Using Russia to Suppress Speech at Home, Part 2 by Jacob G. Hornberger January 1, 2025 Part 1 | Part 2 In 1989, the Cold War racket suddenly and unexpectedly came to an end. That was when the national-security establishment went into the Middle East, killing vast numbers of people and wreaking untold destruction. When the inevitable retaliation came in the form of the terrorist attacks on 9/11, the national-security establishment had new official enemies ...
Biden’s Sordid Legacy: Ravaged Rights and Liberties by James Bovard January 1, 2025 Joe Biden’s presidency ends on January 20, 2025. There will likely be a media stampede to hallow his reign and trumpet his virtues. But Biden perpetually trampled his January 20, 2021, oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” In his 2022 State of the Union address, Biden declared, “When dictators do not pay a price ...
The Significance of the Eighteenth Amendment by Laurence M. Vance January 1, 2025 Every month of the year is significant for a variety of reasons: holidays, historical events, birthdays, anniversaries, etc. However, when it comes to the U.S. Constitution, two months of the year stand out. December is a significant month when it comes to two amendments to the Constitution. The Eighteenth Amendment was proposed by Congress on December 18, 1917, and ...
50 Years Ago: Hayek’s Nobel Lecture on “The Pretense of Knowledge” by Richard M. Ebeling January 1, 2025 Fifty years ago, on October 9, 1974, what has become known as the Nobel Prize in Economics was announced for that year in Stockholm, Sweden. It was a joint award to Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987) and Austrian economist Friedrich A. Hayek (1899–1992). Many in the economics profession would not have been particularly surprised by Myrdal being declared a ...
Norway’s Nonviolent Resistance in WWII: The Power of a Paperclip, Part 1 by Wendy McElroy January 1, 2025 Part 1 | Part 2 The 1942 Norsk (Norwegian) teachers’ resistance is one of the most successful campaigns of nonviolent defiance waged against the Nazis during World War II. About 12,000 to 14,000 strong, the teachers acted with unusual cohesion and courage. But the movement was not remarkable primarily for the extreme heroism it displayed; many resistance movements of ...
Using Russia to Suppress Speech at Home, Part 1 by Jacob G. Hornberger December 1, 2024 Part 1 | Part 2 By enacting the First Amendment, our American ancestors were acknowledging that the federal government would inevitably attract people who would try to shut down speech that the government disapproved of. After all, if there was no concern that federal officials would try to suppress speech, there would have been no reason to enact the ...
The King James Test for American Democracy by James Bovard December 1, 2024 On December 1, President Joe Biden announced that he was pardoning his son Hunter for all the crimes he committed from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024. President Biden absolved all of his son’s felonies because of his “serious addictions” and because Hunter was purportedly mistreated by Biden’s own appointees at the Justice Department. But going back 40 ...
How Not to Cut Federal Spending by Laurence M. Vance December 1, 2024 Former congressman, governor of Indiana, and vice president Michael “Mike” Pence is struggling to regain relevancy. He is probably the most prominent Republican in the country to not endorse his former boss Donald Trump for president, after dropping out of the 2024 Republican presidential race before a single caucus or primary took place. Pence said he had not spoken ...
The Classical Liberal Case for the Freedom to Move by Richard M. Ebeling December 1, 2024 The idea of making a case for “open borders” arouses a great deal of disagreement and disapproval. Open borders, in the minds of some, implies no borders, it is argued and feared. There may be some who oppose the notion of political borders due to their disapproval of any form of government with a geographical area of responsible jurisdiction. ...
The New Deal as the Great Reset, Part 2 by Robert E. Wright December 1, 2024 Part 1 | Part 2 The New Deal effectively killed off what was left of the ninth and tenth amendments, the ones that protect unenumerated individual rights and states’ rights. Occupational-licensing laws that restricted entry into a growing number of occupations to an educated few in the name of consumer safety, for example, trounced the ancient, commonsense, and hence ...
Immigration, Drugs, Guns, and Interventionism by Jacob G. Hornberger November 1, 2024 The welfare-warfare state way of life under which Americans have been born and raised has created a highly dysfunctional society, one in which the federal government has destroyed the freedom of the American people, killed countless millions of people in foreign countries, debased the value of people’s money, and put our nation onto a trajectory of national bankruptcy. By focusing ...
Protectionism Is More Idiotic Than It Looks by James Bovard November 1, 2024 Donald Trump’s re-election assures that protectionism will become even more fashionable inside the Beltway. Trump recently declared that tariff is “the most beautiful word in the dictionary,” and the exaltation of trade barriers has become the latest political mania. Washington hustlers are loudly promising to enrich the nation by selectively blockading American ports. Unfortunately, the Trump team and the ...