My Case against Minimum-Wage Laws by George Leef June 18, 2021 Minimum-wage laws are again in the news, as Joe Biden and his political allies in Congress seek to push the national minimum from its ...
Help Us Defend Our Civil Liberties by Jacob G. Hornberger June 17, 2021 On the heels of our very successful online Zoom conference in April and May on “The National Security State and the Kennedy Assassination,” we ...
The Labor Shortage Is a Government-Contrived Scarcity by Richard M. Ebeling June 15, 2021 Not long ago, my wife and I decided to go out to our favorite Thai restaurant not far from our home in the Charleston, ...
What Is Missing in the Arguments for Marijuana Legalization by Laurence M. Vance June 14, 2021 The federal government classifies marijuana as a Schedule I controlled substance under the Controlled Substances Act with “a high potential for abuse,” “no currently ...
Would the Republicans Have Saved Us? by Laurence M. Vance June 10, 2021 If Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) had not gotten sick and resigned his Senate seat, then the title of this article would have been “Will ...
Free Market Liberalism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Richard M. Ebeling June 9, 2021 The recent 11 days of warfare between Israel and Hamas in Gaza has once more raised the issue of one-state or two-state “solutions” to ...
Hypocrisy 101 by Jacob G. Hornberger June 18, 2021 When President Biden predictably began lecturing Russian President Vladimir Putin about human-rights abuses in Russia, Biden was chagrined when Putin turned the tables on him by asking about human-rights abuses at the hands of the U.S. government. I’ve often wondered why foreign dictators don’t do that more often. Biden’s position is truly a classic ...
End the Draft Permanently by Jacob G. Hornberger June 17, 2021 Recently the U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider a challenge to the all-male draft. The plaintiffs in the case argued that excluding women from the draft was unconstitutional. Apparently the Court is simply letting Congress decide the issue. I’ve got an idea — an idea grounded in freedom. How about abolishing the draft — and, of course, draft registration? In fact, better ...
Can Employers Require Employees to Get Vaccinated? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 16, 2021 The issue of whether any government can force people to get the Covid-19 vaccine is a no-brainer for libertarians. For us, the answer is very simple: Of course not. In a genuinely free society, people have the right to decide for themselves whether to get vaccinated or not. But what if an employer requires his employees to get vaccinated? If they refuse to ...
Old and New Official Enemies by Jacob G. Hornberger June 15, 2021 Doing his best to justify President Biden’s $750 billion military budget, Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Congress that China’s military has been building its military capabilities at “a very serious and sustained rate.” Well, of course it has been. How else would the U.S. national-security establishment justify its ever-increasing budgets? I’m just surprised that Milley didn’t ...
The Critical Importance of Civil Liberties June 16, 2021 Why are civil liberties so critically important to a free society? Join FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger ...
Bob Dylan and John Kennedy June 11, 2021 Why is that Bob Dylan, now 80 years old, is singing about the JFK assassination in his ...
Advancing Liberty in the Pandemic June 8, 2021 What has happened to freedom in the last year in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic? Join ...
The Root of the Problem May 28, 2021 Is President Biden's $6 trillion budget the biggest problem facing our nation? Join FFF president Jacob G. ...
