by The Liberty Movement | Jul 31, 2014 | US News
According to a recent report from the Government Accountability Office, the Pentagon is paying way too much for nearly everything. From Business Week: Across the military, the average major Pentagon acquisition comes in at 40 percent over budget, according to a recent...
by The Liberty Movement | Jul 31, 2014 | US News
Remember back in April, 2007, when then-CIA director George Tenet appeared on 60 Minutes, angrily telling the program host, “we don’t torture people”? Remember a few months later, in October, President George W. Bush saying, “this government does not torture people”?...
by The Liberty Movement | Jul 31, 2014 | US News
UPDATE TWO: The legislation renewing the Defense Production Act passed Congress by a vote of 386-32. Thanks to the 32 members who opposed the bill, and thanks Representative Thomas Massie for making sure there was a roll-call vote. UPDATE: VOTE IS EXPECTED BETWEEN...
by The Liberty Movement | Jul 31, 2014 | US News
Just days after NYPD officers were accused of suffocating a man to death for selling illegal cigarettes, comes more bad news for the citizens of New York. Rosan Miller, 27, who is seven months pregnant, released photos of what appears to be police officers putting her...
by The Liberty Movement | Jul 31, 2014 | US News
Austrian economists define inflation as an increase in the money supply, which in turn leads to higher prices for goods and services. This is important to note for a number of reasons, but most importantly for the point made by Ludwig von Mises in his 1951 essay...