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Drivers, Beware: The Costly, Deadly Dangers of Traffic Stops in the American Police State

by John W. Whitehead July 30, 2015

“The Fourth Amendment was designed to stand between us and arbitrary governmental authority. For all practical purposes, that shield has been shattered, leaving our liberty and personal integrity subject to the whim of every cop on the beat, trooper on the highway and jail official. The framers would be appalled.”—Herman Schwartz, The Nation Trying to predict the outcome ...

JFK, McGeorge Bundy, and the Continuity of Government

by Michael Swanson July 30, 2015

The assassination of President Kennedy was an unnerving event for the people of the United States and the world. Contradictory news stories that followed, as well as the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby, caused many people to wonder what was really going on. Many people suspected a conspiracy, and rumors spread that perhaps the president was ...

The Libertarian Angle – Eminent Domain and Shenandoah National Park

by Jacob G. Hornberger July 29, 2015

Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger discusses the hot topics of the day. This week, Jacob and guest co-host Bart Frazier discuss the use of eminent domain in the establishment of Shenandoah National Park. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.

Freedom to Move: Personal Freedom or Government Control, Part II

by Richard M. Ebeling July 28, 2015

There are many economic fallacies that surround the issue of freer or open immigration into the United States, and few of them can stand up to serious critical examination. The Fallacy that Immigrants “Steal” Jobs from Americans. Opponents of more open immigration sometimes argue that the arrival of more immigrants means the threatened loss of jobs for those already living in ...

Happy Birthday Medicare and Medicaid?

by Laurence M. Vance July 27, 2015

On July 30, 1965 — fifty years ago —Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Social Security Amendments of 1965 that created two new government programs. Added to the Social Security Act of 1935 was Title XVIII, Medicare, and Title XIX, Medicaid. They were the nation’s first public health-insurance programs. Medicare is government-funded health care for Americans 65 years old and ...

Help Support FFF’s Ebook Project

by Jacob G. Hornberger July 24, 2015

The triumph of libertarianism ultimately lies in spreading ideas on liberty. Our aim is to build a solid base of libertarians who are firmly committed to libertarian principles. Once that number reaches a critical mass, I am convinced that society will make a dramatic shift toward freedom. With that in mind, we have discovered another way to find new audiences ...

The American Nightmare: The Tyranny of the Criminal Justice System

by John W. Whitehead July 23, 2015

  How can the life of such a man Be in the palm of some fool’s hand? To see him obviously framed Couldn’t help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land Where justice is a game. —Bob Dylan, “Hurricane” Justice in America is not all it’s cracked up to be. Just ask Jeffrey Deskovic, who spent 16 years in prison ...

The Libertarian Angle – Drug War: Decriminalization or Legalization?

by Jacob G. Hornberger July 22, 2015

Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger discusses the hot topics of the day. This week, Jacob discusses the inherent evil of the drug war. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.

Freedom To Move: Personal Liberty or Government Control, Part I

by Richard M. Ebeling July 21, 2015

The immigration issue has once more bubbled to the surface in America because of the provocative statements and assertions by one of the Republication contenders for their party’s presidential nomination. Immigrants – especially illegal immigrants – are accused of stealing the jobs of “real” Americans, of mooching off the welfare state at the expense of taxpaying U.S. citizens and legal ...

Freedom or the Slaughterhouse? The American Police State from A to Z

by John W. Whitehead July 15, 2015

“Who needs direct repression when one can convince the chicken to walk freely into the slaughterhouse?”—Philosopher Slavoj Žižek Despite the best efforts of some to sound the alarm, the nation is being locked down into a militarized, mechanized, hypersensitive, legalistic, self-righteous, goose-stepping antithesis of every principle upon which this nation was founded. All the while, the nation’s citizens seem content ...

The Libertarian Angle – The Tyranny of Eminent Domain

by Jacob G. Hornberger July 14, 2015

Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger discusses the hot topics of the day. This week, guest co-host George Leef brings his take on eminent domain and the Kelo decision to the Libertarian Angle. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.

An “Austrian” Economist’s Advice for Greece and the EU

by Richard M. Ebeling July 13, 2015

  For months, now, the mass media and the financial markets have anxiously watched and waited to see the outcome of a war of words, accusations, and threats that have been fought between Greece and its Eurozone and European Union partners. Over several decades Greek governments accumulated a fiscally unmanageable debt and have been unwilling to introduce any meaningful, long-term economic ...