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Time to Separate Alcohol from the State

by Laurence M. Vance January 3, 2025

President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to impose a 25 percent tariff on all goods entering the United States from Mexico and Canada — two of America’s largest trading partners. Said Trump: “On January 20th, as one of my many first Executive Orders, I will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% Tariff ...

We Need Your End of Year Support!

by Jacob G. Hornberger December 23, 2024

With the presidential election now over, it is time to return to business — the achievement of a genuinely free society. It is our job as libertarians to lead America to higher reaches of freedom, peace, prosperity, and harmony than mankind has ever seen. I am writing to seek your generous financial support for The Future of Freedom Foundation for ...

How Not to Cut Federal Spending

by Laurence M. Vance December 20, 2024

Former congressman, governor of Indiana, and vice president Michael “Mike” Pence is struggling to regain relevancy. He is probably the most prominent Republican in the country to not endorse his former boss Donald Trump for president, after dropping out of the 2024 Republican presidential race before a single caucus or primary took place. Pence said he had not spoken ...

The Surveillance State Is Making a List, and You’re On It

by John W. Whitehead December 18, 2024

“He sees you when you’re sleeping He knows when you’re awake He knows when you’ve been bad or good So be good for goodness’ sake!” —“Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” You’d better watch out—you’d better not pout—you’d better not cry—‘cos I’m telling you why: this Christmas, it’s the Surveillance State that’s making a list and checking it twice, and it won’t matter whether ...

The King James Test for American Democracy

by James Bovard December 16, 2024

On December 1, President Joe Biden announced that he was pardoning his son Hunter for all the crimes he committed from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024. President Biden absolved all of his son’s felonies because of his “serious addictions” and because Hunter was purportedly mistreated by Biden’s own appointees at the Justice Department. But going back 40 ...

Medicare: Expand, Reform, or Eliminate?

by Laurence M. Vance December 13, 2024

Although the nuances of the beliefs of Democrats, liberals, and progressives may be obscure, there is one thing that they all agree on: the expansion of Medicare. Medicare is a government health-insurance program for people age 65 or older, people under age 65 with certain disabilities, people of all ages with End-Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure requiring dialysis or ...

The Classical Liberal Case for the Freedom to Move

by Richard M. Ebeling December 11, 2024

The idea of making a case for “open borders” arouses a great deal of disagreement and disapproval. Open borders, in the minds of some, implies no borders, it is argued and feared. There may be some who oppose the notion of political borders due to their disapproval of any form of government with a geographical area of responsible jurisdiction. ...

Political Riptides Threaten to Overwhelm the Nation

by John W. Whitehead December 10, 2024

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place ...

The New Deal as the Great Reset, Part 2

by Robert E. Wright December 9, 2024

Part 1 | Part 2 The New Deal effectively killed off what was left of the ninth and tenth amendments, the ones that protect unenumerated individual rights and states’ rights. Occupational-licensing laws that restricted entry into a growing number of occupations to an educated few in the name of consumer safety, for example, trounced the ancient, commonsense, and hence ...

The Evil of Property Taxes

by Laurence M. Vance December 4, 2024

There were more than 140 ballot measures in 41 states during the election last month. While all eyes were on the ballot measures relating to abortion and marijuana, there were 10 ballot measures in eight states relating in some way to property taxes, and one more is coming up in an election in Louisiana on December 7. There were ballot ...

Immigration, Drugs, Guns, and Interventionism

by Jacob G. Hornberger December 2, 2024

The welfare-warfare state way of life under which Americans have been born and raised has created a highly dysfunctional society, one in which the federal government has destroyed the freedom of the American people, killed countless millions of people in foreign countries, debased the value of people’s money, and put our nation onto a trajectory of national bankruptcy. By focusing ...

Prostitution and a Free Society

by Laurence M. Vance November 26, 2024

Libertarianism is based on the timeless principles of individual liberty, commercial freedom, property rights, and a government strictly limited to the protection of these things. Therefore, libertarianism neither shies away from hard topics nor has to adjust its principles to remain relevant or keep up with the times. Consequently, libertarianism is viewed by some as a radical philosophy both ...