Keith Preston
The Totalitarianism of Universal Background Checks
By Anthony Gregory Finally, some sanity, and from a somewhat unexpected source. The ACLU is concerned about the civil liberties implications of the new Harry Reid Senate bill to establish so-called “universal background checks” for firearms purchases. The organization has tended toward silence on gun rights, but at […]
Obama’s Dirty Imperialist War in Afghanistan
By Kim Gamel A fierce battle between U.S.-backed Afghan forces and Taliban militants in a remote corner of eastern Afghanistan left nearly 20 people dead, including 11 Afghan children killed in an airstrike and an American civilian adviser, officials said Sunday.The fighting along a main infiltration route from […]
The Legacy of Margaret Thatcher
By Dr. Sean Gabb Much will be said over the next few weeks about the “achievements” of Margaret Thatcher. These will probably divide between Daily Mailish eulogies and Guardianesque whines. My own view is that she was a bad thing for England. She started the transformation of this […]
The Thatcher Paradox
By Justin Raimondo The queen of the Anglosphere is dead. In death, as in life, there is no middle ground where Maggie Thatcher is concerned: leftists dance in the streets, celebrating her demise, while conservatives mourn the passing of the “Iron Lady.” The irony is that she was […]
NY officer accused of leading drug robbery crew pleads not guilty
CNN Alleged crooked NYPD officer Jose Tejada’s service weapon, which was allegedly used in a hold-up.
Man Facing Charges For Not Being Mauled By Bear
Political Outcast A 76-year-old Auburn, Massachusetts man Richard Ahlstrand had spotted a black bear in his backyard last Thursday around his bird feeders. On Friday, he went to fill up his bird feeders, and as a precaution, he took his shotgun. Sure enough, the black bear showed up […]
The Growing Militarization of U.S. Police
By James Simpson As politicians exploit the Newtown tragedy to promote new laws to restrict firearms and implement universal background checks that could lead to gun registration and confiscation, another parallel trend– namely, the increasing militarization of law enforcement, most visibly demonstrated by the growing use of massive, […]
All The King’s Knights
Legal Group Launches to Aggressively Challenge US Government Prosecutions of Whistleblowers
The Dissenter A legal group of criminal defense attorneys has formed to combat what they describe as the FBI and Justice Department’s use of harassment and over-prosecution to chill and silence those who engage in journalism, Internet activism or dissent.
Human Progress is a Myth
Vice.Com John Gray, photo by Justine Stoddart Haven’t we humans come such a long way? In the past 200 years alone we’ve managed to abolish slavery (by moving it to the sweatshops of the Third World), rid our lives of industrial pollution (by moving it to the factories […]
McDonald’s want ad demands bachelor’s degree, two years experience for cashier
Washington Examiner With colleges producing more graduates, and youth unemployment at a sky-high 11.5 percent, even landing a job selling Big Macs is getting competitive. Consider: A job opening at a Massachusetts McDonald’s restaurant for a full-time cashier requires one to two years experience and a bachelor’s degree. […]
Noam Hits Another One
What’s Good for the Goose….
The Democratic Party’s Long History of Racism
The American Thinker Long owning the default position, the pure, tolerant Democrats easily assume a morally superior attitude while labeling those who differ from their point of view as morally deficient, quickly dousing dissenters with the 2008-2012 election buzz word–racist. Uh, uh; I know better and so do […]
Anti-Government” Couple on Run After Kidnapping Their Own Children From Court-Appointed Guardian
By Mike Riggs This story probably isn’t going to end well: Joshua Michael Hakken and his wife Sharyn Hakken are on the run in Florida after kidnapping their own two children from Sharyn’s mother this morning. Patricia Hauser has had legal custody of her grandchildren, four-year-old Cole and […]
Fusion center director: We don’t spy on Americans, just anti-government Americans
Russia Today Law enforcement intelligence-processing fusion centers have long come under attack for spying on Americans. The Arkansas director wanted to clarify the truth: centers only spies on some Americans – those who appear to be a threat to the government.
