Via LibertyCrier, American history being written: "A new gun law coming in 2014 has gun owners stocking up on long guns before a new registry begins. "Even though the law is at least temporarily boosting his bottom line, Just Guns owner John Deaser isn't a fan. He says requiring people to register their rifles and shotguns is an unnecessary invasion of privacy. "In the last week of 2013, he says sales of long guns are up 30 to 50 percent. "The registry goes into effect on Jan. 1, and would...

Michael Lofti of the Washington Times: Governor Rick Snyder of Michigan signed Senate Bill No. 94 into law yesterday. The bill seeks to nullify section 1021 of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). 'It is important to recall that indefinite detention first appeared in section 1021 of the 2012 NDAA, which provided warrant for indefinite detention of U.S. citizens,' said Snyder. Michigan State Senator Rick Jones says that no American citizen should fear being thrown in jail or...

Here's an interesting piece in the New York Review of Books about how 'nevermind al Nusra, these ISIS guys are the real ball busters. And the Americans don't know what to do.' The people of Syria can thank George W. Bush and Barack Obama -- as well as the Israelis and Saudis of course -- for their misery. Without the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi would have just been the leader of crappy little Ansar al-Islam, terrorizing nothing and on the run. Instead an entire legion of Ayman...

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Philip Giraldi on palling around with his former CIA buddies.

Well shit. Looks like it's going to be a civil war in Egypt after all. That sucks.

Thanks Ed. Merry Christmas to you too.

Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished 'For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission’s already accomplished,' he said. 'I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn’t want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.' 'All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are...

The other day on the show I was busy dealing with the Blue Cross Nazis on the phone and so played most of the audio of Jeff Riggenbach's audiobook of Murray Rothbard's For a New Liberty, Chapter 14 War and Foreign Policy. Like to hear it, here it go.