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Bionic Mosquito’s Bite Misses the Mark

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 30, 2016

In my article “Bionic Mosquito Has It Wrong on Immigration,” I pointed out that when it comes to immigration enforcement measures that accompany immigration controls, Bionic Mosquito (i.e., Jonathan Goodwin) was steadfastly ensconced in the land of silence. Like many proponents of immigration controls, he simply chose not to discuss them. Bionic has ...

The Keys to Human Prosperity: Individual Liberty and the Rule of Law

by Richard M. Ebeling May 30, 2016

We live at time when, increasingly, the U.S. government operates in arbitrary and discretionary ways. Government regulatory agencies seemingly have unrestrained powers over land-use, business manufacturing and enterprise, the workplace and the environment under broad legislative mandates. And proposals are now frequently being made for ad hoc restrictions and prohibitions on freedoms of speech, press, religion and association.  The ...

What It Takes to Be President of the American Police State

by John W. Whitehead May 27, 2016

“The qualifications for president seem to be that one is willing to commit mass murder one minute and hand presidential medals of freedom to other war criminals in the next. One need only apply if one has very loose, flexible, or non-existent morality.”—Author and activist Cindy Sheehan Long gone are the days when the path to the White House ...

Should Marijuana Be Legalized and Taxed?

by Laurence M. Vance May 26, 2016

Although 24 states and the District of Columbia have legalized the medical use of marijuana, the federal government still classifies marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act as a Schedule I drug with “a high potential for abuse,” “no currently accepted medical use,” and “a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug under medical supervision.” Beginning with Oregon in ...

Bionic Mosquito Has It Wrong on Immigration

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 25, 2016

Jonathan Goodwin, who writes under the pseudonym Bionic Mosquito, has an article at LewRockwell.com entitled “Open Borders and the Real World,” which is critical of the article I posted on FFF’s website last week entitled “Open Borders Is the Only Libertarian Position.” In my article, I threw down the gauntlet to libertarians who advocate government-controlled borders and who ...

The Libertarian Angle: The Interventionism of Two World Wars, Part 3

by Future of Freedom Foundation May 24, 2016

In this segment, Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling continue their discussion about the horrible results stemming from the foreign policy interventions of World War I and World War II. Go to the podcast.

Government Interventionism Created Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump

by Richard M. Ebeling May 23, 2016

America and Europe, and, indeed, other parts of the world are going through major political, economic and cultural crises. In the U.S., some social critics consider the likely Democratic and Republican candidates for president to be among the most corrupt, power lusting and personally offensive that have ever run for that high office. In Europe, the Social Democratic and moderately ...

Anti-war Is Pro-American

by Mike Marion May 19, 2016

Thomas Jefferson declared the American way of interacting with the world to be "peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations – entangling alliances with none." However, over the course of at least the past seven decades, the US government has turned this admonition on its head. Peace? The US government has waged wars of choice almost constantly since the ...

Shame on the U.S. Supreme Court for Making a Mockery of the First Amendment

by John W. Whitehead May 18, 2016

“The vitality of civil and political institutions in our society depends on free discussion… It is only through free debate and free exchange of ideas that government remains responsive to the will of the people and peaceful change is effected. The right to speak freely and to promote diversity of ideas and programs is therefore one of the chief ...

The Libertarian Angle – The Interventionism of Two World Wars, Part 2

by Future of Freedom Foundation May 17, 2016

In this segment, Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling continue their discussion about the horrible results stemming from the foreign policy interventions of World War I and World War II. Go to the podcast.

Governments Create Monopolies and Cause Worker Exploitation, Not Free Markets

by Richard M. Ebeling May 16, 2016

The world is threatened with a renewed wave of anti-capitalism and anti-business sentiments and policies. Many who cheered the demise of Soviet communism in the early 1990s, presumed that this meant that, by default, the case for free markets and competitive enterprise had won in the battle of ideas. Over the last twenty-five years it has become clear that ...

The Shameful Truth About the Government’s Secret Experiments

by John W. Whitehead May 11, 2016

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us ...