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Torturing the Truth: The Tax Cut Debate vs. the English Language

by Thomas L. Knapp | Apr 28, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles

On April 26, the Trump administration released a one-page summary of its tax reform proposals. The following morning, US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin appeared on CBS This Morning to discuss those proposals. Co-anchor Norah O’Donnell didn’t waste any time...

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When They Came

First, they came for the writers, but I could not read. Then, they came for the artists, but I could not see. When they came for the musicians, I was unwilling to hear. Eventually they came for me, but I could no longer think.

Time Marches On… a Patrick MacFarlane Update

This post first appeared on Pat MacFarlane's email list, "What They're Not Tellin' You" Sign up for that here. The last few months I've been especially conscious of how time is passing us by. This being my original Liberty Weekly mailing list, some of you have been...

Anti-War Blog – Pointless Wars are Tradition

Over a decade ago, the US and Western nations would feign concern for the loss of innocent life while they waged a war. Terms such as Collateral or Unintentional would be thrown around, even when all evidence points in the opposite direction. There was a need for...

Taliban Defeats Five American Presidents

GEN McChrystal was a martial disaster. What wrong looks like… This is what happens when your architects fall in love with their processes so much they forget about the objective. Military students should really study why graduate-level white papers, PowerPoint slides,...

Understanding the Nativist new-Right

There is a surge among the liberal democracies towards a nativist conservatism. The United States experienced the lie of Donald Trump’s MAGA and the misplaced promise of an America First, once a dirty word, now a salvation for not only the war wracked planet but the...

Rules for Radicals: Of Means and Ends

John and I continue reading and commentary of Rules for Radicals.

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Classical Liberalism: Rise, Fall, and Future of an Idea

by Joseph Solis-Mullen

"Professor Solis-Mullen has in this brief book offered a short history of the rise of classical liberalism, its transformation into progressive liberalism, and its total collapse into socialism. He shows the fatal flaw in the older liberalism; trying to limit the...

Empire of Lies: Fragments from the Memory Hole

by Charles Goyette

Had Enough of the Deep State’s Warlords and War Lies? George W. Bush spent a year and a half gaslighting the American people, using the shock of 9/11 as the pretext for an unrelated war he sought long before that tragic event. Isolated incident? Not at all. Now a...