Debauching the Currency by James Cook November 1, 2017 Often people who make gloomy predictions about the economy have an ulterior motive. They want to sell a newsletter, a book, precious metals, or even storage food. In some cases they have no basis for their views other than an opinion. I like to think that what I write originates with the economic thinkers of the Austrian School of ...
Another Bloody American Century by Matthew Harwood November 1, 2017 The Violent American Century: War and Terror since World War II by John W. Dower (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2017; 184 pages) Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) was livid. “In the dead of night,” the California Democrat wrote on Twitter in July, House Speaker Paul Ryan did something “underhanded and undemocratic.” He stripped out her bipartisan amendment to repeal ...
Gun Control Is a Losing Issue for Democrats – And They Know It by Scott McPherson October 31, 2017 The high water mark for gun control in the United States was the so-called, but misnamed, “Assault Weapon Ban,” which was passed through Congress and signed into law by President Clinton in 1994. A CNN/USA/Gallup poll the year before found that 77 percent of Americans supported the ban. The law didn't ban “assault weapons,” but merely the importation of certain ...
Capitalism and the Free Society, Part 1 by Richard M. Ebeling October 30, 2017 Part 1 | Part 2 One of the leading ideological punching bags for well over one hundred years has been the ideas, institutions, and impact of “capitalism” on society. Think of something someone does not like in the world and the guilty party causing it is almost always the same – “capitalism.” But what is capitalism, and ...
Don’t Call the Cops If You’re Autistic, Deaf, Mentally Ill, Disabled or Old by John W. Whitehead October 26, 2017 Anyone who cares for someone with a developmental disability, as well as for disabled people themselves every day in fear that their behavior will be misconstrued as suspicious, intoxicated or hostile by law enforcement. —Steve Silberman, The New York Times Life in the American police state is an endless series of don’ts delivered at the ...
Concealed Carry on the March by Scott McPherson October 25, 2017 What a difference a generation can make. In 1987 crime in the United States was out of control. That same year Gallup asked Americans if they would support a ban on handguns, and a worrying forty-two percent answered “yes.” While almost half the country wanted to ban handguns, nine states were trying something different. “Shall issue” concealed-carry laws were passed, ...
The Libertarian Angle: End the Fed (video) by Future of Freedom Foundation October 24, 2017 FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling challenge the orthodoxy that the government must manage the money supply. Go to the podcast.
If Political Candidates Advocated Liberty by Richard M. Ebeling October 23, 2017 In modern democracies, political cycles never end. As soon as one election is over, those in government office or aspiring to such an office are already running for the next election. Having recently attended a public forum of state-level candidates looking to the 2018 election, I wondered what a real friend of freedom might say if he was offering ...
Republicans for All by Laurence M. Vance October 20, 2017 Last month, self-proclaimed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) released his Medicare for All plan. Said Sanders, Health care must be recognized as a right, not a privilege. Every man, woman and child in our country should be able to access the health care they need regardless of their income. The only long-term solution to America’s health care crisis ...
The Libertarian Angle: Capital and the Free Market (video) by Future of Freedom Foundation October 19, 2017 FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss how monopolies are government-created entities and that freeing the market is the only way to liberty and prosperity. Go to the podcast.
This Is How Tyranny Rises and Freedom Falls by John W. Whitehead October 19, 2017 “Every day I ask myself the same question: How can this be happening in America? How can people like these be in charge of our country? If I didn’t see it with my own eyes, I’d think I was having a hallucination.”—Philip Roth, novelist It is easy to be distracted right now by the circus politics that ...
A Call for “Do-Nothing” Presidents Without Legacies by Richard M. Ebeling October 16, 2017 Some in the news media and editorial page pundits are aghast that many of President Donald Trump’s executive orders and legislative proposals sent off to the United States Congress represent an attempt to undue the presidential “legacy” of Barack Obama. The question is, why should it be presumed that presidents need to have policy legacies to leave behind after ...