This kid was giving the state’s legal system the respect it deserves. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Signs your trial is not going well: When the judge says to you, “I don’t know how you were raised, but peeing in a trash can in a state district courtroom is inappropriate behavior.” That […]
Listen to the interview. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Keith Preston interviews Paul Topete of the protest rock band Poker Face. Topics include: The band’s political and spiritual message of freedom; Poker Face’s role in promoting freedom festivals throughout the United States; The uniquely libertarian aspect of American culture; How Poker Face’s staunch […]
From CampaignsandElection.Com. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Juggling the various groups of swing voters is central to political success. In the 2010 midterms, Democrats had their weakest performance among moderate suburbanites in two decades, lost working-class whites, and the Southern populists went Republican in places that had continual Democratic representation since Reconstruction. […]
Article by Tim Cavanaugh. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- The near-certainty that Mitt Romney will be defeated by Barack Obama in November is both intuitive and numerical. Following his important if unspectacular victories in six out of 10 state primaries on Tuesday, former Massachusetts Gov. Romney is now on a slow but secure track to be the […]
From Reason.Com. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– The Southern Poverty Law Center, founded in 1971 as a civil rights law firm, has released its latest “Intelligence Report” on hate groups in the United States. This year’s report contains a new category: the Manosphere. From the SPLC’s introduction to the misogyny report: The so-called […]
From Reason.Com. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– OK boys, strap on your rubbers, it’s raining nonsense. The Los Angeles City Council voted 9-1 to require male porn actors to wrap their rascals and wear condoms when they’re shooting. And when they’re filming. The move is being closely watched by other filth hamlets looking […]
From The Atlantic. ———————————————————————————————————————————————————– More than a decade ago, Daniel Suelo closed his bank account and moved into a desert cave. Here’s how he eats, sleeps, and evades the law. msn678/Flickr “Our whole society is designed so that you have to have money,” Daniel Suelo says. “You have […]
Article by Fred Reed. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– As I listen to American fury against uncooperative Afghans, to Congress furiously denouncing Pakistan for anemic aid in conducting the current wars, I sometimes wonder whether the US is playing with a full deck. The anger arises I suspect because the US and […]
From Blacklisted News. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————— Uniformed troops from the Texas State Guard were used for the purposes of crowd control during the Zilker Kite Festival in Austin this past weekend, with video showing the troops ordering parents and children to board school buses at the end of the event. […]
From the Washington Times. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– The Ugandan governmenthas come under fire for its handling of a mysterious disease that has killed hundreds of children in the northern part of this impoverished East African nation. The illness, called nodding disease and characterized by symptoms similar to epilepsy, has afflicted more […]
Noam takes on the atheist fundamentalists. As an atheist myself, I’ve found these “new atheist” writers to be an embarrassment. First, none of the prominent ones are genuine religious scholars, historians of religion, or cultural anthropologists who can, for instance, examine the cultural, historical, literary, or linguistic contexts […]
Article by Fred Reed. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Ever wonder why the US military can’t win wars? Why a few ragtag guerillas could send it running out of Somalia (Black Hawk Down)? Why one guy with a truck bomb could chase the Marines out of Lebanon? Why the attempt to rescue […]
Article by Christine Dhanagom. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Jill Recknell is mourning the loss of her grandson, despite the fact that he is alive and well. It’s just that, according to five-year-old Zach Avery and his parents, he’s not her grandson anymore. He’s her granddaughter. Zach’s family, who live in England, […]
From the Southern Nationalist Network. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Ludwig von Mises was one of the most important economists of the twentieth century and a leading voice for self-determination and right of secession. He called his proposal for voluntary government based on the consent of the government ‘democracy’ – obviously a very […]
Article by Brendan O’Neill. Whatever happened to the good old days when the Left regarded marriage as an archaic, oppressive bourgeois institution? “Abolition not of the natural family but of the legal family founded on law and property. Religious and civil marriage to be replaced by free marriage. Adult men and women […]
Article by Eric Pfeiffer. ————————————————————————————————– A commonly prescribed drug used to treat high blood pressure may have the unintended benefit of muting racist thoughts in those who take it. A new Oxford University research study found that Propranolol, which works to combat high blood pressure, anxiety, migraines, and […]
Article by Glenn Greenwald. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Davis Guggenheim (Credit: WikiPedia) Hollywood producer and director Davis Guggeinheim just produced a 17-minute “documentary” hailing the greatness of Barack Obama and his many historic and profound accomplishments, and it will be released this week by the Obama campaign. Please just watch this two-minute interview […]
Article by Jared Taylor. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Most Americans have a vague sense that the First Amendment means we can gather just about anywhere and say just about anything so long as we don’t break the law. But that’s not how it works. It is increasingly common for fanatics to shut down […]
An ABC news report on the sovereign citizen movement. Most of the legal theories of this movement are crackpot but the pernicious political and economic forces they are reacting against are real. Notice how the $PLC describes this movement as a “hate group” even though black participants are […]
Article by Jordan Michael Smith. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer (Credit: AP/Wikipedia) TOPICS:IRAN, ISRAEL Before they became famous — or infamous, depending on one’s perspective — for their article (later turned into a book) called “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” professors Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer were best known […]
Article by Stephan Salisbury. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- At the height of the Occupy Wall Street evictions, it seemed as though some diminutive version of “shock and awe” had stumbled from Baghdad, Iraq, to Oakland, Calif. American police forces had been “militarized,” many commentators worried, as though the firepower and callous tactics […]
So says Pat Buchanan. —– Anyone who believes America’s culture wars are behind her should have started out Friday reading The Washington Times. The headlines on the three top stories on page one read: “California judges asked to say if they are gay.” “‘Tebow Bill’ for home-schoolers dies in […]
Article by Paul Gottfried. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– I attended an event for Pat Buchanan and his biographer Tim Stanley at DC’s Politics and Prose Bookstore on February 17. After Tim and Pat’s informative presentations, the audience was invited to ask questions. Most of the questions seemed to come from admiring remnants of […]
by P. R. Stephensen (The London Aphrodite, no. 6, July 1929, pp. 421–432.) (Stephenson regarded himself as a Nietzschean-Bakuninite. Hat tip to MP.) Only one man has lived dangerously—Michael Bakunin. While Nietzsche postulated the Fore-runner, here was a fore-runner in deed. “Everything about him was colossal,” says Richard Wagner […]
The Empire is summed up perfectly in two minutes and 41 seconds.