Fightin’ Words
By Rachel Haywire Faithful members of the far right fringe, do not despair! You think it’s game over. You’re losing hope. You just can’t ride that tiger anymore, and your entire movement has been infiltrated by hipsters and libertarians. This is more than the death of the west—it’s […]
Mexican Cartels Assassinating U. S. Public Officials
Townhall.Com CHICAGO (AP) — Mexican drug cartels whose operatives once rarely ventured beyond the U.S. border are dispatching some of their most trusted agents to live and work deep inside the United States — an emboldened presence that experts believe is meant to tighten their grip on the […]
Boston Punk Zombies Are Watching You!
Slate.Com As anyone who’s watched a single crime story on TV or film knows, undercover detective work is dangerous business. There inevitably comes a moment when the crime boss gets suspicious. Scary, sure, but at least police officers have a working knowledge of the rules of the crime […]
I Am Sick of Veterans Who Wave the Flag and Send Others Off To Die
By James Glaser A World War II vet told me something once that I have found to be true: “If you walk into a VFW or American Legion Post bar and hear some guy telling everyone what a hero he was and how he fought the enemy so […]
Mother who went to court in failed bid to stop brain tumour son having radiotherapy says he is a shadow of himself after 30 sessions
The Daily Mail A mother revealed today how her eight-year-old son is ‘not the boy I know any more’ after he went through radiotherapy treatment she controversially fought hard at the High Court to prevent. Sally Roberts, of Brighton, East Sussex, who lost a high-profile case last year […]
The Conservative Catholic Anarcho-Pacifist Dorothy Day
By Stephen Beale She lamented the encroachment of the state and the perils of the welfare system. She once compared abortion to genocide and the U.S. government to Nazi Germany. She cheered on income tax resisters, dismissed the benefits of the minimum wage, and worried about the decline […]
The Masses of Drones
An Elite Group of Psychopaths
Class vs. “Identity Politics,” Intersectionality, Etc.: Some General Observations
By Kevin Carson Those of us involved in various justice movements of the Left sometimes argue among ourselves as though the struggles for class, racial and gender justice existed in a zero-sum relationship. Many people in the workers’ and economic justice movements complain — rightly so in my […]
The Death Penalty for Marijuana Possession
Popehat.Com TJIC alerts us to the tremendously disturbing story of Jonathan Magbie, a 27-year-old quadriplegic sentenced to ten days in jail for his first offense — possession of marijuana, a misdemeanor. Because the Washington D.C. jail was incompetent to meet his special medical needs, including his dependence on […]
Bounty on two Americans tied to Somali terror group
By Elise Labott The State Department has put a multimillion-dollar bounty on the heads of two Americans who the United States claims belong to an al Qaeda affiliate in Somalia, CNN has learned. Posters and matchbooks in Somali and English emblazoned with the names and pictures of Omar […]
Where Law Fails, Vigilance Prevails
The KKKrazy Glue That Holds the Obama Coalition Together
By Steve Sailer We are constantly told that the GOP is doomed because it’s the party of straight white men. That may well be true, but few have asked: How can the diverse Democrats hold together? How can special interests as different as blacks and gays be kept […]
Yes, Pinochet Really Was an Asshole…
…no matter what some “libertarians” think. By Gavin McInnes With the passing of Hugo Chávez, we got a lot of crocodile tears from liberals claiming we had “lost a friend” who “lifted the poor and helped them realize their dreams.” Jimmy Carter told us that he “never doubted […]
Karl Rove: ‘I could’ imagine GOP presidential candidate supporting gay marriage
By Dylan Stableford Karl Rove, former deputy chief of staff under President George W. Bush and current Fox News contributor, says he can envision the 2016 Republican presidential nominee supporting gay marriage. “I could,” Rove said during a roundtable discussion on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday when asked […]
Supreme Court gay marriage cases could set stage for dramatic societal changes
By Liz Goodwin Same-sex marriage proponent Kat McGuckin of Oaklyn, New Jersey, holds a gay marriage pride flag while standing …
Prison Profiteers
By William Norman Grigg One aspect of drug prohibition that gets far too little attention is the fact that the drug war is immensely profitable for prohibitionists. Ten former high-ranking officials of the Drug Enforcement Administration recently signed a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee criticizing the Obama […]
Was Iraq Worth It?
