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The Latest Debacle Proves the Need for a Sweeping FBI Investigation

by James Bovard September 1, 2018

The reputation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation took another pummeling in June, when the Department of Justice Inspector General released a damning report on the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton’s squirrely email server. Americans learned that the FBI had done backflips to exonerate Clinton and that a top FBI official had openly promised to “stop” Donald Trump from ...

Efficiency Experts for the Welfare State

by Laurence M. Vance September 1, 2018

Bordered by two oceans, encompassing 3.8 million square miles, and populated by more than 325 million people, the United States is a vast country. But although the United States is not yet a cradle-to-grave welfare state like many European countries, it is also a vast welfare state. There are in the United States about 80 means-tested welfare programs. These are ...

The Sanctifying of Plunder

by Leonard Read September 1, 2018

The law ...  has converted plunder into a right, in order to protect plunder. — Frédéric Bastiat The commandment “Thou shalt not steal” would be far better kept today had not theft assumed various disguises under which its practice has been generally sanctified. The gilding of an evil gives it a virtuous face — a Mr. Hyde’s ugliness covered by ...

Socialists Masquerading as Liberals

by James Cook September 1, 2018

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune (a left-wing newspaper) featured a quotation on the Sunday editorial page that claims that without intensive regulation “capitalism is a menace to society.” From the end of the Civil War in the United States to World War I federal government regulations barely existed. This laissez-faire capitalism catapulted living standards upward and generated a host of new ...

The Boomerang Effect

by Matthew Harwood September 1, 2018

Tyranny Comes Home: The Domestic Fate of U.S. Militarism by Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall (Stanford University Press, 2018); 264 pages. On the evening of July 7, 2016, Micah Xavier Johnson turned a protest against police brutality into a bloodbath. Angry at police killings of black men nationwide, the Army reservist and Afghan war ...

Libertarian Lessons: Property Rights

by Scott McPherson August 31, 2018

Borrowing heavily from the Whig philosopher John Locke (1632-1704), Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that all of us have the right to our lives, to our liberty, and to the pursuit of happiness. Less than a century earlier, Locke had offered a similar theme, with a slight difference: He stated that we have a right to ...

The JFK Assassination, Episode 10

by Jacob G. Hornberger August 31, 2018

In this series of short videos, FFF president Jacob Hornberger summarizes and details the circumstantial evidence pointing toward the U.S. national-security state as the orchestrator of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Watch the entire series. Go to the podcast.

Interest Rates Need to Tell the Truth

by Richard M. Ebeling August 30, 2018

In the middle of July 2018, President Donald Trump said in an interview that he was “not happy” with the Federal Reserve nudging up interest rates and threatening economic growth in the United States. At the recent Jackson Hole, Wyoming, meeting of global central bank leaders, the Federal Reserve chair, Jerome (“Jay”) Powell, said the Fed board would continue ...

The Libertarian Angle: More Immigration-Control Chaos (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation August 29, 2018

Immigration controls are like any other type of government control--a top-down command structure doomed to failure and resource mismanagement. And more importantly, immigration controls violate the libertarian non-agression principle. Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss. Go to the podcast.

Warrior Cops Endanger Our Lives and Freedoms

by John W. Whitehead August 28, 2018

“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: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century I have known a lot of good cops, I have defended a lot of good cops, and I have been fortunate ...

Speaker Panel – Non-Interventionism: America’s Founding Foreign Policy

by Future of Freedom Foundation August 27, 2018

This panel was part of a program entitled “Non-Interventionism: America’s Founding Foreign Policy” that was presented in Charleston, South Carolina on April 29, 2018 and co-sponsored with The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity. Speakers from left to right: - Richard M. Ebeling, BB&T Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Free Enterprise Leadership at The Citadel - ...

The JFK Assassination, Episode 9

by Jacob G. Hornberger August 24, 2018

In this series of short videos, FFF president Jacob Hornberger summarizes and details the circumstantial evidence pointing toward the U.S. national-security state as the orchestrator of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Watch the entire series. Go to the podcast.