CNBC At a protest last year at New York University, students called attention to their mounting debt by wearing T-shirts with the amount they owed scribbled across the front — $90,000, $75,000, $20,000. Jupiterimages | Getty Images On the sidelines was a business consultant for the debt […]
CNBC They may never be confused with “Swan Lake,” but an upstate New York strip club says its nude lap dances are every bit as much an art form and should be exempt from state taxes. Andy Whale | Stone | Getty Images So far, the state […]
USA Today In 2011, 11.8% of employed workers were union members, according to the U.S. Labor Department’s most recent figures. A look at union membership by state: Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics CHARLOTTE – What a difference four years make. By Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images President Obama delivers […]
Science Blog Increasing racial and ethnic diversity has long been apparent at the national level and in our nation’s largest metropolitan gateways. Since 1980 over nine-tenths of all cities, suburbs and small towns have become more diverse. And rural communities are following the lead of their urban counterparts, […]
USA Today NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Clutching a .38-caliber revolver stashed in her sparkly blue purse makes 36-year-old Nikki Goeser feel more secure when walking to her car at night. By Jae S. Lee, Gannett Nikki Goeser shows a card that she hands to restaurant and bar owners asking […]
By H. Bruce Franklin May 1966. Mitt Romney is just finishing his first—and only—year at Stanford. I’m a 32-year-old ex-Strategic Air Command navigator and intelligence officer, now an associate professor in Stanford’s English Department and something of an anti-Vietnam War activist.
Kasama Project Simple point. Fascinating comparison. (Thanks to Lars Ekstrom)
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The New Statesman By John Pilger werful and violent “ism”? The question will summon the usual demons such as Islamism, now that communism has left the stage. The answer, wrote Harold Pinter, is only “superficially recorded, let alone documented, let alone acknowledged”, because only one ideology claims to […]
The Guardian When African states gained independence, the continent’s new leaders agreed to respect the old colonial borders to avoid endless wars. But separatist movements still abound.
By Mohammed Ali States have allowed exploitation of mineral-rich regions without locals’ consent The conflict between the government and the Maoists in the tribal areas didn’t start with the abduction of Sukma Collector Alex Paul Menon and it would not end with his release, observed B.D. Sharma, the […]
It looks like both the Democraps and Repugnicans both realize the US population has moved significantly leftward in recent years. Right on schedule. By Jonah Goldberg On the symbolism front, in what even leading Democrats admit was a spectacular display of self-inflicted stupidity, they managed to scrub any […]
By Laura Bassett The Democratic National Convention has been tagged with a number of womb-centric nicknames over the past couple days, including, most notably, “Abortion-palooza” and “The Vagina Monologues.” The New York Daily News mulled “The Democrats’ Big Abortion Gamble” and Fox News asked in a headline on […]
By Kurt Nimmo Prior the latest round of violence attributed to the so-called “sovereign citizen movement,” the FBI ramped up its propaganda campaign and declared that “extremists” opposed to the government pose a domestic terror threat and a danger to law enforcement. The FBI’s Counterterrorism Analysis Section produced […]
NBC News FBI via AP Connor Stevens, left, Brandon Baxter, center, and Douglas Wright, right, pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and attempted use of an explosive device to destroy property used in interstate […]
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By Paul Craig Roberts Does anyone remember when National Public Radio was an independent voice? During the 1980s NPR was continually on the case of the Reagan administration. NPR certainly had a Democratic slant, and a lot of its reporting about the Reagan administration was one-sided. Yet, NPR […]
The atheist “movement” is basically just organized religion for atheists. As an atheist myself, I find it to be an embarrassment. The atheist organizations have always been inclined towards doctrinaire left-wing politics and it looks like they’re getting worse. Soon atheists will be another item on the laundry […]
Funny. Patriot Newswire Former President Bill Clinton tried to get former senator Ted Kennedy to endorse Hillary Clinton for president in the 2008 election by describing Barack Obama this way: “A few years ago, this guy would have been carrying our bags.” This anecdote is revealed in a […]
I have no idea whether any of this is true or not, but it would be consistent with my own understanding of Obama as a manifestation of a class revolution carried out by an upper middle class motivated by cultural leftist ideology. If indeed Obama was a Marxist […]
By Dr. Gary North I sent a stripped-down version of my movie review of 2016 to my Tea Party Economist list. I knew it would outrage some of them. Why did I do it? To make sure D’Souza sees it. The list is large. Someone will send it […]
By Desmond Tutu Desmond Tutu: pulled out of a seminar which Tony Blair was scheduled to attend. Photograph: Str/REUTERS The immorality of the United States and Great Britain’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003, premised on the lie that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, has destabilised and […]
Hat tip the Center for a Stateless Society. This essay first appeared in Reason magazine, written by Roy A. Childs and published in 1971.
