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The Pathocracy of the Deep State

by John W. Whitehead October 24, 2019

“Politicians are more likely than people in the general population to be sociopaths. I think you would find no expert in the field of sociopathy/psychopathy/antisocial personality disorder who would dispute this... That a small minority of human beings literally have no conscience was and is a bitter pill for our society to swallow — but ...

Collectivist Revivalism and the New Attack on Liberty

by Richard M. Ebeling October 23, 2019

America and some other parts of the world are facing a “revivalist” movement, but rather than being a religious revival, it is an ideological revivalism calling for a turn away from freedom and the open society, and back to an earlier societal tribalism and tyranny. It cuts across the usual political spectrum because what one finds is a common faith ...

Wake-Up Call On The Syrian Border

by David Stockman October 23, 2019

Syria has been turned into the most wretched of neighborhoods on the planet by Washington’s neocons and liberal interventionists. From its pre-2011 population of 23 million, more than 6.7 million have fled to countries such as Lebanon (1 million), Jordan (700,000), Turkey (3.6 million), Europe and elsewhere. At the same time, more than 6.5 million Syrians are internal refugees, driven ...

The NBA’s China Problem Due to Political Control Over Markets

by Richard M. Ebeling October 22, 2019

The news and sports media have been focused on the recent confrontation between the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Chinese government due to a tweet by the general manager of the Houston Rockets about recent pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong that brought down the wrath of China. While many commentaries have focused on the NBA’s attempt to placate ...

Hands Off My Cadillac!

by Laurence M. Vance October 21, 2019

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA or ACA), better known as Obamacare, was signed into law by Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. It was one of the most partisan pieces of legislation in history. Not a single Republican in the House or the Senate voted in favor of the bill (H.R. 3590, ...

The Police State’s Deadly Toll on America’s Children

by John W. Whitehead October 18, 2019

“Mommy, am I gonna die?”— 4-year-old Ava Ellis after being inadvertently shot in the leg by a police officer who was aiming for the girl’s boxer-terrier dog, Patches “‘Am I going to get shot again.’”—2-year-old survivor of a police shooting that left his three siblings, ages 1, 4 and 5, with a ...

Bravo Donald! A War Washington Might Finally Leave

by David Stockman October 17, 2019

Just when you think the Donald has lost his marbles completely, he pulls a rabbit of rationality out of the hat of Imperial Washington’s Forever Wars madness. We are referring, of course, to his sensible decision to decline the opportunity to put American soldiers in harms’ way in an impending showdown between Turks and Kurds on the northern border of ...

Progressivism Is An Imposter

by Richard M. Ebeling October 11, 2019

What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.” This became an often-repeated popular line after its use in the 1967 movie Cool Hand Luke. A 1950s Florida prison warden (played by actor Strother Martin) says those words after an insolent remark by one of the prisoners (played by Paul Newman) results in the warden lashing that prisoner with ...

The Letter That CEOs Ought to Be Writing

by Laurence M. Vance October 10, 2019

The mass shootings in August at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, and at a bar in Dayton, Ohio, prompted the CEOs of more than a hundred large and small corporations to write a letter to the members of the U.S. Senate about “a public health crisis that demands urgent action” — gun violence. Says the

John Lennon vs. the Deep State

by John W. Whitehead October 8, 2019

“You gotta remember, establishment, it’s just a name for evil. The monster doesn’t care whether it kills all the students or whether there’s a revolution. It’s not thinking logically, it’s out of control.”—John Lennon (1969) John Lennon, born 79 years ago on October 9, 1940, was a musical genius and pop cultural icon. He was also a ...

Is Federal Gun Licensing Constitutional?

by Laurence M. Vance October 7, 2019

Cory Booker (D-N.J.) is living proof that anyone in America can become a U.S. senator. According to Article I, Section 3, Clause 3 of the Constitution, there are three qualifications to be a U.S. senator: No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a ...

Guns for Hire

by John W. Whitehead October 4, 2019

“Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes… known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.… No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of ...