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George H.W. Bush’s Forgotten Debacles and Demagoguery

by James Bovard April 22, 2019

After former President George H.W. Bush died late last year, he was widely hailed as a great leader and patriot. At the National Cathedral funeral service, biographer Jon Meachan declared that Bush was a “twentieth-century Founding Father.” The minister of Bush’s church in Houston compared him to Jesus. Bush’s gentlemanly manners were lauded by many people outraged by President ...

The Libertarian Angle: The Income Tax: Root of Evil (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation April 19, 2019

Taxation is theft, there is no getting around it. But the income tax in particular has had a particularly galling effect on the liberty of all Americans. FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling discuss. Go to the podcast.

When Dissidents Become Enemies of the State

by John W. Whitehead April 18, 2019

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” — George Orwell When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals. In the current governmental climate, where laws that run counter to the dictates of the Constitution are made in secret, passed without debate, and upheld by secret courts that ...

Free Market Liberalism Is Needed More Than Ever

by Richard M. Ebeling April 17, 2019

The famous New York Yankees baseball player and manager Yogi Berra is credited with the saying “It's déjà vu all over again.” He is also credited with claiming, “I really didn’t say everything I said.” Never were both of these truer than in our era of reborn defenses of and demands for more government intervention, redistribution, and planning. Many of us assumed, or at ...

Washington’s Biggest Fairy Tale: “Truth Will Out”

by James Bovard April 16, 2019

The arrest of Julian Assange has produced rapturous cheering from the American political elite. Hillary Clinton declared that Assange “must answer for what he has done.” Unfortunately, Assange’s arrest will do nothing to prevent the vast majority of conniving politicians and bureaucrats from paying no price for deceiving the American public. “Truth will out” is a phrase that is routinely ...

Bin Laden Won

by Matthew Harwood April 15, 2019

Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan by Scott Horton (Chicago: The Libertarian Institute, 2017); 317 pages. According to official U.S. government accounts, the body of Osama bin Laden slid off the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson into his watery grave in the Indian Ocean sometime on the morning of May ...

Financial Tyranny

by John W. Whitehead April 12, 2019

If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street, If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat. If you get too cold I’ll tax the heat, If you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet. Don’t ask me what I want it for If you don’t want to pay some more ‘Cause I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the taxman… And you’re working for no one ...

Has Modernity Made Us Indecent?

by Richard M. Ebeling April 11, 2019

He dressed decently and had a decent meal before going to work. He showed some common decency toward his next-door neighbor. He did the decent thing to do. From these examples, you might conclude that the word decent refers to following some rule or standard of conduct, or behaving in some proper and ethical way toward others; and you would ...

A Massive Transfer of Wealth

by Laurence M. Vance April 10, 2019

Even though the Republicans had majorities in the House and Senate during the first two years of Donald Trump’s presidency, they failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as Obamacare, or to “repeal and replace” it with something better. President Trump recently announced that he is backing off plans to introduce a Republican ...

The Libertarian Angle: What’s So Good About Democracy? (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation April 9, 2019

Is democracy the goal of politics? Are freedom and democracy one and the same? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling discuss. Go to the podcast.

Abolish the Welfare State to Solve the National Debt Crisis

by Richard M. Ebeling April 8, 2019

Why is it so difficult to win the case for freedom in modern American society? A variety of possible answers come to mind. The collectivists are more effective in appealing to people’s emotions. The interventionist-welfare-statist argument is easier to make than it is to follow the logical chains of reasoning required to make the free-market case. Socialist-leaning teachers and ...

The Libertarian Angle: How to End Poverty (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation April 5, 2019

Is there a way to end poverty? Actually, much poverty has already been eliminated. FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling tell you how. Go to the podcast.