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. Supreme Court was right to keep President Trump’s name on the ballot. The high court’s decree that the power to remove a federal candidate from the ballot under the Constitution’s “insurrectionist ban” rests ...
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 Theorie des Geldes und der Unlaufsmittel. Ninety years ago, in 1934, there appeared an English-language edition under the title The Theory of Money and Credit. Over the more ...
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 down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. We must, therefore, be on ...
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 Charles Marsland II described the acceleration: By 1942, HJ leaders could not cross the street without incident and many stopped attending their meetings out of fear of molestation. The EP ...
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 nanny-state infringement on liberty, property, and commerce is a bill that has been introduced in the Tennessee legislature to prohibit the sale of cold beer in an attempt to curtail drunk driving. The
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 that, as Justice Neil Gorsuch acknowledged, “Rule by indefinite emergency edict risks leaving all of us with a shell of a democracy and civil liberties just as hollow.” Unfortunately, we still haven’t learned. We’re ...
The Disaster of Libertarian Reform of Socialism by Jacob G. Hornberger February 27, 2024 Prior to my discovery of libertarianism back in the late 1970s, when I was in my late 20s, I had no doubts that I lived in a free society. After all, I had attended 12 years of public (i.e., government) schools, four years of a state-supported college, and then three years of a state-supported law school. Given that indoctrination ...
The Global Deep State by John W. Whitehead February 23, 2024 “The madmen are in power.”— Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle The debate over U.S. foreign aid is a distraction. That’s not to say that the amount of taxpayer money flowing to foreign countries in the form of military and economic assistance is insignificant. Even at less than 1% of the federal budget, the United ...
Trampling on a Symbol of Liberty by James Bovard February 21, 2024 Last August, 12-year-old Jaiden Rodriguez was kicked out of a public-school classroom in Colorado Springs after school officials decreed that the Gadsden flag patch on his backpack was “disruptive to the classroom environment.” Those Colorado officials didn’t know the meaning of “disruptive.” Thanks to savvy, thoughtful retorts by Jaiden’s mother in a video showdown at the school, the incident spurred ...
Johnsoncare, Bushcare, Obamacare, and Trumpcare by Laurence M. Vance February 16, 2024 Former president Donald Trump has vowed to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) with his own plan. Because “Obamacare is too expensive, and otherwise, not good healthcare,” he vowed: I will come up with a much better, and less expensive, alternative! People will be happy, not sad! I don’t want to terminate Obamacare, I want to ...
Big Brother and the Rise of the Security Industrial Complex by John W. Whitehead February 14, 2024 “Big Brother is Watching You.”―George Orwell, 1984 2024 is the new 1984. Forty years past the time that George Orwell envisioned the stomping boot of Big Brother, the police state is about to pass off the baton to the surveillance state. Fueled by a melding of government and corporate power—the rise of the security industrial complex—this watershed moment sounds a death knell ...
Medicare & You by Laurence M. Vance February 13, 2024 Although I am not quite old enough to qualify for Medicare, I recently received in the mail a 131-page large-size book titled Medicare & You 2024: The Official U.S. Government Medicare Handbook, published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Turns out that the book was intended for a previous owner ...