Do you know what one of the most common psychological torture tactics is? Isolation. Other common tactics of psychological torture, according to the Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas at the University of California, Davis, include indefinite...
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End the Shutdown, Again
by Mises Institute | Aug 5, 2021 | Featured Articles
Sixteen months ago, in March 2020, we argued for an end to government-imposed shutdowns of businesses, schools, churches, restaurants, and events due to the covid virus: The shutdown of the American economy by government decree should end. The lasting and far-reaching...
Baylor Professor Calls for Prosecution of Criticism of Fauci and Other Scientists as Hate Crime
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 5, 2021 | Featured Articles
Physicist Richard P. Feynman once said “Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.” Feynman’s statement captures how science depends upon constant questioning and challenging of assumptions. Yet, what is healthy debate to some is criminal dissent...
Sen. Rand Paul: Mask mandates and lockdowns from petty tyrants? No, not again. Choose freedom
by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) | Aug 4, 2021 | Featured Articles
Resist. They can’t arrest us all. They can’t keep all your kids home from school. They can’t keep every government building closed – although I’ve got a long list of ones they should.We don’t have to accept the mandates, lockdowns, and harmful policies of the petty...
The Masking of America
by Jeffrey H. Anderson | Aug 4, 2021 | Featured Articles
“We should never fully return to our maskless society where only health care providers donned a mask, because judicious use of masks will continue to save lives” (emphasis added). This is not the fringe statement of some obscure crank. It is the view of two doctors at...
The Two Americas: Collectivists vs. Individualists
by Cheryl K. Chumley | Aug 4, 2021 | Featured Articles
CNN just ran an opinion piece with the headline, “Can you do something about stubborn unvaccinated people? Yes, you can.” The New York Times ran a similarly themed opinion piece a few weeks earlier with this headline, “Meet the Four Kinds of People Holding Us Back.”...
A New State of Segregation: Vaccine Cards Are Just the Beginning
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Aug 3, 2021 | Featured Articles
Imagine it: a national classification system that not only categorizes you according to your health status but also allows the government to sort you in a hundred other ways: by gender, orientation, wealth, medical condition, religious beliefs, political viewpoint,...
General Milley’s Imaginary Coup
by Peter van Buren | Aug 2, 2021 | Featured Articles
We need to clear some things up before they get any further out of hand, as the Dems insist on making this stuff every day’s front page. For starters, stop saying “Reichstag moment.” And when Grandpa Simpson and Kamala “Silent Shadow” Harris tottered into the White...

Why Americans No Longer Trust the Biden Administration
by Ron Paul | Aug 2, 2021 | Featured Articles
For libertarians – and even many non-libertarians – it’s not shocking to discover that a US Administration lies and deceives the electorate. For government on all levels, lying to the American people is as American as apple pie. Sometimes the liars are held to account...
Seven Words That Curse the State
by Karen Kwiatkowski | Jul 31, 2021 | Featured Articles
What we say can shape how we think, and what we do. For example, the use of profanity when you stub your toe can actually help ease the pain. Trust the science on this one! Sadly, the world is far beyond the toe-stubbing stage. But profanity by itself is not the...
Twitter Suspends Science Writer After He Posts Results Of Pfizer Clinical Test
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 31, 2021 | Featured Articles
Just yesterday, we discussed the censoring of a commentator by Twitter for merely expressing an opinion over the need for a “pause” on any federal mandates on Covid-19 as new research is studied. Now, a former New York Times science reporter, Alex Berenson, has been...
The CDC Is a Threat to Science
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Jul 30, 2021 | Featured Articles
I’m still trying to wrap my brain around the astonishing shift from the CDC on Tuesday, July 27, 2021. It is not just that the CDC is re-recommending masks for people indoors in many parts of the country, which could include your neighborhood or not, and this could...
The Shadow State: Twitter Suspends Commentator for Criticizing Vaccine Policies
by Jonathan Turley | Jul 30, 2021 | Featured Articles
I recently discussed how the Biden Administration was actively encouraging corporations to limit speech and impose vaccines mandates as a type of shadow state. Rather than take such actions directly ( and face both legal and political challenges), the Administration...
No To Vaccine ‘Mandates’ & ‘Passports’!
by Chris Rossini | Jul 29, 2021 | Featured Articles
When the ideas of Liberty dominate - humanity flourishes.When the ideas of tyranny and authoritarianism dominate - humanity suffers.Back and forth the pendulum seems to swing. From light to dark; and then dark to light.We live in dark times.Many people now look back...
The CDC’s Hysterical Delta Flip-Flop Might Be Its Final Undoing
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Jul 29, 2021 | Featured Articles
The crazy, convoluted, mixed up messaging from the CDC – it's been this way from the beginning of the pandemic until now – has taken yet another turn. Now the CDC is recommending masks not just for the unvaccinated but for the vaccinated too. This is supposedly...
Authoritarians Drunk on Power: It Is Time to Recalibrate the Government
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Jul 28, 2021 | Featured Articles
It is time to recalibrate the government. For years now, we have suffered the injustices, cruelties, corruption and abuse of an entrenched government bureaucracy that has no regard for the Constitution or the rights of the citizenry. By “government,” I’m not referring...
Wrong Lessons from the Afghanistan Debacle and Defeat
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 27, 2021 | Featured Articles
Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, interventionists are not learning the real lessons in their defeat in Afghanistan. Instead, they are coming up with all sorts of reasons as to why their Afghanistan intervention turned out to be such a big debacle. They say that...
Politics over science: Biden Admin signals intent to force FDA approval of COVID vaccines
by Jordan Schachtel | Jul 26, 2021 | Featured Articles
The Biden Administration has signaled its next move as part of the White House’s full court press to pressure Americans into taking COVID-19 vaccines. It seems the White House intends to strongarm the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) into fully approving COVID...

The Jan. 6th Show Trials Threaten All of Us
by Ron Paul | Jul 26, 2021 | Featured Articles
The recent felony conviction and eight month prison sentence of January 6th protester Paul Hodgkins is an affront to any notion of justice. It is a political charge and a political verdict by a political court. Every American regardless of political persuasion should...
Daily COVID Deaths in Sweden Hit Zero, as Other Nations Brace for More Lockdowns
by Jon Miltimore | Jul 25, 2021 | Featured Articles
Sweden's Anders TegnellMore than 100,000 people flooded streets in France over the weekend and multiple COVID vaccination centers were vandalized as opposition grew to the government’s most recent pandemic strategy. In President Emmanuel Macron’s latest incarnation of...
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