By Matt Zwolinski The welfare state is a relatively recent historical phenomenon. How did individuals and societies meet the needs of the poor before its emergence? And how might they deal with those needs in the future, if the welfare state should fall? Those questions are explored in […]
Business Insider Everyone’s freaking out. There was a recent revelation in a relatively well-covered murder trial involving four US Army soldiers facing murder charges for the shooting death of another soldier and his 17 year-old girlfriend. The revelatory pieces of information are contained herein, released by the AP: […]
By Keith Preston
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By Ron Holland “Everybody’s going to war but we don’t know what we are fighting for.” – Nerina Pallot, from “Everybody’s Gone to War” Iran Wants War Although a peaceful nation for hundreds of years, Iran was invaded and occupied by the Allies in both World War One […]
The Huffington Post New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said all nine bystanders wounded in Friday’s Empire State Building shooting had been hit with police gunfire, CNN reported Saturday morning. According to Kelly, of the nine wounded, three suffered gunshot wounds and six were hit by fragments. Gunfire […]
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Click here to register. The Agenda for the 2012 H. L. Mencken Club meeting, to be held November 9-11, has been finalized. The theme for this year’s conference is “Challenging the Historical Consensus”. This conference will deal with critical turning points in history. We shall be examining the received […]
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Newsmax.com A sheriff says seven people arrested in a fatal shootout with Louisiana deputies have been linked to violent anarchists on the FBI’s domestic terrorism watch lists.
Chicago Tribune LONDON (Reuters) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange prepared to weigh into a standoff between Britain and Ecuador over his future on Sunday by speaking from a balcony of the Ecuadorean embassy where he holed up to avoid arrest by police deployed in force outside. Ecuador has […]
Christian Science Monitor Fears of a coming economic collapse that could spark widespread violence, even civil war, fueled the continued explosive growth of conspiracy-minded antigovernment “patriot” groups in 2011. That’s the conclusion of a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks extremist groups in the […]
USA Today MILWAUKEE – Is a gun like a virus, a car, tobacco or alcohol? Yes say public health experts, who in the wake of recent mass shootings are calling for a fresh look at gun violence as a social disease. By Jeffrey Phelps, AP Dr. Stephen W. […]
By Ethan Bishop Picture it: a self-governing community of little more than 35,000 people, living amongst “dramatic natural scenery”. For over the past two centuries, the people of this same community have been renowned for their independent spirit and love of freedom. Though originally little more than an […]
Media Will Defend Biden’s Racial Gaffe By Calling Romney Racist After Vice President Joe Biden’s epic gaffe in which he suggested to a largely black audience in Virginia that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan wanted to “put y’all back in chains,” the mainstream media has been desperately seeking […]
Small Business Owner Sends Biden Packing – ‘You Didn’t Build That’ Chris McMurray, who just opened a ‘mom and pop’s’ bakery with his wife in May, was offered the opportunity of a lifetime. What opportunity was that, you ask? The opportunity was to host the vice president and […]
CNN Saginaw, Michigan (CNN) — Three days before Independence Day, Milton Hall died in a fusillade of police gunfire outside a strip mall. He had been arguing with officers in a parking lot next to a shuttered Chinese restaurant when he was shot, in full view of passing […]
By James Edwards The voters of Montana, 93% of whom are White, elected Brian Schweitzer to the highest office in their state. What does he think of them after they sent him to the Governor’s mansion? To him, they are nothing but “White, racist rednecks.”
The Daily Mail American civilians are buying as many AK47s from Russia’s top armory as the Russian military and police. The surge in sales of Russian assault rifles and shotguns are fuelled by firearms enthusiasts who are paranoid about the weapons being banned in the United States. The […]
Freedom Outpost I have received word that some people think that simply reporting on what the federal government is doing with our money, especially when it comes to purchases of ammunition on the domestic front that is in excess of a billion rounds within six months, is somehow […]
Excellent, yes. And what else might our forces need? Ibex? You have been very quiet. Do you have any ideas? – Um…w-w-, uh, weapons?
By Karen DeCoster In the city ghettos, the police state has always resorted to giving away gift cards for athletic shoes – such as at Footlocker – in exchange for local folks turning in a gun. Then the media follows up by bragging about how many guns the […]
Joe Biden Race Baits: Romney’s “Going To Put Y’all Back In Chains” As Vice-President Joe Biden spoke to supporters in Danville, Virginia on Tuesday, he took shots at Mitt Romney’s economic plan. What he said was found offensive by many as he spoke in an area that has […]
U.S. Military Officers Are Told to Plan to Fight Americans Imagine Tea Party extremists seizing control of a South Carolina town and the Army being sent in to crush the rebellion. This farcical vision is now part of the discussion in professional military circles. At issue is an […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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