Are We Really Less Free Today? Sheldon Richman on the State of Liberty

Here is an interesting video I found featuring Sheldon Richman, editor of The Freeman.

Who Owns the World? Noam Chomsky on U.S.-Fueled Dangers, from Climate Change to Nuclear Weapons

From Democracy Now: In the week when President Obama and Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney debated issues of foreign policy and...

The U.S. Moves Ever Closer to a True Totalitarian State

The Washington Post has written a piece outlining the Obama Administration’s normalizing and further legalizing his unconstitutional “ki...

Greg Palast: Mitt Romney's Bailout Bonanza

Mitt Romney’s opposition to the auto bailout has haunted him on the campaign trail, especially in Rust Belt states like Ohio. There, in Se...

A Free Market is Not Unregulated

It's a common criticism of the “free market” that such a market is “unregulated,” thus, is chaotic. However, this is a complete mis...

“Terrorism:” One of the Most 'Manipulated' Words in Political Discourse

Last month I wrote a piece about the terrorist actions of the U.S. government. Today I found a piece written by Glenn Greenwald discussi...

Drone Warfare: Killing By Remote Control

Earlier this year Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the peace activist group called Code Pink, gave a talk about the U.S. government's ...

Q&A with Arizona Atheist

I've given a few interviews over the years. Some of them have even been with hostile interviewers which seemed to turn a bit into a...

Columbus Day: A Day of Shame

Today is Columbus Day. A day that has become a national holiday. Even though it's somewhat well known what Christopher Columbus did to t...

My Reading List

I am a voracious reader. With nearly 1,000 books in my personal library I almost always have something to read. On my lazy days it'...

The Launch of Skeptic Ink Was Successful!

For those who are unaware Skeptic Blogs has morphed into Skeptic Ink Network (SIN). All the same great content and the same great write...

The Lucifer Effect – October 2012

In this month's Lucifer Effect I have some very egregious examples of police misconduct and brutality. First up is a video of a cop...