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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
To Capture and Subdue: America’s Theft of Syrian Oil Has Very Little To Do With Money
by Steven Chovanec | Aug 27, 2020 | Featured Articles
Near the end of July, one of the most important recent developments in US foreign policy was quietly disclosed during a US Senate hearing. Not surprisingly, hardly anybody talked about it and most are still completely unaware that it happened. Answering questions from...
Cancelling Cancel Culture: Covington Catholic's Sandmann Speaks At RNC Convention
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 26, 2020 | Featured Articles
It was one of the most notorious cases of 'cancel culture' gone crazy. A young high school student was relentlessly bullied and character-assassinated by the mainstream media because he wore a MAGA hat while a bully screamed in his face. Nicholas Sandmann turned the...
Science is NOT about Consensus
by Jeff Harris | Aug 26, 2020 | Featured Articles
Newsflash; real science is based on facts not “consensus”. I’m sick and tired of idiots beating me over the head with pseudoscience instead of sticking to the cold, hard facts. Show me the hard data that standing six feet from someone is necessary. Show me the hard...
Lockdowns and Mask Mandates Do Not Lead to Reduced COVID Transmission Rates or Deaths, New Study Suggests
by Stephen C. Miller | Aug 26, 2020 | Featured Articles
A new National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working paper by Andrew Atkeson, Karen Kopecky, and Tao Zha focused on countries and US states with more than 1,000 COVID deaths as of late July. In all, the study included 25 US states and 23 countries. Based on...
US Government-Funded Coda Story Smears American Journalists Who Undermine New Cold War Propaganda
by Ben Norton | Aug 25, 2020 | Featured Articles
A shadowy neoconservative website called Coda Story has launched a smear campaign against American journalists who challenge new cold war propaganda. But what this publication has not disclosed is that it is funded by the US government, backed by the European Union,...
More Experts Concede: Covid Lockdowns Were A Disaster
by Daniel McAdams | Aug 25, 2020 | Featured Articles
From mainstream publications like the Wall Street Journal to top government health advisors in the UK, a consensus is building that the sledgehammer of Covid lockdowns has been an unmitigated disaster. It's good news that more mainstream sources are coming our way,...
Governments Are Faking It, and Copying Each Other
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Aug 24, 2020 | Featured Articles
A mystery for months is how it is that so many governments in so many different places on earth could have adopted the same or very similar preposterous policies, no matter the threat level of the virus, and without firm evidence that interventions had any hope of...
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