Yes, you read that title correctly. The latest in the flurry of attacks on gun owners comes from a writer at the liberal website Slate who has compared those who choose to arm themselves to those who committed the natural rights crime of slave ownership. The editorial, titled “What Gun Control Advocates Can Learn from…
By Elias J. Atienza Oh, Salon. Where would we be without you? You offer something good with one hand and then offer something stupid with the other. With the 2016 general election approaching, your idiocy is growing. First, the libertarian movement is not fringe. It’s true we have some crazies, such as the prancing…
Eric Lieberman Apple is developing a new data collection feature known as “differential privacy” to essentially track and compile users’ operating tendencies, but contends this new system won’t analyze any specific individuals. The new technology will go live in a fall update to Apple’s operating system, iOS. While Apple has not released the technical details on how…
Blake Neff A 97-percent female college has been assailed by student activists who claim the school, despite a near-total lack of men, has become a center of “rape culture” because it engages in business with the family members of a rapist. St. Catherine University only accepts women at the undergraduate level, and is run by…
By Russ Read The Kremlin readily admitted Friday that it has not been able to distinguish between terrorist groups and the so-called moderate Syrian rebels when engaging in air strikes. The comments came from Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov in response to allegations for an unnamed high-ranking U.S. defense official who accused Russia of striking U.S.-backed…
By Michael Bastasch Harvey Silverglate, a renowned civil rights attorney and former president of the American Civil Liberties Union in Massachusetts, called investigations of global warming skeptics by state attorneys general “pure harassment.” “It is outrageous for any law enforcement official to be seeking to win this battle for minds by flexing law enforcement muscle…
By Geoffrey Ingersoll Whole Foods may have sparked the organic food revolution, but it is no beacon of cleanliness. The Food and Drug Administration found evidence of the deadly bacteria Listeria on its visit to a Whole Foods preparation facility in Everett, as well as condensation from ceiling pipes dripping on food. The agency recently…
By Richard Pollock and Ethan Barton Clinton Foundation officials used an obscure New York state charity board filing amendment to disclose that the non-profit received $17.7 million in donations from foreign governments while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. The specific foreign governments involved and the particular amounts…
Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Libertarianism By: ELIAS ATIENZA Most libertarians happen to be white. John McAfee complained about it during the LP National Convention in Orlando, to which Julie Borowski responded. As a minority, many people wonder why I am a libertarian. I am a libertarian for many reasons; I distrust…
Libertarians, it’s time to get real about foreign policy and stop expecting Americans to support candidates who bash their country. That doesn’t mean we can’t criticize the government and its policies, but there is a strong contingent of libertarians who find a way to blame the American government for every problem the world faces. People…