Scott talks to Danny Sjursen about Lebanon, which has been in the news recently after a disastrous, and apparently accidental, explosion left hundreds dead there. Today Sjursen discusses Lebanon's past, a history that has seen it become a battleground for many proxy...
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Jim Bovard in 1987: US Out of the Middle East
by Scott Horton | Aug 22, 2020 | Blog
in USA Today: If sailing our fleet into the Persian Gulf was stupid, keeping them there is positively idiotic. Just because we are a superpower does not mean that we must perpetuate our mistakes. Jumping into the middle of the Iran-Iraqi war is just one more example...
8/21/20 Jordan Smith on the Pseudoscience Putting Americans Behind Bars
by Scott Horton | Aug 21, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Jordan Smith discusses her research into the "BlueLeaks" archive of the leaked personal data of hundreds of thousands of cops and their cases. Smith was looking for evidence of unscientific techniques that the police use to elicit confessions and get convictions—and...
8/14/20 Branko Marcetic on Kamala Harris’ Powerful Pro-War Backers
by Scott Horton | Aug 20, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Branko Marcetic about Kamala Harris' dismal foreign policy. Although she's frequently portrayed as a progressive leftist, when it comes to foreign policy, says Marcetic, her foreign policy is right in line with the Clinton-Bush-Obama establishment...
Totalitarian Police State
by Scott Horton | Aug 18, 2020 | Blog
Reason: When Teachers Call the Cops on Parents Whose Kids Skip Their Zoom Classes If there's one thing the public school system shouldn't be doing right now, it's making life even more hellishly difficult for parents. And yet many teachers in the state of...
8/14/20 Grant Smith on the Unscrupulous Dealings of the Virginia Israel Advisory Board
by Scott Horton | Aug 17, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Grant Smith joins the show for another look at the Virginia Israel Advisory Board, a government entity associated with the state of Virginia that allocates taxpayer money to Israeli companies starting operations in the U.S. The projects, Smith explains, aren't viable...
Obey The Law!
by Peter R. Quiñones | Aug 17, 2020 | Blog
There is a saying amongst liberty minded people: “There is no law so small that the police won’t kill you for.” The meme above pictures the “arrest” of Eric Garner. He was standing in front of a Staten Island convenience store when NYPD officers walked up and accused...
You Can Check-Out Anytime You Like, But You Can Never Leave
by Steven Woskow | Aug 17, 2020 | Blog
New California wealth tax proposal raises taxes on total net worth of wealthy California residences. But, what if they decide to leave the State? No problem. Economic impacts: Will ultra-wealthy CA residents leave the state? As mentioned above, the California share of...
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Cops Kill Woman
"a deputy-involved shooting occurred": 91yo Blind and Deaf Woman Calls 911 to Report Intruder, Cops Show Up, Shoot Her 9 Times, Killing Her
A Defense of the Peaceful Transfer of War-Making Power
Prussian general and military theorist Carl von Clausevitz famously said that "war is a continuation of politics by other means." I think we can reverse this: politics is war by other means. The ultimate aim of politics (in the narrow sense of the word; there's a more...
Why Politics Is So Acrimonious
If we wish to understand what's wrong with today's politics, we ought to consider something F. A. Hayek pointed out long ago. It should have been obvious, but it escapes many people: namely, the more power government officials have over our lives, the more people will...
Aaron Maté: It’s Trump’s Last Chance to Declassify These Secrets Of The Russian Collusion Dud
The Russiagate material has not been declassified. Aaron Maté reviews all the missing pieces at RealClear Investigations.
No Sacred Ground
The coverage of the riot at the U.S. Capitol last week was annoying to say the least -- what went on was no insurrection or attempted coup; it was just an end-in-itself temper tantrum committed by a bunch of idiots who never believed after Nov. 3 that they would...
My New Book, Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism — Coming January 16th!
The plan is to have it ready for you guys on January 16th -- the 30th anniversary of America's still-ongoing war against Iraq.
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