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Free the Liquor Stores!

by Laurence M. Vance May 28, 2020

The Fine Wine & Good Spirits liquor stores are slowly beginning to reopen in Pennsylvania after they were all closed on March 17 in response to the spread of the coronavirus. On May 8, 77 stores reopened. On May 15, 155 more stores reopened. On May 22, 50 more stores were opened. During the time when ...

Doctors With Hacksaws

by David Stockman May 27, 2020

It started in sheer madness on March 13 when the Donald was persuaded to declare a national emergency by his camarilla of dopey doctors. Their stay-at-home guidelines were absolute folly because by then it was obvious that the new Wuhan virus strain mainly attacked the aged, infirm and those already afflicted with serious cardiovascular, respiratory, renal and diabetes/obesity ailments, not ...

Trump: I Can and Will Start Wars Whenever I Please

by Michael Tennant May 26, 2020

President Donald Trump’s May 6 veto of a Senate resolution that would have required him to seek congressional approval for any further military confrontations with Iran demonstrates that, despite his occasional feints toward scaling back foreign intervention, Trump is as much a warmonger as anyone else in Washington. Worse still, his explanation for his veto indicates that he believes ...

The Slippery Slope to Despotism

by John W. Whitehead May 22, 2020

You have no right not to be vaccinated, you have no right not to wear a mask, you have no right to open up your business… And if you refuse to be vaccinated, the state has the power to literally take you to a doctor's office and plunge a needle into your arm. —Alan Dershowitz, Harvard law professor You ...

There Will Be No Recovery Without Production

by Richard M. Ebeling May 19, 2020

Through most of the coronavirus crisis, those who have made the case for stay-at-home, reduce or stop work, and narrow the range of retail shopping to assure “social distancing” to reduce the spread of the virus have accused their critics of being more interested in preserving livelihoods than “saving lives.” But there is no preservation of any lives if ...

The Coronavirus and the Attack on Liberty and Privacy

by Richard M. Ebeling May 13, 2020

The coronavirus crisis has, once more, reminded us all of how much we live in an interdependent world in which what happens in one part of the globe has serious impacts in many other places, and how each of our own actions potentially have implications and importance for the well-being of multitudes of others around us, both near and ...

State-sanctioned Family Abuse in England

by Richard House May 12, 2020

Note: This article was written by Richard House and Jonathan Swann. The State will tell us how to teach and what results to aim for, and what the State prescribes will be bad. Its targets are the worst ones imaginable, yet it expects to get the best possible results. Today’s politics work in the direction of regimentation, and it will ...

And They’re Gone! The Obscenity Of Dr. Fauci’s Jobs-Mageddon

by David Stockman May 12, 2020

Yes, they are.....gone. We are referring, of course, to all of the jobs created not only since the Great Recession bottom, but during the entire 21st century to date! That’s right. The 20.5 million jobs plunge reported for April essentially wiped out the “strong labor market” brouhaha of the 244 “Jobs Friday” reports since January 2000. In fact, the 131.072 million nonfarm ...

The Profitability of Amtrak Is Not the Issue

by Laurence M. Vance May 11, 2020

In addition to the federal government’s departments, such as Energy, Interior, and Education; and independent agencies, such as the CIA, FCC, and EPA; there exist government quasi-corporations, such as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). What most Americans who take a train ride across the country probably don’t ...

An “Austrian” Agenda for Post-Coronavirus Recovery

by Richard M. Ebeling May 8, 2020

Everyone is hoping for the light at the end of the tunnel with the coronavirus crisis. There are few who are not exhausted with fear of the illness, and with worry and despair about the economic disaster caused by the government lockdowns and stay-at-home dictates. So, eyes are turned to a post-coronavirus world and what it will be like. ...

Six Things the COVID-19 Panic Has Taught Us

by Michael Tennant May 7, 2020

The responses of public officials and the American public to the COVID-19 pandemic have been highly instructive. Here are just a few of the things we have learned. No matter how many times the government has lied to them before, most people will believe its next tale. Remember these whoppers? “What we’re giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence.” ...

Should Social Security Benefits Be Means-Tested?

by Laurence M. Vance May 4, 2020

The United States may be the “land of the free and the home of the brave,” the “sweet land of liberty,” the “land of the noble free,” and a “city on a hill,” but it is, unfortunately, also a vast welfare state. Indeed, as has been pointed out by economist Walter Williams of George Mason ...