Libertarians Who Abandon Integrity by Jacob G. Hornberger September 3, 2020 In his interview with Fox News commentator Laura Ingraham on Tuesday, President Trump declared “I’m somewhat libertarian; I have to be honest with you; Rand Paul will tell you that….” Why was Trump claiming to be “somewhat libertarian”? Because he wants libertarians to vote for him. Rejecting Trump’s entreaty, Bonnie Kristian has written an interesting response in an article entitled “The Obliteration of the Republican-Libertarian Alliance,” which appears today in This Week. She writes: As a libertarian, no. No to all of this. No, in fact, to the self-serving claims of "libertarianism" by Republicans who just want to use weed or get our votes. No to the assumption that the Republican Party is automatically the lesser of two evils from the libertarian perspective. Whatever case there used to be for that alliance rested on the GOP at least pretending to share libertarians' fiscal conservatism. With Trump, that pretense is gone. ...
Remocrats versus Depublicans by Jacob G. Hornberger September 2, 2020 While conservatives and progressives are all hyped up over the presidential election, this political farce is pretty pathetic from the standpoint of a libertarian. After all, the real issue for libertarians when it comes to Donald Trump or Joe Biden is: Which one will be worse from the standpoint of tyranny and oppression? That’s pretty pathetic. Consider the major issues on which both of these statists agree: Social Security Medicare Medicaid Public schooling Welfare Federal Reserve Pentagon CIA NSA Drug War War on Terrorism Iraq Afghanistan Syria Foreign interventionism Military industrial complex Foreign military bases A managed and regulated economy Income taxation and the IRS CDC and FDA Mandatory lockdowns and mask-wearing Immigration controls Empire Trade restrictions and trade wars Assassination Torture Denial of due process and trial by jury FBI Gun Control Minimum wage Foreign aid Departments of Labor, Energy, Education, Homeland Security, and others Fiat money Welfare state National security state Given the similar positions and philosophy, what then are Trump and Biden fighting about? They and their cohorts are fighting over control. They each want to manage this corrupt and crooked system so that they will have the power ...
A Four-Point Plan for Government by Laurence M. Vance September 1, 2020 In July 2010, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative (NSI), launched the “If You See Something, Say Something” national campaign to raise “public awareness of the indicators of terrorism and terrorism-related crime, as well as the importance of reporting suspicious activity to state and local ...
Free Trade, Liberalism, and Peace by Richard M. Ebeling September 1, 2020 The classical liberals of the nineteenth century were certain that the end of the older mercantilist system — with its government control of trade and commerce, its bounties (subsidies) and prohibitions on exports and imports — would open wide vistas for improving the material conditions of man through the internationalization of the system of division of labor. They also ...
The Tortured Legacy of the Mexican-American War, Part 6 by Danny Sjursen September 1, 2020 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.… the fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force.… She might become the dictatress of the world.
A Time That Tries Men’s Souls by Jacob G. Hornberger August 27, 2020 In the midst of the turmoil in which our country is enveloped, I am reminded of the immortal words of Thomas Paine: These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, ...
How to Tell RINOs From Elephants by Michael Tennant August 19, 2020 Conservatives frequently dub Republican politicians they deem insufficiently committed to “free enterprise, private property, and limited government” Republicans in Name Only, or RINOs. But are they really phony Republicans? “The Republican Party was always, from its inception, the party of big government in America,” Thomas DiLorenzo observed in his book Lincoln Unmasked. As the successor to the Whig Party, the ...
The CIA Versus the Kennedys by Jacob G. Hornberger August 18, 2020 Former Congressman Ron Paul and his colleague Dan McAdams recently conducted a fascinating interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., which focused in part on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, who was Kennedy Jr.'s uncle. The interview took place on their program the Ron Paul Liberty Report. Owing to the many federal records that ...
NATO’s “Unified Front” at Breaking Point by Danny Sjursen August 14, 2020 Last month, a Turkish warship came one step away from firing missiles at a French naval vessel off the coast of Libya. In response, Paris suspended its involvement in Operation Sea Guardian — a multinational maritime effort to provide security in the Mediterranean Sea and halt the arms trafficking fueling Libya’s ongoing civil war. Initially, only eight ...
Defund the Pentagon by Laurence M. Vance August 10, 2020 Many liberals and progressives in the Democratic Party have been loudly calling for the defunding of police departments around the country after the tragic death of a black man, George Floyd, at the hands of a white Minneapolis police officer. While defunding the police — not to be confused with disbanding the police — means different things to different ...
A Time that Tries Men’s Souls (video) by Future of Freedom Foundation August 6, 2020 In the midst of the turmoil in which our country is enveloped, I am reminded of the immortal words of Thomas Paine: These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the ...