A Fresno, California waffle restaurant dared to open its doors for business this weekend to the delight of a long line of customers, who waited up to two hours for the “privilege” of willingly spending their money in a business happy to serve them breakfast on Mother’s Day. This freedom of voluntary transaction is the core of what we used to call our free society. But in an America paralyzed by fear – ramped up by a mainstream media that churns out propaganda at a level unparalleled in history...
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Judge Napolitano: Why the NSA Loves the USA FREEDOM Act
Why did the National Security Agency (NSA) dispatch hundreds of agents to the US Congress to lobby for the USA FREEDOM Act if the legislation would, as many of the bill’s...
Here We Go: FBI Probes Awarding of Russia World Cup
The FBI is investigating how Russia and Qatar were awarded the 2018 and 2022 World Cup tournaments as part of its expanding probe into corruption at Fifa, people with knowledge...
Walter Jones Targeted by Neocons
If the neocons hate you, it’s a good character reference. And they want to destroy Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC). Why? Because after supporting Bush II’s aggression against Iraq, and...
US Gives ISIS a Billion Dollars In Mosul
Whenever there is a problem anywhere in the world, the first thing US lawmakers and Beltway foreign policy experts do is urge the US to send weapons. Libyan "freedom fighters"...
Speaker John Boehner’s Endless Excuses for Blocking an ISIS War Debate and Vote
US Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) is like the fellow you ask over for dinner time and again who always has a reason to decline the invitation. He says, in turn, that he...
Judge Andrew Napolitano: Mass Surveillance Will Continue Even Without PATRIOT Act Section 215
Privacy advocates looking forward to an end of the Unites States government’s mass surveillance program due to the looming sunset of PATRIOT Act section 215 may do well to shelve...
The Conscientious Objector’s Path Away from War’s Killings
When you sign up to be in the United States military, in many ways the deck is stacked against you. You are required to go where you are told and to do what you are told —...
ISIS Gains as Congress Funds War: Week in Review With McAdams and Taylor
The US failure in Iraq and Syria becomes more obvious as ISIS gains ground; new military spending bill funds the president's wars, but forbids debate on them; a color revolution...
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