Yes, Virginia, There Is A Deep State And It’s Feeding The Anti-POTUS Mob by David Stockman November 1, 2019 The prepared statement of the latest UkraineGate whistle-blower is well worth the read. It tells you all you need to know about why the Deep State apparatchiks are coming out of the woodwork in a massive assault on America's duly elected president. They are deathly afraid Trump will begin to dismantle a far-flung Empire which has wreaked havoc around the ...
A Limited-Government Republic versus a National-Security State by Jacob G. Hornberger November 1, 2019 The worst mistake that the American people have made in the entire history of the United States was to permit the conversion of the federal government to a national-security state. That conversion has played a major role in the diminishment of limited government and the destruction of our liberty, privacy, and economic well-being. What is a national-security state? It ...
Banning Guns Will Not Make Schools Safe by James Bovard November 1, 2019 School shootings have become the latest pretext for politicians to destroy the Second Amendment. Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, declared in a Democratic presidential candidates’ debate, “I was part of the first generation that saw routine school shootings. We have now produced the second school-shooting generation in this country. We dare not allow there to be a ...
Why I Am So Passionate about Ending the Drug War by Laurence M. Vance November 1, 2019 Since 2009, I have written about ninety articles on the subject of the drug war, many of them for the Future of Freedom Foundation, and some of them for this very publication. I have maintained throughout these articles that the war on drugs is a monstrous evil that has ruined more lives than drugs themselves; that the war on ...
Examples of Dedication to Freedom by Richard M. Ebeling November 1, 2019 When Austrian economist Friedrich A. Hayek (1899–1992) wrote his famous book The Road to Serfdom (1944) in the midst of the Second World War, he mentioned in the preface that he had often been told by his socialist colleagues that he would, no doubt, hold an important position in a future planned society, if only he would come around ...
The Roots of Mass Incarceration by Michael Swanson November 1, 2019 From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton (Harvard University Press, 2016), 449 pages. Before the war on the drugs there was the war on crime. In 1975 the police department of Washington, D.C., launched “Operation Sting” in partnership with the FBI and the ...
Max Weber on Politics as a Vocation by Richard M. Ebeling October 31, 2019 Political election seasons are always interesting times. An array of candidates offer themselves to the voters, each one promising a bundle of policy programs targeting what government will do for those who elect them, as well as all those who did not vote for them. They are all about how much they want to “give back” and to do ...
FFF Policy Concerning Employee Political Activity by Future of Freedom Foundation October 31, 2019 To Our Supporters: As a result of legal consultation and advice from a Washington, D.C., law firm that specializes in election law and non-profit foundations, The Future of Freedom Foundation has adopted the following policies for whenever an employee of FFF becomes a candidate for public office: The employee will be permitted to continue working in his same capacity at ...
Beware the Growing Evil in Our Midst by John W. Whitehead October 29, 2019 “You see them on the street. You watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this fall. You think they’re people just like you. You’re wrong. Dead wrong.” — They Live We’re living in two worlds, you and I. There’s the world we see (or are made to see) and then ...
An Impulsive Bill that Eviscerated America’s Civil Liberties by Brian Miller October 28, 2019 The USA PATRIOT Act provides a textbook example of how the United States federal government expands its power. An emergency happens, legitimate or otherwise. The media, playing its dutiful role as goad for greater government oversight, demands "something must be done." Government power is massively expanded, with little regard for whether or not what is being done is efficacious, ...
The Pathocracy of the Deep State by John W. Whitehead October 24, 2019 “Politicians are more likely than people in the general population to be sociopaths. I think you would find no expert in the field of sociopathy/psychopathy/antisocial personality disorder who would dispute this... That a small minority of human beings literally have no conscience was and is a bitter pill for our society to swallow — but ...
Collectivist Revivalism and the New Attack on Liberty by Richard M. Ebeling October 23, 2019 America and some other parts of the world are facing a “revivalist” movement, but rather than being a religious revival, it is an ideological revivalism calling for a turn away from freedom and the open society, and back to an earlier societal tribalism and tyranny. It cuts across the usual political spectrum because what one finds is a common faith ...