When Dissidents Become Enemies of the State by John W. Whitehead April 18, 2019 “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” — George Orwell When exposing a crime is treated as committing a ...
Free Market Liberalism Is Needed More Than Ever by Richard M. Ebeling April 17, 2019 The famous New York Yankees baseball player and manager Yogi Berra is credited with the saying “It's déjà vu all over again.” He is also credited with claiming, ...
Washington’s Biggest Fairy Tale: “Truth Will Out” by James Bovard April 16, 2019 The arrest of Julian Assange has produced rapturous cheering from the American political elite. Hillary Clinton declared that Assange “must answer for what he ...
Bin Laden Won by Matthew Harwood April 15, 2019 Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan by Scott Horton (Chicago: The Libertarian Institute, 2017); 317 pages. According to ...
Financial Tyranny by John W. Whitehead April 12, 2019 If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street, If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat. If you get too cold I’ll tax the ...
Has Modernity Made Us Indecent? by Richard M. Ebeling April 11, 2019 He dressed decently and had a decent meal before going to work. He showed some common decency toward his next-door neighbor. He did the ...
Abolish Foreign Aid, All of It by Jacob G. Hornberger April 18, 2019 As most everyone knows, the federal government is now in debt to the tune of more than $22 trillion. Since federal officials are now spending, on an annual basis, around a trillion dollars more than what they are bringing in with taxes, that is going to raise the federal debt by a trillion dollars every year. We are reminded of this phenomenon ...
No Comprehensive Immigration Plan Will Work by Jacob G. Hornberger April 17, 2019 David Brooks of the New York Times has a plan that will finally—finally!!—end America’s decades-long, ongoing, never-ending immigration crisis. Hallelujah! Someone has finally come up with a “comprehensive immigration plan” that will resolve America’s immigration woes. If only Brooks had come up with it sooner. In his Times column last week entitled “Our Disgrace at the Border,” Brooks pointed out the thousands of Latin ...
Republicans’ Love of Healthcare Socialism by Jacob G. Hornberger April 16, 2019 While Republicans continue to profess their opposition to socialism, their love of socialism is being demonstrated in the healthcare arena. Do you remember when they were campaigning for control over Congress and the presidency with full-throated calls to repeal Obamacare? Not anymore. According to an article in the Washington Post, Republicans have come to love and adore President Obama’s signature achievement as president. ...
Assange, Manning, and America’s Pact with the Devil by Jacob G. Hornberger April 15, 2019 The U.S. government’s ongoing persecution of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning reminds of us the pact that the American people made with the devil at the end of World War II. Here was the pact: U.S. officials said to the American people: We need to keep you safe from the threat of godless communism and from a worldwide ...
The Libertarian Angle: What’s So Good About Democracy? April 9, 2019 Is democracy the goal of politics? Are freedom and democracy one and the same? FFF president Jacob ...
The Libertarian Angle: How to End Poverty April 5, 2019 Is there a way to end poverty? Actually, much poverty has already been eliminated. FFF president Jacob ...
The Libertarian Angle: National Debt and the Debt Ceiling March 19, 2019 The national debt keeps going up and the federal budget keeps running in the red. Jacob Hornberger ...
The Libertarian Angle: The Virtues of Free Trade March 12, 2019 Free trade is the most efficient system of resource distribution yet discovered, but more importantly, it is ...
