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The Wall Will Not Decrease the Amount of Drugs Coming To The USA. Here's Why.

The Wall Will Not Decrease the Amount of Drugs Coming To The USA. Here's Why.

The current threat and one of the common defenses of the use of the wall is the amount of drugs that are able to make it across the border. Countless ...

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The Libertarian Message To All Democrats - IF You're A Democrat, Read This!

The Libertarian Message To All Democrats - IF You're A Democrat, Read This!

Democrat. Or Democratic, for the longer version. The fervent political party that is fighting for a country where everyone, from every walk of life, h...

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The Libertarian Message To All Republicans - IF You're Republican, Read This!

The Libertarian Message To All Republicans - IF You're Republican, Read This!

Republican. If you are reading this, good on you! I implore you to please read this article to its entirety. Take the time and soak up the words, whet...

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The Black Bread - A True Story of the Worst Recesses of Communism & Socialism

The Black Bread - A True Story of the Worst Recesses of Communism & Socialism

It was the 1870's. The Tsars and Bourgeoise movements were being seen as the one true enemy of the state. Those who are most greedy, and who would...

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The Need To Defend Borders with The Need To Remove Welfare States

The Need To Defend Borders with The Need To Remove Welfare States

There has been the interesting conundrum of discussion as of late with regards to the wall. It has become more and more hot of an issue over time. Yet...

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My Most Ideal Ideology - Minarchism

My Most Ideal Ideology - Minarchism

I am a minarchist. True and true. The minarchist definition is as follows: A libertarian political philosophy where a model of a state whose only func...

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Targeting Hate-Groups - But Also Conservatives? Pseudo-Big Brother Controlling What People Can Say

Targeting Hate-Groups - But Also Conservatives? Pseudo-Big Brother Controlling What People Can Say

Jordan Peterson, the famous Canadian clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto pointed out an interesting que...

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The Power of A Wall

The Power of A Wall

Large thumbs have been tack-tack tacking away at an indiscriminate phone, somewhere in Washington, a president fulfilling the people with American pro...

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Augusto Pinochet - Answer to Socialism - Libertarian Thoughts

Augusto Pinochet - Answer to Socialism - Libertarian Thoughts

Augusto Pinochet is a man who was a great war general in Chile. This is a story to play on the understanding to the wise words once said by Thomas Jef...

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The Existing Diversity of Libertarians

The Existing Diversity of Libertarians

Under the current definition of what Libertarianism is: An extreme laissez-faire political philosophy advocating only minimal state intervention in th...

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Football Players Taking A Knee - Unpatriotic?

Football Players Taking A Knee - Unpatriotic?

The whole concept of taking a knee has been a structure for debate among many football fans. One of the basic premises of this is that they simply do ...

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Between The Left & Right - The Authoritarian Evils of Both Parties

Between The Left & Right - The Authoritarian Evils of Both Parties

The battle between the left and right is a detailed and long history, some of which is steeped in a more nuanced standard of ethics and policy that ma...

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Debate: Socialist VS. Capitalist

Debate: Socialist VS. Capitalist

It comes with great pleasure to say that there exists Socialists willing to listen to opinions on the other side. Most echo chambers I have gone to ac...

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Why Liberty-Based Socialism Cannot Exist Realistically

Why Liberty-Based Socialism Cannot Exist Realistically

First I want to point out the two sectors of socialism to make things clear of where I come from. You have people who are authority based socialism. T...

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Nazi Does Not Equal Right Wing. Here's Why.

Nazi Does Not Equal Right Wing. Here's Why.

After debating with many leftists on the political beliefs of the right, it has come to my attention that people do not know what a Nazi's ideolog...

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Is The Idea of Collectivism Accidentally Evil?

Is The Idea of Collectivism Accidentally Evil?

The collectivism definition is as follows: The practice or principles of giving a group priority over each individual in it. This is an ideology th...

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My Vote Is Not A Throwaway Vote

My Vote Is Not A Throwaway Vote

"You know you're just throwing your vote away right?" No indescriminate stranger, family member, or friend. My vote is not a throwawa...

