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The Police State Wants Us To Be a Nation of Snowflakes

by John W. Whitehead December 13, 2023

“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.”—Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol What a year. It feels as if government Grinches and corporate Scrooges have been working overtime to drain ...

Conservatives, Skittles, and Drugs

by Laurence M. Vance December 11, 2023

Conservatives have been fairly quiet about the new law in California that bans certain additives used in candy and other foods, though not because they agree with it. Dubbed the “Skittles ban” because the original version of the bill targeted the coloring agent in the popular Skittles candy, “The California Food Safety Act” (AB-418) prohibits “any food ...

Tyranny Comes to Main Street

by James Bovard December 8, 2023

The following is the first chapter of the new book by James Bovard, Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty. Americans today have the “freedom” to be fleeced, groped, wiretapped, injected, censored, injected, ticketed, disarmed, beaten, vilified, detained, and maybe shot by government agents. Politicians are hell-bent on protecting citizens against everything except Uncle Sam. Is America ...

Freedom’s Greatest Hour of Danger Is Now

by John W. Whitehead December 6, 2023

“What if the rights and principles guaranteed in the Constitution have been so distorted in the past 200 years as to be unrecognizable by the Founders? What if the government was the reason we don’t have a Constitution anymore? What if freedom’s greatest hour of danger is now?”—Andrew P. Napolitano We are approaching critical mass, the point ...

America’s Forever Immigration Morass

by Jacob G. Hornberger December 1, 2023

All my life I have witnessed America’s ongoing, never-ending, perpetual immigration morass, along with the endless laments, anguish, anxiety, and depression among American statists that have accompanied it. All of this mental anguish has caused immigration-control advocates for the last several decades to ceaselessly cry out for Congress to enact “comprehensive immigration reform” designed to finally — finally! — ...

Is Free Speech a Relic in America?

by James Bovard December 1, 2023

Is the First Amendment becoming a historic relic? On July 4, 2023, federal judge Terry Doughty condemned the Biden administration for potentially “the most massive attack against free speech in United States history.” That verdict was ratified by a federal appeals court decision in September 2023 that concluded that Biden administration “officials have engaged in a broad pressure campaign ...

Conservatives, Hate Crimes, and Victimless Crimes

by Laurence M. Vance December 1, 2023

Libertarianism and conservatism have been described as “uneasy cousins.” There are some issues where they can unite in opposition to the terrible policies of progressives: the green new deal, universal health care, free college tuition, gun-control laws, taxpayer-funded abortions, defunding the police, etc. But even when they seem to agree on something — like hate-crimes laws — the inconsistency ...

The Beginnings of a Reborn Austrian School of Economics

by Richard M. Ebeling December 1, 2023

Fifty years ago, on October 10, 1973, one of the leading members of the Austrian School of Economics, Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973), passed away at the age of 92. There was little notice of Mises’s death in the mainstream of the economics profession, even though he had been one of the most widely recognized economists in Europe during the ...

The U.S. Government Buys and Sells Its Citizens for Profit and Power

by John W. Whitehead November 29, 2023

Americans have become easy prey for hackers, scammers, snitches, spies, and con artists. But don’t be fooled into thinking the government is protecting you. To the contrary, the U.S. government is selling us (or rather, our data) to the highest bidders. By the way, those highest bidders also include America’s political class and the politicians aspiring to get elected or re-elected. As ...

Stop Drinking the Political Kool-Aid, America

by John W. Whitehead November 15, 2023

“We’ve got to face it. Politics have entered a new stage, the television stage. Instead of long-winded public debates, the people want capsule slogans—‘Time for a change’—‘The mess in Washington’—‘More bang for a buck’—punch lines and glamour.”— A Face in the Crowd (1957) We are one year out from the 2024 presidential election and as usual, the American people remain eager to ...

School Choice and American Taxpayers

by Laurence M. Vance November 10, 2023

Conservative and libertarian proponents of “school choice,” that is, government-provided educational vouchers that allow low-income parents to send their children to the school of their choice — which usually means private schools that they would otherwise not be able to afford — now generally make only two arguments in defense of government-provided educational vouchers. They used to maintain that a ...

FFF Conference: How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life

by Future of Freedom Foundation November 7, 2023

Join us every Thursday evening at 7 p.m. Eastern time for our upcoming live Zoom conference entitled “How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life.” Each week will feature one of the premier Austrian economists in the world telling his personal story of how he discovered Austrian economics, the impact that it ...