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Column by Alex R. Knight III. Exclusive to STR P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { }Mankind are a part of nature. So as to avoid the risk of being branded pedagogic, I’ll add that the most widely accepted cosmological theory to date is that we are all comprised of stardust – the ultimate Mother Nature. Things in this universe, so far as we know or can tell, just don’t get more natural than that. Economics are a purely human invention – the mother of which, Ben...
Original article "A military alliance between Moscow, Tehran and Hezbollah? You’re darn tootin’, and you can thank Barack Obama and his lunatic regime change plan for that development."
Original article 'Meanwhile, the Russians have shot back by calling out the Washington establishment for their phony efforts to destroy ISIS. After only three days of airstrikes, they claim that ISIS is on the run, while after months of daily airstrikes our military hardly left a dent in ISIS. Logically, this can only mean one thing. Our government never intended to destroy ISIS."
Original article "The media frenzy in the countries of the anti-Assad coalition over the Russian air strikes on Al-Qaeda-linked guerrillas in Syria has made one very significant fact quite clear. Along with the nervous reaction of the US, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and some other countries it is irrefutable proof that the interests of seemingly opposing forces – NATO and radical jihadism – are actually tightly intertwined. And their relations go far beyond the Syrian crisis."
Original article "Overshadowed by its relative smallness and obscured by its relative complexity, the six-month-old civil war in Yemen is the middle child of Middle East conflict."
Original article "The collapse that many have suggested will take place at some point in the future is actually happening right here and now. If the charts above are accurate – and we believe they are – then America is already in the throes of its next Great Depression."
Original article "What passes for thinking about the prevention of gun violence is not thinking at all. Thinking (as problem-solving) is a search for means that can be reasonably expected to achieve a given end. By reasonably I mean that supporting arguments can be provided to demonstrate to the satisfaction of reasonable people the connection between the means and ends. What we get from gun-control advocates is nothing like that; instead they operate on the magical belief that uttering certain words --...
Original article "If private property rights are the foundation of a free economy, then it should be clear to all that we have neither. We have something else completely, so we might as well admit it."
Original article "The idea behind 'People’s QE' is that central banks would directly fund government spending… and even inject money directly into household bank accounts, if need be. And the idea is catching on. Already the European Central Bank is buying bonds of the European Investment Bank, an E.U. institution that finances infrastructure projects. And the new leader of Britain’s Labor Party, Jeremy Corbyn, is backing a British version of this scheme. Ah-ha! That’s the...
Original article "A dairy raid just took place on Michael Schmidt’s raw dairy farm in Canada. All eyes had been on Schmidt for years as he is a beloved farmer and food freedom activist who was constantly targeted by agents, along with Canadian sheep farmer Montana Jones. Agents confiscated his items and started loading them onto trucks. The power of the people who arrived as soon as they heard, compelled agents to start unloading the items back onto his farm, preventing the would-be raid."
Original article "The new law prohibits state or local law enforcement agencies from receiving armored drones, weaponized, or both; aircraft that are combat configured or combat coded; grenades or similar explosives and grenade launchers; silencers; and 'militarized armored vehicles' from federal military surplus programs. But, as The Guardian reported last fall, handouts of such equipment from the Pentagon aren’t the only way the federal government militarizes local police. Department of...
Original article "A single neuron in a normal adult brain likely has more than a thousand genetic mutations that are not present in the cells that surround it, according to new research. The majority of these mutations appear to arise while genes are in active use, after brain development is complete."
Original article "The words people use on social media can reveal hidden meaning to those who know where to look. Linguists have long been fascinated by this notion, connecting a person's words to age, gender, even socioeconomic status. Now computer scientists from the University of Pennsylvania and elsewhere have gone a step further, linking the online behavior of more than 5,000 Twitter users to their income bracket."
Original article "Scientists know a lot about HIV—how it's transmitted, the virus' life cycle, and where it likes to hang out in the body. But they haven't had a good understanding of how it moves between cells in the body, and they have never been able to actually watch it spread. Now a team of researchers from Yale University led a study that recorded the virus infecting the lymph nodes in a mouse to better understand how it infects the body, with the intention of being able to stop...
Original article AC/DC rocks the holler.  (Editor's pick)
Original article A Photo Blog
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Stupidity Reigns
Paul Hein 2012-01-10 01:00
painkilleraz 2012-01-09 01:00
Crossing the 10% Rubicon
Where's the State?
Jim Davies 2012-01-06 01:00
A Book Review of Jerome L. Wright’s 'Equal Freedom'
Mark Davis 2012-01-05 01:00
It's Magic!
Paul Hein 2012-01-03 01:00
Why You Can Drive Over 65
Understanding Why the Constitution Was and Remains a Detriment to Individual Liberty
painkilleraz 2011-12-15 01:00
The Problem With the 'People Are Idiots' Meme
Paul Bonneau 2011-12-15 01:00
Hey, Got A (Fascio-Socialism) Light?
Tony Pivetta 2011-02-02 04:00
Psychology Rules!
Paul Hein 2011-02-03 04:00
Column by Paul Hein.   Exclusive to STR   By coincidence, I recently watched two television programs in the same evening that, upon reflection, said a great deal about society. One was a documentary about the President’s airplane, “On Board Air Force One.” I had seen it before, but it seemed worth a second look.   The other was “Downton Abbey,” a sort...
The Failure of Democracy
Guest 2011-02-03 04:00
Column by Cristian Gherasim.   Note: Cristian Gherasim plagiarized this column from here.   Once upon a time, long, long ago, in a faraway place, there lived a group of human beings without benefit of government. Any government at all. How did they manage?   Well, whenever there was a dispute between two neighbors, or friends, or merchants, or between a retailer and a customer,...
Michael Kleen 2011-02-09 04:00
A Response to 'More on Minarchism as Evil'
Paul Bonneau 2011-03-09 04:00
Eliminating Waste, Fraud and Abuse
Libertarianism Pure and Simple
Jakub Bozydar W... 2011-03-30 03:00
Column by Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski. Exclusive to STR I noticed that several of my libertarian friends have recently been following quite keenly the development of the blog called “Bleeding Heart Libertarians.” I must confess that I found the name itself somewhat off-putting, since I associate the “bleeding heart” slogan with sanctimonious whiners, expert at being loudly...
Some Problems With the Farm Analogy
Paul Bonneau 2011-03-31 03:00
Column by Paul Bonneau Exclusive to STR  Recently, STR linked to a video of “The Story of Your Enslavement”. While I largely agree with his view on this, and while I think his exposition is effective in breaking through all the lies we have used to enslaved ourselves, still there are some points about it that bother me.   What Molyneux is using here, is analogy. Analogy is a...
Happy Meals in the Crosshairs
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Don’t Leave Me Alone... Not!
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Do We Need a Vaccine for Hubris? MUST READ
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An Armed March on Washington? MUST READ
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Timeline of a World-Killing Paradigm Shift MUST READ
Glen Allport 2012-05-14 00:00
Terrorist Alert: Government Extremists Threaten Americans MUST READ
Glen Allport 2012-03-26 00:00
The State Is a Firing Squad MUST READ
JGVibes 2012-02-17 01:00
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