A false dichotomy is when one is presented with two options as if those were the only options. American presidential elections present voters with a false dichotomy. This election, we are led to believe that Donald Trump and Joe Biden are the only real options for the...
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Will Elections in Palestine Provide a Path to Peace?
by Cameron Boyle | Oct 31, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The prospect of elections in Palestine has brought vital hope to a land synonymous with suffering. Despite enduring decades of conflict, loss, and tumult, a "tripartite assault" currently threatens to push the situation beyond repair. This takes the form of Israel’s...
Jim Bovard’s Guide to Surviving Election Day
by Jim Bovard | Oct 30, 2020 | Featured Articles
Election Day can be the longest day of the year. Especially if the presidential race remains undecided late into the evening, neither Xanax nor vodka may be enough to kill the pain. In lieu of other sedatives, following are some cheerful lines which might blunt the...
A History of Libertarian Party Presidential Messaging, 1972-1996
by Hunter DeRensis | Oct 15, 2020 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
Friends of liberty inside and outside the Libertarian Party are waiting patiently—some passively—for three more weeks until the conclusion of the November presidential election. Not to find out whether Donald Trump or Joe Biden will come in first, but how many votes...
Gov’t Blunders Sow Election Chaos as Pentagon Plans Space-Based Weapons
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 12, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On Conflicts of Interest #19, Kyle and Will discuss a new Pentagon contract with Elon Musk's SpaceX to develop a cargo transport system capable of dropping weapons from orbit to anywhere on Earth in an hour flat, part of the company's shift toward military projects...
Voting: The Opiate of the Masses Ep. 132
by Patrick Macfarlane | Oct 3, 2020 | Foreign Policy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq6ziLrInBc&feature=youtu.be The Great Keith Knight joins me in this episode to talk some current events, and to lift the mask, exposing the societal delusion that voting somehow legitimizes government and its actions. Subscribe to...
The Prelude to World War II: The Spanish Civil War and Today’s America
by Sam Jacobs | Sep 27, 2020 | Featured Articles
America is definitely not Europe, but we can find a number of parallels between European history and contemporary America. For example, we’ve previously written about the Italian Years of Lead as a possible template for urban unrest and low-level inter-tribal warfare...
News Roundup 9/24/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 24, 2020 | News Roundup
US News A grand jury charged one of the three police officers involved in the murder of Breonna Taylor. The officer was charged for wanton endangerment for firing into Taylor’s neighbor’s apartment. [Link] Kentucky’s governor announces the National Guard will enter...
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The F35 Continues NOT to Stick the Landing
“I’m getting tired of over-promising and under-delivering,” F-35 program head Air Force Lt. Gen. Mike Schmidt said. The newly-envisioned Block 4 would instead focus on delivering “‘must-have’ content,” Schmidt wrote, which will include an undefined “subset” of 88...
At First I Hated Rian Johnson
For making the very worst Star Wars movie, Episode 8, and ruining Luke Skywalker. But now I realize that he was just making a film about how disappointing it was to meet Mark Hamill.
No Crickets for Cricket!
The governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem, has been plagued by a self-inflicted and festering wound for about a week now. An excerpt from her soon-to-be released memoir, aptly and prophetically entitled No Going Back, has transformed the governor from a Republican...
Richman and Woods
Tom Woods and I discuss alleged antisemitism on U.S. college campuses:
Creative Control and Private Property
Private property isn’t about selfishness so much as it’s about creative control. Someone might want to have their own business, not because they’re greedy, but because they have a vision of how they want things to go that won’t be realized if everyone else gets a say...
RIP, British Army 1415 – 2024
John Cleese and the Monty Python troop were seers in the 1970s. I am fond of saying the British win all their military victories in spite of their best efforts. The IED virus is destroying the institution. The British Army is reducing security checks in pursuit of...
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