Daily Articles

NATO’s “Unified Front” at Breaking Point

by Danny Sjursen August 14, 2020

Last month, a Turkish warship came one step away from firing missiles at a French naval vessel off the coast of Libya. In response, Paris suspended its involvement in Operation Sea Guardian — a multinational maritime effort to provide security in the Mediterranean Sea and halt the arms trafficking fueling Libya’s ongoing civil war. Initially, only eight ...

Self-Censorship and Despotism Over the Mind

by Richard M. Ebeling August 12, 2020

The political atmosphere in the United States today is one of the most divisive and polarized in a very long time. In my lifetime, the only period with which I can compare it is the 1960s and early 1970s during the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, when there were demonstrations on the streets of many cities throughout ...

COVID-19 and the Right of Assembly

by Tim Fries August 11, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic, or rather the government’s response to it, has raised many concerns over the past few months. In just the last few months, we have seen how some of the lockdown measures represent a major attack on our individual liberty how the closure of churches has undermined

A Time That Tries Men’s Souls

by Jacob G. Hornberger August 11, 2020

In the midst of the turmoil in which our country is enveloped, I am reminded of the immortal words of Thomas Paine: These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, ...

Defund the Pentagon

by Laurence M. Vance August 10, 2020

Many liberals and progressives in the Democratic Party have been loudly calling for the defunding of police departments around the country after the tragic death of a black man, George Floyd, at the hands of a white Minneapolis police officer. While defunding the police — not to be confused with disbanding the police — means different things to different ...

Discrimination and the “Ministerial Exception”

by Laurence M. Vance August 5, 2020

The U.S. Supreme Court issued two landmark discrimination decisions in its term that recently came to an end. However, only one will result in more liberty and fewer lawsuits. For several years, federal agencies and courts were split on the issue of whether the prohibition against discrimination in employment because of sex in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act ...

Paul Krugman’s Ad Hominem Defense of Central Banking

by Richard M. Ebeling August 4, 2020

One of the sorriest aspects of almost all political discussions nowadays is how often they seem to degenerate into rude ad hominem attacks rather than more reasoned arguments over the pros and cons of what public policies might be most conducive to achieving various social and economic goals. An example of this is an opinion piece by economist Paul Krugman ...

The Tortured Legacy of the Mexican-American War, Part 3

by Danny Sjursen August 3, 2020

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory, and shed American blood upon American soil. War exists, and notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it, exists by ...

Empire Kidnapping on American Streets

by Benjamin James Bartee July 30, 2020

Lest any observer refuse at this late date to acknowledge that the full weight of the police state is pressed on the American citizenry's neck, let the recent developments in Portland, Oregon settle the debate conclusively. Unidentified federal police are now snatching American citizens off the streets of Portland. Their victims receive no due process because ...

Gold and Free Banking versus Central Banking

by Richard M. Ebeling July 28, 2020

In spite of the officially declared “independence” of the Federal Reserve from the immediate political control of either Congress or the White House, America’s central bank is, nonetheless, a branch of the U.S. government that is responsible for setting monetary policy, overseeing a variety of banking regulations, and influencing market interest rates. As a result, politics is always present ...

The Conquest of the United States by China

by Richard M. Ebeling July 27, 2020

In March 2020, America was put on a “war footing,” according to the president of the United States and other governmental officials. The enemy was declared to be the coronavirus, and to meet this “invader” many if not most politicians at all local, state, and federal levels called for government-directed command and control of social and economic affairs. Welcome ...

The Federal Coup to Overthrow the States and Nix the 10th Amendment Is Underway

by John W. Whitehead July 23, 2020

“I don’t need invitations by the state, state mayors, or state governors, to do our job. We’re going to do that, whether they like us there or not.”—Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf’s defense of the Trump Administration’s deployment of militarized federal police to address civil unrest in the states This is a wake-up call. What is ...