Freedom Daily Archive

JFK: A Fraudulent Autopsy and a Fraudulent Film

by Jacob G. Hornberger September 1, 2024

The following is a nonverbatim transcript of a talk I gave at the annual PorcFest festival in Lancaster, New Hampshire, in June 2024. In the 1990s, the Assassination Records Review Board discovered the existence of a woman named Saundra Spencer, who told a remarkable story to the ARRB. On the weekend of the assassination of President Kennedy, Spencer was a ...

Supreme Court Unleashes Censors and Betrays Democracy

by James Bovard September 1, 2024

On the eve of the first presidential candidate debate, the Supreme Court gave a huge boost to Joe Biden to help him “fix” the 2024 election with maybe its worst decision of the year. It remains to be seen whether the court’s refusal to stop federal censorship will be a wooden stake in the credibility of American democracy. The court ...

Can Huey Long Save America?

by Laurence M. Vance September 1, 2024

I occasionally read a writer and podcaster known as a conspiracy researcher who writes on a variety of subjects. Donald Jeffries is all over the map politically (reformer, idealist, libertarian, classical liberal, populist, and cultural conservative), has published several books, and has written a Substack column since 2021. His name is not important because it is his ideas, which ...

Ludwig von Mises on Human Action and the Free Society

by Richard M. Ebeling September 1, 2024

Seventy-five years ago, on September 14, 1949, Yale University Press published Ludwig von Mises’s Human Action: A Treatise on Economics. Almost 900 pages in length, it soon became recognized as one of the major works in economics in the twentieth century. Not that this recognition was felt in the economics profession of the time. Few reviews appeared in the professional ...

Book Review: Last Rights

by George Leef September 1, 2024

Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty by James Bovard (Libertarian Institute, 2023) There are quite a few writers who are dedicated to exposing the harm that our leviathan state is doing to the American people, but no one outshines James Bovard. For decades, he has been indefatigable in his work to blow the ...

Right-Wing Obtuseness on Immigration

by Jacob G. Hornberger August 1, 2024

A columnist for the Washington Post named Jim Geraghty recently chided me in his column for wanting to “abolish the Border Patrol and ICE and all controls on the free movements of people across borders.” With sarcasm dripping from his keyboard, Geraghty concluded, “I suppose that by declaring it to be legal for everyone to cross the border, you ...

Police Have the Right to Lie and Slander

by James Bovard August 1, 2024

To serve and protect, police are allowed to slander and destroy. Cops in many states and localities have acquired the right to lie about their shootings, searches, and practically anything else. Police have routinely planted drugs, guns, and other evidence to incriminate innocent people, while police labs have engaged in wholesale fraud blighting tens of thousands of lives. From a ...

Libertarianism vs. Microlibertarianism

by Laurence M. Vance August 1, 2024

Libertarianism is a consistent and principled philosophy that is absolute in scope and universal in application. We can begin with this classic description of libertarianism by libertarianism’s greatest theorist, Murray Rothbard (1926–1995): Libertarianism is not and does not pretend to be a complete moral, or aesthetic theory; it is only a political theory, that is, the important subset of ...

The Liberal Ideal for Peace and Against War

by Richard M. Ebeling August 1, 2024

Wars, conquest, mass killings, occupation, and plunder have plagued the world for all of recorded history. Primitive tribes fighting over waterholes and hunting grounds. Kings and princes claiming divine right to rule over all those they conquer and impose their violent will upon. Nation-states asserting rights and claims to lands and peoples based on racial, ethnic, linguistic, or cultural ...

“Who Will Build the Roads?” Part 3

by Wendy McElroy August 1, 2024

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 In short, a free-market approach is more practical because it is based on human nature and on demonstrated preferences. By contrast, imposed measures go against human nature: Otherwise, they would not need to be imposed. Rothbard expresses a more practical reason — one among many — why government intervention into the ...

Tyranny and the Homelessness Problem

by Jacob G. Hornberger July 1, 2024

I grew up in Laredo, Texas, which was the poorest city in the United States based on per capita income. The poverty in Laredo was so extensive that people in some parts of town actually lived in shacks. Yet, there was never a homelessness problem in Laredo. Yes, people lived in dilapidated housing, but at least they had a ...

Buy a Bible, Become a Terror Suspect

by James Bovard July 1, 2024

Americans are familiar with the Miranda warning that anything that arrestees say can be used against them in a court of law. But the Biden administration secretly created a new tripwire: Anything you purchase can be used against you. And if you didn’t want to be categorized as a “lone wolf” potential terrorist, you never should have bought that ...