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Jacob Blake's Mom Blasts Rioters
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BLM Protesters Demand Restaurant Patrons Give Black Power Salute
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Denver Is Done With Rioters
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Woke Wonder Woman
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Periods: A Triggering Form of Aggression
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Armed BLM Rioters Stop an Armored Police Vehicle
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Hollywood's Elites Are Bugging Out
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The Thin Veneer of American Civilization Has Been Blown Away
Original article "The point instead was to destroy and deface most all images of America, from Frederick Douglass and Ulysses S. Grant to Lincoln and World War II heroes such as Churchill. The strategy of the Left was that if they could easily wage war on the bronze and stone of the past without repercussions, then as fear and terror mounted, they could turn to the flesh-and-blood enemies of the people in the present. Anyone who with impunity burns books — including the Bible — vandalizes...
What Have the Democrats Done to Solve Anything?
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Virginia Plans to Make COVID Vaccine Mandatory
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An Insane Maoist Jubilee
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COVID Was Engineered in a Chinese Lab
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Why Socialism Is the Pursuit of Unhappiness
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BLM Supporters Beat Raccoon to Death
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Convicted Murderer and Rapist Speaks at DNC
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Companies That Support Political Terror
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Delinquent Mortgages Soar to All-Time Highs
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North Koreans Ordered to Turn Over Their Dogs
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How Libraries Are Indoctrinating Kids to Think All White People Are Racists
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Justice for Darius Sessoms!
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What Is To Be Done?
Original article Ideas so good that you have to commit genocide to get people to accept them.
Mandatory Quarantine Camps Rolled Out in New Zealand
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Would It Be OK If the Colors Were Reversed?
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BLM Mob Beats White Man Unconscious
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Antifa Vandalizes Stores
Original article “I feel sentiment for the times, but this stuff is just senseless,” a Compass employee told The Post on Monday. “They don’t even know what they’re doing. It’s just destruction for destruction’s sake.  The irony of it is you can clearly tell that everyone on the video is white.  And it’s like, do you guys even know what you’re doing this for?”
BLM Protestors Demand White People Give Up Their Homes
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Does Anyone Else Find This Ironic?
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Mortgage Delinquency Rates Soar As Housing Crisis Lurks
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Dodging the Homeless and Drug Addicts in San Francisco
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NPR Station Fires Weatherman for Calling Rioters 'Brownshirts'
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Rioters Are Angry That They Never Learned Anything But Lies
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Trucking Company Halts Deliveries to Cities Defunding Police
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Math 'Reeks of White Supremacist Patriarchy'
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I Started a Local Gun and Preparedness Club...and Leftists Tried to Interfere
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Nobody Knows How to Ever Get Out of This Mess
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Analysis of the Coming Civil War
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Election 2020: The Worst Case Scenario Is The Most Likely One
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Biden's $10 Trillion in Proposed Spending Puts Bernie in Charge of the Democratic Ticket
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Smithsonian Institution Explains That Rationality and Hard Work Are Racist
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BLM Activist Says White Men Are the Common Enemy
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Smithsonian: Hard Work and Nuclear Family Are Signs of 'Whiteness'
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Terrorized Motorist Left Defenseless To Mob Rioters, 911 Tells Her to Contact City Hall
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Frightened Liberals Embrace Gun Rights
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America Is a Failed State
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Abolitionist Monuments Defaced by 'Anti-Racism' Rioters
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Michael Moore: Demolish Minneapolis Police HQ to Honor Black America
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Trump to Sign Social Media Executive Order
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Trump Can Forget About the Baby Killer/Eater Vote
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Biden: 'You Ain't Black'
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Turn Off iOS Updates
Original article Do not get iOS 13.5 It allows Apple to automatically turn CONTACT TRACING AND REPORTING ON. Probable cause to test your family for COVID can be established, without your consent, if your phone enters ‘proximity’ of a person with COVID.
