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Wisconsin Invoices the Exercise of Rights

by Wendy McElroy December 19, 2011

Despite a proclaimed opposition to new taxes, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has advanced a policy that amounts to a new and draconian tax. People will have to pay the state for the privilege of free speech and assembly. To exercise those rights in or outside state facilities will entail permits at least seventy-two hours in advance and potentially prohibitive ...

We Need Your Support: Video Message 3 FFF Email Update

by Jacob G. Hornberger December 19, 2011

A Message from Jacob Hornberger - Video 3 from The Future of Freedom Foundation on Vimeo.

A Bill of Guarantees

by Rich Schwartzman December 16, 2011

The best document ever written to preserve the liberty of a free people isn't a complete document at all, but just a part of one. Its the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Those ten paragraphs capture the essence of what it means to govern a government. Are they perfect? No, but how much in ...

Conditions at Guantánamo Under Scrutiny

by Andy Worthington December 16, 2011

Last week, the Associated Press reported that officials at Guantánamo, stung by lawyers criticism of conditions in a disciplinary block known as Five Echo, had fought back against claims that the cells are too small to be regarded as humane and that the toilets are inadequate, the lights are too bright, and the air in the cells ...

Has War against Iran Already Begun?

by Sheldon Richman December 16, 2011

The U.S. government lost a spy drone over Iran. Is it part of an ongoing covert war? Either Iranian forces shot it down or it fell out of the sky. We may never know which, but now the Obama administration wants it back. Iran says no. It is apparently studying the crafts advanced stealth and other technology and perhaps attempting ...

Freedom Watch (Fox Business Channel): The U.S.’s March Toward Totalitarianism? (video)

by Jacob G. Hornberger December 15, 2011

Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com

FDRs Noble Lie

by Tim Kelly December 15, 2011

Soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, rumors began to circulate challenging the official narrative that it was an unprovoked surprise attack. The cumulative evidence gathered over the last seventy years by scholars, journalists, and investigators vindicates those suspicious of treachery from the top; for it comprises a solid circumstantial case that Franklin D. ...

Iraq: The End of the Affair RT Russia Today

by Jacob G. Hornberger December 13, 2011

Jacob Hornberger, founder of the Future of Freedom Foundation, believes the US has imposed a dictatorship that just happens to be democratically elected on the Iraqi people. You've got a regime that is dictatorial in every sense of the word, Hornberger told RT. And there are people there who are never going to accept a regime that came into existence ...

What Is a Vice-President And Why?

by Wendy McElroy December 13, 2011

John Adams, the first vice-president of the United States (17891797), once exclaimed, My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. A century later, there seemed to be little change. The 28th vice-president of the United States, Thomas R. Marshall (19131921) once stated, ...

Blue Angels Budget Blues

by Laurence M. Vance December 13, 2011

The Navy's Blue Angels flight-demonstration team is in trouble. And not because their commander resigned earlier this year after flying his F/A-18 Hornet below minimum altitude at an air show in Virginia and causing a month-long safety stand-down. Headquartered at the Pensacola Naval Air Station, the Blue Angels have been flying and thrilling audiences for more than 60 years. The ...

We Need Your Support: Message 2 Economic Liberty Lecture Series

by Jacob G. Hornberger December 12, 2011

A Message from Jacob Hornberger - Video 2 from The Future of Freedom Foundation on Vimeo.

Terrorists as Warriors: The Fatal Confusion at the Heart of the War on Terror

by Andy Worthington December 9, 2011

Last week, when the Senate voted, by 93 votes to 7, to pass the latest National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), they passed legislation that not only approved a budget of $662billion in military spending for the next fiscal year, but also demanded mandatory military custody for all terror suspects seized in the future. The military-custody provisions were conceived, ...