US orders government families to leave parts of Turkey

Japanese march against changes to pacifist constitution

“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 it does explain a great many things, shamelessly deceitful political behavior being one.”—Dr. Martha Stout, clinical psychologist and former instructor at Harvard Medical School Twenty years ago, a newspaper headline asked the question: “What’s the difference between a politician and a psychopath?” The answer, then … Continue reading →

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I am “not isolationist, but I am ‘America First,” Donald Trump told The New York times last weekend. “I like the expression.” Of NATO, where the U.S. underwrites three-fourths of the cost of defending Europe, Trump calls this arrangement “unfair, economically, to us,” and adds, “We will not be ripped off anymore.” Beltway media may be transfixed with Twitter wars over wives and alleged infidelities. But the ideas Trump aired should ignite a national debate over U.S. overseas commitments —, especially NATO. For the Donald’s ideas are not lacking for authoritative support. The first NATO supreme commander, Gen. Eisenhower, said … Continue reading →

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Time certainly flies. Seven years ago a dear friend to liberty, LRC, and yours truly, Burt Blumert, passed away.  At Burt’s passing, Gary North wrote, “He offered a kind of homespun wisdom, or maybe New York garment district wisdom, with a libertarian slant.” I’ll never forget when my wife Deanna first met Burt, handed him a wafer-shaped rock and asked if it was actually gold (she didn’t believe me). Wafer in a palm, he moved his arm up and down and said “yea, it’s gold, about .8 ounces. Just to make you more comfortable, I’ll trade you a 1-ounce gold … Continue reading →

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I mean by “myth of redemptive violence,” in a nutshell, the quasi-religious belief that we may gain “salvation” through violence.  People in the modern world (as in the ancient world), and not least people in the United States put tremendous faith in instruments of violence to provide security and the possibility of victory over their enemies.  A number of trust people put in such instruments may be seen perhaps most clearly in a number of resources they devote to preparation of war. –        Ted Grimsrud, The Good War That Wasn’t – and Why it Matters. I hope in this post … Continue reading →

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By Dr. Mercola More than half a million Americans received an angioplasty in 2007 (the most recent year for which data is available).i This invasive procedure involves inflating a thin balloon in a narrowed artery to crush deposits; a stent (a wire mesh tube) is often then left behind to keep the vessel open. When used during a heart attack, an angioplasty can quickly open a blocked artery to lessen the damage to your heart, and when used in this way can be lifesaving. However, oftentimes heart disease patients receive angioplasties even though they have not had a heart attack … Continue reading →

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The American Council of Trustees and Alumni publishes occasional reports on what college students know. Nearly 10 percent of the college graduates surveyed thought Judith Sheindlin, TV’s “Judge Judy,” is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court. Less than 20 percent of the college graduates knew the effect of the Emancipation Proclamation. More than a quarter of the college graduates did not know Franklin D. Roosevelt was president during World War II; one-third did not know he was the president who spearheaded the New Deal. But it is a little mystery why so many college students are illiterate, innumerate and … Continue reading →

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It’s not a popular thing to say, but the US is broke. Busted. Bankrupt. If Uncle Sam were a corporation, it would have been declared insolvent decades ago. Audited financials from the General Accountability Office prove my point. They show that official US government liabilities come to $21.5 trillion. Total assets, including federal lands, national parks, accounts receivable, and the interstate highway system total a little more than $3.2 trillion. The accounts receivable include about $1 trillion or so in student loans – more than 10% of them in default. (And yes, they’re actually listed as an “asset.”) In case … Continue reading →

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Whenever the establishment is seriously threatened, they respond with assassination. This is historically normal in all cultures. One of the more credible conspiracies about the Kennedy assassination centers on the fact that he was against expanding the military and opposed starting the Vietnam War. After Lyndon Johnson approved the war, he later commented how it was a staged event and that the Vietnamese never fired on Americans to begin with. The official story was that North Vietnamese torpedo boats launched an “unprovoked attack” against a U.S. destroyer on a “routine patrol” in the Tonkin Gulf. Then, the North Vietnamese boats followed … Continue reading →

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April 25, 2011 If the European franchises were still not universal in 1860, neither were they in many American states where suffrage was limited to white male property holders. I’m not saying this in a spirit of leftist condemnation. Extending the franchise has rarely increased the degree of self-government. It has usually produced the opposite result. Bloated voting rolls, especially those full of government workers, relief recipients, and those not rooted in established communities, have helped transfer power toward centralized bureaucratic administrations which are imagined to look out for the “people.” Lincoln had claimed a right of secession in 1848 … Continue reading →

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From a murder at the United Nations to a climactic battle on the giant stone faces of four U.S. presidents, North by Northwest has been thrilling audiences with its improbable but highly entertaining story for nearly 60 years. Released in 1959, it was one of a string of hits for Alfred Hitchcock, who had just scored with The Man Who Knew Too Much and Vertigo and would next strike gold with Psycho. Watch out for that crop duster and enjoy these behind-the-scenes facts about an enduring classic. 1. IT WAS CONCEIVED WHILE ITS WRITER AND DIRECTOR WERE SUPPOSED TO BE … Continue reading →

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Following are LRC’s best-selling books for March as chosen by our readers: Annotated Secessionist Papers – Barry Clark Austrian School for Investors: Austrian Investing between Inflation and Deflation – Rahim Taghizadegan Read Better!: For Adults and Teens – Linda Schrock Taylor Jeb! and the Bush Crime Family: The Inside Story of an American Dynasty – Roger Stone The Neoconservative Threat to World Order: Washington’s Perilous War for Hegemony – Dr. Paul Craig Roberts The Crusades: The World’s Debate – Hilaire Belloc Against the State: An Anarcho-Capitalist Manifesto – Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. 9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America: And Four Who Tried to Save Her – Brion McClanahan … Continue reading →

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Ever get frustrated with the limited options that Netflix offers you when you log onto the home page? There are thousands upon thousands of TV shows and movies available to stream, but they’re not all available to you because Netflix uses an algorithm that only gives you options based on what they think you might like to watch. But there is an easier way to finding something to watch, at least if you know the secret codes that unlock Netflix’s categories and sub-genres. Netflix has more than 76,000 categories of all of the TV shows and movies available in its … Continue reading →

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