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Will TSA Steal Your Mug?

by James Bovard January 1, 2024

Dorothy Parker’s signature line, “What fresh hell is this?” is the new mantra for travelers at American airports. TSA is rapidly expanding a program in which travelers stand in photo kiosks that compare their faces with a federal database of photos from passport applications, drivers’ licenses, and other sources to see if people receive official permission to fly. What could ...

America Has a Uniparty System

by Laurence M. Vance January 1, 2024

The United States has been saddled with a two-party political system almost from the very beginning of its existence. First it was the Federalist Party and the Democratic-Republican Party, then it was the Democrats and the Whigs, and now it is the Democrats and the Republicans. George Wallace’s adage that “there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the Democrat ...

Franklin Roosevelt’s Bogus Economic Bill of Rights

by Richard M. Ebeling January 1, 2024

Eighty years ago, on January 11, 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his Annual Message to Congress (now known as the State of the Union Address). Its significance arises from his call for a new Economic Bill of Rights to accompany the existing Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution. He wanted to codify as federal constitutional law an ...

Unheralded Resisters in Nazi Germany: The Edelweiss Pirates, Part 1

by Wendy McElroy January 1, 2024

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Hitler’s power may lay us low, And keep us locked in chains, But we will smash the chains one day, We’ll be free again We’ve got fists and we can fight, We’ve got knives and we’ll get them out We want freedom, don’t we boys? We’re the fighting Navajos! — song of the Cologne Edelweiss Pirates Everyone ...

How Absolute Power Corrupted the President

by John W. Whitehead December 22, 2023

“He says, ‘You’re not going to be a dictator, are you?’ I said: ‘No, no, no, other than day one. We’re closing the border, and we’re drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I’m not a dictator.’”—Donald Trump to Sean Hannity on being asked if he would abuse power after being re-elected Once a dictator, always a dictator. Power-hungry, lawless ...

Help Us Advance Liberty in the Year Ahead

by Jacob G. Hornberger December 22, 2023

I am writing to seek your end-of-year financial support for The Future of Freedom Foundation to help us advance liberty in the year ahead. When I discovered libertarianism in my late 20s, more than 40 years ago, the biggest revelation for me was that I was not actually a free person. All my life — especially during my years in ...

Conservatives Just Don’t Get It on Discrimination

by Laurence M. Vance December 20, 2023

Liberals, progressives, and other left-leaning individuals have made discrimination a dirty word. Their crusade against all forms of discrimination in employment, in housing, in public accommodations, in private organizations, and in life in general is an attack on private property, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, free enterprise, and freedom of contract. This does not mean, however, that conservatives are ...

The Police State Wants Us To Be a Nation of Snowflakes

by John W. Whitehead December 13, 2023

“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.”—Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol What a year. It feels as if government Grinches and corporate Scrooges have been working overtime to drain ...

Conservatives, Skittles, and Drugs

by Laurence M. Vance December 11, 2023

Conservatives have been fairly quiet about the new law in California that bans certain additives used in candy and other foods, though not because they agree with it. Dubbed the “Skittles ban” because the original version of the bill targeted the coloring agent in the popular Skittles candy, “The California Food Safety Act” (AB-418) prohibits “any food ...

Tyranny Comes to Main Street

by James Bovard December 8, 2023

The following is the first chapter of the new book by James Bovard, Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty. Americans today have the “freedom” to be fleeced, groped, wiretapped, injected, censored, injected, ticketed, disarmed, beaten, vilified, detained, and maybe shot by government agents. Politicians are hell-bent on protecting citizens against everything except Uncle Sam. Is America ...

Freedom’s Greatest Hour of Danger Is Now

by John W. Whitehead December 6, 2023

“What if the rights and principles guaranteed in the Constitution have been so distorted in the past 200 years as to be unrecognizable by the Founders? What if the government was the reason we don’t have a Constitution anymore? What if freedom’s greatest hour of danger is now?”—Andrew P. Napolitano We are approaching critical mass, the point ...

America’s Forever Immigration Morass

by Jacob G. Hornberger December 1, 2023

All my life I have witnessed America’s ongoing, never-ending, perpetual immigration morass, along with the endless laments, anguish, anxiety, and depression among American statists that have accompanied it. All of this mental anguish has caused immigration-control advocates for the last several decades to ceaselessly cry out for Congress to enact “comprehensive immigration reform” designed to finally — finally! — ...