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Trampling on a Symbol of Liberty

by James Bovard February 1, 2024

Last August, 12-year-old Jaiden Rodriguez was kicked out of a public-school classroom in Colorado Springs after school officials decreed that the Gadsden flag patch on his backpack was “disruptive to the classroom environment.” Those Colorado officials didn’t know the meaning of “disruptive.” Thanks to savvy, thoughtful retorts by Jaiden’s mother in a video showdown at the school, the incident spurred ...

Medicare & You

by Laurence M. Vance February 1, 2024

Although I am not quite old enough to qualify for Medicare, I recently received in the mail a 131-page large-size book titled Medicare & You 2024: The Official U.S. Government Medicare Handbook, published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Turns out that the book was intended for a previous owner ...

The 80th Anniversary of F. A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom

by Richard M. Ebeling February 1, 2024

Eighty years ago, in March 1944, the British edition of Friedrich A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom was published. An American edition appeared six months later, in September 1944. During these eight decades, Hayek’s book has become a classic work in defense of the liberal free-market society and against socialist central planning. Often, when a book has received the status ...

Unheralded Resisters in Nazi Germany: The Edelweiss Pirates, Part 2

by Wendy McElroy February 1, 2024

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 In the Hitler Youth, as in classrooms, the goal was to produce obedient, race-conscious Germans who were willing to die for Führer and Fatherland. Hitler explained, “After four years of the Young Folk, they go on to the Hitler Youth, where we have them for another four years.... And even ...

Terror by Night

by John W. Whitehead January 31, 2024

“We’re all potential victims.”—Peter Christ, retired police officer Sometimes ten seconds is all the warning you get. Sometimes you don’t get a warning before all hell breaks loose. Imagine it, if you will: It’s the middle of the night. Your neighborhood is in darkness. Your household is asleep. Suddenly, you’re awakened by a loud noise. Barely ten seconds later, someone ...

You’re Probably Already on a Government Extremism List

by John W. Whitehead January 26, 2024

“In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught.”—Hunter S. Thompson According to the FBI, you may be an anti-government extremist if you’ve: a) purchased a Bible or other religious materials, b) used terms like “MAGA” and “Trump,” c) shopped at Dick’s Sporting Goods, Cabela’s, or Bass Pro Shops, d) purchased tickets to travel by bus, cars, ...

How Tyrannical Governments Stifle Political Dissent

by John W. Whitehead January 18, 2024

“No president from either party should have the sole power to shut down or take control of the internet or any other of our communication channels during an emergency.”—Senator Rand Paul What’s to stop the U.S. government from throwing the kill switch and shutting down phone and internet communications in a time of so-called crisis? After all,

Raw Milk, Marijuana, Tobacco, and Alcohol

by Laurence M. Vance January 17, 2024

The year 2023 was a good year for proponents of legalized raw milk and legalized marijuana. Forty-six states now allow the sale of raw milk, that is, unpasteurized milk, for human consumption, for pet consumption (there is no law against consuming pet food), or the distribution of raw milk through herd-share agreements. Only the states of Hawaii, Louisiana, Nevada, ...

Criminality in the White House

by John W. Whitehead January 12, 2024

“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.”—Richard Nixon Many years ago, a newspaper headline asked the question: “What’s the difference between a politician and a psychopath?” The answer, then and now, remains the same: None. There is no difference between psychopaths and politicians. Nor is there much of a ...

Democrats, Republicans, and Social Security

by Laurence M. Vance January 5, 2024

Social Security recipients received a 3.2 percent increase in their benefits at the beginning of this year thanks to Social Security’s annual cost of living adjustment (COLA). President Biden and his fellow Democrats, and even many conservatives, want them to receive even more money from the U.S. treasury. . Since 1975, Social Security beneficiaries have received cost-of-living ...

Born in a Police State: The Deep State’s Persecution of Its Most Vulnerable Citizens

by John W. Whitehead January 3, 2024

“When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the shepherds are back with their flocks, the work of Christmas begins: to find the lost, to heal the broken, to feed the hungry, to release the prisoner, to rebuild the nations, to bring peace ...

Why Drug Prohibition?

by Jacob G. Hornberger January 1, 2024

During the entire lives of everyone living today, the U.S. government has been waging the so-called war on drugs. Since 1914, beginning with the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act, the federal government has enacted laws that make it a criminal offense to possess or distribute certain drugs or to simply conspire (that is, agree) to do so. The objective has ...