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Abolish the National Anthem

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It’s football season again, which means that the kneeling controversy is back. Two years ago, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick ignited a national controversy by kneeling during the singing of the national anthem before the start of a football game. He was protesting racial injustice in the United States, including the killing of African-Americans by white police officers. The controversy generated heated, emotional reactions on both sides. Some players sympathized with Kaepernick’s message and began following his lead by also kneeling during the national anthem. Many fans expressed admiration for Kaepernick for taken a courageous stand against racial injustice. Nike is now featuring Kaepernick in a major advertising campaign. Other people were outraged over what they perceived as an insult to the national anthem and said that Kaepernick should be fired. Many fans began immediately leaving games when the kneeling started. Others began boycotting games. There are now people who are calling for a boycott of Nike for featuring Kaepernick in ...

The Latest Conservative Defense of Tariffs

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For many years now, some conservatives, in their magazine and web articles criticizing government-managed trade agreements such as NAFTA and CAFTA, have made veiled criticisms of free trade. But no more. Since the beginning of the year, when Donald Trump started imposing protective tariffs on selected items from certain countries, those conservatives have begun to openly criticize free trade and promote protectionism. Sure, they are still denigrating real free trade by associating it with trade agreements, GATT, the WTO, the UN, the EU, the desire of globalist elites to have a one-world government, the decline of American independence, and the surrendering of American sovereignty. They are still promoting the idea that without the government’s protecting certain industries, the United States can become dangerously dependent on foreign suppliers for essential commodities in times of war. (In response to Trump’s recent tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, the DoD stated that the tariffs were not necessary to ensure national-defense requirements.) They are still reciting the ...

U.S. Policy toward Cuba Attacked America’s Freedom and Values

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The decades-long U.S. interventionist policy against Cuba failed to achieve its goal of removing Fidel Castro from power and replacing him with a pro-U.S. regime, similar to the pro-U.S. Batista regime that the Cuban revolution ousted from power in 1959. More important, interventionism against Cuba ended up attacking the freedom and values of the American people. During the Cold War, U.S. officials claimed that their interventionist policy against Cuba was justified because Cuba posed a grave threat to U.S. national security. Yet not once did Cuba ever attack or invade the United States or even threaten to do so. Moreover, there was never any possibility that the Cuban military could defeat U.S. military forces in a full-scale war. Throughout the Cold War years, it was always the U.S. government, especially the Pentagon and the CIA, that was the aggressor in the conflict with Cuba. Consider the brutal economic embargo against Cuba, which exists to this day, more than 25 years after ...

The Security Clearance Racket

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According to the Washington Post, almost 250 former members of the U.S. national-security establishment have come out on side of former CIA Director John Brennan in his war against President Trump. The issue? Brennan has severely criticized Trump for his desire to establish friendly relations with Russia. In response, Trump has cancelled Brennan’s “security clearance,” which has caused Brennan’s cohorts in ...

Steve Horwitz Is Wrong, On Both Liberty and Methodology

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  AUTHOR’S NOTE: On July 13, the Cato Institute published on its website libertarianism.org an article entitled “The Errors of Nostalgi-tarianism” by Steve Horwitz, a libertarian economics professor at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Horwitz’s article was a critique of a fundraising letter that I recently sent to supporters of The Future of Freedom Foundation requesting help with upgrading ...