Doug Bandow: Time to End the War on Drugs by Doug Bandow February 22, 2017 Watch Doug Bandow present his perspectives on why America needs to end the war on drugs. This presentation is part of FFF’s Drug War Video Project, whose aim is to accelerate the end of this immoral and destructive government program.
The Libertarian Angle: Minimum Wage and Free Trade by Future of Freedom Foundation February 21, 2017 FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling, along with special guest Donald J. Boudreaux, discuss the economics of the minimum wage and free trade. Go to the podcast.
Economic Ideas: Karl Marx’s Misconceptions about Man and Markets by Richard M. Ebeling February 20, 2017 Though it may seem strange, Karl Marx was not always a communist. As late as 1842, when Marx was in his mid-20s, he actually said he opposed any attempt to establish a communist system. In October 1842, he became editor of the Rheinische Zeitung , and wrote in an editorial: The Rheinische Zeitung . . . does not ...
Vouchers, Thy Name Is Welfare by Laurence M. Vance February 17, 2017 Elisabeth “Betsy” DeVos — whose father-in-law is a co-founder of Amway, the multilevel marketing company, and whose brother is the founder of the notorious mercenary firm Blackwater — was confirmed by the U.S. Senate last week to be the eleventh secretary of Education. Because two Republican senators — Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski — sided with the Democrats and ...
The U.S. Military’s Plan to Take Over America by John W. Whitehead February 17, 2017 “Our current and past strategies can no longer hold. We are facing environments that the masters of war never foresaw. We are facing a threat that requires us to redefine doctrine and the force in radically new and different ways. The future army will confront a highly sophisticated urban-centric threat that will require that urban operations become the core ...
The Libertarian Angle: The Meaning of Freedom by Future of Freedom Foundation February 16, 2017 FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling talk about what it means to be free, what it means to live in a free society. Go to the podcast.
David Boaz: Time to End the War on Drugs by David Boaz February 15, 2017 Watch David Boaz present his perspectives on why America needs to end the war on drugs. This presentation is part of FFF’s Drug War Video Project, whose aim is to accelerate the end of this immoral and destructive government program.
The Abyss Gazes Back by Matthew Harwood February 14, 2017 The United States of Jihad: Investigating America’s Homegrown Terrorists by Peter Bergen (New York: Crown Publishers, 2016); 400 pages. It took only a few hours after two Islamic State suicide bombings ripped apart the departure hall of Brussels Airport and subway cars in central Brussels for Sen. Ted Cruz to offer a “do something” solution to the threat ...
Economic Ideas: Karl Marx, the Man Behind the Communist Revolution by Richard M. Ebeling February 13, 2017 When Karl Marx died in March 1883, only about a dozen people attended his funeral at a cemetery in London, England, including family members. Yet, for more than a century after his death – and even until today – there have been few thinkers whose ideas have been as influential on various aspects of modern world history. Indeed, as ...
Let the States Decide by Laurence M. Vance February 10, 2017 The federal minimum wage was instituted by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. The rate was initially set at $0.25 an hour. By 1961, it had quadrupled to $1.00 an hour. The federal minimum has been at $7.25 an hour since 2009 — the result of the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 that raised the federal minimum ...
The FBI: The Silent Terror of the Fourth Reich by John W. Whitehead February 9, 2017 “After five years of Hitler’s dictatorship, the Nazi police had won the FBI’s seal of approval.”— Historian Robert Gellately “Adolf Hitler is alive and well in the United States, and he is fast rising to power.”—Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, on the danger posed by the FBI to our civil liberties Lately, there’s ...
David Stockman: Time to End the War on Drugs by David Stockman February 8, 2017 Watch David Stockman present his perspectives on why America needs to end the war on drugs. This presentation is part of FFF’s Drug War Video Project, whose aim is to accelerate the end of this immoral and destructive government program.