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The Libertarian Angle: The Disaster of Progressivism

by Future of Freedom Foundation December 15, 2015

Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling discuss the hot topics of the day. This week, Jacob and  Richard discuss the disaster that is progressivism. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.

Compulsory Unions Equals Less Worker Freedom

by Richard M. Ebeling December 14, 2015

Personal choice and freedom of association are two fundamental and essential principles of any truly free society, and this includes a free market workplace. Unfortunately, the Obama Administration is spending taxpayer dollars to undermine those principles in other countries around the world. The Washington Times reported on December 11, 2015 that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has organized ...

Support FFF: Our End-of-Year Update

by Jacob G. Hornberger December 14, 2015

I am writing to seek your financial support to help us continue the battle for liberty in the year ahead. The advocates of the welfare-warfare state say that paternalism is freedom, compulsory charity is a virtue, federal spending and debt will bring prosperity, and perpetual war will bring peace. Their world is built on lies and deception, ...

Does Fear Lead to Fascism? A Culture of Fear and the Epigenetics of Terror

by John W. Whitehead December 9, 2015

“No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.”—Edward R. Murrow, broadcast journalist America is in the midst of an epidemic of historic proportions. The contagion being spread like wildfire is turning communities into battlegrounds and setting Americans one against the other. Normally mild-mannered individuals caught up in the throes of this disease have been transformed ...

The Libertarian Angle: TSA Tyranny (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation December 8, 2015

Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling discuss the hot topics of the day. This week, Jacob, Richard, and special guest James Bovard discuss the the tyranny that is the Transportation Security Administration. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.

Paper Money Versus The Gold Standard: An Explanation

by Richard M. Ebeling December 7, 2015

We are living in a time that can only be considered monetary chaos. The U.S. Federal Reserve has manipulated key interest rates down to practically zero for the last six years, and expanded the money supply in the banking system by $4 trillion dollars over that time. And with the true mentality of the monetary central planner, the Fed ...

Time to Retire the NIH

by Laurence M. Vance December 4, 2015

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), along with more well-known agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), is one of the eleven agencies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Located on a 300-acre campus in Bethesda, Maryland, the NIH is ...

Life in the Electronic Concentration Camp: The Surveillance State Is Alive and Well

by John W. Whitehead December 3, 2015

“Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order and the like.” ― William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice Bottle up the champagne, pack away the noisemakers, and toss out the party ...

The Libertarian Angle: Do Libertarians Really Hate the Poor? (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation December 1, 2015

Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling discuss the hot topics of the day. This week, Jacob and Richard discuss the libertarian view towards poverty. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.

The Inanity of the Cold War

by Jacob G. Hornberger December 1, 2015

There were many inanities that came with the Cold War, the 45-year period of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union. In fact, one might easily argue that the entire Cold War was an exercise in inanity. U.S. officials, of course, have always maintained that the Cold War was necessary to prevent the Soviet Union from imposing communism ...

The Cover-Up of the Damning 9/11 Report Continues

by James Bovard December 1, 2015

Do Americans have the right to learn whether a foreign government helped finance the 9/11 attacks? A growing number of congressmen and senators are demanding that a 28-page portion of a 2002 congressional report finally be declassified. The Obama administration appears to be resisting, and the stakes are huge. What is contained in those pages could radically change Americans’ ...

Unions and Strikes in a Free Society

by Laurence M. Vance December 1, 2015

The labor-union membership rate of American workers has been declining for years. Labor-union strikes have concomitantly decreased as well. Unions have historically been associated with violence, corruption, anti-capitalistic propaganda, Democratic politics — and strikes. Unions According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2014, union membership fell to 11.1 percent, down 0.2 percent from 2013, although the number of workers belonging ...