New Documents From the Sham Prosecution of Gen. Michael Flynn Also Reveal Broad Corruption in the Russiagate Investigations
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Trump Mobilizes Military To Deliver COVID Vaccine As HHS/DoD Unveil Massive Contract For 'Injection Devices'
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Fed to Start Buying Bond ETFs
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Tucker Carlson's Crushing Takedown of Obama
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OR County Establishes Safe Space
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Dr. Fauci's Ex-Employee Tells All
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Days After Giving Muslims 400K Free Meals For Ramadan, De Blasio Threatens To Round Up Jews
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The Legislative Process
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Georgia Kicks Off Chilling Door-to-Door COVID-19 Blood Collections
Original article "If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life." ~ Henry David Thoreau
The Wuhan Virus Reveals the Rot in America's Democrat-Run Cities
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Rasputin in the White House
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ER Docs Urge 'Open Up Society Now' Because 'Lockdowns Are Weakening Our Immune Systems'
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Instead Of ‘Flattening The Curve,’ We Flattened Hospitals, Doctors, And The U.S. Health Care System
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Renowned Microbiologist Claims Wuhan Lab 'Did Absolutely Crazy Things' With Coronavirus
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Pentagon Study: Flu Shot Raises Risk of Coronavirus by 36%
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Shocking Study Finds Coronavirus Mutations That Are Much Deadlier Than The Original
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The Unseen Death Toll Of COVID-19 Measures
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Zuckerberg: Lockdown Protests Are ‘Misinformation,’ Facebook Will Ban Organizers
Original article "A Facebook spokesman confirmed to CNN that planned protests in California, New Jersey, and Nebraska were having their pages removed from Facebook at the request of state authorities."
Out of Shadows
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No, We Are Not 'All In This Together'
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Feel Sorry For Bill Gates, Who's Been Targeted With Conspiracy Theories
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COVID-19 Is a Man-Made Virus
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Coronavirus Is China's Chernobyl
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CBC Instructs Kids On How To Shut Down Their Parents' 'Conspiracy Theories'
Original article "The irony of all this of course is that virtually nobody trusts the mainstream media, so when they attack conspiracy theories it just makes more people believe them.  When social media giants then get involved to censor information about the same conspiracy theories, that also bolsters the notion that they’re accurate because powerful interests are trying to stifle them."
The Firemen Are Also the Arsonists
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Investing Giants Slam The Fed's Takeover Of The Market
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Investing Is Dead
Original article "Because what can possibly go wrong by piggybacking on the same Fed trades that led us to the edge of collapse?  And just like that, not only is "investing" as we know it dead, but it has been reduced to the tedious exercise (which a 5 year old can do) of simply buying whatever the Fed and other central banks are buying, and for some lucky investors, not only frontrunning the Fed but getting paid for it." 
US State Department Cables Warned Of Potential 'SARS-Like Pandemic' After Visiting Wuhan Lab Experimenting With Bat Coronavirus
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Chilling Documentary Maps Out Likely Origin Of COVID-19
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Your Rights Are Suspended
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Former Biden Staffer Files Criminal Complaint
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U.S. Government Gave $3.7 Million Grant to Wuhan Lab at Center of Coronavirus Leak Scrutiny
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Dr. Paul Cottrell on Why the Coronavirus Lockdowns Must End to Protect Our Liberties
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Peter Schiff Reveals Why Helicopter Money Will Fail
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Free Markets Are Dead
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How Delays and Unheeded Warnings Hindered New York's Virus Fight
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China’s Deadly Coronavirus-Lie Co-conspirator — the World Health Organization
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The End of Capital Markets As We Have Known Them
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The Crimes of Tedros Adhanom
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Immunity Certificates Are Coming
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NYC Health Commissioner Downplayed Risk of COVID
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Coronavirus Victims May Be Given 'Passports' So People Know They've Had Covid-19
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When It's Over, Will We Be the Same America?
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Chinese Biological Experiments to Infect Humans With Coronavirus Exposed in 2015
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Come Join Us in Chinatown
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Woke Stupidity Is Spreading as Fast as the Coronavirus Pandemic
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When, Exactly, Was the Moment When the Financial World Broke With Reality?
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Snowden Warns Govt. Surveillance Amid COVID-19 Could Be Long Lasting
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U.S. Republic Dies by Unanimous Consent
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Federal Govt. Nationalizing Large Swaths of the Financial Markets
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Wasteful Spending in the Coronavirus Stimulus Bill
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Congress Hides Text of $2.5 Trillion Bailout Bill From Public
Original article "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats released a 1,400-page coronavirus relief bill totaling about $2.5 trillion on Monday evening. Since its release, Pelosi said she plans to vote on the legislation that the Senate passes through "unanimous consent" without most members present."
