The recent revelations in the “Afghanistan Papers” is nothing unknown for those who cared to take notice. It is a revelation in the sense that it took the mainstream media so long to report on the real war in Afghanistan. It was a revelation homogenised and packaged...
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Betraying the Constitution
by John Whitehead | Dec 11, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
“It is the responsibility of the patriot to protect his country from its government.”—Thomas Paine While Congress subjects the nation to its impeachment-flavored brand of bread-and-circus politics, our civil liberties continue to die a slow, painful death by a...
Hobbits and Hooligans: Revisiting Jason Brennan’s Against Democracy
by Kollin Fields | Dec 5, 2019 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
In case you couldn’t tell through the inescapable barrage of media coverage, we have an election coming up, which means voters are mobilizing. To most Americans, democracy and voting are the pinnacles of freedom. Your vote is your voice, etc. etc. 2016 threw a wrench...
Betraying the Constitution: Who Will Protect Us from an Unpatriotic Patriot Act?
by John Whitehead | Dec 4, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
While Congress subjects the nation to its impeachment-flavored brand of bread-and-circus politics, our civil liberties continue to die a slow, painful death by a thousand cuts. Case in point: while Americans have been fixated on the carefully orchestrated impeachment...
Monsters and U.S. Foreign Policy
by Laurence Vance | Nov 27, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism
It looks like the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity will be having some competition. The formation of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft was recently announced. The think tank gets its name from John Quincy Adams. According to the organization’s...
Let’s Stop with this ‘Culture of Liberty’ Nonsense
by Peter R. Quiñones | Oct 28, 2019 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Peter Quinones, Politics
Imagine if someone you didn’t know, who lived 3,000 miles away, had a say in who you could or couldn’t marry. Would you think that was crazy? What if that person could dictate what you were allowed to put into your body? Since that is a reality why isn’t it just as...
The Endless Propaganda To Keep The Endless Wars Going
by Chris Rossini | Oct 20, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Americans have been voting for peace candidates for decades. One of the surest ways to become president in America is to promise that you'll put an end to the endless wars. George W. Bush did it ... Obama did it ... and so did Trump. Yet, despite the empty promises...
VICTORY: After Viral Backlash, Judge Rescinds Jail Sentence For Man Who Missed Jury Duty
by Jack Burns | Oct 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
West Palm Beach, FL — Jury duty, like voting, is considered by many Americans as one’s civic duty. But as one young man from Florida would learn, jury duty is anything but voluntary. He overslept, missed jury duty, and a judge threw the book at him, sentencing him to...
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A War of Unyielding Horror
That's what the Washington Post calls Israel's slaughter of innocents in Gaza.
Failure Follies: The US Navy Continues the Race to the Bottom
The collapse of western martial civilization is sticking to its schedule. The Wasp class LHD, USS Boxer, has suffered yet another engineering casualty. On this, the Navy delivers with a spectacularly consistent track record of failure with the Little Crappy Ships, the...
More on Immigration and Public Property
Inspired by scholar Simon Guenzl, it occurred to me that regarding "state-claimed" so-called public property, people have been wronged not primarily as taxpayers but as potential homesteaders. (See Guenzl's "Public Property and the Libertarian Immigration...
The F35: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
“Soon after publication ‘Superiority’ was inserted into the Engineering curriculum of MIT, to warn the graduates that the Better is often the enemy of the Good, and the Best can be the enemy of both, as it is always too late.” - Arthur C. Clarke Superiority by Arthur...
Thomas Szasz: Champion of Freedom
Today is the 104th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Szasz (1920-2012), the great if unappreciated libertarian and defender of individual autonomy and dignity. A psychiatrist by profession, for over 50 years, Szasz was the foremost critic of the social-control system...
Iran Attack Liveblog (PHOTOS/VIDEOS)
My live coverage of Iran's missile and drone attack on Israel Saturday night, as it happened. Obviously much of this information has either been confirmed, disproven or become obsolete by now, but the thread is full of interesting details that didn't make it into my...
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