Daily Articles

The Historical Foundation of Civil Liberties, Part 1

by Tom G. Palmer November 30, 2022

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 This article is from a transcript of the opening presentation of FFF’s September 21, 2021, conference “Restoring Our Civil Liberties.” When we think about civil liberties, it’s very common in contemporary discourse to distinguish civil liberties from economic liberties, even political liberties. And occasionally, you’ll hear the term civil liberties ...

Cancel Culture’s War on History, Heritage and the Freedom to Think for Yourself

by John W. Whitehead November 23, 2022

“All the time—such is the tragi-comedy of our situation—we continue to clamour for those very qualities we are rendering impossible… In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors ...

Why the JFK Assassination Should Matter to Everyone, Part 2

by Jacob G. Hornberger November 22, 2022

Part 1 | Part 2 When I finished reading Douglas Horne’s book Inside the Assassination Records Review Board, I knew that the Kennedy assassination could no longer legitimately be considered a “conspiracy theory.” Horne’s book pushed the assassination over the line by establishing beyond a reasonable doubt that the November 22, 1963, assassination was, in fact, a regime-change operation ...

Five Trillion Dollars Is Not Enough

by Laurence M. Vance November 17, 2022

The federal government seized from the American people almost $5 trillion ($4.896119 trillion) in fiscal year 2022 (Oct. 1, 2021 through Sept. 30, 2022), according to The Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the United States Government (MTS), published by the Bureau of the Fiscal Service. But this was still not enough to quench Uncle ...

Techno-Authoritarianism Is Here to Stay

by John W. Whitehead November 16, 2022

“If this government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.” — Senator Frank Church The votes are in. No matter who runs for office, no matter who controls ...

Two Agendas

by Laurence M. Vance November 15, 2022

Although the next U.S. presidential election is not until 2024, this is still an election year. Most candidates are running for state and local offices. On the national level, voters in the 50 states only vote for three offices. They select members of the House of Representatives by district for two-year terms, two senators for six-year terms, and, by ...

The Government Is Still Waging War on America’s Military Veterans

by John W. Whitehead November 10, 2022

“For soldiers … coming home is more lethal than being in combat.” ― Brené Brown, research professor at the University of Houston The U.S. government is still waging war on America’s military veterans. Especially veterans who exercise their First Amendment right to speak out against government wrongdoing. Consider: we raise our young people on a steady diet of militarism ...

We’re Being Gunned Down Like Dogs in the Street

by John W. Whitehead November 4, 2022

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned. —William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming” Things are falling apart. How much longer we can sustain the fiction that we live in a constitutional republic, I cannot say, but anarchy is ...

The Arbitrary Nature of Social Security Benefits

by Laurence M. Vance November 2, 2022

Social Security benefits will soon be increasing, as they do almost every year, but Social Security taxes will not be increasing, as they haven’t for over 30 years. This shows once again the arbitrary nature of Social Security (OASDI) benefits. The Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) part of Social Security provides monthly benefits to retired workers, families of retired workers, ...

Biden’s “Begging for Barrels” Saudi Disgrace

by James Bovard November 1, 2022

Why don’t you talk about something that matters?” President Biden replied to a journalist asking about why he fist-bumped Saudi dictator Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) during his “begging for barrels” trip to the Middle East in July. Biden hoped the Saudis would rescue his presidency by pumping more oil in order to lower American gasoline prices and prevent the ...

FFF Conference: End Inflation and End the Fed

by Future of Freedom Foundation November 1, 2022

With prices of gasoline, food, healthcare, automobiles, and other essentials rising across the board, U.S. officials and the mainstream press are playing the standard blame game -- that rising prices are the fault of greedy business owners. In actuality, there is one -- and only one -- cause of inflation--the Federal ...

Authoritarian Monsters Wreak Havoc on Our Freedoms

by John W. Whitehead October 28, 2022

“You see them on the street. You watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this fall. You think they’re people just like you. You’re wrong. Dead wrong.” — They Live We’re living in two worlds. There’s the world we see (or are made to see) and then there’s the one we sense (and occasionally catch a ...