Give Up Your Domestic Empire or Live Under It

In the recent film X-men: Days of Future Past, the "Sentinels" are robots programmed by non-mutant humans in the government to hunt and keep down the feared and marginalized population of "mutants." Eventually, however, their programming undergoes major "mission...

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Happy Birthday, Ron Paul

Ron Paul is 79 today Libertarians owe him a great debt, one which can never be repaid. Without him, it's more than likely that our movement would've either gone off the rails, succumbing to opportunism of the worst sort, or else slipped into obscurity, never to be...

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Fear of Reading: Blowhard versus ‘Bullhorn’

In the wake of the U.S.-engineered coup in Ukraine, the Western Press warns us solemnly and relentlessly that Vladimir Putin is Beelzebub himself, the leader of a vicious and backward Russia. Such deceit is reckless in the extreme since it puts the U.S. at odds with a...

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Violence and Western Civilization

Israel's slaughter of over 1900 Palestinians in Gaza, by far and away most of whom were civilians, got me thinking about Western civilization. Mahatma Gandhi is often cited as responding to a question about Western civilization saying he thought it would be a good...

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The Rear-Guard Defense of Torture

John Rizzo, the CIA’s former Acting Counsel General, is feeling the heat for his role in blessing what President Barack Obama has now admitted was “torture” during the Bush/Cheney administration. Rizzo went on friendly Fox News to charge that the (still withheld)...

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