The Student Debt Conundrum by Laurence M. Vance March 18, 2019 Using data from the Federal Reserve, Student Loan Hero — an organization that provides “resources, tools and information” to help ...
Political Contests Are Between Competing Socialisms by Richard M. Ebeling March 15, 2019 Another election cycle has begun, even though it is less than a half a year since the November 2018 congressional elections. Donald Trump seems ...
Understanding the JFK Assassination, Part 3 by Jacob G. Hornberger March 14, 2019 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 Soon after President ...
John McCain’s Disastrous Militaristic Legacy by James Bovard March 13, 2019 When Sen. John McCain passed away in August, he was lauded far and wide for his long career of public service. Rep. John Lewis, ...
War Spending Is Bankrupting America by John W. Whitehead March 13, 2019 “Pity the nation whose people are sheep And whose shepherds mislead them Pity the nation whose leaders are liars Whose sages are silenced And whose bigots haunt the ...
The Libertarian Angle: The Virtues of Free Trade (video) by Future of Freedom Foundation March 12, 2019 Free trade is the most efficient system of resource distribution yet discovered, but more importantly, it is moral and ...
The U.S. Death Star and the New Zealand Massacre by Jacob G. Hornberger March 18, 2019 White supremacy, we are told, is the cause of the New Zealand massacre, and gun control is the solution. That’s what the statists are saying. Their response is entirely predictable. My only surprise is that no one, as far as I know, is attributing the shooting to hatred for New Zealand’s “freedom and values.” What few are pointing to, not surprisingly, is the role of ...
The Horrific Long-Term Consequences of Regime Change by Jacob G. Hornberger March 15, 2019 84-year-old Emma Thiessen Alvarez has never forgotten the day in 1981 when Guatemalan officials came to her house looking for her daughter, a student leader who had escaped from military custody. Unable to find her, the officials settled for Thiessen’s 14-year-old son. She never saw him again. Thiesen’s story was highlighted in a recent New York Times article because the ...
The Ongoing, Never-Ending U.S. Death Star by Jacob G. Hornberger March 14, 2019 The U.S. national-security establishment’s death star continues operating at full-speed and on auto-pilot. According to an article in Newsweek, the Pentagon and the CIA have now killed half-a-million people since 9/11. The article didn’t say how many of those dead people are estimated to have participated in the 9/11 attacks but I’d say that a reasonable estimate would be maybe ...
Conservatives and Progressives Are Denialists by Jacob G. Hornberger March 13, 2019 One of the major differences between libertarians, on the one hand, and conservatives and progressives, on the other, is with respect to freedom and reality. When it comes to the concept of freedom, libertarians have a grip on reality. Conservatives and progressives don’t. Both conservatives and liberals are convinced that they live in a free society. This mindset is reflected in various ways. The Pledge ...
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 ...
The Libertarian Angle: Monetary Central Planning March 6, 2019 Would the free market allocate money as efficiently as other goods? Of course! FFF president Jacob G. ...
The Libertarian Angle: Venezuela and the Tyranny of Gun Control February 27, 2019 Possession of firearms does not guarantee freedom, but it certainly doesn't hurt. The leaders of Venezuela surely ...
The Libertarian Angle: The Horrors of the Original New Deal February 20, 2019 With the New Green Deal a hot topic, we thought it would be time again to take ...
