With the start of baseball season, fans will once again be exhorted to stand up and glorify the troops. Among those fans will be teenagers who will be proudly singing some variation of “I’m proud to be an American ...
It is impossible to overstate the magnitude of the warfare-state revolution that transformed the federal government and American society after World War II. The roots of America’s foreign-policy crises today, along with the massive infringements on civil liberties and ...
It is truly impossible to overstate the enormity of the welfare-state revolution that occurred in 20th-century America.
Consider that for more than 100 years — from the inception of the Republic until the 20th century — the American people lived ...
Some people say that given the massive welfare-warfare state under which we now live, it’s clear that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights have proven to be a failed experiment in the protection of the rights and liberties ...
Last January the movie American Sniper was breaking box-office records and generating a national debate over the nature of war and how the movie depicts war. The movie revolved around Chris Kyle, a real-life U.S. soldier who had four ...
Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger discusses the hot topics of the day. This week: the national-security state's hardening during the Cold War. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast here.
George Washington pointed out, “Overgrown military establishments, which under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty.
Wise words by the father of our country, but ones, unfortunately, ...
Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger discusses the hot topics of the day. This week: the national-security state's hardening during the Cold War. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast here.
Silicon Valley executive Ellen Pao is licking her wounds after a jury ruled against her last week in her gender-discrimination suit against former employer Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, & Byers. Pao had accused the firm of not promoting her because ...
Conservatives just don’t get it. They complain about Common Core, saying that the federal government shouldn’t be involved in education.
Fair enough. No problem with that position.
But the problem with conservatives is that while they want to get the federal ...