In an astonishing Washington Times article this week, unnamed Trump Administration officials (who may or may not be called “John Bolton”) are claiming that Iran, which has been battling al-Qaeda in Syria for nearly four years, is actually secretly allied with al-Qaeda...
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News Roundup 2/20/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 20, 2019 | News Roundup
US Heather Nauert withdraws her nomination to be US Ambassador to the UN. [Link] The 9/11 Victims Fund cuts payouts by 70%. [Link] 12 TSA employees are charged with smuggling over $100 million in cocaine. [Link] The Pentagon will buy up to 80 F-15Xs because of the...
News Roundup 2/18/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 18, 2019 | News Roundup
Police Abuse A Houston police officer is being investigated after lies he told led to police killing two people. [Link] A Baltimore judge vacates a jury’s decision to award victims of a police shooting $38 million. One of the victims is a young woman killed by police,...
Remember the Maine?
by Adam Graham | Feb 15, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
February 15 marks the anniversary of the destruction of the USS Maine, a momentous event that precipitated America’s involvement in the Cuban independence movement and what eventually became known as the Spanish American War. Most Americans gloss over this period in...
News Roundup 2/14/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 14, 2019 | News Roundup
US News Kelley Vlahos writes on the legacy of the great Walter Jones. [Link] YouTube will stop recommending conspiracy videos. [Link] California’s governor announces the state will only complete a small portion of its high-speed rail project. [Link] The Pentagon will...
A Libertarian Solution for Israel-Palestine?
by Kalmen Barkin | Feb 13, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Along the road to liberty I passed many stations of tyranny. Like almost everyone else, I wasn’t born a libertarian but shopped around many ideologies until I stumbled across the beautiful universal and simple ideas of voluntary interaction. The worst of those...
News Roundup 2/12/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 12, 2019 | News Roundup
US News An Arizona police officer tased a man 11 times for no reason. The officer pulled down the man’s pants and attempted to tase his genitals in front of his children. The officer is still on the force. [Link] US and National Guard soldiers deployed to the southern...
Antiwar Republican Congressman Walter Jones Dies After Long Illness
by Eric Garris | Feb 10, 2019 | Blog
Rep. Walter Jones, one of the most consistently antiwar members of Congress, has died at age 75 after an extended illness. The Republican lawmaker had battled a series of ailments in recent years and was granted a leave of absence from Congress late last year after...
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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...
Crime and Poverty
“The theory that crime is caused by poverty is not supported by the known facts. The very poor, in fact, tend to be just as law-abiding as the rich, and perhaps more so. To argue otherwise is to libel multitudes of people who keep to decency under severe difficulties,...
Don’t Be Silent
We should reject the fashionable idea that one should never write or post anything that possibly could be used by bad people for bad purposes. That admonition brings two things to mind. First, it fails its own test. If good people avoid a topic because even...
Can There Be Only One Race?
I'm old enough to remember this 1960s Lay's Potato Chips commercial. (Hell, I'm almost old enough to remember when plays were in black and white!) In the commercial a man (Bert Lahr, the cowardly lion in The Wizard of Oz) faces a challenge from the devil, who has a...
How Not to Defend “Capitalism” Against” Socialism”
I challenge you to show me a lamer "debate" over "capitalism" and "socialism." (Don't worry; it's not about Bill Maher.)
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