Decadent Like the Late Roman Empire, the West Is Committing Suicide Through Its Irrational Response to Covid-19
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$5 Trillion Down the Drain
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Chinese Dissidents Are Being Executed for Their Organs
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The Era of Free Stuff Has Arrived, Part 2
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The Government Is Using COVID to Take Away Our Rights
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Capitalism Is Dead
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Italian Virologist: Fear of Being Falsely Called Racist Led to Italy’s Coronavirus Crisis
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In Sweeping Power Grab, DOJ Seeks Ability To Detain People Indefinitely Without Trial
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Chinese Regime Deploys 1,600 Online Trolls To Suppress Information On Coronavirus
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ChiComs Hunt Down Citizens Challenging Official Coronavirus Narrative
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Coronavirus Brings China's Surveillance State Out of the Shadows
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WHO Helps China Conceal the Origin of the Coronavirus
Original article "We thought it very important that we provide an interim name so no location was associated with the name. I'm sure you have seen many media reports that are still calling this, using the name Wuhan or using China...."
Was WWII a Battle Between Capitalism and Socialism?
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Lawrence Samuels 2020-01-23 10:21
Column by L.K. Samuels. Exclusive to STR The little hidden secret about World War II is that it was a giant struggle between two opposing economic ideologies—capitalism and socialism. Unfortunately, the public is mostly unaware that the Nazi and Fascist ranks were chock-full of hardcore socialists and Marxist-lite ideologues. This was no accident. For decades the public had been...
Questions to Consider Regarding Mass Shootings
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Douglas Young 2020-01-23 09:01
Column by Dr. Douglas Young Exclusive to STR To prevent more mass shootings, many demand more gun control laws. But do these laws prevent such massacres or address their root causes? Here are 11 questions to ponder. First, why do almost all U.S. mass shootings occur in "gun-free zones”? Indeed, it’s hard to name any that have not. The 2015 Charleston mass-murderer apparently...
Why Are Most Socialists Anti-Semitic?
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Lawrence Samuels 2019-11-14 16:23
Column by L.K. Samuels. Exclusive to STR Ever since a horde of Democrat Socialists became the darlings of the news media in recent years, the specter of anti-Semitism has again reared its ugly head. This is no accident. Many of these Democratic Party politicians, especially Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, have embraced the ideals of socialism alongside those of anti-Semitism. And the reason for...
Greta Thunberg vs. Boyan Slat
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Alex R. Knight III 2019-11-04 20:46
Column by Alex R. Knight III. Exclusive to STR Ever since August of 2018, the world has been hearing a lot about Greta Thunberg, an autistic teen from Sweden who began skipping government school classes (an admirable action when taken by itself) to stake out the Swedish Parliament building in Stockholm in order to demand “action” on the subject of “climate change.” As...
The 'Free Left' Rises to Challenge the 'Statist Left'
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Lawrence Samuels 2019-08-25 12:11
Column by L.K. Samuels. Exclusive to STR In 2015, libertarian author and broadcaster Jeff Riggenbach threw down the gauntlet and urged libertarians to retake their historical position as members of the “Left.” He argued that no longer should classical liberals hide in the shadows of a broken-down political spectrum that has been rigged. After all, it was the classical liberals and the...
The Real Reasons Why the Left Are So Hysterical Over Guns
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Alex R. Knight III 2019-08-17 15:02
Column by Alex R. Knight III. Exclusive to STR Ever since the February, 2018 shootings at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the political Left in America – and elsewhere – have ratcheted up their traditional disdain for privately-owned firearms to an over-the-top, frantic pitch. The Democratic Party has made gun control its #1 platform priority for the foreseeable...
In a Single Word
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Paul Hein 2019-06-24 16:09
Column by Paul Hein. Exclusive to STR From time to time you may encounter the suggestion: describe (blank) in a single word. If “blank” is “Christianity,” a suitable answer might be “repentance” or “salvation.” If “blank” is “science,” it might be “hypothesis” or “experimentation.” What if “blank...
A Right To...
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Paul Hein 2019-03-25 00:00
Column by Paul Hein. Exclusive to STR There’s nothing new about the idea of socialism. In the first 20 years of the 20thCentury, socialist Eugene Debs ran five times for president on the Socialist ticket. He didn’t make it. Well, never mind. The old socialist slogans have been reworked, encompassing the trendy new “green” concept. Maybe that’s all that’s...
