In 1985, the classic horror-comedy film Return of the Living Dead was unleashed upon the world. In it, a worker at a medical supply warehouse accidentally releases a chemical weapon while hazing a teenage employee. The weapon, now affectionately known as “Tar-man,”...
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Its Not Getting Better: Cops in the U.S. Still Kill Someone Every 8 Hours
by Matt Agorist | Apr 4, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
It has been nearly two years since Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd. At the time, Floyd’s death would set off massive protests across the country as politicians and political pundits played lip service to Black Lives Matter and others, as they offered up their...
TGIF: Joe Biden, What the Hell?
by Sheldon Richman | Apr 1, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
What's going on with Joe Biden? Is he oblivious to the fact that Russia has about as many strategic nuclear weapons as the United States has? Is he taking advice from the neocons, who apparently believe that we should not fear a nuclear holocaust because that's...
It’s Time to Get NATO Off the American Dole
by Ryan McMaken | Mar 31, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
American policymakers have shown a surprising about of sanity so far in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. While some war enthusiasts among the American punditry have certainly been agitating for World War III, the leadership in both the White House and...
10 Reasons that Freedom is Good
by Danny Duchamp | Mar 30, 2022 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Advocates of freedom are often called upon to explain why people should be given specific freedoms. Why should people be free to work for less than $7 an hour? Why should people be free to leave their homes during a pandemic? Why should people be free to take drugs?...
What Rothbard Has to Say About Today’s War Collectivism
by Jeff Deist | Mar 30, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Readers of Murray Rothbard's articles and speeches on war collectivism will immediately recognize the progressive pietist fervor surrounding today's progressive war jingoism: everywhere is Ukraine! The atavistic need to analogize today's situation to 1938, with...
Ron DeSantis, Champion of Liberty?
by Patrick Macfarlane | Mar 29, 2022 | Featured Articles, Politics
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is now the political face of populist conservative opposition to U.S. COVID-19 policies. Notably, he signed legislation to prohibit (1) private employer COVID-19 vaccination mandates, (2) government entities from requiring COVID-19...
Cop Avoids Jail Following Sex Abuse Conviction, But Arrested Again for Creating Child Porn
by Matt Agorist | Mar 29, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In August of 2020, former New Mexico State Police officer, Ricky Romero, was granted a plea deal after admitting to soliciting and receiving sexually explicit images from an underage girl on social media. Instead of jail time for this child predator, Romero’s badge...