The big news this week was Tucker Carlson’s unceremonious firing by Fox News. The reasons for Tucker’s firing are still unclear. And even Tucker’s emergence from his man cave on Tuesday for two minutes did nothing to quell the speculation. What it did do was...
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House Votes Down Resolution to Withdraw from Somalia
by Dave DeCamp | Apr 28, 2023 | News
The House on Thursday voted down a War Powers Resolution introduced by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) that would have directed President Biden to remove all US troops from Somalia within one year, except those guarding the US embassy.
The Crony Capitalist Origins of Our Oligarchy
by Laurie Calhoun | Mar 28, 2023 | Featured Articles
Republicans have of late been setting the stage for war with China, which would seem to explain the sudden interest—after years of apathy on the part of nearly everyone but Senator Rand Paul—in determining the origins of the COVID-19 virus. Was or was not the deadly...
Reapers and Red Lines: The Downing of an American Drone
by Ted Snider | Mar 22, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On March 14, A Russian jet collided with an American drone, leading to the downing of the drone in the Black Sea. The United States says that the drone was flying in international airspace when two Russian Su-27 fighter jets made nineteen high-speed passes near the...
My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
by Scott Horton | Mar 20, 2023 | Blog
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
by Hunter DeRensis | Mar 18, 2023 | Blog, Foreign Policy, Politics
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...
Election Denial Is Legally Protected Speech
by Walter Olson | Mar 13, 2023 | Featured Articles
Should the law do more to punish persons who falsely assert that an election was rigged or stolen? That’s a demand being heard from some academics and officials. But any general attempt to legislate against so‐called election denial soon runs into the First...
COI #394: Congress Votes to Indefinitely Occupy Syria
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 10, 2023 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #394, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman cover how Washington and Seoul’s massive war games are inflaming tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the Pentagon’s confirmation that Kiev is now using US precision guided bombs, Congress voting down a War Powers Resolution...
A Genuine Check and Balance: Privatize Law and Order
by Michael Huemer | Feb 4, 2023 | Featured Articles
This article has been reprinted with permission from Fake Noûs, the official Substack of Michael Huemer. Here, I explain the anarcho-capitalist solution to the basic social problem (from fakenous): Recap from two previous posts: - The basic problem of human...
Our System Has a Trust Deficit (And For Good Reason)
by Jeffrey Wernick | Feb 2, 2023 | Featured Articles, Politics
Trust is apparently an extremely elusive concept to implement. If you read The New York Times or Washington Post, you are told not to trust Fox News nor Newsmax nor OANN. If you listen to Fox News you are told not to trust the NYT nor WaPo nor CNN nor MSNBC. And they...
Libertarianism and Catholicism Mesh Better Than You Think
by Kate Westwood | Jan 23, 2023 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
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...
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...
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The Lesson From Germany and Korea
Institutions are, of course, in some sense the products of culture. But, because they formalize a set of norms, institutions are often the things that keep a culture honest, determining how far it is conducive to good behaviour rather than bad. To illustrate the...
Occupational Licensing Increases Prices and Deprives People of Options
When you shop online, vendors usually give you a bunch of different ways to sort your options. Take Amazon: One popular sorting option – especially for customers with low income – is “Price: Low to High.” You’ve probably used it yourself many times. This...
Free Book: An Anarchist Critique of the COVID Mandates
I’ve had the opportunity to write a short book offering what is essentially an anarchist critique of COVID mandates. This includes the accusation that states did most of the killing rather than the virus. The 123-page book, Measuring the Mandates: Questioning the...
Democratic Socialist Turns Libertarian! #PorcFest2023
https://youtu.be/G2eSuiXNaaQ Once you accept the principle of government, namely that there must be a judicial monopoly and the power to tax, once you accept this principle incorrectly as a just principle, then any idea or any notion of restraining or limiting...
What War Hawks Would Sound Like If They Weren’t Psychopaths
Modern warfare almost always leads to killing lots of innocents; if governments were held to the same standards as individuals, these killings would be manslaughter, if not murder. This doesn’t mean that war is never justified. But the reasonable hawkish mood is...
The Free Market Serves the Masses, Governments Commit Genocide
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