Do Not Resist
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Alex R. Knight III 2018-12-17 01:00
Column by Alex R. Knight III Exclusive to STR A somewhat obscure documentary that first debuted in selected screenings and film festivals in 2016, was just earlier this year released on DVD, and I became intrigued enough to buy a copy. Do Not Resisttakes a look at policing in modern America. And what emerges is hideous. I will start by saying that, cinematographically speaking, Do Not...
What Can We Expect Will Happen To Gun Control With The New Congress?
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Sam Bocetta 2018-12-10 01:00
Column by new Root Striker Sam Bocetta. Exclusive to STR Now that the 2018 midterm elections are over and almost all of the results are in, a major question that people on both sides of the aisle are sure to have is this: What can we expect to happen in regards to gun control once the new Congress is sworn in in January? Since the Democrats will control the House and the Republicans the Senate,...
Taoism and Anarchy
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Mark Gillespie 2003-10-21 16:00
I have studied many religions in my search for truth. In my searches, I embraced a few. I was a nominal Christian for many years and converted to Islam about six years ago. Of course, I have left all of those religions behind, in my never-ending quest for truth. However, there is one "religion" that I studied that seemed to contain more truth than any other. That way is Taoism.
An Open Letter to the Peace Movement
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Roderick Long 2003-03-10 17:00
Dear Peace Activists:All honour to you. In your opposition to the United States' impending war on Iraq, you represent a welcome voice for sanity and civilisation, lifted up against the incessant baying of the dogs of war.But I want to urge you to follow the logic of your position just a bit further.Much has been said, and eloquently so, about the need, in dealings between nation and nation,...
How I Said No to the Automatic Social Security Number
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Scarmig 2003-12-11 17:00
This is the story of how I successfully refused to accept a Social Security Number for my child. I simply said 'no.' Really. That's how easy it was. I just said no, again, and again. On the Texas Application for Birth Certificate, which I was unable to get a copy of for this article, there is a check box down at the bottom of the page. It says, and I'm paraphrasing, 'Check here to have your...
Supreme Court Lets Dogs Go Fishing...for Drugs
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Rex Curry 2005-01-25 17:00
A new Supreme Court case states that cops can take dogs fishing. Dogs can go fishing for drugs in Illinois vs. Caballes. As an attorney, I am often consulted by people victimized in searches by dogs trained to smell drugs. A drug dog's skills are often overestimated because people anthropomorphize dogs. A humanlike quality that dogs have is that they are natural libertarians with no interest in...
Radical Solidarity and Moderate Anarchism
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Anthony Gregory 2005-01-27 17:00
Libertarians, and especially anarchistic libertarians, are known for their principles and strong ideology. This has often been, but does not have to be, a double-edged sword in the fight for freedom. To be a libertarian, one must embrace the Non-aggression Principle, or at least come to the same policy conclusions as one would based on the principle. Some libertarians say they don't like the...
The Suppression of Dissent
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Jim Davies 2005-10-25 16:00
Exclusive to STR The jury is still out, as I write these words. Its verdict may be in by the time you read them, and there's a blog with the latest news--but that's okay because the point of this article is not to comment on the trial's outcome but to show what government had to do, in order try to silence an influential advocate of freedom. Its conclusion will be that government is wholly unfit...
The Power of One
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Jim Davies 2005-11-21 17:00
Exclusive to STR Nobody is better qualified than my friend Per Bylund to propose, as he did in a recent STR article, that we who yearn for liberty "save the world through saving [our]selves." Per is not only a brilliant thinker and prolific author (in two languages!) he founded an anarchist website before many of us got our brains in gear and has engaged in debate there all comers from...
Be Free
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Mark Davis 2005-07-10 16:00
The state has grown too big and powerful and conversely the individual appears small and powerless. Libertarians of all stripes can debate endlessly on why this has come about and where we should ideally be instead. When the question of what to do about it comes up, there is typically a moment of silence and perhaps a chuckle or two coupled with some frustrated cynicism. After this moment of...
Utopia vs. Liberty
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Richard Rieben 2005-07-18 16:00
In his insightful analysis of the Dark Side, STR writer Jonathan David Morris notes that, "The Dark Side of the Force is not evil for evil's sake. It's evil because it believes the ends always justify the means . . . .
