Seek a Better School? Go to Jail

Our lovely educational system. Hat tip to Raven Warrior. The Summit County judge who sent an Akron mother to jail after she was convicted of falsifying records so her children could attend Copley-Fairlawn schools said considerable efforts were made to resolve the case before it went to trial. […]

Fully Taxated

How the tax code really works. Articles by Tom Baugh. Hat tip to Jim Duncan. Part I To thrive in any system, you must first recognize the reality of that system, and then act accordingly in order to manipulate its energy to your own purpose. We too often […]

Beyond Free Trade

The American Conservative takes on vulgar economism. Certainly the world looks very different from Tokyo, not least because East Asian leaders are convinced that, in its ever more heedless commitment to laissez faire, the United States is digging its own grave. But of course, East Asians are discreet […]

Boorishness as Heresy

The latest from the PC Inquisition and Official Tolerance. Had a student with more politically correct leanings made a video that resulted in a barrage of death threats, she would be held up as a hero, and there would be a massive nationwide investigation to find those who […]

Libya: Five Reasons Not to Intervene

Article by Justin Raimondo. 1) Because the moment we intervene, we’ll own what’s going on in Libya – just like we own Iraq. Neocons eager to acquire another Middle East colony are understandably eager to jump into the fray, but there’s less excuse for the centrist-to-leftish “humanitarian” interventionists, […]

On Competitiveness

by Susan McWilliams at the Front Porch Republic. President Obama has convened his “competitiveness council,” following up on the “competitiveness” theme in January’s State of the Union address. “Competitiveness” is the buzzword of the moment. You know it’s a buzzword because people are saying “competitiveness” instead of saying […]

The Fanciful Idea of Statist Efficiency

Article by David D’Amato. The disastrous failures of energy facilities following Japan’s earthquakes once more testify to the calamities innate in statism. The state’s system of monopoly privilege — both in its public and nominally private sectors — is rigid, unresponsive to changing circumstances, and therefore brittle. Important […]

Vermont Has Lost Its Soul

Article by Thomas Naylor. When my family moved to Vermont in 1993, it was due in no small part to the fact that we thought the Green Mountain state was different from most states, very different. We perceived Vermont to be smaller, more rural, more democratic, less violent, […]

Ecological Realism

Hat tip to Peter Bjorn Perls. E conomic growth, which was supposed to ensure the affluence and well-being of everyone, has created needs more quickly than it could satisfy them, and has led to a series of dead ends that are not solely economic in character: Capitalist growth […]

AIPAC's Country, Right or Wrong

Article by Leonard Goodman. For too long, U.S. policy toward Israel has been controlled by AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee), a group that demands unequivocal support for all Israel’s policies even when they are indefensible. AIPAC’s power was on display last month when a resolution was brought […]

Meathead Left Hates the Third Position

Article by Maury2K. RevLeft.com is a website where purportedly 8,000 radical leftists  from around the world meet for discussions, et al. Every breed of cat seems to be represented: Social Democrats & anarchists, Stalinists & Trotskyists, DeLeonists & ecofreaks, you name it and they’re all there. Nearly everyone, […]

Workers Against the Bosses' Economy

Article by David D’Amato. Because the primary interventions of the state capitalist system are so deeply embedded, those interventions closer to the surface — state action like minimum wage laws, etc. — are often more easily recognized; the mistake, so often made by well-meaning champions of the working […]

Resistance in Alaska

Sovereign citizens on the rise. Five people in the Fairbanks area were arrested Thursday by state and federal law enforcement on charges connected with an alleged plot to kidnap or kill state troopers and a Fairbanks judge, according to the Alaska State Troopers. Francis “Schaeffer” Cox, Lonnie Vernon, […]

Libya Does Not Exist

Justin Raimondo explains why. Western intellectuals and politicians bring their cultural bias in favor of cosmopolitanism to bear on a region that has always lived in another way altogether: Vandewalle enthuses over the idea that Libya may some day see the emergence of “a true state” and enter […]

Can We Cut "Defense" Spending?

Of course, says Thomas Eddlem. The United States now spends 54 percent of the money expended worldwide on defense, according to the Swedish-based Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s 2010 yearbook, i.e., more than the rest of the world combined. In real dollars, that’s approximately $1 trillion per year […]

Ohio Prisoner Hunger Strike

Statement from Native American prisoner on hunger strike at Ohio State Peniteniary (Lucasville) The following is a statement from Jason Campbell, an inmate in Ohio State Penitentiary where Lucasville uprising prisoners Siddique Abdullah Hasan, Bomani Shakur and Jason Robb recently won significant improvements in the terms of their […]

Remembering The Black Spades

The original Black National-Anarchists? The notorious Black Spades was once the largest and most feared gang in New York City. Hailing from the Bronx, the Spades had as their warlord, Hip Hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa. They were the precursors to Hip Hop.. We caught up with many of […]

Possible Problems with Secession

An interesting discussion of secession from a white nationalist perspective from The Occidental Quarterly. Four years of bloodshed proved that the South was not strong enough to secede without the permission of the North. It steadily and gradually lost, militarily, a battle that it had already lost politically […]

The Return of the Witch-Hunters

Justin Raimondo on the latest round of neo-McCarthyism. During the “Brown Scare” of the 1930s, epitomized by the Dickstein “Special Committee” and the literary career of Carlson/Derounian, the cooperation of the Justice Department, Hoover’s G-men, and the left-wing “extremist”-hunting groups, such as the “Friends of Democracy,” and the […]

Saudi Police Open Fire at Protest

What do you want to bet the U.S. will intervene if its oil puppet is threatened? Read the article. Saudi police opened fire Thursday to disperse a protest in the mainly Shiite east, leaving at least one man injured, as the government struggled to prevent a wave of […]