Donald Trump went on the offensive in Las Vegas. Well, at least he’s telling it as he sees it, which is unusual in the political world. When a possible future presidential candidate goes out and openly declares his support for fascism — and his ignorance of the principles upon which America was founded — then [...]
Anthony Wile: Does the Internet Have a Dark Side? Jacob Huebert: Gary Johnson: Keep Guantanamo Open Anthony Gregory: Republican Socialists and Medicare Part D Sheldon Richman: Medical Consumer or Ward of the State? Philip Weiss: American journalists want to see the Arab Spring happening everywhere but Palestine Charles Davis: I’ll Take the Reactionary Over the [...]
Glenn Greenwald: A more militarized CIA for a more militarized America Petraeus is a pure military officer and, most of all, a war fighting commander with little background in intelligence. (Full article…) Justin Raimondo: ‘Mr. Y’ and the Decline of the American Empire In short, we are not going to conquer the world, and it’s [...]
William Grigg: Allen West: Has the Militarist Right Found Its New Warlord? …In a recent address to a meeting of the Evangelical group “Women Impacting the Nation,” West extolled the supposed virtues of the Spartan system, in which children (at least those who made the initial cut as newborns and weren’t selected as genetic culls [...]
Jacob Hornberger: Thanks to the Fed, They Are Already Defaulting …Let’s assume I loan the government $1,000 at 10 percent interest, with the note payable one year from now. The year passes. The government owes me $1,100. The government doesn’t have the money to pay me because all of its tax revenues are devoted to [...]
It seems that the high costs of higher education and the societal costs of socialized lower education are really taking America down, right along with the disasters that central planning in security, money and retirement have wrought. One problem is the authoritarian, top-down approach to education that has pervaded our society and culture, and the [...]
Stephan Kinsella on Montessori alternatives in education
I heard a little of Michael Graham’s show this morning, and they were discussing this Obama birth certificate issue. Graham’s point, in response to some callers who think it’s important where Obama was born, was that people should be getting more worked up over more important things, issues that actually matter, like the fact that [...]
April 27, 2011 (Link to article at Strike the Root) Some things that helped to bring humanity out of the times of barbarism and treachery included the Enlightenment and the American Revolution. Those were periods that emphasized reason and that encouraged an understanding of the differences between peace and violence, and included the assumption that [...]
Washington’s Blog: Four Stories This Week Prove That the War on Terror Is a Farce
Murray Rothbard: For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto (1973, 1978) The object of the classical liberals was to bring about individual liberty in all of its interrelated aspects. In the economy, taxes were to be drastically reduced, controls and regulations eliminated, and human energy, enterprise, and markets set free to create and produce in [...]
Do Barack Obama, Lindsey Graham and John McCain seem like utter pests, just very annoying people whose constant ignorant prattle and warmongering seem to offend your intelligence and sensibilities? Do they offend people on foreign lands? And are The Donald and The Bernank the same way? And those paranoid, anti-Muslim “conservatives” on the radio as [...]