During my recent visit to Gangjeong, on Jeju Island, South Korea, where a protest community has struggled for years to block construction of a U.S. military base, conversations over delicious meals in the community kitchen were a delightful daily event. At lunchtime...
Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles deserves another Pulitzer Prize for this superb cartoon. Some people are singing hallelujahs over the Supreme Court’s recent decision that police cannot automatically search people’s cell phones. However, the Supreme Court has...
The abduction and murder of three Israeli teenagers is a contemptible crime. But the Israeli government’s response has been to engage in a violent crime spree of its own.When someone commits a violent crime against another person, the perpetrator should be held...
This July 4, the fireworks won’t just be in celebration of Independence Day. There will undoubtedly be fireworks in cities throughout the Middle East, as the region, engulfed in violence, further explodes. The US military and US taxdollars are already deeply entangled...
At Mises.org, Jeff Deist and Justin Raimondo discuss the early history of the modern libertarian movement, Justin's time working with Murray Rothbard on libertarian strategy, and the chances for developing a broad new anti-war coalition. Listen to the interview here,...
The following letter by GOP Congressman Walter Jones of North Carolina was written in support of an editorial published in the Greenwood Commonwealth.To the editor: I write in agreement with the following statement from the June 20 editorial in the Greenwood...
I should not badmouth Stratfor. Granted, their star has dimmed a tad in the last few years, but they email me news articles every day or two gratis so who am I to quibble.I especially love the cozy, your one of us, insider tone of the articles. It may be ridiculous,...
Bipartisan criticism of the Export-Import Bank is all the rage these days, after new Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy spoke publicly about his intention to end its very existence. From the standpoint of a libertarian, the criticism and the shedding of light on such...
This originally appeared as a response to a column published in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. It is reprinted with the author's permission.In response to the column by Rep. Greg Steube on June 26: The carnage, death and destruction brought about by the Iraq invasion...
On this month's Washington Watch, GOP Congressmen Walter Jones (R-NC) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) discuss the need to defend American constitutional rights against government overreach – particularly relating to the warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens'...
