Freedom Daily Archive

Socialism, American Style, Part 2

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 1, 2020

Part 1 | Part 2  | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 The crown jewel of American socialism is Social Security, a program that originated among socialists in Germany in the late 1800s and then was imported into the United States, where it became an established program in the 1930s as ...

Roosevelt’s Fraud at Yalta and the Mirage of the “Good War”

by James Bovard June 1, 2020

This year is the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two. One of the biggest frauds of the final stage of that war was the meeting at Yalta of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and President Franklin Roosevelt. Yalta has become a synonym for the abandonment of oppressed people and helped inspire the ...

Why Do Democrats Hate Donald Trump So Much?

by Laurence M. Vance June 1, 2020

Democrats didn’t much care for presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, or George W. Bush — mainly because they were Republican presidents. Just as Republicans weren’t too fond of presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, or Barack Obama — mainly because they were Democratic presidents. But it is no secret that Democrats, whether they call themselves liberals, leftists, progressives, Democratic ...

The Conquest of the United States by China

by Richard M. Ebeling June 1, 2020

In March 2020, America was put on a “war footing,” according to the president of the United States and other governmental officials. The enemy was declared to be the coronavirus, and to meet this “invader” many if not most politicians at all local, state, and federal levels called for government-directed command and control of social and economic affairs. Welcome ...

The Tortured Legacy of the Mexican-American War, Part 3

by Danny Sjursen June 1, 2020

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory, and shed American blood upon American soil. War exists, and notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it, exists by the act of Mexico herself. — ...

Socialism, American Style, Part 1

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 1, 2020

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5  | Part 6 In September 1990, the first year of The Future of Freedom Foundation’s existence, FFF published an article I wrote entitled “Letting Go of Socialism.” The article’s opening paragraph stated, Socialism has held the world in its grip since the ...

The REAL ID Act Ravages Our Liberty

by James Bovard May 1, 2020

National ID cards have been atop the command-and-control political wish list for decades. In the 1990s, Republican Congresses shot down efforts to move toward national identification cards. However, after 9/11, “everything changed” and politicians seized the chance to unleash far more snooping and create potentially hundreds of millions of dossiers on American citizens. Congress passed the REAL ID Act in ...

Liberal Democracy versus Democratic Socialism versus Social Democracy

by Richard M. Ebeling May 1, 2020

The presidential primary campaign of Bernie Sanders for the Democratic Party nomination and the election of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Congress from New York have once again raised the issue of the desirability for and the possibility of a system of “democratic socialism.” For many of their critics and opponents the operative word is “socialism” in their vision of a new ...

Democrats, Republicans, and the Constitution

by Laurence M. Vance May 1, 2020

In July 2017, after President Donald Trump had been in office for less than six months, Congressmen Al Green (D-Calif.) and Brad Sherman (D-Tex.) introduced in the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives an article of impeachment (H. Res. 438) against the president for “High Crimes and Misdemeanors.” Said Green, “I am introducing Articles of Impeachment to begin a long ...

The Tortured Legacy of the Mexican-American War, Part 2

by Danny Sjursen May 1, 2020

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 The Constitution was, and is, emphatic on one matter, at least: only Congress possesses the power to declare war. In the 1840s, an era of legislative preeminence, even the high-risk Tyler blanched, aware that the agreement exceeded his authority. ...

Reform versus Liberty

by Jacob G. Hornberger April 1, 2020

Americans alive today have grown up in what libertarians term a welfare-warfare state. It is a system in which the primary purpose of the federal government is to take care of people and keep them safe and secure. This type of governmental system is also sometimes referred to as a paternalistic state, given that the federal government essentially plays ...

Impeachment Reminder of Our Toxic Foreign Aid

by James Bovard April 1, 2020

Foreign aid to Ukraine helped spur the Democrats’ effort to impeach and remove President Trump earlier this year. Ukraine was supposed to be on the verge of great progress until Trump pulled the rug out from under the heroic salvation effort by U.S. government bureaucrats. Unfortunately, Congress has devoted a hundred times more attention to the timing of aid ...