Download Episode. Jim Bovard is back on the show to discuss the Federal Government’s siege at Waco thirty years ago. Scott and Bovard reflect on how they both first learned about the story. Bovard then goes through his experience reporting on the government’s...
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WATCH: Homeowner Investigating Break-In Killed by Cops on His Own Property
by Matt Agorist | Dec 7, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
On the night Rajan Moonesinghe was killed by police, he had committed no crime and appeared to be investigating a potential break-in at his own home. Unfortunately, however, the fact that Moonesinghe had harmed no one was of no consequence to the Austin police officer...
Texas Cops v. Journalism
by Will Porter | Nov 10, 2022 | Blog
Reason: In April 2017, [Priscilla] Villarreal, who reports near the U.S.-Mexico border, broke a story about a Border Patrol agent who committed suicide. A month later, she released the surname of a family involved in a fatal car accident. The agency that confirmed...
Washington D.C.’s Colonialist Relationship With the 50 States
by Keith Knight | Oct 26, 2022 | Blog
Those who believe Washington D.C. has the right to control Texas, Florida, Arizona, Nebraska, and Kansas are true imperialists. All the regulatory agencies that Democrats support literally are imperialist, i.e. one group arbitrarily imposing its will on another...
Texas Officer Fired After Shooting Teen in McDonald’s Parking Lot
by Keith Knight | Oct 11, 2022 | Blog
Imagine the nerve of someone saying "You'll be safe so long as you do whatever I say. Have a problem? Take it up with my coworkers in 4 months." Of course it's a truism that all interests will align if one party disregards their interest. However with the...
More States Should Abolish Their Income Taxes
by Chris Edwards | Oct 4, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
State and local governments raised $1.9 trillion in taxes in 2020. The main sources were sales taxes (35 percent), property taxes (32 percent), and individual income taxes (23 percent). But nine states do not impose an individual income tax. How do they run their...
Senate Republicans Block Sweeping Domestic Terror Bill
by Will Porter | May 27, 2022 | News Roundup
GOP lawmakers have voted to kill a major anti-domestic terrorism bill which would have created a series of new law enforcement units and a special task force to root out “Nazism” within US security agencies, blocking the legislation in the Senate after it narrowly passed in the lower chamber.
4/29/22 Jordan Smith on Melissa Lucio and the Pitfalls of Capital Punishment
by Scott Horton | May 3, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott is joined by investigative journalist Jordan Smith to discuss Melissa Lucio, a Texas woman awaiting execution. Smith walks us through Lucio’s case where the tragic death of her child was immediately assumed by police and prosecutors to be...
Texas Prosecutor Worked for Judges in ‘Fundamental Conflict of Interest’
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Feb 24, 2022 | Blog
Weldon Ralph Petty Jr. spent decades working in the Midland County District Attorney's Office in Texas as a prosecutor before returning in 2018. Just a year later, a scandal was unearthed, showing Petty had spent much of his career working as a clerk for judges on...
Upcoming Speaking Events
by Scott Horton | Feb 20, 2022 | Blog
I've got alot of speeches coming up. Most to LP state conventions and/or Mises Caucus events. February 26 Utah March 6 Kentucky March 12 New Jersey March 20 Tennessee March 26 Delaware April 3 Connecticut April 8 Irving, Texas FloteFest: April 30 Gause, Texas LP...
A Solution to Transgender Sports
by Walter E. Block | Jan 5, 2022 | Featured Articles
Even in these politically divisive times, this headline fairly leaps off the page at you: “Texas Passes Bill Barring Sports for Transgender Students.” According to Texas State House Representative Valoree Swanson, a sponsor of this bill, it is “all about girls and...
Cop Pleads Guilty to Trafficking in Child Porn, Raping Dog
by Matt Agorist | Sep 1, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
As TFTP previously reported, a police officer from the Bossier City Police Department was arrested in December 2018 for filming unspeakable acts with animals. Officer Terry Yetman, 38, was charged with multiple counts of sexual abuse of animals—producing the evidence...
Family Sues After Cop Attempts to Shoot Their Dog, Kills Their Daughter Instead
by Matt Agorist | Jul 20, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
As readers of the Free Thought Project know, police killing or attempting to kill dogs is an all too common occurrence—happening so often that it is caught on video much of the time. Also, as the following tragic case our of Arlington, TX illustrates, all too often,...
The CDC is Planning to Destroy the Summer Camp Experience
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | May 24, 2021 | Featured Articles
The Center for Disease Control’s major easing of its mask-use recommendations was a welcome development, giving Americans hope that logic can triumph over the CDC’s bureaucratic inertia and its COVID-era tendency to push the most severe restrictions on human activity...
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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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