Can Catholics Be libertarian? According to an American Values Survey, libertarians make up at least 7% of Americans. In addition, about 15% of Americans would consider or already do vote for libertarian values, even if they’re not exclusively affiliated with the...
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Will the War Party Wield the Speaker’s Gavel?
by Dan McKnight | Jan 5, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
We’re witnessing a fascinating thing: Congress is actually debating and voting on something. Remarkable! For the first time in a century—and only the second time since the Civil War—the vote for the next Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives has entered...
Omnibus Bill Shows Congress’ Priority Is Not Americans
by Ron Paul | Dec 28, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Those hoping for a Christmastime government shutdown were once again disappointed when Congress passed a 4,000-page, $1.7 trillion omnibus appropriations bill that few, if any, Representatives and Senators read before voting on. The Republican leadership celebrated...
Five Must-Know Facts About the Disastrous New Omnibus
by Romina Boccia | Dec 22, 2022 | Featured Articles
Just as I predicted back in October, Congress pushed its discretionary spending deadline back by one week, from December 16 to December 23. This comes as no surprise as congressional leadership is once again trying to ram through a massive omnibus bill before the year...
Self-Determination for Thee, But Not for Me
by Ryan McMaken | Dec 22, 2022 | Featured Articles
Opponents of secession in the United States often choose from several reasons as to why they think no member state of the United States should be allowed to separate from the rest of the confederation. Some antisecessionists say it’s bad for national security reasons....
How to Sell Progressives on Lower Taxes
by Connor O'Keeffe | Nov 29, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
As Democrats and Republicans across the country fought over control of Congress in this past midterm election, progressives in Massachusetts and California continued with one of their favorite pastimes: trying to raise taxes on the rich. In Massachusetts, voters were...
News Roundup 11/21/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 21, 2022 | News Roundup
US News The Pentagon’s comptroller said that the department has failed its fifth consecutive audit. AWC Russia Poland’s president and the leader of NATO both said on Wednesday that Ukrainian air defenses, not Russia, likely fired the missile that hit Polish territory...
Donald Trump Reveals His 2024 Presidential Platform
by Adam Dick | Nov 21, 2022 | Featured Articles, Politics
Speaking Tuesday before an audience of supporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, Donald Trump presented an hour-long speech announcing that he is running in the 2024 general election to regain the United States presidency. Trump used the speech to provide an...
IAEA Again Condemns Iran Over ‘Lack of Cooperation’ on Particles
by Jason Ditz | Nov 17, 2022 | News
The IAEA’s issues with uranium particles in Iran remain unresolved, with the body voting once again to condemn the Iranian Republic for “lack of cooperation” on the questions of the particles. This is the second condemnation and both China and Russia voted against it.
Did Federal Censors Swing the 2020 Election?
by Jim Bovard | Nov 14, 2022 | Featured Articles, Politics
Did the Russiagate conspiracy entitle the federal government to censor Americans forever? Did federal shenanigans swing the 2020 election? A new report reveals how a new federal agency and federal grantees exploited a 2016 scam to launch the greatest covert censorship...
Extinguishing Some Election Day Rumors
by Walter Olson | Nov 14, 2022 | Featured Articles, Politics
How much went right with Tuesday’s midterm election? A lot. Violence at the polls, much feared, didn’t happen. Nor did widespread intimidation. For all the talk of voter suppression, poll access was healthy and uneventful in the state of Georgia and pretty much...
Liberty, Freedom, and Sovereignty Aren’t On Today’s Ballot
by Jeffrey Wernick | Nov 8, 2022 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
Today, once again, we have the most important, crucial election in the history of mankind. The fate of the planet, solar system, galaxy, and universe depends upon it. Even God is worried, praying. Maybe it will provoke an extinction level event. I, personally, will...
My Advice for the Next Congress
by Ron Paul | Nov 8, 2022 | Featured Articles, Politics
Tomorrow [Today, November 8] is election day and polls suggest that Americans are going to overturn Democratic Party control of the House and Senate. Politicians and the media always say that this is the most important election ever, but all too often once the voting...
Races to Watch: Your 2022 Election Primer
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Nov 8, 2022 | Featured Articles, Politics
When voters who haven’t already voted go to the polls Tuesday to cast their ballots it will be with the Senate very much in play and Democrats needing a miracle to prevent a Republican takeover of the House. Midterms having historically provided rebukes to even...
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Christopher Hitchens Lied About the Cause of Terrorism
"The suicide murder community is almost perfectly faith based." - Christopher Hitchens On Real Time With Bill Maher, Hitchens claims that because an Islamist in the 1800's used the Koran to justify atrocities, it means that today the issue with Al-Qaeda is due to the...
War is a Euphemism for Mass Murder
To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest crime — waging war on another...
Empower the Working Class: Abolish Occupational Licensing
It's time to consistently apply the "my body my choice" principle. If consenting adults want to engage in economic activity, no third party should forcibly stop them. Democrats always say "voting once every two years between two politicians is how you express...
Death By Climate: Down 97% in Last 100 Years
Our schools provide many hours of lessons on climate change, but I wonder how many teachers, let alone pupils, are aware that climate-related deaths have decreased by as much as 97 per cent over the past 100 years, as the OFDA / CRED data show. - Why don’t we ever...
Black Youth Unemployment: Before and After Progressives Started “Helping”
A constant trend is progressivism is to use the state to coercively control others under the guise of "helping" them, make things worse, then ignore the problems you caused and never apologize. Sallie Mae loans didn't make college affordable. The Federal Reserve...
What Kind of Liberal?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I am a Locke-Smith liberal.
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