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American Cities Are Socialist Nightmares

by Scott McPherson December 10, 2021

America's cities are petri dishes of “progressive” governance. Anyone who cares to see the consequences of radical left-wing policies need look no further than our country's urban centers. From the monstrous modernist architecture to decaying infrastructure, they look more like Soviet hell than the once-thriving metropolises that were the envy of the modern world. The English historian James Bryce called ...

The Surveillance State Has a Naughty List, and You’re On It

by John W. Whitehead December 8, 2021

Santa’s got a new helper. No longer does the all-knowing, all-seeing, jolly Old St. Nick need to rely on antiquated elves on shelves and other seasonal snitches in order to know when you’re sleeping or awake, and if you’ve been naughty or nice. Thanks to the government’s almost limitless powers made possible by a domestic army of techno-tyrants, fusion centers and ...

Trust Funds: Real and Imaginary

by Laurence M. Vance December 3, 2021

It is interesting that the basic framework of the U.S. unemployment compensation program was first established in the Social Security Act of 1935. Although both programs have trust funds, one is real, and one is imaginary. Due to the COVID-19 “pandemic,” state unemployment programs were stretched to the limit in 2020 and into 2021. Let me briefly explain how these ...

Kyle Rittenhouse and the Citizen Militia

by Scott McPherson December 1, 2021

Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges related to his actions on August 25, 2020, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Three men ambushed the teen as he provided security, fire-fighting services, clean-up, and first aid during the riots that ravaged the city for over a week. One of the attackers was armed with a handgun, another attempted to bash Rittenhouse’s skull ...

A Great Opportunity to Restore the Republic

by Jacob G. Hornberger December 1, 2021

With the debacle in Afghanistan, the American people have been presented with one of the greatest opportunities in our lifetime — an opportunity to dismantle the national-security establishment and restore our founding system of a limited-government republic. Opportunities like this do not often present themselves. Now is time to seize the day, before the national-security establishment is able to ...

My Two-Bit Political Awakening

by James Bovard December 1, 2021

Samuel Johnson may have been wrong when he declared, “There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.” But for young kids, collecting coins is a less pernicious pastime than becoming a pyromaniac or Tik-Tok star. My own experience collecting, buying, and selling coins vaccinated me against trusting politicians long before ...

Equality and Fairness for All but Property Owners

by Laurence M. Vance December 1, 2021

The grossly misnamed Equality Act is a government attack on the rights of private property, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, free enterprise, and freedom of contract. According to the official summary of bill (H.R.5): This bill prohibits discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity in areas including public accommodations and facilities, education, federal funding, employment, housing, credit, ...

Civil Liberties, Economic Freedom, and Property Rights

by Richard M. Ebeling December 1, 2021

We are living at a time when civil liberties are severely under attack from a number of directions. Two of the most obvious ones at the moment are the response by many governments to the coronavirus crisis and the rise of “critical race theory,” with its accompanying “cancel culture.” We are seeing imposed or threatened suppression of freedom of speech, ...

Freedom Is Not Free

by Leonard Read December 1, 2021

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. —Abraham Lincoln Only a few — the pure, the apt and the true — never deny freedom to anyone. All others, while they may hope for freedom for themselves, deny this blessing to others in countless ways, sometimes knowingly but often in ignorance. Whoever diminishes your freedom deserves it not ...

Don’t Give Up on the Blessings of Freedom

by John W. Whitehead November 24, 2021

“All we are saying is give peace a chance.”—John Lennon How do you give thanks for freedoms that are constantly being eroded? How do you express gratitude for one’s safety when the perils posed by the American police state grow more treacherous by the day? How do you come together as a nation in thanksgiving when the powers-that-be continue to polarize and ...

The Road to Fascism

by John W. Whitehead November 19, 2021

“Man is born free but everywhere is in chains.”—Jean-Jacques Rousseau We are moving fast down the road to fascism. This COVID-19 pandemic has shifted us into high gear. The heavy-handed collusion between the Techno-Corporate State and the U.S. government over vaccine mandates is merely the latest manifestation of the extent to which fascist forces are working to overthrow our constitutional republic and ...

Fight for $26

by Laurence M. Vance November 15, 2021

Some states hold elections for state and local offices in odd-numbered years, and this year was no exception. In addition, a total of 39 statewide ballot measures were certified for the 2021 ballot in nine states. Some localities had ballot measures as well, like Tucson, Arizona, where residents voted in favor of a $15 minimum wage ...