The Great Election Fraud by John W. Whitehead March 15, 2024 “Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.”—Gene Sharp, political science professor The U.S. ...
Ludwig von Mises and the Austrian Theory of Money, Banking, and the Business Cycle, Part 1 by Richard M. Ebeling March 12, 2024 One hundred years ago, in 1924, the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises issued a revised German-language edition of his 1912 book
When Corporations Serve As a Front for Government Censors by John W. Whitehead March 8, 2024 “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is ...
Unheralded Resisters in Nazi Germany: The Edelweiss Pirates, Part 3 by Wendy McElroy March 6, 2024 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 In his essay “Youthful Rebellion as Legitimate Resistance Against the Third Reich,” history professor John ...
End the Alcohol Nanny State by Laurence M. Vance March 4, 2024 The one substance that government at all levels in the United States has sought to regulate and tax like no other is alcohol. The latest ...
COVID-19 Tested Our Commitment to Freedom by John W. Whitehead February 28, 2024 “The remedy is worse than the disease.”—Francis Bacon The government never cedes power willingly. Neither should we. If the COVID-19 debacle taught us one thing it is ...
No Emergency Powers in the Constitution by Jacob G. Hornberger March 14, 2024 It has become an article of faith that under our system of government, federal officials can declare an emergency, which then purportedly authorizes federal officials to exercise emergency powers. However, it just ain’t so. There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes the federal government to declare an emergency or to exercise emergency powers. Keep in mind that when the Constitution called the ...
The Importance of Capital by Jacob G. Hornberger March 13, 2024 I was recently walking through a construction site near my house, where a new townhouse project is being built. The townhouses are four stories high. The basic construction of all four levels has been finished. A man was using a gigantic piece of equipment that lifted an entire bedroom section, which must have weighed around 1000 pounds. He then elongated the equipment to ...
Is the Drug War Finally Over? by Jacob G. Hornberger March 11, 2024 The U.S. government just convicted Juan Orlando Hernandez of a drug offense. Who’s he? He’s the former president of Honduras. U.S. officials charged him with conspiracy to import hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States. Last Friday, a federal jury in New York found him guilty. Yay! The drug war is now over, right? Well, not exactly. In fact, if truth ...
Warrantless Searches Near the Border by Jacob G. Hornberger March 7, 2024 The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” Notwithstanding ...
The New Deal March 14, 2024 In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the tremendous impact that President Franklin Roosevelt's New ...
Abolish the Minimum Wage March 7, 2024 In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss why California's new law raising the minimum wage ...
The Virtues of Unilateral Free Trade February 29, 2024 In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the benefits of unilaterally ending all restrictions on ...
The Case for Open Borders February 22, 2024 In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob, Richard, and special guest John Washington discuss John's new book "The ...