This is a question that is often debated by both sides of the conventional political spectrum. Here’s one person’s take on the issue. I’d say it depends on how you define “left” and “right.” For instance, the ostensible conservative George W. Bush sought to expand federal control over […]
Article by Thomas N. Naylor. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————— “We are you, and you are us,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrogantly proclaimed to President Barack Obama in the White House recently. How is it possible that Israel, a tiny country with only eight million people, can have so much influence […]
From Patriot News. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Cell phone users might think that their phones can’t be searched without a warrant any more than their homes can be. But one judge just gave cops engaging in warrantless cell phone searches a foot in the door. Judge Richard Posner of the seventh […]
From Open Salon. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Once signed, HR 347 will empower federal agents to arrest and bring felony criminal charges against citizens engaged in political protests anywhere in the USA. OUTLAWING THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT: HR 347 MAKES FREE SPEECH A FELONY The First Amendment to the Constitution of the […]
Article by Stephen D. Foster. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— Republicans in Indiana are taking self-defense too far. In a move supported by the National Rifle Association, the Indiana House passed Senate Bill 1, which allows homeowners to shoot and kill police officers they believe are unlawfully on their property or in […]
Some interesting data.
Anything to sue somebody. Sounds like sour grapes. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– A college student from New York is suing Stonehill College in Massachusetts, a Catholic Liberal Arts College, saying her roommate’s sex life drove her into a suicidal depression and that the school did nothing to address her concerns. Web Extra: Read The […]
From World Net Daily. This is one of the principal feature of totalitarian humanism: the state must control everything to insure that no one is ever being un-progressive. My guess is that most left-wing “anarchists” would approve of this. The struggle against “hate” trumps the struggle against the […]
Interesting monologue from historian of religion and mythology D.M. Murdoch. I don’t generally write on religious issues as I see the struggle against the state to be a non-sectarian enterprise. But it’s also true that one of the major enemy political factions of anti-state radicals in the contemporary […]
He had the fire. Read the obituary. Ronnie Montrose
This is the kind of thing that needs to happen more often. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Nicolas Sarkozy was forced to hide in a bar after a mob of protesters threatened to beat him up. The 57-year-old French President, who is standing for re-election in April, was campaigning in the Basque […]
From the New York Daily News. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– HANDOUT Andrea Fornella Abbott, 41, was arrested after she raged on TSA agents at Nashville airport for trying to give her daughter a pat down search. TAKE OUR POLL Child pat downs Should TSA agents be allowed to give children pat downs? […]
Article by Kevin MacDonald. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Israel Firster and Iraq War architect Paul Wolfowitz addresses soldiers wounded fighting in Iraq. Jews have always policed their own—a basic element of any successful group and a central idea behind the cultural group selection model of Judaism. A good example is the […]
Article by Tibor Machan. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Republican Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has made an impassioned pitch in favor of rejecting the famous doctrine of the separation of church and state. He made his position clear on the ABC-TV program, “This Week,” on Sunday, February 26: “I don’t believe in […]
The Few, the Proud, the…nominee for the Darwin Award? ————————————————————————————————————————————————- A South Florida former marine will spend 15 years in prison for viciously pummeling his wife in front of a judge during a divorce court hearing last spring. Paul Gonzalez Jr., 29, had to be subdued with a stun […]
Listen to the podcast interview of Daryle. Daryle says quite a bit that I agree with in this interview. Apparently, we are both admirers of the documentary “Anarchism in America.” We agree that the U.S. was originally a federation of sovereign nations that were eventually incorporated into a […]
Listen to the interview. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Keith Preston interviews Craig Fitzgerald. Topics include: Craig’s experiences growing up around the patriot and militia movements of the 1990s; His participation in various youth subcultures and how these influenced his political ideas; His involvement with a wide variety of dissident movements from […]
Interview conducted by Bradley Coufal. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— For the sake of gaining some background on the both of you in order to contextualize your position, can you explain, briefly, where you see yourself politically, and where you see libertarianism proper (left-lib?) on the political spectrum? Along this same line can you […]
From The Daily Bell. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– A Staff Report by The Daily Bell (Editor’s Note: This article capsulizes the raison d’etre of this website. The entirety of human experience in today’s world is that of ubiquitous tyranny. Those less than 100 years old were born into tyranny as naturally […]
Article by Fred Reed. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- Tangier, Morocco: Having passed the night in Gibraltar, Vi and I took the ferry across the Strait to Tangier in a state of grave trepidation, I more than she. We were going into the dark heartland of Islamic barbarity. I knew what Moslems […]
Article by Andrew Napolitano. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– (Editor’s Note: The answer to this entire article filled with questions is secession. Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence: “That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish […]
From Distributist Review. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————-Ever since capitalism made its appearance in the late Middle Ages and came to dominate both production and politics in the late 18th century, there has been a vigorous debate on just what the nature of capitalism is. Central to these debates has been the question […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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