It's weekly roundup time, so its time to talk about the Odessa - Midland shooting (and what we do and do not know), the CIS rule change for children of US servicepeople who are born abroad (it's not as bad as it seems but it's complicated!), and the upcoming slate of...
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New York Judge Danny Chun: Cops May Kidnap and Rape Your Daughter If They Feel Like It
by Scott Horton | Aug 30, 2019 | Blog
This is what they call "the rule of law." It means that all government employees are in on a conspiracy against the rest of society. They can do whatever they want with no accountability whatsoever.
The 1619 Project and Discussing Racism
by Jennifer Monroe | Aug 29, 2019 | Jen the Libertarian
Ah yes, the infamous 1619 Project. I have read a good chunk of it (even past the first two essays) and have some thoughts on it and the reactions to it and the topic of discussing racism in America. Spolier alert - there are some good pieces in there you just have to...
Guy is Convicted, Real Killer Confesses, State Holds Him 28 Years Anyway
by Scott Horton | Aug 29, 2019 | Blog
My God: MacCarlie was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Fenenbock, however, remained in prison because MacCarlie’s confession was considered “post-conviction evidence,” which, at the time, had to point “unerringly” to innocence to be considered.
Innocent Man Rots In Jail For Two Years on False Charges
by Scott Horton | Aug 28, 2019 | Blog
Easily disprovable false charges, as they eventually were. It goes without saying, but should be said that not one person involved in this travesty will ever be held accountable for their crimes in any way. Not the bearer of false witness, not the cops, not the DAs,...
Jeffrey Epstein’s Lawyer: Neck Injuries ‘Far More Consistent With Assault’
by Scott Horton | Aug 28, 2019 | Blog
Uh, you think so, huh? Yeah no but TV says that that's a crazy conspiracy theory. Why would any powerful person have their sexual blackmailer murdered before their trial? That's completely nuts. And you are a very bad person who all the rest of of us ridicule and...
Sanders: China Has Done More to Address Extreme Poverty ‘Than Any Country in the History of Civilization’
by Scott Horton | Aug 28, 2019 | Blog
Well, let's hope he meant since they abandoned Maoist communism which caused more extreme poverty than any country in the history of civilization.
Cop Kills Man
by Scott Horton | Aug 26, 2019 | Blog
An unarmed man, whose house he was trespassing in, in a raid over pot plants, in California, where pot is legal. 3 days paid vacation, then back to work.
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Anti-War Blog – What Will You Do On The Day After?
They did it, finally. The wisdom of the statists, the planet ruined. Desolation, misery, nature blackened to near extinction. The whispering legacy of civilisation. The educated mastery of science and technology used to destroy it all, everything. They called it...
Is the Medal of Honor Now Subject to Woke Revisionism?
Note: We just returned from a short vacation visiting new grandchildren hence the brief interregnum of posting. The Medal of Honor is the highest citation for combat action in the US military. It's premature to say exactly what direction this is going because the DoD...
6 Hours of Scott Horton: On with Smith, Murphy, Woods & Russell
Scott's been making the libertarian podcast rounds with our friends Dave Smith – the very failed comedian – the great economist and successful comedian (on Twitter) Bob Murphy, historian and email marketing master Tom Woods, and Clint Russell of the Liberty Lockdown...
Restricting Production
"At the bottom of the interventionist argument there is always the idea that the government or the state is an entity outside and above the social process of production, that it owns something which is not derived from taxing its subjects, and that it can spend this...
Ford Follies: The Carrier Grift That Just Keeps Giving
Stop building these things. Even the corporate/access defense media is starting to sound the alarm bells on the multi-billion carrier fiasco that is the USS Ford which is probably causing plenty of public relations professionals in the Navy to go apoplectic. As my...
“Capitalism” Is about Freedom, Not Capital
"Why 'capitalism'? Words have an unfortunate tendency to confuse. Free market capitalism is not really about capital, it is about handing control of the economy from the top to billions of independent consumers, entrepreneurs and workers, and allowing them to make...
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