It’s one thing for mass democracy to produce bad results, in the form of elected politicians or enacted policies. It’s another when the democratic process itself breaks down because nobody trusts the vote or the people who count it. But that’s precisely where we are....
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Solve the Sanctuary-City Conflict by Granting Statehood to Cities
by Ryan McMaken | Aug 30, 2017 | Featured Articles
The battle over sanctuary cities is not just a matter of pitting some cities against federal policy. The conflict is also pitting cities against state governments. More than 30 states have moved with varying degrees of success to rein in so-called sanctuary cities...
Sanctuary Cities and DoJ Funding: The Hypocrisy of Jeff Sessions
by Thomas L. Knapp | Mar 31, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
In a surprise White House appearance on March 27, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced his intent to make America’s cities less safe and more vulnerable to crime unless he gets his way. He didn’t say it quite like that, of course. In fact, he asserted the...
News Roundup 3/30/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 30, 2017 | Blog
Seattle is suing the federal government for threatening to withhold federal money from sanctuary cities. [Link] A longtime State Department employee has been charged with lying to the FBI about gifts she received from China. [Link] States that have legalized medical...
News Roundup 3/28/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 28, 2017 | Blog
Jeff Sessions announced that he will look to strip funding from sanctuary cities. [Link] The US is boycotting nuclear disarmament talks taking place at the UN. [Link] US soldiers in Mosul have started to wear black uniforms to look more like Iraqi counterterrorism...
The Constitution and Cannabis
by John D. Pierce, Esq. | Mar 15, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice
Take, if you will, cannabis sativa – better known as marijuana. It’s in the news because the states are continuing to legalize it for medical and recreational use, despite federal prohibition. But Donald Trump’s executive branch is making noise that it will begin...
News Roundup 1/29/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 29, 2017 | Blog
Trump says he will defer to the Secretary of Defense on torture. General Mattis has stated several times that he does not believe torture works. [Link] A federal judge prevents people from being deported under Trump's executive order on immigration. The ruling will...
News Roundup 1/26/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 26, 2017 | Blog
Trump signs an executive directive to build a wall along the US/Mexico border. Trump also restarted a program where federal law enforcement works with state and local enforcement to deport illegal immigrants. [Link] Tru Trump signs an executive order to crack down on...
The GOP’s Homeland Security “Gleichschaltung” is Underway
by Will Grigg | Jan 26, 2017 | Blog
Many conservative-leaning populists extol the county sheriff as the highest law enforcement officer within his jurisdiction. Within that group, many likewise regard what they believe to be unchecked immigration as an existential crisis that must be addressed through...
Newt Gingrich Takes on the Constitution
by Michael Maharrey | Nov 23, 2016 | Blog
Conventional wisdom holds that Republicans are "better" on the Constitution than Democrats. In reality, this simply isn't true. Republicans are just as quick to abandon constitutional limits on federal power when it suits their agenda as Dems. I suspect we will see...
71 Days to Prepare Before the First Executive Orders
by William Gillis | Nov 11, 2016 | Featured Articles, Justice
While presidents almost always expand the power of their office and of the government, Donald Trump is likely to enact a degree of barefisted authoritarianism the modern United States is totally unprepared for. Even if the corrupt and limp political elites that have...
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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...
Chris Rock’s New Special Exposes His Political Ignorance
A common claim among Democrats is that, "It's not that people don't want to be educated, they just haven't been given the opportunity, thus government spending on education needs to increase." If there were ever a group of people capable of "educating" themselves it...
War and Delusion: A Critical Examination
In this episode of the Protestant Libertarian Podcast, Alex Bernardo sits down once again with Laurie Calhoun. Laurie is a philosopher, a cultural critic and an author. She is a senior fellow at the Libertarian Institute, where she regularly writes articles analyzing...
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