Consider filet mignon and chuck steak. Assume-realistically-that consumers prefer the former. Then the question becomes: why is it, despite consumer preferences, that chuck steak sells at all? The fact is that chuck steak outsells filet mignon. How does something less...
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Taiwan Sending Armed Drones to Ukraine Through Poland
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 24, 2022 | Blog
Taiwanese outlet CM Media reports Taipei is sending arm drones to Kiev. The outlet reported Poland is being used as a cutout. Defense Post writes, Dronevision’s Revolver 860 is a vertical takeoff and landing rotor drone capable of carrying eight mortars, according to...
COI #205: Biden’s Failures on Covid and Yemen
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 27, 2021 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #205, Kyle Anzalone breaks down Biden's failure to reign in Covid and the Saudi “pariah” state. The US is facing staffing shortages in the medical field. Recently, a federal court reinstated a Biden rule requiring healthcare workers to take a Covid vaccine....
Women Are Responsible For Nearly Half Of Recent Gun Sales
by Steven Woskow | Sep 16, 2021 | Blog
SAN DIEGO— Close to half of all new U.S. gun buyers since the beginning of 2019 have been women, a shift for a market long dominated by men, according to a new study. The preliminary results from the 2021 National Firearms Survey, designed by Deborah Azrael of the...
Episode 578: Defending And Empowering Local Businesses w/ Tobin Brogunier
by Peter R. Quiñones | May 17, 2021 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
64 Minutes Safe for Work Tobin Brogunier is an entrepreneur working with merchants and technology to bring Virtual Storefronts to Main Street. Pete welcomes Tobin to the show to discuss the platform he has created that will allow local businesses in any area to be...
The Worlds Largest Arms-Producing Companies
by Steven Woskow | Dec 8, 2020 | Blog
No surprise. I don't expect this to change under Biden (or any president). While he didn't make the worse pick for Secretary Of Defense, he did pick an ex-military four star general that took the all to common career path. Military - head of Centcom - retire - work...
Pompeo’s Latest Iran Scheme
by Scott Horton | Apr 26, 2020 | Blog
Well, it's an article by David Sanger in the New York Times, so who knows if a single word of it is true. But what it says is that the U.S. plans on reentering the Iran nuclear deal of 2015, just to try to force a "snap-back" of the UN sanctions regime and ban on...
You Better Buy Your Bullets Now Boys
by Scott Horton | Mar 20, 2020 | Blog
They're going fast. Our friends over at Ammo.com have a great study of the increases of all their sales since late February. It's not going to last. After the Obama scare of 2012, guns and ammo were wiped out completely for months. This could be even worse. Maybe...
Ban on Assault Weapon Sales Dies in Virginia Senate Committee
by Scott Horton | Feb 17, 2020 | Blog
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The Steal of the Century
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 31, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #449, I cover some of the details of Trump's "Deal of the Century" and explain why it is meant to be rejected by the Palestinians. While Trump claims the deal creates a Palestinian State, the deal actually gives limited autonomy to a collection of several...
This Isn’t Going To Fit The Current Narrative
by Steven Woskow | Aug 15, 2019 | Blog
More calls for gun control after Philadelphia standoff with police but this man was a convicted felon. What specific laws could have stopped him since he was apparently undeterred by laws we currently have - confiscation, ending all gun sales, tougher sentencing...
Trump Claims ‘A Million’ American Jobs Depend on Arms Sales to Saudi
by Scott Horton | Jun 24, 2019 | Blog
"And probably more." And Yemen is all Iran's fault.
Trump should be impeached for
by Steven Woskow | May 24, 2019 | Blog
Bypassing congress and sending more arms to Saudi Arabia and UAE "The Trump administration on Friday invoked a rarely used provision of American arms control laws to sidestep Congress and authorize billions of dollars in weapons sales to key Middle East allies,...
The World’s Top Weapons Seller
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 14, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #322, I discuss a report finding that the US sold more weapons than any other country. I explain how the elites behind the military-industrial complex benefit from the US welling weapons to 98 countries in 2018. The weapon makers buy influence in the US to help...
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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...
Empower the Workers: Decriminalize Economic Activity Between Consenting Adults
The most reliable and effective protection for most workers is provided by the existence of many employers. As we have seen, a person who has only one possible employer has little or no protection. The employers who protect a worker are those who would like to hire...
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