Freedom Daily Archive

Understanding the JFK Assassination, Part 6

by Jacob G. Hornberger March 1, 2019

This series will be published in a forthcoming book. Details to follow.

George H.W. Bush’s Forgotten Debacles and Demagoguery

by James Bovard March 1, 2019

After former President George H.W. Bush died late last year, he was widely hailed as a great leader and patriot. At the National Cathedral funeral service, biographer Jon Meachan declared that Bush was a “twentieth-century Founding Father.” The minister of Bush’s church in Houston compared him to Jesus. Bush’s gentlemanly manners were lauded by many people outraged by President ...

Blasphemy Laws and Other Victimless Crimes

by Laurence M. Vance March 1, 2019

Pakistan is a Muslim country with harsh blasphemy laws. In 1986, during the military rule of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, it became a capital offence for anyone to insult the prophet Mohammed. Government officials who opposed the nation’s blasphemy laws have been assassinated. Late last year, a Christian woman in Pakistan, Aasiya Noreen, who had been convicted of blasphemy by a ...

The Fallacy of a Government Shutdown, the Reality of Freedom Lost

by Richard M. Ebeling March 1, 2019

Another partial federal government “shutdown” began on December 22, 2018. The impression from the media and other commentaries easily suggested that the political and economic sky was about to fall. Various government departments were closed and some government services were reduced. And the fear was fostered that soon masses of people would be dying in the streets or driven ...

The Ongoing Destruction of the Minds of Children

by Gary D. Barnett March 1, 2019

There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure. — Isabel Paterson Compulsory schooling is a travesty. To call it education is absurd. Real education is lifelong learning as an individual, while ...

Pull That Veil Away!

by Leonard Read March 1, 2019

Combatting statism is not, as many assume, a project in propaganda; it is, instead, a probing operation. The problem is not one of merely getting others to grasp the little we already know; it is far more a matter of discovering that which we ourselves do not yet understand. A major area of exploration, of course, is to find new ...

Understanding the JFK Assassination, Part 5

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 1, 2019

This series will be published in a forthcoming book. Details to follow.

Washington’s Biggest Fairy Tale: “Truth Will Out”

by James Bovard February 1, 2019

The arrest of Julian Assange has produced rapturous cheering from the American political elite. Hillary Clinton declared that Assange “must answer for what he has done.” Unfortunately, Assange’s arrest will do nothing to prevent the vast majority of conniving politicians and bureaucrats from paying no price for deceiving the American public. “Truth will out” is a phrase that is routinely ...

Equal Employment Opportunity Is Bad Law

by Laurence M. Vance February 1, 2019

Everyone who works a job has seen the same poster on a wall or a bulletin board at his place of employment: Equal Employment Opportunity Is THE LAW. (The last two words are usually in all caps and in a much larger font and in a different color than the first four words.) The poster The poster says that applicants to ...

Abolish the Welfare State to Solve the National Debt Crisis

by Richard M. Ebeling February 1, 2019

Why is it so difficult to win the case for freedom in modern American society? A variety of possible answers come to mind. The collectivists are more effective in appealing to people’s emotions. The interventionist-welfare-statist argument is easier to make than it is to follow the logical chains of reasoning required to make the free-market case. Socialist-leaning teachers and ...

Bin Laden Won

by Matthew Harwood February 1, 2019

Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan by Scott Horton (Chicago: The Libertarian Institute, 2017); 317 pages. According to official U.S. government accounts, the body of Osama bin Laden slid off the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson into his watery grave in the Indian Ocean sometime on the morning of May ...

Understanding the JFK Assassination, Part 4

by Jacob G. Hornberger January 1, 2019

This series will be published in a forthcoming book. Details to follow.