I wonder how many Americans realize that the U.S. national-security state has brought the possibility of automatic war — that is, a war that involves no presidential or congressional deliberation.
That’s the case with Korea.
Today, there are 28,500 U.S. troops ...
This past weekend, I saw Pawn Sacrifice, the new movie about Bobby Fischer, the world-renowned American chess player who defeated Russian Boris Spassky to become the first American ever to win the world championship in chess. It was an ...
Another random mass murder, this time at a community college in Oregon. Officials are scratching their heads trying to figure out motive but so far meeting with no success. All that we know is that the killer was off-kilter ...
It had to happen. It was always inevitable that the U.S. government’s much-vaunted “war on terrorism” would devolve into absolute chaos, especially by attracting authoritarian and totalitarian regimes into the “war on terrorism” maelstrom.
Ever since President George W. Bush ...
The recurring debt-ceiling circus is approaching, once again. The maximum amount of debt that the federal government is permitted to incur is about to be reached … again. That means that the federal government will not be permitted to ...
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A few days after the 9/11 attacks, I was attending a big libertarian dinner at an area ...
When he was president, Bill Clinton famously said, ““There’s nothing patriotic about hating your government or pretending you can hate your government but love your country.”
Clinton would have a hard time convincing the Chinese people of that.
Yesterday, the New ...
I thought I would give you an update on recent and upcoming activities here at FFF:
1. On Saturday, October 10, I am speaking at a conference on U.S. foreign policy at Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth sponsored by ...
The controversy over federal funding for Planned Parenthood, which apparently has brought about the resignation of GOP House Speaker John Boehner, only goes to show how warped and perverted Republicans and conservatives have become.
Consider what the controversy involves: Republicans ...
The Pope’s visit to the United States has raised, among other things, issues relating to poverty, socialism, and capitalism.
I grew up a liberal. By the time I returned to my hometown of Laredo, Texas, to practice law in 1975, ...