Men Outnumber Women Among American Rape Victims

James Joyner on the rapecage-industrial complex. From Outside the Beltway. ____________ Christopher Glazer takes to N+1 magazine to argue that we should Raise the Crime Rate. Statistics are notoriously slippery, but the figures that suggest that violence has been disappearing in the United States contain a blind spot […]

Romanticism Rests on Two False Premises

Benjamin Marks takes Mencken-misconceptions (and libertarian uplift) to task… Read more about “Mencken’s Conservatism” here. _________ Mencken believed that most of the debates about politics, religion, science, philosophy, aesthetics and other issues rests on false premises that make all their squabbles merely petty infighting. Here is a brief […]

New Rules, High Costs and Big Business

By David D’Amato Surveying the new JOBS Act, legislation with the ostensible purpose of aiding “emerging growth companies,” the Washington Post’s Rob Kaplan and Tom Voekler contend that the act’s biggest impact will be on the formation of “small and mid-sized business capital.” Observing an important difference between […]

The Second Sexism: don’t judge a book by its press

From the New Statesman. Might be a worthy read for those interested in modern men’s issues. __________ By Ally Fog Anyone who has ever debated male-specific gender issues will probably have experienced an encounter like this: Bloke: “Yeah, but men can also be victims of violence and injustice, […]

‘Tiger devours a Maoist’

timesofindia RANCHI: The forest department may have failed to trace a tiger in Bundu forest, around 35 km from here, but Maoists have not only found the animal but one of them has even become its victim. The rebel reached so close to the tiger that he fell […]

Future of Freedom Foundation June 17, 2012

MIGRATION Are Immigration Laws Like Jim Crow? by David Bier Foundation for Economic Education WELFARE STATE Big Lies in Politics by Thomas Sowell LewRockwell.com MONETARY POLICY How the Euro Will End by Gerald P. O’Driscoll Jr. Cato Institute ECONOMICS Hayek on Individualism by Sheldon Richman Foundation for Economic […]

Dissident News Update June 17, 2012

CONGRESS MAY TURN OVER INTERNET REGULATION TO UN The US House of Representatives will vote on a measure this week as to whether or not they will hand over regulation of the internet to the United Nation’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Other nations such as China, Russia, Brazil […]

Free State Project News – June 2012

From the President’s Desk   Before we get to what’s on everyone’s mind–Porcfest, of course!–a giant THANK YOU to the community for pledging to hire Chris Lopez as an independent contractor to handle the FSP’s administrative work. If you pledged, please follow this link to make your donation now. Chris […]

Antiwar.com Newsletter | June 16, 2012

IN THIS ISSUE What’s new Top news Opinion and analysis Events What’s new with Antiwar.com staff and contributors? Congratulations to Gareth Porter, reporter for InterPress Service and frequent Antiwar.com contributor, for winning the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in London. This honor is for his outstanding research into the military’s […]

Swedish party wants sit-down urination

More insanity from Brave New World’s leading nation. It’s hard to believe these people are the descendants  of the Vikings. SORMLAND, Sweden, June 11 (UPI) — Left Party members of a Swedish county council said they want to encourage men using the council’s toilets to sit during urination. The […]

Rodney King dead at 47

From CNN Rodney King, who died Sunday at the age of 47, gestures to supporters at a book signing event in Los Angeles on April 30. King’s beating by Los Angeles police in 1991 was caught on camera and sparked the LA Riots of 1992 after the acquittal […]

Wisconsin: It was always theirs anyway

By Kevin Carson Following the major news networks’ projections of Scott Walker’s victory in the Wisconsin recall vote Tuesday, the dominant reaction among anti-Walker activists was apocalyptic. “If out-of-state corporate interests can outspend us ten-to-one, and that’s enough to beat all this grassroots organizing and public outrage, then […]

Let Them Drink Coke

By Paul Gottfried New York Mayor Bloomberg has recommended that a 16-ounce limit be placed on the size of soft drinks sold at city restaurants, movie theaters, stadiums, and arenas. This seemed necessary because of an epidemic of obesity in his municipality, where over 50% of the residents are now judged to […]

An Echo, Not a Choice

By Paul Gottfried A recent syndicated column by Peggy Noonan makes useful observations, together with one rather questionable point. Noonan blithely assumes that while the president has “fully absorbed the general assumptions and sympathies of the political left,” his opponent Mitt Romney reflects “the general attitudes, assumptions and sympathies of […]

GOP/Dem rhetorical convergence

By Glenn Greenwald In 2005, Karl Rove sparked widespread outrage by accusing liberal critics of President Bush’s Terrorism programs of sympathizing with and wanting to coddle The Terrorists: Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks andwanted to prepare […]

American National Militia

ANMilitia This is different than most sites. It is designed for and dedicated to present and upcoming events. Due to patriot efforts, Americans are at a crossroads. We, as a people, are living in extraordinary times. These are the times that try mans  souls… Each of us knows […]