entirely wrong. Historically, liberalism coalesced as a recognizable and coherent...
A New Reality w/Marc Clair
by Tommy Salmons | Feb 28, 2023 | Year Zero
Marc Clair, The Marc Clair Show, joined me to discuss his "journey" since getting married and leaving Lions of Liberty The Marc Clair Show Discord Year Zero YouTube Libertarian Institute 19 Skills Pdf Autonomy Course Critical Thinking Course Patreon Subscribe at...
Christopher Hitchens Lied About the Cause of Terrorism
by Keith Knight | Jan 29, 2023 | Blog, Uncategorized
"The suicide murder community is almost perfectly faith based." - Christopher Hitchens On Real Time With Bill Maher, Hitchens claims that because an Islamist in the 1800's used the Koran to justify atrocities, it means that today the issue with Al-Qaeda is due to the...
Kiev Seizes Assets of Russian Orthodox Clerics
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 12, 2022 | News
Ukraine has ratcheted up its campaign against a branch of the Eastern Orthodox church with ties to Russia. On the order of President Volodymyr Zelensky, seven senior clerics from the Russian Orthodox church will have their assets seized and face bans on a range of economic and legal activities.
Patriots Cannot Be Nationalists
by Jeffrey Wernick | Dec 6, 2022 | Blog
I think George Orwell has explained this very well: “By 'nationalism' I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions and tens of millions of people can be confidently labeled 'good' or...
News Roundup 12/5/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 5, 2022 | News Roundup
US News NYC will use forced hospitalizations into psychiatric facilities to get homeless people off the streets. Reason A former stand-out agent at the Drug Enforcement Agency, José Irizarry, says the police force knows the drug war is unwinnable. In an interview with...
Ukraine Hits Russian Orthodox Clerics with Sanctions
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 4, 2022 | News
Kiev has imposed sanctions on 10 top clerics in the Russian Orthodox church. The move came after President Volodymyr Zelensky announced he was seeking to ban any religion with ties to the Russian Federation from operating in Ukraine.
Zelensky to Ban Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 3, 2022 | News
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced he is seeking to ban all religions with ties to Russia. He claims the move is needed to “guarantee spiritual independence to Ukraine.”
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
by Kym Robinson | Nov 16, 2022 | Featured Articles
The latest adaption of All Quiet on the Western Front is a German production available on Netflix that gives a grim and gruesome depiction of World War I. Based on the 1929 book by Erich Maria Remarque, and differing in parts from both the book and previous film...
Pope Appeals to Politicians to Avert Threat of Nuclear War Over Ukraine
by Scott Horton | Oct 26, 2022 | Blog
Reuters: "Today, in fact, something we dreaded and hoped never to hear of again is threatened outright: the use of atomic weapons, which even after Hiroshima and Nagasaki continued wrongly to be produced and tested." Francis recalled how on October, 25, 1962, at the...
Lindsey Graham is a Liar
by Keith Knight | Oct 8, 2022 | Blog
Graham believes the terror war is/was inevitable. The reality: ...we now have the first complete data set of all suicide terrorist attacks around the world from 1980 to 2009,...research on who becomes a suicide terrorist showed that virtually none could be diagnosed...
Our Leaders’ Oppressive Moralism
by Douglas Young | Sep 28, 2022 | Featured Articles
As Deepak Chopra said, “God gave man the truth. Then the Devil came in and said, “Hey, let’s organize it and call it ‘religion’.” The bumper sticker version is more blunt: “Dear Lord, save me from your followers.” Yet there are secular (worldly) fanatics too. Because...
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The Lesson From Germany and Korea
Institutions are, of course, in some sense the products of culture. But, because they formalize a set of norms, institutions are often the things that keep a culture honest, determining how far it is conducive to good behaviour rather than bad. To illustrate the...
Occupational Licensing Increases Prices and Deprives People of Options
When you shop online, vendors usually give you a bunch of different ways to sort your options. Take Amazon: One popular sorting option – especially for customers with low income – is “Price: Low to High.” You’ve probably used it yourself many times. This...
Free Book: An Anarchist Critique of the COVID Mandates
I’ve had the opportunity to write a short book offering what is essentially an anarchist critique of COVID mandates. This includes the accusation that states did most of the killing rather than the virus. The 123-page book, Measuring the Mandates: Questioning the...
Democratic Socialist Turns Libertarian! #PorcFest2023
https://youtu.be/G2eSuiXNaaQ Once you accept the principle of government, namely that there must be a judicial monopoly and the power to tax, once you accept this principle incorrectly as a just principle, then any idea or any notion of restraining or limiting...
What War Hawks Would Sound Like If They Weren’t Psychopaths
Modern warfare almost always leads to killing lots of innocents; if governments were held to the same standards as individuals, these killings would be manslaughter, if not murder. This doesn’t mean that war is never justified. But the reasonable hawkish mood is...
The Free Market Serves the Masses, Governments Commit Genocide
Amazon is simply the best store that ever existed, by far, with incredible selection and unearthly convenience. The price: cheap. Facebook, Twitter, and other social media let us socialize with our friends, comfortably meet new people, and explore even the most...
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