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Is the Investigation of President Trump Legitimate?

This past weekend, President Donald Trump and the most visible member of his legal team, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, fired up their campaign against special counsel Robert Mueller. They attacked people at the Department of Justice whom Trump appointed. They smeared career DOJ lawyers and FBI agents by offering allegations without showing any supporting evidence. And they purported to challenge the legitimacy of Mueller’s office itself.

The legitimacy question is an opinion Giulian...

8 Clever Hacks

Chores are never going to make you jump for joy. But there are ways you can make everyday cleaning and maintenance less of a pain—you just need to find the right hacks. From simple household items that double as top-notch cleaning supplies to the easiest way you’ll ever get wrinkles out of a shirt, here are eight life hacks to make household chores easier.

1. ICE CUBES IN THE DRYER GET OUT WRINKLES.

Ditch the iron or handheld steamer and just grab some ice if you want to get wrinkles out of a...

Nuts

A large study has found that people who regularly eat a small quantity of nuts could have a lower risk of developing irregular heartbeat, a major cause of stroke.

The research showed that eating nuts at least three times a week was associated with an 18% reduced risk of atrial fibrillation, a heart condition often felt as an irregular heartbeat.

Nearly 1.3 million people in the UK have been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, and abut 500,000 more have the condition but are not diagnosed, acc...

Armed Citizens To the Rescue

Two men dining at a restaurant in Oklahoma City shot and killed an armed attacker last week, ending what police called “a very tragic situation.”

Oklahoma City Police Chief Bo Matthews said Juan Carlos Nazario, 35, and Bryan Whittle, 39, shot and killed 28-year-old Alexander C. Tilghman soon after he opened fire from the parking lot of Louie’s restaurant, striking a woman and two young girls eating dinner inside Thursday evening.

“You can say they’re heroes, which is a good thing to say … bu...

What’s Hillary Trying To Hide?

SPECULATION around Hillary Clinton’s health has resurfaced after she was again seen wearing a huge coat amid rumours she’s hiding a back brace.

The former US presidential candidate attended a memorial service dressed in the blue jacket, which she teamed with a US flag-patterned scarf.

Hillary has been spotted several times in recent weeks wearing oversized garments – ever since eagle-eyed social media users noticed a protrusion on her back.

During her Memorial Day appearance in Chappaqua, New...

The Brilliance of Randolph Bourne

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Randolph Bourne (1886–1918)”]

Randolph Bourne was an American intellectual journalist who flourished for a few years in the second decade of the 20th century — in the Teens, the decade that ran from 1910 to 1920. Bourne wrote mostly for magazines during this period. His byline was particularly familiar to readers of The New Republic — until his radically antiwar views on the eve of the US government’s intervention in World War I got...

The EU Strikes Back

Italian President Sergio Mattarella just blew up the European Union.  His refusal of the coalition agreement between The League and Five Star Movement threw the best chance for the EU to face its burgeoning political crisis before it became a full-blown sovereign debt crisis.

With U.S. and U.K. markets closed today the full force of the damage done by the EU’s Hail Mary to prevent the Italians forming a government to their specification is actually muted.  Things like this always happen on a...

The Real Reason the West Is Pushing for War With Russia

“The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.”
– Mark Twain

The recent chemical gas attack in Syria has once again lit a fire under the global popu...

Self-Protection, Defending Your Rights

How To Be Your Own Bodyguard: Because the Will to Survive is Instinctive but the Ability is Learned – Nick Hughes

Basics of Resistance: The Practical Freedomista, Book I – Claire Wolfe

I’m from the Government and I’m Here to Kill You: The True Human Cost of Official Negligence – David T. Hardy

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East – David Fromkin

How to Be Invisible: Protect Your Home, Your Children, Your Assets, and Your Li...

Capitalism vs. Socialism

Several recent polls, plus the popularity of Sen. Bernie Sanders, demonstrate that young people prefer socialism to free market capitalism. That, I believe, is a result of their ignorance and indoctrination during their school years, from kindergarten through college. For the most part, neither they nor many of their teachers and professors know what free market capitalism is.

Free market capitalism, wherein there is peaceful voluntary exchange, is morally superior to any other economic syste...