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A Dago’s Perspective on Diversity and White Privilege

by Craig Cantoni | Apr 4, 2017 | Blog

If you are a member of the campus thought police and offended by the word “dago,” too bad. Here are some other offensive synonyms for “Italian:” wop, greaseball, greaser, goombah, mobster, and garlic eater. I grew up being called all of those slurs. But until recent...

Bill Gates’s Robot Tax Is a Terrible Idea

by Jonathan Newman | Mar 7, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles

Bill Gates has called for a “robot tax” to help maintain government tax revenue when human laborers are let go because a “robot comes in to do the same thing.” He seems to be following the same line of argument that many make for a universal basic income: when a...

Founder of National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee Speaks Out

by Maria LaMagna | Feb 23, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics

What happens when you refuse to pay taxes for 40 years? A man who hasn’t paid federal income taxes since 1970 shares his story Ed Hedemann, who works as an independent contractor for several nonprofit organizations and lives in Brooklyn, hasn’t paid federal income...

Fannie sticks it up your fanny

by Craig Cantoni | Jan 26, 2017 | Blog

“Outrageous” is the first word that comes to mind. The next three words that come to mind are “We are screwed.” The first sentence that comes to mind is: “It’s outrageous that we’re being screwed once again by the government and its crony capitalists at Fannie Mae.”...

The Antiwar Comic: Every School Kid Knows

by Tony DiGerolamo | Dec 17, 2016 | Blog

Today's Antiwar Comic is more of a civics lesson than anything else. It occurred to me that we teach all this high and mighty wonderful stuff about America and it's kinda b.s. For more comics visit the Webcomic Factory.

Connecting the Dots on the Declining Work Ethic

by Craig Cantoni | Dec 6, 2016 | Economics, Featured Articles

Connecting the Dots on the Declining Work Ethic: Video Games, Student Debt, Drugs, and Welfare A recent scholarly study, a recent newspaper story, a recent newspaper column, and a recent magazine article seemed at first blush to be on unrelated subjects. But they...

News Roundup 11/16/16

by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 16, 2016 | Blog

The House has passed a bill that will create a Concrete Masonry Products Board and place a tax on the concrete industry. [Link] California pays 218,667 public sector employees over a $100,000 salary. The wages of those 218,667 employees cost taxpayers $35 billion...

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Scott Horton : Netanyahu Compares ‘Free Palestine’ to ‘Heil Hitler’ – New Episode of The Kyle Anzalone Show

Scott Horton breaks down the latest foreign policy news with host Kyle Anzalone.

The Continuing Erosion of US Dominance in Peer Combat

The predominance of Western military superiority in weapons systems is unraveling and the increasing dissonance in the US military complex coming to grips with existential changes in how peer competition in war is evolving is causing tremendous reduction in both both...

The Global Censorship Complex and the Local Voice of Liberty with John Weeks

The Global Censorship Complex and the Local Voice of Liberty with John Weeks John Weeks (@weeksjf) examines the evolution of free speech, the nature of state power, and the rise of what he calls the "global censorship complex." Drawing from anthropology, political...

163rd Anniversary of Stonewall Jackson’s Victory in the Battle of Front Royal

This is reprinted from Jim Bovard's blog and expands on a post originally from 2023. Today is the 163th anniversary of the battle of Front Royal, Virginia (the town near where I was raised). On May 23, 1862, almost all the Yankee soldiers in Front Royal were captured,...

Future Fish Apartments R Us

Aircraft carriers are the crossbow and chariot of the 21st century. Very expensive 20th century modalities not fit for purpose in 21st century peer naval combat. Carriers like the USS Ford can barely function but the sentence above applies to even best of class in...