For more than a year, Trader Joe’s has been a particularly troubling store for some readers of these pages. Trader Joe’s has some excellent quality products at a consumer friendly price with a quirky corporate style. What’s not to like about such a place? When corona...
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Big Government and Big Inflation
by Ron Paul | May 17, 2021 | Featured Articles
April’s 4.2 percent past year increase in the Consumer Price Index is not likely to dissuade the Federal Reserve from continuing its policy of near-zero interest rates. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell believes the rising prices are just a temporary phenomenon caused by the...
Liz Cheney Lied About Her Role in Spreading the Discredited CIA ‘Russian Bounty’ Story
by Glenn Greenwald | May 16, 2021 | Featured Articles
In an interview on Tuesday with Fox News’ Bret Baier, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) denied that she spread the discredited CIA "Russian bounty” story. That CIA tale, claiming Russia was paying Taliban fighters to kill US troops in Afghanistan, was cooked up by the CIA and...
Big Tech’s Censors Come for Science
by Pankaj Mehta | May 15, 2021 | Featured Articles
The free speech controversies roiling Big Tech have now reached the scientific sphere. In mid-February, the Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece by John Hopkins professor of medicine and public health Martin Makary arguing that a combination of vaccines and...
The Media Wants You to Trust Washington Again Now That Trump Is Gone
by James Bovard | May 15, 2021 | Featured Articles
Former CNN White House correspondent Michelle Kosinski declared on Twitter last week that American journalists would “never expect … Your own govt to lie to you, repeatedly” and “Your own govt to hide information the public has a right to know.” Kosinski denounced...
Big Brother Depends on Little Brothers
by Barry Brownstein | May 14, 2021 | Featured Articles
Thanks to the CDC, many children will be robbed again of a formative summer camp experience. According to 2021 CDC irrational Covid summer camp guidelines, “Everyone at the camp—including staff and every kid over the age of two—must wear masks at all times, unless...
Butting Heads With China and Russia: American Diplomats Are Outclassed
by Philip Giraldi | May 14, 2021 | Featured Articles
With the exception of the impending departure of US and NATO forces from Afghanistan, if it occurs, the White House seems to prefer to use aggression to deter adversaries rather than finesse. The recent exchanges between Secretary of State Tony Blinken and Chinese...
State and Local Governments Should Refuse to Participate in Providing Experimental Coronavirus Vaccines to Children
by Adam Dick | May 13, 2021 | Featured Articles
This week, some state and local governments in America are expected to begin working with the United States government on giving shots of Pfizer-BioNTech’s experimental coronavirus “vaccine” to 12 to 15 years old children. This shot-giving will supplement the major...
Soldiers of France
by Douglas Macgregor | May 12, 2021 | Featured Articles
Pessimistic observers of western nation-states express the doubt that in the post-COVID world, a reversal of fortune is possible—a return to historic national strength and greatness in the United States and Europe. The Chinese are certainly convinced that the...
A Woke CIA … or a Free, Peaceful, and Prosperous Society?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 12, 2021 | Featured Articles
There is a battle currently going on over whether the CIA should be woke or not. The battle was apparently incited by a recent segment of a social media series issued by the CIA entitled “Humans of CIA.” According to an article in yesterday’s Washington Post, Susan...
NYT Catches CDC in Gravely Consequential Lie About Outdoor Transmission
by Daniel Horowitz | May 12, 2021 | Featured Articles
From day one of this pandemic, it was abundantly clear that outdoor transmission — aside from perhaps an infected individual screaming in someone's face — is essentially zero. Had the CDC properly conveyed this fact to the public, it could have preserved an amazing...
Just Whose Coast Is the Coast Guard Guarding?
by Ted Galen Carpenter | May 11, 2021 | Featured Articles
Most Americans likely assume that the mission of the US Coast Guard is to protect the coasts of the United State from maritime threats. Increasingly, though, that is no longer true, as Coast Guard vessels and personnel now routinely operate thousands of miles from the...
Antony Blinken Continues to Lecture the World on Values His Administration Aggressively Violates
by Glenn Greenwald | May 10, 2021 | Featured Articles
Continuing his world tour doling out righteous lectures to the world, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday proclaimed — in a sermon you have to hear to believe — that few things are more sacred in a democracy than “independent journalism.” Speaking to...

Covid Authoritarians Abuse Children
by Ron Paul | May 10, 2021 | Featured Articles
Centers for Diseases Control (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky has “recommended” that children wear masks while playing. Her offered reason is to ensure Covid is not spread by “heavy breathing” of children near each other while around a soccer ball.Dr. Walensky’s...
Police Should Sometimes Avert Their Eyes
by Walter E. Block | May 10, 2021 | Featured Articles
Many policemen have been kicked under the bus. It is now more difficult to attract people to this profession; numerous retirements have occurred, and the quit rate is high. But we need police officers to protect the most vulnerable in society. How can we solve the...
Will Biden Have Blood on His Hands in Afghanistan?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 7, 2021 | Featured Articles
President Biden has announced that America’s forever war in Afghanistan is finally coming to an end. He says that US forces will exit the country by next September 11. That’s a good thing. And it is long overdue. But there is one big problem with Biden’s timetable: It...
The Criminalization of Dissent
by C.J. Hopkins | May 7, 2021 | Featured Articles
One of the hallmarks of totalitarian systems is the criminalization of dissent. Not just the stigmatization of dissent or the demonization of dissent, but the formal criminalization of dissent, and any other type of opposition to the official ideology of the...
The internet once offered a promise of free speech for everyone; Big Tech has since turned it into a prison
by Nebojsa Malic | May 6, 2021 | Featured Articles
I once thought the internet would have the same effect on corporate media gatekeepers as the AK-47 had on colonial empires in Africa. That was before Big Tech turned that promise of freedom into the second coming of feudalism. Wednesday’s decision by Facebook’s...
Vaccine Passports Are Just a Way for the Regime to Expand Its Power
by Ryan McMaken | May 5, 2021 | Featured Articles
Earlier this month, the conservative magazine known as The Spectator published an article with the absurd title “The Libertarian Case for Vaccine Passports.” The online version now bears the title “Vaccine Passports Are a Ticket to Freedom,” but the physical print...
Searching for ‘Bigfoot’ — an American College that Stayed ‘Old Normal’ throughout the Coronavirus Panic
by Adam Dick | May 5, 2021 | Featured Articles
Maybe I would have better luck looking for Bigfoot in the forest than for an “old normal’ college or university in America. Attending a college or university has been very different for students in America over the last year-plus of coronavirus panic. There has been a...
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