Introduction In the mainstream view, al-Qaeda did not play a role in the Syria conflict until Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dispatched his deputy, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, to Syria in August 2011 to establish a wing of the group there, called...
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Lunatic With a Plan: Erdogan and Turkey’s Economic Woes
by Tom Luongo | Dec 28, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Since the first assault on Turkey’s finances in 2018, which I wrote about multiple times (here, here, and here), I’ve been the lone voice telling everyone that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a lunatic but he’s a lunatic with a plan. That plan is to de-dollarize the...
Is Virtue Signaling Vicious?
by Laurie Calhoun | Dec 27, 2021 | Featured Articles
Virtue signaling—the practice of highlighting what one takes to be one’s own moral superiority, often by loudly denouncing the character and comportment, including the speech, of other people—has become a dominant mode of rhetoric throughout social media and network...
Cops Kill Man
by Scott Horton | Mar 1, 2021 | Blog
Well he ran out of gas so they electro-shock tortured him to death. Because it was government employees who did it, it is therefore "reasonable." You have no rights they are bound to respect.
Cop Kills Cop
by Scott Horton | Jan 19, 2021 | Blog
And gets away with it of course because not even government employees have any rights that another government employee is bound to respect. And you wonder why BLM and the Boogaloo boys raise their fists together half the time: the government is evil.
How Many Times Must It Be Brought Up?
by Peter R. Quiñones | Sep 11, 2020 | Blog
The police are not there to protect you. The courts have ruled on this over and over again. Castle Rock v Gonzalez Lozito v NYC (Interview with Mr Lozito here) Warren v District of Columbia The discussion that continues by the pundits, even "respectable" ones, fails...
Cop Kills Cop
by Scott Horton | Sep 10, 2020 | Blog
Well he thought he was murdering a protester but it was actually someone with rights he was bound to respect. Oops. Man 1.
TGIF: Replace Your Divots
by Sheldon Richman | May 22, 2020 | Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
I am not, nor have I ever been, a golfer. I did golf once, just before the turn of the century, and I disliked it. Nevertheless, I live by a cardinal principle in golfer etiquette: Replace your divots. A divot, of course, is a chunk of turf that is dislodged by a golf...
Court: Of Course Cops May Murder Your Dog, You Dog
by Scott Horton | Apr 29, 2020 | Blog
No private citizen has any right a government man is bound to respect. #furtive #waistband
Winter Park, Florida Police, Including Jeff Marcum, a Laughingstock
by Scott Horton | Dec 11, 2019 | Blog
From the Free Thought Project, get a look at these ridiculous "Law Enforcement" clowns. No wonder no one respects them: Cops Break Into Innocent Sleeping Woman’s Home, Shoot Her—Now She Faces Life in Prison
Liberty is like a Healthy Marriage
by James Reilly | Nov 28, 2017 | Blog
There is a view in some circles that one system of social organization or another will be self-perpetuating. That if we arrive at libertarian paradise, it will exist forever. This is an absurd notion. As long as there is social organization, there is the potential...
The Big Climbdown
by Scott Horton | Mar 16, 2017 | Blog
How in the hell can anyone be a Democrat? It seems like they all must have such a headache all the time. I would. Anyway, wowee, look here, Clapper and Morell furiously backpedaling from their Trump-Putin conspiracy quackery. Man, and I thought the leadership of the...
Freedom Zealot Podcast July 2, 2016
by Will Grigg | Jul 2, 2016 | Will Grigg Radio
George Takei is offended by the violation of what he sees as a dog's right to reject its owner's lifestyle -- and by a Christian business owner's exercise of that right with respect to his own. The "gender revolution" has reached a stage in which those who try to...
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Military Conscription is Slavery: Woodrow Wilson Edition
By the guidelines set down by the Selective Service Act, all males aged 21 to 30 were required to register to potentially be selected for military service. At the request of the War Department, Congress amended the law in August 1918 to expand the age range to include...
The Capitalist Competition Myth
Capitalism involves far more cooperation than competition—think of the number of mutually beneficial transactions you’ve had today compared to the number of competitions you’ve been in today - Chris Freiman, author of Why It's OK to Ignore Politics Democratic...
Blame Mexico? Blame Neocons! Blame Big Pharma! Blame the USA!
ABC News: If fentanyl is so deadly, why do drug dealers use it to lace illicit drugs? I have an alternative explanation. America has been fighting endless wars almost the entire century. Many have come home from these never-ending wars with injuries and pains. Doctors...
My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
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