Killer Instincts: When Police Become Judge, Jury and Executioner by John W. Whitehead August 12, 2016 Any police officer who shoots to kill is playing with fire. In that split second of deciding whether to shoot and where to aim, that officer has appointed himself judge, jury and executioner over a fellow citizen. And when an officer fires a killing shot at a fellow citizen not once or twice but three and four and five times, ...
The Libertarian Angle: Clinton vs. Trump on the Economy by Future of Freedom Foundation August 11, 2016 FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss the impact that a Trump or Clinton presidency would have on the economy. Go to the podcast.
The Case for Open Immigration by Future of Freedom Foundation August 10, 2016 Immigration controls are nothing but a system of socialist central planning. No wonder we have had a decades-long immigration crisis. The libertarian concept of open immigration encompasses such basic tenets of libertarianism as liberty of contract and freedom of association. The Future of Freedom Foundation presents the panel "The Case for Open Immigration" with Jacob ...
Prohibition Is Alive and Well by Laurence M. Vance August 4, 2016 The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution that instituted Prohibition was proposed by Congress in December 1917, ratified by the requisite number of states in January 1919, and took effect in January 1920. The first and relevant section of the Amendment reads, After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation ...
The Entitlement State and America’s Fiscal Crisis by Richard M. Ebeling August 1, 2016 The Republican and Democrat Party Conventions are now behind us, but through all the cheers and jeers, hoopla and poopla, warnings of a dark and dangerous future or promises of a bright and beautiful shape-of-things-to-come, one of the most serious shadows hanging over America was hardly mentioned at all: the unsustainability of the “entitlement” programs of the welfare state. In ...
Why I Favor Limited Government, Part 6 by Jacob G. Hornberger August 1, 2016 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5| Part 6 Throughout history, people have accepted the notion that government officials have the legitimate moral and legal authority to do whatever they want. The mindset has always been that government is in charge and people are subordinate. The result was ...
The Fraudulent Obama War on Corruption by James Bovard August 1, 2016 The Obama administration wants Americans to believe that it is fiercely anti-corruption. “I have been shocked by the degree to which I find corruption pandemic in the world today,” declared Secretary of State John Kerry at an Anti-Corruption Summit in London last May. Kerry sounded like the French police chief in Casablanca who was “shocked” to discover gambling. Six ...
Government Licensing or Private Certification? by Laurence M. Vance August 1, 2016 Everyone understands the need for children to obtain permission from their parents before undertaking certain activities: sleeping over at a friend’s house, viewing a particular movie, going on a field trip, participating in some sport, attending a particular party, staying up late, playing a particular video game, making a major purchase at a store, surfing the Internet, or having ...
America’s Plunge from Republic to Empire by Wendy McElroy August 1, 2016 We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire. If you ask when, the answer is that you cannot make a single stroke between day and night. The precise moment does not matter. There was no painted sign to say, “You now are entering Imperium.” Yet it was a very old road and the voice of history ...
America’s Misadventures in the Greater Middle East by Stephen Kinzer August 1, 2016 America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History by Andrew J. Bacevich (Random House, 2016), 480 pages. America’s Continuing Misadventures in the Middle East by Chas W. Freeman Jr. (Just World Books, 2016), 256 pages. Few forces in American public life are as powerful as the one that pulls people in Washington into the foreign ...
Political Fiction in an Age of Televised Lies by John W. Whitehead July 29, 2016 “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) Politics is entertainment. It is a heavily scripted, tightly choreographed, star-studded, ratings-driven, mass-marketed, costly exercise in ...
Support FFF’s Liberty Video Series by Jacob G. Hornberger July 29, 2016 I am seeking your financial help for our new video project in which speakers present their perspectives on the burning issues of our time. The Gary Johnson-William Weld Libertarian Party ticket has the potential of raising the level of debate and discussion on libertarian solutions to America’s woes. We need to seize on that opportunity. Our first video ...