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The Conflicts of Visions That Shaped America

by Jacob G. Hornberger October 25, 2021

There have been two conflicting visions in American history that have shaped our nation. As conditions in the United States continue to worsen, it is important that Americans engage in serious soul-searching to determine which vision should be embraced going forward. The original vision The first vision was that which characterized the American people from the founding of the United States ...

The Empire of Lies Breaks Down

by John W. Whitehead October 22, 2021

“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”—Albert Einstein America is breaking down. This breakdown—triggered by polarizing circus politics, media-fed mass hysteria, racism, classism, fascism, fear-mongering, political correctness, cultural sanitation, virtue signaling, a sense of hopelessness and powerlessness in the face of growing government corruption and ...

The American Spirit of Liberty versus Modern Tribal Racism

by Richard M. Ebeling October 19, 2021

In a number of recent speeches, President Joe Biden has been repeating that America is founded not on an ethnicity or a religion or a language but on an “idea.” He has emphasized that the nature of this idea is that human beings do not derive their rights from the government but instead cede some of those rights for ...

Why Government Cover-Ups Succeed

by James Bovard October 18, 2021

“It’s not necessary to censor the news, it’s sufficient to delay the news until it no longer matters,” Napoleon Bonaparte reportedly said. The same standard helps explain why Washington politicians and federal agencies usually get away with covering up their lies and abuses. Many people assume that unless the government actively censors, people will learn what the government has done. ...

Online Conference: Restoring Our Civil Liberties

by Future of Freedom Foundation October 18, 2021

REGISTER TODAY Civil liberties are an essential prerequisite to a free society. Our American ancestors understood this important principle, which is why they demanded the enactment of the Bill of Rights as a condition for approving the Constitution. Our civil liberties have never been more endangered than they ...

Tyrants of the Nanny State: When the Government Thinks It Knows Best

by John W. Whitehead October 15, 2021

“Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers’ enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. ...

Why Educational Freedom Is the Best Choice

by Laurence M. Vance October 13, 2021

Thanks in large part to state and local government responses to the COVID-19 “pandemic,” enrollment in public schools has dropped for the last two school years as more and more parents have turned to homeschooling. This decline in parents’ use of public education coincides with the conservative backlash against public schools for what they see as the promotion of ...

Biden’s $3.5 Trillion “Make Big Government Even Bigger” Plan

by Richard M. Ebeling October 11, 2021

President Joe Biden journeyed from the White House to the Capitol building on October 1, 2021. There he admonished and pressured Democratic Party Senators and Congressmen to come together and pass both his $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill and his $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Act, which might more accurately be called the Make Big Government Even Bigger bill. He ...

The Police State’s Reign of Terror Continues

by John W. Whitehead October 6, 2021

Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges. — George Carlin You think you’ve got rights? Think again. All of those freedoms we cherish—the ones enshrined in the Constitution, the ones that affirm our right to free speech and assembly, due process, privacy, bodily integrity, the right to not have police seize our property without a warrant, or ...

Biden’s Demagoguery that Government Spending is Costless

by Richard M. Ebeling October 5, 2021

There is only one way to describe the fiscal mindset of those in the White House and in Congress who are proposing new federal budgetary expenditure and taxing increases in the trillions of dollars: a fantasy land of financial irrationality. The Biden Administration insists on additions to the already bloated American welfare state that will see an expansion in entitlement ...

Congress Doesn’t Need to Bail Out Social Security

by Laurence M. Vance October 4, 2021

The Social Security Board of Trustees has released its annual report on the long-term financial status of the Social Security Trust Funds, and it is not looking good. There are actually two parts to Social Security (OASDI). The Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) program provides monthly benefits to retired workers, families of retired workers, and survivors of deceased workers. ...

Puritanism: Then and Now

by Laurence M. Vance October 1, 2021

Journalist, editor, and literary and social critic Henry Louis “H. L.” Mencken (1880–1956) adopted the moniker “libertarian” years before it became popular to do so. In a letter of 1920, he wrote: “I am an extreme libertarian, and believe in absolute free speech.” In a book-review column of 1922, he wrote, “I am, in brief, a libertarian of the ...