The Preamble Reconsidered
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Jim Davies 2006-05-17 16:00
Exclusive to STR The Preamble to the United States Constitution is surely one of the most sublime paragraphs ever written. Before this dissection begins, let's prop it up and admire it in all its glory: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure...
Do We Need a Vaccine for Hubris? MUST READ
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D. Saul Weiner 2015-02-13 09:13
Column by D. Saul Weiner. Exclusive to STR There are a lot of heated exchanges going on right now in social media related to vaccination. Many people have become convinced that parents who do not vaccinate are jeopardizing the health of others and that vaccines for children should be mandated. Politicians who are expected to run for president in 2016 are starting to weigh in on the topic and some...
'Obamacare Nightmare Edition' of Ringo's Law and the Healthcare System of Doom MUST READ
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Glen Allport 2013-10-30 08:02
Column by Glen Allport. Exclusive to STR Introduction for this 2013 Edition As I write this – October 28, 2013, more than four years after the column below was posted (here with minor edits; see the original at this link if you wish) – NBC News is reporting that the Obama administration “knew millions could not keep their health insurance" under Obamacare, and has known...
An Armed March on Washington? MUST READ
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Alex R. Knight III 2013-05-07 06:52
Column by Alex R. Knight III. Exclusive to STR Perhaps never before have I encountered a proposal within Liberty Movement circles that has generated more controversy faster and further than Adam Kokesh’s planned July 4th march on Washington, District of Criminals, in which he states that himself and the other participants “will march with rifles loaded & slung across our backs to...
The Orwellian Paradigm--Killing You, For Your Own Safety MUST READ
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fmoghul 2013-04-10 08:12
Column by Faisal Moghul. Exclusive to STR Almost 30 years ago, cultural critic Neil Postman argued in Amusing Ourselves to Death that television’s gradual replacement of the printing press has created a dumbed-down culture driven by mindless entertainment. In this context, Postman claimed that Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World correctly foresaw our dystopian future, as opposed to George...
Frameworks, Virtual Reality and Civil Society: A Manifesto for the Doctrine of Love and Freedom MUST READ
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Glen Allport 2012-12-06 08:44
Column by Glen Allport. Exclusive to STR Perhaps I should say this paradigm shift is resuming. The healthier incoming paradigm is a modern, more accurate, better-supported, and better-understood version of one that began the shift towards a free, healthy, and prosperous world more than three centuries ago and which informed the creation of the United States itself: Classical Liberalism. - 1...
Timeline of a World-Killing Paradigm Shift MUST READ
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Glen Allport 2012-05-14 00:00
Column by Glen Allport. Exclusive to STR   Part 3 of "Could the Non-Aggression Principle Stop the Sixth Great Extinction?"   Part One of this series discussed the Non-Aggression principle, calling it "the libertarian half of the Golden Rule" (compassion being the other half) and describing the function of aggression in creating not only tyranny and war but also...
Terrorist Alert: Government Extremists Threaten Americans MUST READ
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Glen Allport 2012-03-26 00:00
Column by Glen Allport. Exclusive to STR   Question: are you more terrified by Muslim extremists, by "domestic terrorists" – or by your own government? Which group is more likely to assault you? To kill you? To unjustly imprison and even torture you?   The U.S. federal government has ALREADY:   Built and is staffing a huge gulag of concentration camps [...
The State Is a Firing Squad MUST READ
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JGVibes 2012-02-17 01:00
Column by JGVibes.   Exclusive to STR   Although the common perception of human nature is very negative, the truth is that most people who aren’t mentally ill have a very difficult time committing acts of violence. Usually it takes a sizeable payment and a fair amount of manipulation to convince someone to act violently, and even then a tremendous amount of guilt typically...
How the 1% Took America's Wealth--and How to Get It Back MUST READ
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Glen Allport 2011-12-01 01:00
Column by Glen Allport. Exclusive to STR  - 1 - Plundering Wealth vs Producing Wealth   In recent decades, the rich have gathered an increasing share of the total wealth in the United States. As this wealth disparity grows and especially as large numbers of the formerly middle class fall into poverty and even into homelessness, this flow of wealth from main street (from anyone not...
'Anarchy or Minarchy' Is Only Half the Question, Part 2 MUST READ
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Glen Allport 2011-04-13 03:00
Column by Glen Allport. Exclusive to STR  This is Part 2 of a response to a column by Wesley Messamore. Last week's Part One of this column discussed the following:   ·      Minarchy: Lighting a Match to the Fuse of Tyranny ·      Anarchy: By Itself, Yang without Yin ·      The Missing Key...
