Daily Articles

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 ...

Overtime Pay and a Free Society

by Laurence M. Vance July 10, 2015

If there is only one thing that every American worker who gets paid by the hour knows about labor law aside from the minimum wage, it is that employers must pay time and a half for all hours worked over 40 hours. What many American hourly workers probably don’t realize, however, is that some salaried workers are eligible for ...

The Libertarian Angle – Independence Day

by Jacob G. Hornberger July 7, 2015

Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger discusses the hot topics of the day. This week, celebrating Independence Day. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.

The Emergence of Orwellian Newspeak and the Death of Free Speech

by John W. Whitehead July 1, 2015

“If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it…. Give the people ...

Why We Don’t Compromise, Part 3

by Jacob G. Hornberger July 1, 2015

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 Suppose 100 percent of libertarians called for a reform, rather than a dismantling, of the welfare-warfare state way of life under which Americans today live. What would be the chances of achieving the free ...

The Mandatory Voting Panacea

by James Bovard July 1, 2015

Barack Obama suggested on March 18, 2015, that mandatory voting could cure some of the ills of American democracy. He said that compelling everyone to vote would “encourage more participation” — perhaps the same way that the specter of prison sentences encourages more people to pay taxes. While there are many good reasons to oppose mandatory voting, compulsory balloting ...

Build It and They Will Come

by Laurence M. Vance July 1, 2015

The city of Los Angeles is the country’s second-largest media market. Yet, the city has not had an NFL football team to call its own since the 1994 season, when the Rams and the Raiders each played their last games there. After beginning in Cleveland, the Rams called Los Angeles home from 1946 to 1994 before moving to St. ...