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Restore Our Republic

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 26, 2022

As predictable as thunder following lightning, former CIA director William Gates recently declared that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s increasing assertiveness demonstrate the need for the U.S. government to remain an ever-growing, more powerful national-security state. Gates’s declaration appeared in an op-ed in the March 3, 2022, issue of the Washington Post. He also pointed to Iran and ...

The Vicious Cycle Fueled By America’s Toxic Cult of Violence

by John W. Whitehead May 25, 2022

“Mass shootings have become routine in the United States and speak to a society that relies on violence to feed the coffers of the merchants of death. Given the profits made by arms manufacturers, the defense industry, gun dealers and the lobbyists who represent them in Congress, it comes as no surprise that the culture of ...

Federal Testing Debacle Multiplied COVID Carnage

by James Bovard May 24, 2022

On a bitter cold January afternoon, lines of people awaiting free COVID tests stretched around the block at a Rockville, Maryland, public library. Looking at the scene reminded me of seeing East Germans lined up in endless queues in the 1980s to receive their potato and sauerkraut rations. But few of the people docilely waiting in Rockville recognized that ...

Conservatism, Libertarianism, and John Stuart Mill

by Laurence M. Vance May 23, 2022

Although most conservatives of today seem to have forgotten him, conservatives of yesteryear honored and revered Russell Kirk (1918–1994). After receiving his bachelor’s degree from Michigan State College (now University), Kirk earned his master’s degree at Duke University and then his doctor of letters from the University of St. Andrews. Kirk was a prolific writer who wrote not only ...

Get Ready to Be Muzzled: The Coming War on So-Called Hate Speech

by John W. Whitehead May 19, 2022

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech.”—Benjamin Franklin Beware of those who want to monitor, muzzle, catalogue and censor speech. Especially be on your guard when the reasons given for limiting your freedoms end up expanding the government’s powers. In the wake of a mass shooting in Buffalo, NY, carried out by an ...

The Ninth Circuit Upholds the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

by Scott McPherson May 18, 2022

California’s Ninth Circuit has ruled in a 2-1 decision that a state ban on 18- to 20-year-olds buying semiautomatic rifles is inconsistent with the Second Amendment and must be overturned. “America would not exist without the heroism of the young adults who fought and died in our revolutionary army,” wrote Judge Ryan Nelson. “Today we reaffirm that our Constitution ...

In the Beginning: The Mont Pelerin Society, 1947

by Richard M. Ebeling May 17, 2022

Seventy-five years ago, there occurred an important event in the post–World War II revival of free-market liberal ideas. Over the first ten days of April 1947, 39 people from Europe and the United States met in a hotel in Switzerland at a mountain place known as Mont Pelerin. They came together to discuss the future of economic, social, and ...

You’ve Been Flagged as a Threat

by John W. Whitehead May 16, 2022

“The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem and very often makes the problem worse.” — Milton Friedman You’ve been flagged as a threat. Before long, every household in America will be similarly flagged and assigned a threat score. Without having ever knowingly committed a crime or been convicted of one, you and your fellow citizens have ...

Confronting Evil at Home

by Future of Freedom Foundation May 13, 2022

Amazon Review Excerpts: An Encounter with Evil: The Abraham Zapruder Story Purchase today at Amazon: $9.85 Kindle version. $14.95 print version. “This is one of the two best books I have read on the Kennedy assassination, the other being JFK and the Unspeakable.”—Five-star rating. “This book will ...

Overturning Roe v. Wade Is a Win for Federalism – and the Constitution

by Scott McPherson May 11, 2022

The Cato Institute has released its latest edition of “Freedom in The 50 States: An Index of Personal and Economic Freedom,” and it reveals that a spectrum of liberty, from libertarian(ish) to statist, is found across the fruited plains of this country. The freest states are New Hampshire, Florida, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Nevada. At the ...

Let’s End the Cold War Racket

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 10, 2022

One of the most under-reported aspects of President John F. Kennedy’s term in office was his decision to end the Cold War and establish peaceful and friendly relations with the Soviet Union, Cuba, and the rest of the communist world. In 1963 America, that was a remarkable — and highly dangerous — thing for any president to do. After all, ...

The Latest Media Assault on Freedom

by James Bovard May 9, 2022

Prominent journalists are calling for the media to champion a “pro-democracy” bias in how they portray politicians and government agencies. But tub-thumping for democracy — or at least for politicians who claim to be pro-democracy — is a poor substitute for exposing the proliferation of government abuses. Freedom will be the victim if journalists grasp a new pretext to ...