Pro-lifers contend that life begins at conception, and so the fetus has natural rights. Pro-choicers contend it cannot be known when a person(’s life) begins, and so the fetus has no rights. This is the fundamental issue at stake in the broader abortion debate. That...
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“I Don’t Make the Law, I Just Enforce It” – Debunked
by Lawrence Reed | Sep 18, 2022 | Featured Articles
[Image of the police killing of Tony Timpa] Nine months after the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann died at the end of a noose in Israel, a controversial but thoughtful commentary about his trial appeared in The New Yorker. The public reaction stunned its author, the...
9 Mind-Blowing Contributions From Thomas Sowell (feat. Wilfred Reilly, Ph.D.)
by Keith Knight | Sep 18, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/HA_zM96coww To many people, even today, high profits are often attributed to high prices charged by those motivated by “greed.” In reality, most of the great fortunes in American history have resulted from someone’s figuring out how to reduce costs,...
Military Leadership Has Lost Its Rightwing Congregation
by John Vaughn | Sep 16, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Last week, an open letter from every living former secretary of Defense (with the notable exception of Dick Cheney) and every living chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (with the less notable exception of H. Hugh Shelton) was published on the popular military...
A COVID Coda
by Laurie Calhoun | Aug 30, 2022 | Featured Articles
Anthony Fauci has announced that he will step down from his position as director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and, more importantly for free people, his role as the de facto public health czar of the United States. He has...
Cops Sicced on 8 Year Old Girl’s Lemonade Stand
by Matt Agorist | Aug 15, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Asa Baker is an 8-year-old girl from Ohio with an overwhelming entrepreneurial spirit. Over the hot summer, rather than spend the days inside watching TV, Asa would set up a lemonade stand in her front yard to make some cash. “It’s fun and you get lots of people,”...
Inflation Hits 40-Year High at 9.1%
by Ryan McMaken | Jul 14, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
The U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics released new Consumer Price Index inflation estimates this morning, and the official numbers for June 2022 show that price inflation has risen to 9.1 percent year over year. That's the biggest number since November 1981, when the...
The People Crafting U.S. Policy Aren’t in America
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jun 30, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
In a piece of news that shocked the mainstream media, but which shocked no one familiar with the academic industry writ large, retired U.S. Army general John Allen was forced to resign as president of the Brookings Institution after it was revealed the FBI was...
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Army Fiasco Train in the 21st Century
I was astonished in 2009 when I saw the cancellation of the Future Combat System contract to usher in the next generation of armored vehicles. The Army cancelled the billions-dollar program and got to witness the Army continuing to burns through tens of millions a...
The Public-School Chickens Come Home Again
In Mahmoud v. Taylor, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether parents of children in government schools have a constitutional right to opt out of programs that "expose" their kids to LGBTQ materials. Once again, the chickens have come home to roost. By that, I mean...
“I now saw, I saw. I was made blind before. I now saw.”
I was going over the notes that I had taken for this current book that I am writing, and I found a quote from a conversation with a lady. I shall spare the details of what the focused conversation was about but she said something really interesting, “I learned who my...
Russia is Now the Apex Military Predator
For those of you paying attention, the Institute has been far ahead of the curve in checking its bias and making a bloody and dispassionate appraisal of Russian fighting abilities. The Coprophile Media has been in the the bag for the Ukrainians and had a tough time...
Blue Collar Power Hour w/Kyle Matovcik & Typo
Kyle invited Typo and myself to join him for his 400th episode. Don’t forget ALP
The 250th Anniversary of the Colonial Divorce Proceedings
This is the semiquincentennial anniversary of the "shots heard 'round the world" at Lexington Green on 19 April 1775. Some call this civil war the Revolutionary War. It was a civil war because when the alert muster activated and Paul Revere and his fellow horsemen...
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