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Larry Sharpe Being Suppressed on Ballot and on Facebook

Larry Sharpe Being Suppressed on Ballot and on Facebook

We live in a society where currently the ones who have the ability to suppress free speech and freedom of the press can be controlled by the few tech ...

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I Spread Liberty-Based Ideology -- People Do Not Respond Yet I Still Do It

I Spread Liberty-Based Ideology -- People Do Not Respond Yet I Still Do It

I've been a conservative for a long time. In my younger age I have spent a good amount of time reading and understanding conservative ideology. I&...

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Perspective from the Middle - Gun Violence in Schools and What To Do About It

Perspective from the Middle - Gun Violence in Schools and What To Do About It

The gun control debate is an old one. One that has been talked about every time there has been a school shooting. There has been many different types ...

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Russian military cites game screenshot as “evidence” of US ISIS support

Russian military cites game screenshot as “evidence” of US ISIS support

In now-deleted social media images, the Russian Ministry of Defense used what is almost certainly a screenshot from a mobile game as part of its suppo...

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State system to catch voter fraud has 99% false positive rate

State system to catch voter fraud has 99% false positive rate

A database system that will now be used by Indiana to automatically purge voter registrations that have duplicates in other states is 99 percent more ...

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Trade Sanctions for North Korea - You Punish The Kim Dynasty You Punish The People

Trade Sanctions for North Korea - You Punish The Kim Dynasty You Punish The People

I want to get this out of the way: The Kim dynasty regime is responsible for many atrocities against the United States and other countries. With that ...

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Why Totalitarianism is the natural state of man

Why Totalitarianism is the natural state of man

"Never underestimate the power of the need to obey" - Sigmund Freud   The democratic mythos has always held that the foundation...

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What's the deal with Jews anyway?

What's the deal with Jews anyway?

What's the next step of their master plan?  We all understand they mean to crash European civilization with no survivors, but to what ultimat...

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Defense contractor stored intelligence data in Amazon cloud unprotected

Defense contractor stored intelligence data in Amazon cloud unprotected

On May 24, Chris Vickery, a cyber risk analyst with the security firm UpGuard, discovered a publicly accessible data cache on Amazon Web Services...

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To kill net neutrality rules, FCC says broadband isn’t “telecommunications”

To kill net neutrality rules, FCC says broadband isn’t “telecommunications”

The Federal Communications Commission's plan to gut net neutrality rules and deregulate the Internet service market may hinge on the def...

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The Non-Aggression Principle is Worthless when Those in Power Can Define Aggression

The Non-Aggression Principle is Worthless when Those in Power Can Define Aggression

One of the cornerstones of modern libertarianism is the Non-Aggression Principle. According to NAP.com, the non-aggression principle can be defined as...

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A Social Welfare Program the Right will Vigorously support: Gun Stamps

A Social Welfare Program the Right will Vigorously support: Gun Stamps

              Since we have a Republican majority going on right now, it’s goin...

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Friendly fire may have killed Army Rangers during ISIS raid in Afghanistan

Friendly fire may have killed Army Rangers during ISIS raid in Afghanistan

The Defense Department on Friday released the names of two Army Rangers who died during a raid on a compound in Afghanistan on Thursday. ...

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President Trump signs NASA advisory bill, says it’s “about jobs”

President Trump signs NASA advisory bill, says it’s “about jobs”

Prior to Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump had made only a few passing references to space during the first two months of his administratio...

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Net neutrality rules took away your Internet freedom, FCC chair claims

Net neutrality rules took away your Internet freedom, FCC chair claims

Did you feel a sudden loss of Internet freedom in February 2015? That's when the Federal Communications Commission imposed net neutrality rul...

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Google expands automatic “fact check” insertion into search results

Google expands automatic “fact check” insertion into search results

After launching a preliminary test in October, Google has officially rolled out an automatic fact check tag program on its search ...

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Comcast: We won’t sell browser history, and you can opt out of targeted ads

Comcast: We won’t sell browser history, and you can opt out of targeted ads

Comcast today said it has "no plans" to sell its customers' individual Web browsing histories, but Comcast can still deliver person...

