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Tariffs: Another Consequence of the Drug War

by Laurence M. Vance February 12, 2025

President Trump recently announced additional tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico, and China — three of America’s largest trading partners: 25 percent on goods from Canada (10 percent on energy resources) and Mexico and 10 percent on goods from China. I say “trading partners” because international trade is always a “win-win” proposition that benefits both parties because it encourages efficiency ...

Statism Was Alive and Well in Ian Freeman’s Appellate Hearing

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 10, 2025

Last Wednesday, a three-judge panel of the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston, Massachusetts, held oral arguments in the case of Ian Freeman, the libertarian Bitcoin seller who the feds targeted back in 2019. In December 2022, Freeman was convicted by a jury in a U.S. District Court in New Hampshire of four types of offenses: (1) ...

Norway’s Nonviolent Resistance in WWII: The Power of a Paperclip, Part 2

by Wendy McElroy February 7, 2025

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 On  March 7, 1942, the official media announced that 300 teachers would be required to report for unspecified “social work” in northern Norway. Privately, teachers were given a deadline of March 15 to “volunteer.” In his book The Power of Nonviolence (1960 edition), the American social philosopher Richard Bartlett Gregg ...

Right Decision, Wrong Reason

by Laurence M. Vance February 5, 2025

A few days before his disastrous term as president ended, Joe Biden did something good, although it would have been better had he done it at the beginning of his term. President Biden commuted the sentences of nearly 2,500 nonviolent drug offenders who were “serving disproportionately long sentences compared to the sentences they would receive today under current law, policy, ...

From Presidential Power Grabs to Martial Law

by John W. Whitehead February 3, 2025

“Rule by indefinite emergency edict risks leaving all of us with a shell of a democracy and civil liberties just as hollow.”—Justice Neil Gorsuch That didn’t take long. Within days of Donald Trump’s second term, the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights disappeared from the White House’s website. While the Trump Administration insists the removal of ...

Howard Blitz Is Yuma’s Citizen of the Year

by Future of Freedom Foundation January 31, 2025

From the Yuma Sun: ‘Finding one’s passion in life is indeed a gift, but then making that passion one’s life commitment takes dedication, planning, organization, determination and time,” according to Bill and Judy Gresser. They believe that Howard Blitz, founder and chief executive officer of Yuma’s Freedom Library, exemplifies a ...

Animal Farm Politics: The Deep State Wins Again

by John W. Whitehead January 24, 2025

“No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”—George Orwell, Animal Farm It cost the American taxpayer $24 million to find out what we knew ...

Social Security Expansion Shows True Nature of Social Security

by Laurence M. Vance January 17, 2025

In one of his last acts as president, Joe Biden signed into law the Social Security Fairness Act of 2023 (H.R.82). The legislation expands Social Security by repealing “provisions that reduce Social Security benefits for individuals who receive other benefits, such as a pension from a state or local government.” A White House ...

The Police State Is America’s New Crime Boss

by John W. Whitehead January 7, 2025

“There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.”—Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear The American police state has become America’s new crime boss. Thirty years after then-President Bill Clinton signed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act into law, its legacy of mass incarceration, police militarization, and ...

Time to Separate Alcohol from the State

by Laurence M. Vance January 3, 2025

President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to impose a 25 percent tariff on all goods entering the United States from Mexico and Canada — two of America’s largest trading partners. Said Trump: “On January 20th, as one of my many first Executive Orders, I will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% Tariff ...

Using Russia to Suppress Speech at Home, Part 2

by Jacob G. Hornberger January 1, 2025

Part 1 | Part 2 In 1989, the Cold War racket suddenly and unexpectedly came to an end. That was when the national-security establishment went into the Middle East, killing vast numbers of people and wreaking untold destruction. When the inevitable retaliation came in the form of the terrorist attacks on 9/11, the national-security establishment had new official enemies ...

Biden’s Sordid Legacy: Ravaged Rights and Liberties

by James Bovard January 1, 2025

Joe Biden’s presidency ends on January 20, 2025. There will likely be a media stampede to hallow his reign and trumpet his virtues. But Biden perpetually trampled his January 20, 2021, oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” In his 2022 State of the Union address, Biden declared, “When dictators do not pay a price ...