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The Tortured Legacy of the Mexican-American War, Part 6

by Danny Sjursen October 26, 2020

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4  | Part 5 | Part 6 But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.… the fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force.… She might become the dictatress of the world.

Government Policies Have Worsened the Coronavirus Crisis

by Richard M. Ebeling October 22, 2020

Few would disagree that we have been and are living through some unprecedented times in 2020. A global pandemic, government-imposed and mandated lockdowns and shutdowns of much of the world’s economic activities and social interactions, and total government debts that cumulatively are almost equal to the global economy’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). But while comparisons are being made between the ...

A Four-Point Plan for Government

by Laurence M. Vance October 21, 2020

In July 2010, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative (NSI), launched the “If You See Something, Say Something” national campaign to raise “public awareness of the indicators of terrorism and terrorism-related crime, as well as the importance of reporting suspicious activity to state and local ...

We Are All Victims of the Deep State’s Con Game

by John W. Whitehead October 20, 2020

We’re run by the Pentagon, we’re run by Madison Avenue, we’re run by television, and as long as we accept those things and don’t revolt we’ll have to go along with the stream to the eventual avalanche.... As long as we go out and buy stuff, we’re at their mercy… We all live in a ...

Socialism, American Style, Part 4

by Jacob G. Hornberger October 19, 2020

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 It would be difficult to find a better example of American socialism than the institution of public schooling or, as it might be more accurately termed, government schooling. Public schooling is based on socialist central planning. Whether at a federal, state, ...

The Political Circus and the Court

by Richard M. Ebeling October 16, 2020

Much of the news and social media chatter following the vice-presidential debate on October 7, 2020 seemed to focus on two events during the 90-minute exchange: Kamala Harris’s unwillingness to say whether she and Joe Biden would or would not try to “pack” the Supreme Court with justices to assure voting majorities for “their side,” and the dark colored ...

Trade Deficit Baloney

by Laurence M. Vance October 14, 2020

Donald Trump campaigned on a pledge to bring down America’s trade deficits. Yet, in spite of all his tariffs, the trade deficit is higher than when he took office. Is that a cause for concern? Commerce is mentioned only twice in the Constitution. The word trade does not appear at all. In Article I, Section 8, Congress is given the ...

One Man Against the Deep State ‘Monster’

by John W. Whitehead October 13, 2020

You gotta remember, establishment, it’s just a name for evil. The monster doesn’t care whether it kills all the students or whether there’s a revolution. It’s not thinking logically, it’s out of control. — John Lennon (1969) John Lennon, born 80 years ago on October 9, 1940, was a musical genius and pop cultural icon. He was ...

Celebrating the Arrival of Ludwig von Mises in America

by Richard M. Ebeling October 12, 2020

Eighty years ago, on August 2, 1940, the leading living member of the Austrian School of Economics, Ludwig von Mises, arrived in the United States as a refugee from war-torn Europe. Hated by the socialists, viewed as a “class enemy” by the communists, and despised as “racial vermin” by the Nazis, Mises, like so many others, had made the ...

Is Libertarianism Immoral?

by Laurence M. Vance October 9, 2020

“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun,” said the wisest man who ever lived in the book of Ecclesiastes. Although King Solomon wasn’t writing about libertarianism, what he wrote certainly applies to critics of libertarianism. While ...

Trump’s New and Improved Obamacare

by Laurence M. Vance October 8, 2020

At an appearance in Charlotte, North Carolina, last month, President Trump unveiled his replacement for Obamacare that “puts patients first, families first, and — perhaps most importantly for all of us — America first.” The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as the PPACA, ACA, or Obamacare, was signed into law on March 23, ...

If I Ruled the World: A Dangerous Dream

by Richard M. Ebeling October 7, 2020

“If I Ruled the World,” say the lyrics in the hit song from the 1960s, the world would be a beautiful place with a smile on everyone’s face. Every man would say the world was his friend, with happiness that no man could end. No, my friend, not if I ruled the world. A nice fantasy for a daydreamer, ...