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Would McCain Have Been Any Better?

by Laurence M. Vance October 20, 2011

It has been said that every president makes us nostalgic for his predecessor. But as bad as the presidency of Barack Obama has turned out to be, I still look back on the Bush years with regret rather than longing. George Bush will go down in history — at least among proponents of liberty, property, and peace — as one ...

Korea Shows All That Is Wrong With U.S. Foreign Policy

by Laurence M. Vance October 19, 2011

The tension on the Korean peninsula escalated late last year when South Korea began live-firing drills off its coastline. That was after North and South Korea shelled each other for the first time since the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War. U.S. forces in the area went on high alert even as the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George ...

Market Failure: An Argument Both For and Against Government (video)

by David Friedman October 19, 2011

On Ocotber 5, 2011, David Friedman gave the following speech at The Future of Freedom Foundations Economic Liberty Lecture Series. The speech can viewed below in its entirety. David Friedman is Professor of Law at Santa Clara University and the author of The Machinery of Freedom. He is a graduate of Harvard University and holds a Ph.D. in Physics ...

The American Nightmare That Is Civil Asset Forfeiture

by Wendy McElroy October 18, 2011

Being innocent does not matter. Not being arrested or convicted of a crime is no protection. With amazing ease, the government can take everything you own. And to recover it, you must prove your innocence through an expensive and difficult court proceeding in which a severely lowered standard of evidence favors the government. This is civil asset forfeiture.

The Jacob Hornberger Show: October 15, 2011

by Jacob G. Hornberger October 17, 2011

The Jacob Hornberger Show broadcasts live Saturday nights at 7pm EST. Visit FFF's Ustream Channel to watch the show live.

A Call to Close Guantánamo on the 10th Anniversary of the War in Afghanistan

by Andy Worthington October 13, 2011

As the war in Afghanistan begins its second decade, the reasons for it to be brought to an end are compelling: the ruinous financial cost ($460 billion and counting), the ruinous human cost (over 1,400 U.S. military deaths , and tens of thousands of Afghan civilians killed), and the utter pointlessness of the occupation itself. Having driven ...

Prison-Yard America

by Wendy McElroy October 12, 2011

Since September, a public-school district in Florida has been taking fingerprint scans at the entrance to schools as a way to monitor attendance. The scans are compared against a database of students to detect truants. As in most highly intrusive school policies, parents are thrown a bone of control by allowing them to request an “opt out” for ...

Why Did the United States Invade Afghanistan?

by Tim Kelly October 12, 2011

The tenth anniversary of the U.S. led war in Afghanistan came and went with very little attention from the mainstream media. U.S. policymakers are nevertheless confronted with many questions regarding that conflict, such as its affordability, the effectiveness of various strategies, and even whether U.S. forces should remain in that country at all. Those are all important issues, but the ...

A Real Jobs Bill

by Rich Schwartzman October 11, 2011

There is a jobs bill being bandied about in the U.S. Senate. As with most government-based plans, it’s political — with warm, fuzzy rhetoric that’s designed more to garner votes at the polls than to accomplish anything truly productive. The rhetoric, as is so often the case, is based on class warfare. Let’s soak the rich, taxing them to create ...

The Supreme Court and Obamacare

by Laurence M. Vance October 11, 2011

The new term of the Supreme Court has just begun. All eyes are on the court, as it is expected to hear for the first time a case against Obamacare. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), more popularly known as Obamacare, passed the Senate on Christmas Eve of 2009, passed the House on March 21, 2010, and was ...

The Military-Industrial Complex: The Enemy from Within

by John W. Whitehead October 11, 2011

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes ... known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.... No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst ...

Wall Street Couldn’t Have Done It Alone

by Sheldon Richman October 10, 2011

The spreading Occupy Wall Street movement, despite a vague worldview and agenda, properly senses that something is dreadfully wrong in America. The protesters vent their anger at the big financial institutions in New York’s money district (as well as other big cities) for the housing and financial bubble, the resulting Great Recession, the virtual nonrecovery, the threat of a ...