Richard Lee Richards, 61, was accused of stealing an item from Walmart in November 2021, and instead of due process and having his day in court, he was executed on the spot. An investigation began after video footage was released showing an officer dumping 9 rounds...
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Timothy McVeigh, Suspects, Visit Strip Club in Weeks Before Bombing
by Richard Booth | Apr 9, 2020 | Events, Featured Articles
Saturday, April 8th, 1995, Timothy McVeigh and two other men paid a visit to a Tulsa strip club called Lady Godiva's. The three men were reportedly there for several hours, from around 8 or 9 until around midnight. The club's owners were Floyd Radcliffe and his wife,...
Judge Says Conditions at U.S. Border Holding Cells Violated the Constitution
by Scott Horton | Feb 20, 2020 | Blog
Newsweek: A federal judge in Arizona has ruled that conditions at U.S. border holding cells operated by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency violated the Constitution. In a case first launched in 2015 over conditions at Tucson sector holding facilities, U.S....
Cop Caught on Horrifying Video Attacking a Child With No Arms or Legs
by Jack Burns | Nov 15, 2019 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Tucson, AZ — In a state-run boys home in Tucson, a teenager who was also a quadruple amputee, was roughed up and cussed at by a Pima County deputy. Most of the incident was caught on film and both the teen, as well as his friend who was filming the police contact,...
Dogs Have Better Medical Care than Humans
by Craig Cantoni | Apr 5, 2018 | Featured Articles
When my wife and I recently moved to Tucson from Phoenix, we had to find a new family doctor. Then, shortly after the move, we got a new puppy—which we named Cato—and had to find a veterinarian. There was a marked contrast between the two experiences. In short, it’s...
Conservative Erectile Dysfunction
by Craig Cantoni | Mar 16, 2018 | Featured Articles, Politics
I don’t have a rooster in the ongoing cockfight between liberals and conservatives. But I do pay attention to both liberal and conservative media. Paying attention serves as an early warning system of when they are hatching plans separately or jointly to steal...
Upside-Down America: Manafort, Hillary, Miller and Parkland
by Craig Cantoni | Feb 24, 2018 | Blog
When I was a kid, my Italian-American mom, who was a superb cook, made pineapple upside-down cake, which was an all-American desert. Now I’m retired and living in a nation that has upside-down priorities and ethics. Two recent examples are particularly telling—and...
A School Shooting: Pull Out the Old Scripts
by Craig Cantoni | Feb 15, 2018 | Blog
Last night I went to bed after watching a couple of hours of coverage on various networks about the horrific school massacre in Florida. This morning I got up at 4:45 and began watching more coverage. When retiring last night, I mentioned to my wife that it was...
Time for a New Works Progress Administration
by Craig Cantoni | Feb 14, 2018 | Blog
My fellow libertarians will become hysterical with this commentary and send me to the intellectual gulag. Conservatives and liberals will join hands with them. Why? Because they won’t like my alternative to Trump’s plan to rebuild America’s infrastructure. Instead...
A Surreal Scene from American Healthcare
by Craig Cantoni | Feb 6, 2018 | Blog
Scene: A luncheon on Superbowl weekend at a resort in the foothills of the Catalina Mountains in metro Tucson, Ariz. In attendance were about 200 patients of a local family physician, who hosted the luncheon to show his appreciation to his patients. I’m not...
Torture by Smartphone
by Craig Cantoni | Nov 8, 2017 | Blog
A museum in Paris features torture devices used in the middle ages, such as the rack. Centuries from now, a torture museum of the 21st century will feature smartphones as the most popular torture device of the times. My latest torture by smartphone began with the...
Tucson Court to Hear Extradition of Woman Accused of Feeding her Mother
by Janet Phelan | Jun 25, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
On Tuesday, Pima County Superior Court in Arizona will hear a case involving a fugitive from justice and the request for extradition to Miami-Dade County, in Florida. The fugitive, a former New York attorney, is a 64-year-old woman named Barbara Stone. Stone was...
An Environmentalist Applauds Trump
by Craig Cantoni | Jun 2, 2017 | Blog
Twenty-five years ago I founded and headed a large and influential environmental grassroots group in metro New York. One of my biggest challenges was to keep my board of directors and rank-and-file from embellishing, exaggerating and distorting the facts in the heat...
Thou Shalt Not Commit Acts of Unlicensed Charity
by Will Grigg | Feb 13, 2017 | Blog
In keeping with the unofficial but universally enforced government mandate to obstruct human progress and cultivate misery, the Arizona State Government’s Board of Cosmetology is investigating a complaint against a cosmetology student from Tucson who has been giving...
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Blame Mexico? Blame Neocons! Blame Big Pharma! Blame the USA!
ABC News: If fentanyl is so deadly, why do drug dealers use it to lace illicit drugs? I have an alternative explanation. America has been fighting endless wars almost the entire century. Many have come home from these never-ending wars with injuries and pains. Doctors...
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...
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