Economist Robert P. Murphy and I discuss Krugman's take on leftism, the morality of the state, welfare, economic cycles, inequality, the great depression and much more! In short, Krugman fails to explain why the state has a moral right to do things (initiate violence...
For cops that break the law and send innocent people to jail. Jason Arbeeny, a fourteen-year veteran of the NYPD, was convicted of planting crack on a innocent couple, but avoided jail yesterday with a teary apology. “I can’t look at myself in the mirror anymore,”...
They were trying to arrest someone who wasn't even there. He was wanted for possessing a gun while on probation for probably another victimless crime. Update: in other gun control news, heroic armed citizens prevent church massacre.
The real cost of war AP. A new report by the U.N. children’s agency, released Tuesday, says that in the first nine months of this year, nine children were killed or maimed every day as a result of war. Since the ICRC began its rehabilitation program in Afghanistan in...
On FPF #426, I review the recently released on Amazon movie, The Report. The movie tells the story of the CIA torture program after 9/11 and Daniel Jones' effort put together a report on the program. The movie is well done and generally gets the narrative correct. I...
"I know in 2019, looking back at 2008, things look different," Acosta said, alleging that "today's world treats victims very, very differently." Hey, it was the 70s. Everyone was on ludes and reading old beat poets. We had brown paisley shirts with big lapels. Man it...
More victims in the war on drugs. Department of Human Resource’s Pike County, Alabama drug testing vendor, Brandy Murrah of A & J Lab Collections faked drug tests that may have impacted thousands of families. All approved by The Department of Human Resources in...
Police say they saw an object in Stephan Clark’s hand before firing 20 bullets that killed him in his own yard Sunday night in Sacramento, with the disturbing moment made public through body camera footage released Wednesday night. The two officers were responding to...
Today the front pages and bookstores are filled with tales of the so-called "China Threat." From spy balloons to Fentanyl pipelines, genocide to dreams of world domination: CHINA! But is it all true? Is any of it? Now, for the first time, the speciousness of these and...
