Freedom Daily Archive

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 ...

Fiscal Insanity

by Laurence M. Vance July 1, 2024

Created in 1973, the Republican Study Committee (RSC) serves as the conservative caucus of House Republicans. Its purpose is “to bring like-minded House members together to promote a strong, principled legislative agenda that will limit government, strengthen our national defense, boost America’s economy, preserve traditional values and balance our budget.” The RSC “ensures that conservatives have a powerful voice ...

The Political Economy of Natural versus Contrived Inequalities

by Richard M. Ebeling July 1, 2024

To discuss the political economy of natural versus contrived inequalities requires some explanation of what is meant by “natural,” “contrived,” and “inequalities.” The use of the word “natural” has had a long, if sometimes controversial, history in economics over the last two and half centuries. When using this term, the French Physiocrats in the eighteenth century meant that along ...

“Who Will Build the Roads?” Part 2

by Wendy McElroy July 1, 2024

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 The United States Pharmacopeia is updated and published to this day. The organization has remained a privately funded nonprofit for over two centuries, but it does now currently cooperate closely with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It is interesting to note, however, that it took the government 86 years ...

The Kennedy Assassination: Fraudulent Photos, X-Rays, and Film

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 1, 2024

I highly recommend a new book on the Kennedy assassination entitled The Final Analysis by David W. Mantik and Jerome R. Corsi. It provides a critically important evidentiary building block that reinforces other circumstantial evidence and establishes beyond a reasonable doubt the criminal culpability of the national-security establishment in JFK’s assassination. First of all, however, let me provide some detailed ...