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Pruitt chooses not to ban pesticide after scientists find neurotoxicity

Pruitt chooses not to ban pesticide after scientists find neurotoxicity

Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, announced late Wednesday that a widely used pesticide will remain available to fa...

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New bill would let companies force workers to get genetic tests, share results

New bill would let companies force workers to get genetic tests, share results

It’s hard to imagine a more sensitive type of personal information than your own genetic blueprints. With varying degrees of accuracy, the four-...

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The CIA uses board games to train officers—and I got to play them

The CIA uses board games to train officers—and I got to play them

Alarms and flashing lights have begun blaring in a hotel meeting room, much to the chagrin of CIA Senior Collection Analyst David Clopper. T...

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New EPA chief denies CO2 is major factor in climate change

New EPA chief denies CO2 is major factor in climate change

The Environmental Protection Agency is charged with enforcing two of the major pieces of US environmental legislation: the Clean Air and Clean Water A...

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Kaléo’s opioid overdose drug went from $690 to $4,500—and senators want answers

Kaléo’s opioid overdose drug went from $690 to $4,500—and senators want answers

Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and thirty of his colleagues sent a letter to Kaléo Pharmaceuticals Wednesday to question the company&#...

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Elon Musk joins Donald Trump’s advisory council despite criticising President-elect

Elon Musk joins Donald Trump’s advisory council despite criticising President-elect

Elon Musk has joined Donald Trump’s advisory council despite having dismissed Mr Trump as “not the right man for the job” ...

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So Trump Is President. What Now?

So Trump Is President. What Now?

In the apparent wake of the 2016 elections, many have come out almost in a shared disbelief over what has happened. I, of course, am talking about the...

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What is The Real Face of America?

What is The Real Face of America?

To put into essence.  These two candidates are nowhere near what we were hoping for time come when Obama checks out.  You had both democrats...

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Agents of influence: How reporters have been “weaponized” by leaks

Agents of influence: How reporters have been “weaponized” by leaks

Since June, some entity has been releasing e-mails and electronic documents obtained via network intrusions and credential thefts of politicians and p...

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To win the presidency - one must have 270 electoral votes. Its not even close.

To win the presidency - one must have 270 electoral votes. Its not even close.

In the wake of the 2016 presidential race, republicans are gung-ho about getting the word out about Trump.  Stomping out 3rd party sympathisers a...

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FBI Docs: Hillary Was So Unpleasant Security Agents Didn’t Want To Protect Her

FBI Docs: Hillary Was So Unpleasant Security Agents Didn’t Want To Protect Her

I did not write this article.  Please support the original creator by visiting their site as well:  http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/17/fbi-do...

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War-weary Libyans miss life under Kadhafi

War-weary Libyans miss life under Kadhafi

I did not write this article.  Please support the original creator by visiting their site:  http://www.france24.com/en/20161017-war-weary-li...

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Cincinnati Zoo deletes Twitter account after one Harambe reply too many

Cincinnati Zoo deletes Twitter account after one Harambe reply too many

The Cincinnati Zoo called it quits on Twitter late Monday after Harambe sympathizers refused a trolling cease-fire. The zoo offered no explanation ...

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Vet Raises Money To Help Donald Trump Earn His Own Purple Heart

Vet Raises Money To Help Donald Trump Earn His Own Purple Heart

Donald Trump was thrilled last week when a veteran at a Virginia rally gave him his Purple Heart. “I’ve always wanted to get a Purple...

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The federal government just approved first private mission to the Moon

The federal government just approved first private mission to the Moon

The Outer Space Treaty requires countries to “authorize and continuously supervise" the activities of space missions under their ...

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Poll: Libertarian Gary Johnson beating Trump, Clinton among active troops

Poll: Libertarian Gary Johnson beating Trump, Clinton among active troops

Military troops favor Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson for president over Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, according to a ...

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Bernie Sanders has finally shown his true colors.

Bernie Sanders has finally shown his true colors.

The Sanders political revolution has come to the point I suspected that it would; endorsing Hilary Clinton for political power. Despite all of his ...

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