Daniel McAdams talks with Scott about some of the unintended—or maybe not so unintended—consequences of America's support for regime change revolutions all over the world. These include powerful drug cartels, the rise of regimes that are more extreme and violent than...
Terrorism
Sentence First, Crime Later?
Attorney General William Barr recently sent a memo to law enforcement officials announcing a new federal initiative that would use techniques and tools developed in the war on terror, such as mass surveillance, to identify potential mass shooters. Those so identified...
An Impulsive Bill that Eviscerated America’s Civil Liberties
The USA PATRIOT Act provides a textbook example of how the United States federal government expands its power. An emergency happens, legitimate or otherwise. The media, playing its dutiful role as goad for greater government oversight, demands “something must be...
News Roundup 10/28/19
US News Maria Butina has been released from a Florida prison and deported to Russia. [Link] In a speech, Pence voices support for the Hong Kong protesters. He also condemned China for being too interventionist. Pence targeted Nike and the NBA for being too supportive...
10/25/19 Trevor Aaronson on the FBI’s Unconstitutional Investigative Powers
Trevor Aaronson discusses some of the FBI's egregious abuses of its power over American citizens, most recently brought to light by their use of an informant to investigate a law-abiding militia group in California for years. Although the FBI claims to be concerned...
Washington Post Eulogizes ‘Austere Religious Scholar’ Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
No foolin'. https://twitter.com/LizRNC/status/1188477530602377218 Not that the U.S.A. under the Obama government, at the constant urging of GOP leaders such as John McCain, and their allies at the Washington Post, New York Times, Daily Beast, Foreign Affairs and all...
The USA PATRIOT Act: The Story of an Impulsive Bill That Eviscerated America’s Civil Liberties
Signed into effect on October 26, 2001, the USA PATRIOT Act provides a textbook example of how the United States federal government expands its power. An emergency happens, legitimate or otherwise. The media, playing its dutiful role as goad for greater government...
Economic Creationism
Creationism has lost the argument in the public square. Any biologist working to understand life-related phenomena has no choice but to take seriously Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. That is, all of the apparent design and purposefulness that we...
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