The Libertarian Angle: The Debt Ceiling Charade (video) by Future of Freedom Foundation November 3, 2015 Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling discuss the hot topics of the day. This week, Jacob and Richard discuss how Congress repeatedly raises the debt ceiling, destroying the notion that any such ceiling actually exists. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.
Opposing America’s Participation in World War II by Jacob G. Hornberger November 1, 2015 Even in the face of ongoing catastrophes arising out of U.S. interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere in the Middle East, proponents of empire and intervention still trot out America’s entry into World War II to justify their imperialist, militarist, and interventionist philosophy. World War II was the “good” war, they say — a necessary intervention, one that saved ...
The Great Sugar Robbery Continues by James Bovard November 1, 2015 Seventeen years ago, The Future of Freedom Foundation published my piece “The Great Sugar Shaft.” That article hammered federal sugar policy as one of the most brazen interventionist failures in American history. Unfortunately, the political looting of sugar consumers and food producers continues unabated. Federal price supports and import quotas combine to drive U.S. sugar prices far above the ...
Free the Gas Pumps! by Laurence M. Vance November 1, 2015 Aside from both being coastal states, New Jersey and Oregon have little in common except for one infamous thing. Drivers vacationing or passing through either state for the first time who have to stop to gas up their cars are in for a rude awakening if they try to pump their own gas. They will quickly find out from ...
Americans Toss Lady Liberty Overboard during Crises by Ted Galen Carpenter November 1, 2015 Americans take great pride in their country’s commitment to the values enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. At the top of that list are the rights enumerated in the first ten amendments to the Constitution — the Bill of Rights. Americans are fond of contrasting the protections that freedom of speech, due process of law, equal ...
Inhumanity of the Minimum Wage by Paul L. Poirot November 1, 2015 A dictator, it is true, can arbitrarily declare human labor to be the only thing of value in the world; and he can set a minimum or a maximum wage, or just fix prices. But he cannot enforce his dictates, because they run contrary to the rules of human behavior. As long as men harbor their own distinctive sense ...
Fear of the Walking Dead: The American Police State Takes Aim by John W. Whitehead October 29, 2015 “Fear is a primitive impulse, brainless as hunger, and because the aim of horror fiction is the production of the deepest kinds of fears, the genre tends to reinforce some remarkably uncivilized ideas about self-protection. In the current crop of zombie stories, the prevailing value for the beleaguered survivors is a sort of siege mentality, a vigilance so ...
The Fiscal and Ethical Stranglehold of the Welfare State by Richard M. Ebeling October 28, 2015 The welfare state threatens to fiscally weaken and morally undermine the United States. In the Federal government’s fiscal year that ended on September 30, 2015, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid expenditures, alone, made up over 48 percent of all of Uncle Sam’s spending. And it will only get worse. According to the Congressional Budget Office, in fiscal year 2015, Social ...
The Libertarian Angle: Gun Control and the Holocaust (video) by Future of Freedom Foundation October 27, 2015 Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling discuss the hot topics of the day. This week, Jacob and Richard discuss how arms may have aided the Jews during World War II. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.
Americans Reject Clinton on Gun Control by Scott McPherson October 26, 2015 Rallying her base — and putting her enemies on notice — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton told a debate audience in Las Vegas that the country must "stand up against the NRA" and push for more gun-control laws. It may have worked. Polls show that with Democrats, Clinton is up. But Clinton and the Democrats do not have the ...
The LIbertarian Angle: The TPP and Europe’s Refugee Crisis (video) by Future of Freedom Foundation October 23, 2015 Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling discuss the hot topics of the day. This week, Jacob and Richard talk about the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the European refugee crisis. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly.
COLAs Reveal the True Nature of Social Security by Laurence M. Vance October 22, 2015 The more than 63 million Americans who receive Social Security retirement, disability, survivorship, or death benefits will not be getting a Christmas gift later this year from the Social Security Administration. Although those Americans have come to expect a cost-of-living adjustment (a COLA) to their Social Security benefits at the beginning of every new year, no such increase (there ...