Chaos Gets a Bad Rap: Importance of Chaology to Liberty Recommended
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Lawrence Samuels 2015-02-18 08:43
Column by L.K. Samuels. Exclusive to STR Chaos gets a bad rap—from the academic and scientific world, even from some uninformed libertarians. Few people realize that without the dynamics of chaos, order would not exist. In fact, nothing would exist. Without chaos there would be no creation, no structure and no existence. After all, order is merely the repetition of patterns; chaos is the...
An Apostate From the Government Religion Recommended
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Paul Bonneau 2013-10-23 08:00
Column by Paul Bonneau. Exclusive to STR I was reading an article about Roger Williams. The more I learn about him, the more impressed I become. "Roger Williams was not a man out of time. He belonged to the 17th Century and to Puritans in that century. Yet he was also one of the most remarkable men of his or any century. With absolute faith in the literal truth of the Bible and in his...
Murray's Missing Plan Recommended
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Jim Davies 2013-10-07 08:37
Column by Jim Davies. Exclusive to STR I've been continuing to read the fascinating story of the modern libertarian movement's early years, as told in the Libertarian Forum, edited and often written by Murray Rothbard. It's vast, but very worthwhile – warmly recommended. I've supplemented it recently with a re-read of parts of Justin Raimondo's excellent biography of him...
Left-Libertarians and the Ring of Power Recommended
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Glen Allport 2013-10-01 08:32
Column by Glen Allport. Exclusive to STR Whoever cannot hit the nail on the head should please, not hit it at all. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche Image of The Ring of Power from Wikimedia Commons – 1 – If I had the Ring of Power, I would only use it for GOOD!   Recently, I was reminded that to at least some extent, left-leaning libertarians and anarchists do not understand that...
Government Denial Recommended
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Alex R. Knight III 2013-07-31 08:31
Column by Alex R. Knight III. Exclusive to STR During my years as a practicing alcoholic, I employed any number of tactics to avoid the ultimately invariable conclusion that in order to solve my numerous problems, I needed to stop drinking altogether. Even long after I had made the inner admission that I was, in all likelihood, suffering from the disease – and I knew or understood very...
The Licensing Effect Recommended
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Lawrence Samuels 2013-05-10 08:28
The article below contains excerpts from L.K. Samuels’ new book, In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action. Column by L.K. Samuels. Exclusive to STR Good intentions rarely make good laws. Those who do evil almost always think they are doing good for goodness’ sake. Nobody sees himself as evil. As Will Smith, the American actor, once quipped, “...
The Pugsley Plan Recommended
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Jim Davies 2013-01-14 08:46
Column by Jim Davies. Exclusive to STR Prior to Harry Browne's first run for US President in 1996, his friend John Pugsley wrote him a passionate “open letter” urging him not to. As far as I know, Harry didn't reply, but he did continue his campaign – and repeated it four years later. He got few votes more than the LP normally receives, but his platform and campaign were...
Ed Schultz and His Alleged Middle Class Heroes Recommended
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Greg Haley 2013-01-04 01:00
Column by Greg Haley. Exclusive to STR Ed Schultz has set quite the task out for himself. On his New Year’s Eve broadcast on MSNBC, he announced who his “Middle Class Heroes of 2012” are. Schultz is a self-styled liberal, so his recipients of the title “Middle Class Hero” are predictable and worthy of a certain amount of eye rolling. The general reverence for...
The Trials Recommended
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tzo 2012-12-11 08:49
Column by tzo. Exclusive to STR To anyone who has seen or read The Reader (a synopsis of the relevant part of the story is here), one of the main questions raised in the story is, "What should be done with Hanna?" Was she responsible for her actions even if she was so thoroughly indoctrinated so as to be completely confused by the charges against her? She asked more than once, while...
464 Lost Years Recommended
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Jim Davies 2012-12-10 08:48
Column by Jim Davies. Exclusive to STR Recently I re-read part of that seminal essay, Discourse on Voluntary Servitude by Etienne de la Boëtie, written in 1548, or 464 years ago. He said that if you want to topple a tyrant, all you need to do is to withdraw support. No violence, no sweat, just stop helping him. Yet 24 years later there was a massacre of Huguenot Protestants, indicating that...

 

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