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Seven Flags Over Laredo

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Most everyone is familiar with the slogan “Six Flags Over Texas,” especially since it is the name of a big theme park in Arlington, Texas. The slogan signifies that the flags of six different nations have flown over Texas: the flags of Spain, Mexico, France, Texas, the Confederacy, and the United States. Less well-known is that seven flags have flown over my hometown of Laredo, Texas, which is located on the U.S.-Mexico border. The seventh nation was the Republic of the Rio Grande, whose capital was Laredo. Under Mexico’s constitution of 1824, Mexico’s governmental system was based on a limited-government republic at the national level, with political power being decentralized to the Mexican states and provinces. That system ended with the presidential election in 1833 of Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna, who abrogated the constitution and implemented a highly centralized federal government (much like what happened in the United States.) People in the northern part of ...

The National-Security Branch Rules the Roost

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If there is anything that confirms that the national-security branch of the federal government rules the roost within the federal governmental structure, it is the Pentagon/CIA torture and indefinite-detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. That facility stands as an ongoing testament to the overarching power of the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA within America’s governmental structure and the deference to their authority displayed by the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the federal government. Imagine that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) does to drug-war suspects what the Pentagon and the CIA have done in Cuba with terrorism suspects. The DEA establishes a prison camp in Mexico in which it keeps drug-war defendants in custody for as long as the DEA wants. No trial and no due process. The DEA announces that if it ever does allow trials to be held, they will be by DEA tribunals rather than by juries composed of citizens chosen at random. The ...

The Case for Libertarian Internationalism

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Libertarians and conservatives share a common enemy. Whether it is described as liberalism, progressivism, collectivism, or socialism; whether its adherents term themselves liberals, progressives, Democrats, or democratic socialists — the agenda is the same: paternalism, universal health care, free college tuition, more gun-control laws, social justice, green energy, environmentalism, climate-change alarmism, affirmative action, government-mandated family leave, government-funded child care, more antidiscrimination laws, privileges for organized labor, an ever-increasing minimum wage, increased taxes on “the rich,” easier access to welfare with fewer work requirements, and abortion on demand (at taxpayer expense for low-income women). The result of all of these things is a larger and more intrusive government and increased government regulation of the economy and intervention in society. Conservatism  Although libertarians and conservatives may share a common enemy, this does not mean that the two groups are ideological cousins — no matter what President Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) thought. In a 1975 Reason magazine interview, Reagan said: “If you analyze it I ...

A Great Book on the U.S. Empire

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Martin Luther King called the U.S. government “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world.” No one can reasonably deny that he was right. U.S. invasions, occupations, wars of aggression, coups, regime-change operations, inciting and provoking wars and conflicts, sanctions, embargoes, and state-sponsored assassinations have all contributed to what amounts to a massive death toll among foreign citizens. ...