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Conservatives Give Bush and Trump a Free Pass on Afghanistan

by Laurence M. Vance September 1, 2021

The debacle in Afghanistan is all the fault of President Joe Biden and his  predecessor, Barack Obama, says James Jay Carafano at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. Carafano is “a leading expert in national security and foreign policy challenges” and is Heritage’s “vice president for foreign and defense policy studies, E. W. Richardson fellow, and ...

Bring All the Troops Home

by John W. Whitehead August 31, 2021

“Let us resolve that never again will we send the precious young blood of this country to die trying to prop up a corrupt military dictatorship abroad. This is also the time to turn away from excessive preoccupation overseas to the rebuilding of our own nation. America must be restored to a proper role in the world. But we ...

Made in France: Biden’s Fiscal and Regulatory Socialism

by Richard M. Ebeling August 30, 2021

Imagine that you are standing at a crossroads with a gate sign in front of each road telling the cost of the respective routes. But one says that if you choose to go this particular way, the expense is 50 percent less than the other, or, maybe, is even free; that is, no toll will be charged. Welcome to ...

Letter to President Biden on the Secret JFK Records

by Lawrence P. Schnapf August 27, 2021

The following letter was sent to President Biden by New York City attorney Lawrence Schnapf. August 20, 2021 Honorable Joseph R. Biden, Jr. The White House Washington, D.C.  Re: John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992  Dear President Biden:  On April 26, 2018, President Trump issued a Presidential Memorandum (2018 Memorandum) postponing until October 26, ...

The State of the Republican Party

by Laurence M. Vance August 25, 2021

Former vice president Richard “Dick” Cheney was one of the architects of the senseless, immoral, and unjust wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—just as he was one of the architects of the foolish first invasion of Iraq (Operation Desert Storm) as secretary of defense under George H. W. Bush. Before this, he served for ten years in the U.S. House ...

Healthcare Whack-a-Mole

by Jacob G. Hornberger August 24, 2021

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of libertarians and conservatives have played an extensive game of Whack-a-Mole. That’s the Japanese game in which plastic moles pop up at random on a board and a person whacks each mole as it appears. In Healthcare Whack-a-Mole, governmental assaults on liberty have continuously popped up during the course of the pandemic. As ...

How Freedom Dies from A to Z

by John W. Whitehead August 23, 2021

“Plays, farces, spectacles, gladiators, strange beasts, medals, pictures, and other such opiates, these were for ancient peoples the bait toward slavery, the price of their liberty, the instruments of tyranny. By these practices and enticements the ancient dictators so successfully lulled their subjects under the yoke, that the stupefied peoples, fascinated by the pastimes and vain pleasures flashed before ...

Modern Collectivist Trends and How to Resist Them

by Richard M. Ebeling August 20, 2021

The First World War and the Great Depression were, I would suggest, the major events that have shaped most of the political, social, and economic trends for more than a century. The Great War, as it used to be called, undermined the generally “classical” liberal world that prevailed, at least in much of Western and Central Europe and North ...

Should There Be Equal Pay for Equal Work?

by Laurence M. Vance August 19, 2021

Although I rarely watch cable television, I happened to tune in to an episode of Mysteries at the Museum on the Travel Channel the other day. The segment I saw was about Mary Elizabeth “Lizzie” Murphy (1894–1964), the first female professional baseball player. The diminutive first baseman from Warren, Rhode Island, who was known professionally as Spike Murphy, billed ...

The Right to Bodily Integrity

by John W. Whitehead August 18, 2021

We’ve reached the point where state actors can penetrate rectums and vaginas, where judges can order forced catheterizations, and where police and medical personnel can perform scans, enemas and colonoscopies without the suspect’s consent. And these procedures aren’t to nab kingpins or cartels, but people who at worst are hiding an amount of drugs that can fit into a ...

The Soviet Union Is Gone, but the Young Yearn for Socialism

by Richard M. Ebeling August 17, 2021

This August marks the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the end to the Soviet Union. During August 19-21, 1991, hardline members of the Soviet Communist Party and the KGB attempted a coup d’état in Moscow to prevent the political and economic reforms introduced over the prior five years from going any further. The coup failed, and on Christmas ...

Ambrose Bierce’s Pro-Freedom Cynicism

by James Bovard August 16, 2021

The friends of freedom must recognize the verbal charades that sway people to surrender their rights and liberties. The political establishment and its media allies are continually abusing the English language to lull people into submission. From pupils being required to recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of each school day to adults being endlessly hectored to vote, ...