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The Libertarian Angle: Opioids and the Drug War (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation June 5, 2018

If you own yourself, shouldn't you be free to ingest what you wish? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling discuss the immorality of the drug war. Go to the podcast.

Free Market Capitalism as the Antidote to the World’s Ills

by Richard M. Ebeling June 4, 2018

Greek In following the daily news events both in the United States and around the rest of the world, it is easy to get lost in the detail and not step back once and awhile and remind ourselves what the really important issues are. Under the anxiety of a possible nuclear war in Korea, actual ...

Legalize Drugs — All Drugs

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 1, 2018

In 1972, Newsweek published what must have been considered by many readers to be a shocking commentary on the drug war by libertarian Nobel Prize–winning economist Milton Friedman. Entitled “Prohibition and Drugs,” Friedman’s article called for the legalization of drugs — all drugs. Friedman made two primary libertarian arguments in favor of drug legalization: freedom and practicality. He wrote, On ethical ...

The Pro-War Media Deserve Criticism, Not Sainthood

by James Bovard June 1, 2018

The media nowadays are busy congratulating themselves for their vigorous criticism of Donald Trump. To exploit that surge of sanctimony, Hollywood producer Steven Spielberg rushed out The Post, a movie depicting an epic press battle with the Nixon administration. Critics raved over the film, which the New York Post enthusiastically labeled “journalism porn of the highest order.” Boston Public ...

Leave Social Security out of It

by Laurence M. Vance June 1, 2018

It was twenty-five years ago that the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) was passed by a Democrat-controlled Congress under Bill Clinton. Although it had minimal Republican support, current efforts to expand the FMLA’s provisions are being spearheaded by Republicans. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the FMLA “entitles eligible employees of covered employers to take unpaid, job-protected leave ...

Are Europeans Re-Thinking Gun Control?

by Scott McPherson June 1, 2018

The civil unrest of the 1960s threatened many Americans, particularly those living in major cities, and the urban population was exploding. Rising crime and particularly armed violent crime shocked and scared voters, and for more than two decades the Second Amendment was the scapegoat — an anachronism, “misinterpreted” by “gun nuts,” deserving of repeal. Draconian gun laws, including gun ...

How to Drain the Swamp: End the Failed War on Drugs, Part 1

by David Stockman June 1, 2018

Part 1 | Part 2 There are few more wasteful and inappropriate federal activities than the seizing and destroying of indoor and outdoor cannabis plants. At the peak of Washington’s pointless war on drugs in 2010 the DEA funded the eradication of 11 million marijuana plants, and has caused 125 million of such “weeds” to be pulled ...

Is the Constitution Even Welcome Here Anymore?

by John W. Whitehead May 31, 2018

“The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out ‘stop!’ When crimes begin to pile up they ...

The Libertarian Angle: Why Do We Even Need a National Anthem? (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation May 30, 2018

Here is another solution for the NFL's woes concerning kneeling players during the Star-Spangled Banner -- Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling propose eliminating it. Go to the podcast https://libertarianangle.libsyn.com/.

The Myth that Central Banks Assure Economic Stability

by Richard M. Ebeling May 29, 2018

Greek The world has been plagued with periodic bouts of the economic rollercoaster of booms and busts, inflations and recessions, especially during the last one hundred years. The main culprits responsible for these destabilizing and disruptive episodes have been governments and their central banks. They have monopolized the control of their respective nation’s monetary and ...

A Graduation Message for a Dark Age

by John W. Whitehead May 23, 2018

Those coming of age today will face some of the greatest obstacles ever encountered by young people. They will find themselves overtaxed, burdened with excessive college debt, and struggling to find worthwhile employment in a debt-ridden economy on the brink of implosion. Their privacy will be eviscerated by the surveillance state. They will be the subjects ...

The Libertarian Angle – The Purpose of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation May 22, 2018

FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss the purpose of the United States' founding documents Go to the podcast.