The media is ignoring a growing threat to civil society on the left: the strange resurrection of the dangerous dogma known as anarchism. Simply put, anarchism is the belief that human beings are basically and intrinsically good and all authority is evil and corrupting. It can also lead to violence such as the riots in Seattle on May 1, when a mob roamed through the city’s downtown attacking police and destroying property. The crowd, composed largely of anarchists, threw rocks, firebombs, metal pipes, and fireworks at police. Such riots have become a yearly event in
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Immediately after 9/11, there was a groundswell of support for anything the government deemed necessary to make us safer. American flags flew on every car and new legislation passed at a dizzying rate as everyone wanted to do something, anything, to let the world know we weren’t going to just sit here and be a target for every two-bit terrorist that wanted to make a name for himself. There result, among other things, was the behemoth we now know as the Department of Homeland Security. The idea seemed right: ensure that all of our intelligence
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) is seeking to create a massive online database that can pull up an individual’s personal information, connections, and associates. Currently called “Investigative System,” the ATF is asking private companies to provide bids to build it. The system is described as a “massive online data repository system that contains a wide variety of data sources both historically and current that can be utilized in support of investigations and backgrounds.” According to the ATF’s official web site, the system will be utilized by staff “to provide rapid searches on
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Mass shootings and explosions are happening with more and more frequency across the country, and the way that our government responds to them has always been less than ideal. Whether it involves fraudulent attempts to infringe upon second amendment rights, racial profiling, or other divisive tactics, it’s important to remain constantly vigilant about the steps that the government takes in the name of protecting our safety. Those who sacrifice liberty to ensure safety deserve neither, and it’s crucial that we are vocal about our resistance to the inflation of government power. There are some legitimate
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The hypocrisy of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and the animal rights movement in general is once again on display for all to see. One of Britain’s leading newspapers, The Daily Mail, just ran an excellent expose on how PETA really treats animals. The article features a number of shocking, disgusting, and disturbing photographs taken by PETA critic Nathan Winograd. Among other things, it shows pictures of dozens of trash bags found in a garbage dumpster behind a supermarket in North Carolina in 2007. The bags were full of cats that PETA
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One would think that the president’s new fiscal budget would have this small town excited. President Obama has included funding to activate the Thomson Federal Prison in his 2014 fiscal budget, submitted to Congress on Wednesday. According to a letter that Congresswoman Cheri Bustos wrote to President Barack Obama on April 3, 2013, the opening
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The last century was drenched in blood, as unchecked governments wreaked havoc upon peaceful peoples through war and genocide.  This should have taught us valuable lessons about where humankind went wrong.  It should have shown us that no nation is exempt from electing a genocidal maniac to lead (especially considering the fact that Adolf Hitler was Time Magazine’s Man of the Year in 1939—the world thought that the fellow was a real straight shooter).  Sadly, we were wrong then, and we’re still making the same mistakes today. Today’s America is no different when it comes
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Once again, the federal government is trying to sell us on the fact that the multitudes of drone aircraft they’ve ordered are for your own protection. Drones in and of themselves aren’t new, but they are most certainly new to the American people in that they are a technology we invented to be used mostly on someone else. In yet another bizarre case in which a wartime technology is being turned upon the American people, drones are becoming more and more widespread right here in America. Not all drones look like the classic Predator and
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The United States Armed Forces hold a special place in the collective heart of America. We’re a superpower, mainly because of our military might. We won the Cold War; we prevailed against a foe that for decades had more men, more tanks, and more weapons than we ever could, but we won because we fight smarter. Our military is peerless, and yet most people don’t realize how constrained it is. Many second- and third-world nations have seen coup d’états that were driven by military leaders; in those countries, he who controlled the guns, tanks, and
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A disturbing trend is afoot these days with the federal government’s recent purchase of over a billion of rounds of ammunition – which on the surface, doesn’t seem particularly troubling, until you learn that this purchase is not for the military. Who’s buying up all this ammunition then, if not the military? The Department of Homeland Security, that’s who. If this thought leaves you scratching your head as to why an agency like DHS needs to have 1.6 billion rounds of .40 S&W and .223 Remington on hand, you aren’t alone. Many people don’t really
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