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JFK: A Fraudulent Autopsy and a Fraudulent Film

by Jacob G. Hornberger October 4, 2024

The following is a nonverbatim transcript of a talk I gave at the annual PorcFest festival in Lancaster, New Hampshire, in June 2024. In the 1990s, the Assassination Records Review Board discovered the existence of a woman named Saundra Spencer, who told a remarkable story to the ARRB. On the weekend of the assassination of President Kennedy, Spencer was a ...

No, It’s Not Time to Ban Sports Gambling Again

by Laurence M. Vance October 1, 2024

Writing for The Atlantic, Charles Fain Lehman claims that legalizing sports gambling was a huge mistake. “If you follow sports, gambling is everywhere. Ads for it are all over broadcasts; more than one in three Americans now bets on sports,” he laments. Lehman, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, gets his history right if ...

FFF’s New Online Conference: “The Case for Open Borders”

by Jacob G. Hornberger September 30, 2024

We are pleased to announce The Future of Freedom Foundation's newest online conference entitled, “The Case for Open Borders.” As with our previous online conferences, it will consist of a series of weekly presentations via Zoom. The presentations will start at 7 p.m. Eastern Time and last for one hour. There will be plenty of time for Q&A.

Overthrowing the Constitution

by John W. Whitehead September 27, 2024

“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” — Abraham Lincoln It is both apt and ironic that the anniversary of 9/11, which paved the way for the government to overthrow the Constitution, occurs the week before the anniversary of the ...

Supreme Court Unleashes Censors and Betrays Democracy

by James Bovard September 25, 2024

On the eve of the first presidential candidate debate, the Supreme Court gave a huge boost to Joe Biden to help him “fix” the 2024 election with maybe its worst decision of the year. It remains to be seen whether the court’s refusal to stop federal censorship will be a wooden stake in the credibility of American democracy. The court ...

Can Huey Long Save America?

by Laurence M. Vance September 24, 2024

I occasionally read a writer and podcaster known as a conspiracy researcher who writes on a variety of subjects. Donald Jeffries is all over the map politically (reformer, idealist, libertarian, classical liberal, populist, and cultural conservative), has published several books, and has written a Substack column since 2021. His name is not important because it is his ideas, which ...

Ludwig von Mises on Human Action and the Free Society

by Richard M. Ebeling September 23, 2024

Seventy-five years ago, on September 14, 1949, Yale University Press published Ludwig von Mises’s Human Action: A Treatise on Economics. Almost 900 pages in length, it soon became recognized as one of the major works in economics in the twentieth century. Not that this recognition was felt in the economics profession of the time. Few reviews appeared in the professional ...

In a Battle Between Freedom of Speech and the Legal Monopoly, North Carolina Sides with the Monopoly

by George Leef September 20, 2024

All government-backed monopolies are objectionable, but perhaps none so much as the monopoly that state governments give to their licensed attorneys. Laws against “unauthorized practice of law” (UPL) ensure that licensed attorneys won’t have to face competition from individuals who are not licensed. Obtaining a law license is extremely time-consuming and costly, which acts as a huge barrier to ...

Book Review: Last Rights

by George Leef September 18, 2024

Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty by James Bovard (Libertarian Institute, 2023) There are quite a few writers who are dedicated to exposing the harm that our leviathan state is doing to the American people, but no one outshines James Bovard. For decades, he has been indefatigable in his work to blow the ...

Three Big Social Security Changes That Should Come in 2025

by Laurence M. Vance September 17, 2024

An article at The Motley Fool that was also posted at Retirely — a financial planning company — about big changes coming to Social Security caught my eye: “3 Big Social Security Changes Coming in 2025 May Surprise Many Americans.” Social Security is the federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program that provides ...

The Government Pressured Tech Companies to Censor Users

by John W. Whitehead September 13, 2024

“Internet platforms have a powerful incentive to please important federal officials, and the record in this case shows that high-ranking officials skillfully exploited Facebook’s vulnerability... Not surprisingly these efforts bore fruit. Facebook adopted new rules that better conformed to the officials’ wishes, and many users who expressed disapproved views about the pandemic or COVID–19 vaccines were ...

Right-Wing Obtuseness on Immigration

by Jacob G. Hornberger September 11, 2024

A columnist for the Washington Post named Jim Geraghty recently chided me in his column for wanting to “abolish the Border Patrol and ICE and all controls on the free movements of people across borders.” With sarcasm dripping from his keyboard, Geraghty concluded, “I suppose that by declaring it to be legal for everyone to cross the border, you ...