You can map the nearly 20-year journey from the 9/11 attacks to the COVID-19 pandemic by the freedoms we’ve lost along the way. The road we have been traveling has been littered with the wreckage of our once-vaunted liberties, especially those enshrined in the Fourth...
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Australia’s Covid Police State
by James Bolt | Sep 8, 2020 | Featured Articles
Last week’s arrest of Zoe Buhler by Australian police, the video of which swept the world, should terrify every person who believes in liberal democracy. Buhler, a 28-year-old pregnant mother, was arrested at her home near Ballarat, Victoria, on Wednesday. She was...
Horowitz: Thousands of Cases but ZERO Hospitalizations in Colleges: This is GOOD News. But States and Colleges Force Draconian Lockdowns
by Daniel Horowitz | Sep 8, 2020 | Featured Articles
Remember the goal of flattening the curve? Ensuring that hospitals weren’t overrun? Well, what do you call a scenario where thousands of cases result in zero hospitalizations? I’d call it the ultimate flat curve – or downright flat line. Yet rather than recognizing...
Pandemic Skeptics…Proven Right!
by Daniel McAdams | Sep 8, 2020 | Featured Articles
Was the whole coronavirus panic set off by a faulty understanding of the difference between infection fatality rate and case fatality rate? One doctor in the UK makes a strong case that the mania was set off by a math mistake. Also today, more mainstream outlets...
The One Percent Blunder: How a Simple But Fatal Math Mistake by US Covid-19 Experts Caused the World to Panic and Order Lockdowns
by Malcolm Kendrick | Sep 7, 2020 | Featured Articles
In February, US Covid guru Anthony Fauci predicted the virus was ‘akin to a severe flu’ and would therefore kill around 0.1 percent of people. Then fatality rate predictions were somehow mixed up to make it look ten times WORSE. When you strip everything else out, the...
The Fed's Brilliant Plan? More Inflation and Higher Prices
by Ron Paul | Sep 7, 2020 | Featured Articles
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell recently announced that the Fed is abandoning “inflation targeting” where the Fed aims to maintain a price inflation rate of up to two percent. Instead, the Fed will allow inflation to remain above two percent to balance out...
Journalism’s New Propaganda Tool: Using 'Confirmed' to Mean its Opposite
by Glenn Greenwald | Sep 5, 2020 | Featured Articles
One of the most humiliating journalism debacles of the Trump era played out on December 8, 2017, first on CNN and then on MSNBC. The spectacle kicked off on that Friday morning at 11:00 a.m. when CNN, deploying its most melodramatic music and graphics designed to...
US-Russia Tensions Flare Up on Multiple Fronts
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Sep 5, 2020 | Featured Articles
Amidst the escalating tensions with China, the United States should have kept the troubled relationship with Russia on an even keel. But the opposite is happening. For the first time since the presidential election in Belarus on August 9, Washington has openly sided...
Right and Wrong Ways for a Politician to Have a Haircut in Violation of Coronavirus Mandates
by Adam Dick | Sep 4, 2020 | Featured Articles
This week, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, has been the subject of much attention because of her on the sly visit at a salon in her hometown of San Francisco despite such being forbidden under the local coronavirus...
The Collapsing Universities – And What We Can Do About It
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Sep 4, 2020 | Featured Articles
America’s universities have been taken over by the left, but the way they are reacting to the fake Covid-19 crisis gives us a chance to reconstitute higher education on sound free-market principles. In the name of “diversity,” academic standards have been gutted. Here...
A new book says looting’s fine as it’s fun and people get free stuff. It costs $27.57, but perhaps you can steal it instead
by Guy Birchall | Sep 3, 2020 | Featured Articles
In Defense of Looting is one of the most ridiculous books ever committed to print and would be laughable if the paper-thin philosophy behind it weren’t perniciously making its way into public life. For most of human history, we have agreed that nicking other people’s...
The CDC Is America's New Landlord
by Jeff Deist | Sep 2, 2020 | Featured Articles
This is astonishing, even by 2020 standards. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, operating under the US Department of Health and Human Services, has asserted jurisdiction over private residential leases nationwide. It intends to curtail evictions until at...
Since 9/11, the Government’s Answer to Every Problem Has Been More Government
by John W. Whitehead | Sep 2, 2020 | Featured Articles
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take away everything that you have.”—Anonymous Have you noticed that the government’s answer to every problem is more government—at taxpayer expense—and less individual liberty? The...
Anatomy of Coup Attempt in Belarus
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Sep 1, 2020 | Featured Articles
The Russian President Vladimir Putin disclosed in a TV interview on August 27 that the Americans, amongst others, had fuelled the unrest in Belarus. He explained that the controversial presence of 33 Russian nationals (with military background) in Minsk in the run-up...
US Foreign Policy Elite Wants Biden & Detests Trump Because President Failed to Launch New NATO Missions to Justify its Existence
by George Szamuely | Aug 31, 2020 | Featured Articles
One reason for the extraordinary hostility of the foreign policy insiders’ brigade toward President Trump is that he has not wasted his time conjuring up new missions to justify NATO’s continued existence. Instead, he has promised to withdraw 12,000 US troops from...
How 'Silence is Violence' Can Became Compelled Speech
by Jonathan Turley | Aug 31, 2020 | Featured Articles
Below is my column in the Hill newspaper on the rising concern over compelled speech on our campuses and our streets. Here is the column: “Silence is violence” has everything that you want in a slogan: Alliteration. Brevity. Simplicity. It also can be chilling for...
Trump Must Back Iraq Withdrawal Promise With Action
by Ron Paul | Aug 31, 2020 | Featured Articles
Earlier this month, while meeting with the Iraqi Prime Minister, President Trump reaffirmed his intent to remove all US troops from Iraq. “We were there and now we’re getting out. We’ll be leaving shortly,” the president told reporters at the time. Although President...
Judicial Tyranny in the Drug War
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 28, 2020 | Featured Articles
If you still have any doubts about the tyranny of the federal government’s beloved “war on drugs,” perhaps the case of Juan Carlos Seresi, Vahe Andonian, and Nazareth Andonian will remove them. Back in 1991, a federal judge named William D. Keller sentenced these...
Know Your Rights. Don’t Talk to Cops at the Airport
by John Kiriakou | Aug 28, 2020 | Featured Articles
I confess to a dislike of the police; any police at any level. I dislike equally local cops, state troopers, federal law enforcement from a myriad of agencies and prison guards. I’ve always said, “Give a man a badge and a gun and you’ve created a monster.” I also...
CDC Walks Back COVID-19 Testing, Warns Not to Argue With Anti-Maskers
by Cheryl K. Chumley | Aug 27, 2020 | Featured Articles
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in a sudden move that’s left some in the medical world baffled, reversed course on its long-standing — comparatively speaking, that is — recommendation for anyone and everyone who comes into contact with a...
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