Hell no, says Pat Buchanan. Ten years ago today, U.S. air, sea and land forces attacked Iraq. And the great goals of Operation Iraqi Freedom? Destroy the chemical and biological weapons Saddam Hussein had amassed to use on us or transfer to al-Qaida for use against the U.S. […]
Oregon Company to Sell Drone Defense Technology to Public
USNews.Com Do you want to keep drones out of your backyard? An Oregon company says that it has developed and will soon start selling technology that disables unmanned aircraft.
The Politics of Fear in America: A Nation at War with Itself
Tenth Amendment Center “Fear is the foundation of most governments.” –John Adams Turn on the TV or flip open the newspaper on any given day, and you will find yourself accosted by reports of government corruption, corporate malfeasance, militarized police and marauding SWAT teams. America is entering a […]
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Nine terrifying facts about America’s biggest police force
Salon.Com NYPD officers (Credit: Reuters/Carlo Allegri) This article originally appeared on AlterNet. The NYPD is the biggest police force in the country, with over 34,000 uniformed officers patrolling New York’s streets, and 51,000 employees overall — more than the FBI. It has a proposed budget of $4.6 billion for 2013, […]
83 Yr. Old Woman Uses Gun To Scare Off Burglar, But Is Then Shot & Killed By Police in Her Backyard
SecretsoftheFed.Com An 83 year old woman in VA allegedly used a handgun to fire a warning shot to scare off a burglar late at night. The woman, Delma Towler, also called police to report the break in.
Not to Praise, But to Bury Him
By Kevin Carson Since Hugo Chavez’s death last week, predictably, the cable news talking head shows and the editorial pages of the major newspapers of record have been full of head-shaking about the dictatorial nature of his regime. To be sure, the Chavez regime was dictatorial. But another […]
Neocons and Obamaites Unite Against Rand Paul
By Justin Raimondo The response to Rand Paul’s historic filibuster against the nomination of John Brennan met with rapturous applause from civil libertarians and anti-interventionists on the right and the left – followed by harsh denunciations from Democratic party partisans and their neocon allies. It was a moment […]
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Why Were “Radicals” Right on Iraq?
By Daniel Larison jcolman / Flickr Rod looks back on the Iraq war debate and acknowledges that its “radical” opponents got the main question right: I don’t think this makes radicals always right, or beyond mockery. But I learned that sometimes, radicals of the left and the right […]
The Conservative Case Against More Prisons
By Vikrant P. Reddy and Marc A. Levin vgm8383 / Flickr Since the 1980s, the United States has built prisons at a furious pace, and America now has the highest incarceration rate in the developed world. 716 out of every 100,000 Americans are behind bars. By comparison, in […]
Peril from ‘patriots’
The LA Times is pissed. Demonstrators rally outside the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. to assert their right to own firearms and to denounce recent gun-control efforts. (Tim Roske / Associated Press / January 19, 2013) Related photos » Photos: The 10 trigger-happiest states in America Can bipartisanship break out […]
Chomsky Acknowledges the Neocons as the Dominant Force in Pushing for Iraq War
By Dr. Stephen Sniegoski phen Sniegoski March 8, 2013 6 While traditional conservatives welcomed neoconservatives as allies in their fight against Soviet Communism and domestic liberalism, the neocons in effect acted as a Trojan Horse within conservatism: they managed to secure dominant positions in the conservative political and […]
The World of 2100
Interesting insights from Robert Kaplan Ancient and medieval mapmakers would better understand the world of 2100 than would the politicians of 2000. Nations as we know them have existed for only a few hundred years. But cities have been with us since the dawn of civilization. And while […]
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