The U.S. Senate continues to debate legislation potentially adding women to the military draft in the United States. This week, for instance, Senator Josh Hawley attempted to remove from the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act provisions requiring that “all...
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Episode 655: The Jackboot Of Government Tyranny w/ Marcel Gautreau
by Peter R. Quiñones | Nov 9, 2021 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
65 Minutes PG-13 Marcel Gautreau is an Economics PHD candidate at George Mason University and three-time Mises Institute Summer Fellow. Marcel joins Pete to give a breakdown of the corruption in the Republican and Democrat parties, as well as within the system of...
The Frances Haugen Insurgency
by Laurie Calhoun | Nov 8, 2021 | Featured Articles
Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen has taken the world by storm by stealing and sharing reams of company communications in which the social media giant’s cavalier attitudes toward a range of behaviors among its users are revealed. She compares what she regards as...
Protectionism: Morally and Economically Dumb
by Jim Bovard | Nov 1, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
Protectionism is reviving in Washington on both sides of the political aisle. Democrats are cheering proposals to restrict trade to benefit labor unions and save the environment while some Republicans are reviving Smoot-Hawley style salvation schemes. Protectionist...
News Roundup 10/22/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 22, 2021 | News Roundup
US News The NIH admits to funding research - through EcoHealth - in China that matches the definition of gain of function research. [Link] School enrollment decreased by 3 million students during the first year of the Covid outbreak. [Link] Senate Democrats are...
National Review Is a Poisonously Stupid Rag
by Sam Peters | Oct 20, 2021 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
“If an insufficient patriotism is one of the ills of contemporary America,” declares National Review editor Rich Lowry, “then a national divorce would prescribe arsenic as a cure. It would burn down America to save America, or at least those parts of America it...
Episode 639: ‘We Live in a Banana Republic With Air Conditioning’ w/ Adam Patrick and Mark Metz
by Peter R. Quiñones | Oct 5, 2021 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
83 Minutes PG-13 Mark Metz is the proprietor of The Emergent at MarkMetz.Substack.com, and Adam Patrick is the host of Yer Talkin Over Me. Adam and Mark join Pete to talk about Mises-style liberalism and whether it opens the door for totalitarianism. They also talk...
News Roundup 10/5/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 5, 2021 | News Roundup
China US officials slammed China for Chinese flights over the southwest corner of Taiwan’s air identification zone. [Link] Taiwan wants to build a deeper partnership with Australia as it prepares for a potential war with China. [Link] Biden’s trade representative with...
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Pentagon: Send More Money!
You can't make this up, the scale of incompetence and brain-dead planning on the part of the most expensive military paper tiger in the Earth's history is breathtaking. Best of both worlds from a government perspective: huge budgets and no accountability. The Pentagon...
The Fat Leonard Scandal in the USN: Corruption at the Highest Levels
Craig Whitlock, author of the incredible The Afghanistan Papers, does a great job revealing just how high and vast the institutional rot is in the DoD. Craig Whitlock’s book outlines the long story of Leonard Glenn Francis, AKA “Fart Leonard” on the US Navy and the...
A Morality of Anger and Guilt
Splendid Memorial Day speech by Matthew Hoh: The idea of my talk was originally going to be that of the unending costs of war, and I found that to be very daunting for a number of reasons. One, I just didn't know where to begin, what to talk about, what facet of the...
No Worse Woke Censors Than Zionists
"DEI Barbie" Briahna Joy Gray fired for rolling her eyes over Israeli Hasbara on her own show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDYYe-4ZojI
David Boaz (1953-2024)
With great sadness I note the passing of David Boaz today, June 7, 2024, at age 70. He had been ill for some time. He was a good man and a giant of the libertarian movement. Very much because of David's influence and example, libertarian organizations not only...
Provoked Book Update
As many of you know, I'm working on a book called Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine. You may also know that it's way overlong and way overdue. Well, the news is that I got it up to 1,400 pages, and more than...
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