Category: Aggregated

Mistaken Identity: Internet thought Merkel took selfie with Brussels attacks suspect

Facebook apologizes for major Pakistan bombing safety check fail

Fidel Castro’s Letter to Obama: ‘We Don’t Need the Empire to Give Us Anything’

The CIA Just Declassified the Document That Supposedly Justified the Iraq Invasion

France’s Tax Subsidy on ‘Gifts’ to Israeli Army

US soldier shoots Afghan boy at Bagram Air Base

Erdogan blasts UK diplomat for selfie with whistleblower journalist

Gunman in custody after firing shots in Capitol Visitors Center

CIA took naked photos of detainees before sending them for torture: Report

UN says disputed Falkland Islands are in Argentina territorial waters

China warns Japan over intelligence station

Israeli Knesset OKs first reading of controversial suspension bill

A heroin epidemic has been spreading across the United States, expanding enormously for the last several years. With it, the number of people dying has also increased dramatically. While politicians offer failed solutions like “securing the borders,” the real solution is to legalize drugs. The number of drug overdoses in the US is approaching 50,000 per year. Of that number nearly 20,000 are attributed to legal pain killers, such as Oxycontin. More than 10,000 die of heroin overdoses. I believe these figures vastly underestimate the number of deaths that are related to prescription drug use. The “face” of the heroin … Continue reading →

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I was surprised at the number of responses I received from active-duty military personnel after my recent article about military idolaters. All but one e-mail I received from them was positive. And every one of the positive responses I received said they answered “no” to all of the questions in my military idolater quiz. Some said that joining the military turned out to be a huge mistake. Most indicated that they were getting out as soon as they could. All said they despised being thanked for their service. But then there was the note from the sailor. He says he … Continue reading →

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Fifty years ago this year, Murray N. Rothbard offered his thoughts on National Review, the flagship magazine of American conservatism, which had commemorated its tenth anniversary in late 1965. He went on to tell the full story in The Betrayal of the American Right, at once an intellectual history and a memoir. Murray’s primary complaint: what had once been a movement skeptical of or opposed to overseas adventurism and empire-building had now, under the influence of editor Bill Buckley, come to be defined by those very things. In Buckley’s infamous formulation, it would be necessary to erect a “totalitarian bureaucracy” … Continue reading →

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