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The Next Quagmire: Sanctions and Syria

by Fergus Hodgson August 24, 2011

If trade promotes peace, and it does, then trade sanctions stifle it. That may be simple logic, but it continues to go unnoticed with Washington officials. The latest nation on the receiving end of economic provocation is Syria. On August 18, Barack Obama froze all Syrian government assets within U.S. jurisdiction and banned American investment in, ...

The Road to the Permanent Warfare State, Part 4

by Gregory Bresiger August 24, 2011

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 |Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 |Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 |Part 12 |Part 13 That, in my mind was the turning point of U.S. policy, the Greek Turkish ...

The Kennedy Autopsy, Part 1

by Jacob G. Hornberger August 23, 2011

The Kennedy Assassination Series: The Kennedy Casket Conspiracy, by Jacob G. Hornberger The Shot That Killed Kennedy by Jacob G. Hornberger The Kennedy Autopsy, Part 1 by Jacob G. Hornberger The Kennedy Autopsy, Part 2 by Jacob G. Hornberger The Kennedy Autopsy, Part 3 by Jacob G. Hornberger The Kennedy Autopsy, Part 4 by Jacob G. Hornberger The Kennedy ...

The War on Drugs Is Senseless

by Laurence M. Vance August 23, 2011

The war on drugs is a failure. It has failed to prevent drug abuse. It has failed to keep drugs out of the hands of addicts. It has failed to keep drugs away from teenagers. It has failed to reduce the demand for drugs. It has failed to stop the violence associated with drug trafficking. It has failed to ...

The Jacob Hornberger Show: August 20, 2011

by Jacob G. Hornberger August 22, 2011

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

Police-Thugs With Guns

by Wendy McElroy August 22, 2011

When police brutality cannot be covered up or dismissed by blaming the victim, the next official line is often the “bad apple” defense. The popular phrase “one bad apple can spoil the bunch” generally means that one person’s behavior can negatively reflect upon or influence others. When used defensively, however, the phrase “bad apple” is meant to suggest that ...

Endless Evil: The Drug Wars Continuing Collateral Damage, Part 1

by Radley Balko August 21, 2011

Part 1 | Part 2 In September 2009, 28-year-old Jonathan Ayers pulled into a gas station in Stephens County, Georgia, to withdraw money from an ATM. Ayers, a pastor, had just given $23, all the cash he had in his pocket, to Johanna Barrett, a drug addict alleged to be a prostitute to whom Ayers had been ministering. His ...

Rolling Back the Myth of Good Government

by Laurence M. Vance August 20, 2011

Rollback: Repealing Big Government before the Coming Financial Collapse by Thomas E. Woods Jr. (Washington D.C.: Regnery, 2011); 232 pages. The government of the United States has secured the confidence and consent of the American people through myths of its benevolence, provision, innovation, achievements, scientific advances, educational system, and protection. It takes credit for everything good that happens ...

Minor Machiavellians

by Rich Schwartzman August 19, 2011

Lord Acton was right on when he spoke of the corrupting influence of power. Corruption happens in the tiny as well as the grand, on the local level as well as the national, even in something as insignificant as a civic association election. It was 2006 and an upstart retired admiral — Joe Sestak, a Democrat — had the audacity ...

Conservatives Dont Hate Government

by Sheldon Richman August 19, 2011

Sometimes I wonder whether the mainstream pundits listen to themselves. It’s hard to believe they would say the silly things they say if they did. For example, the talking heads on MSNBC, which works 24/7 for President Obama’s reelection, like to say that conservative Republicans “hate government.” “If you hate government,” Chris Matthews, host of Hardball, asks, “why would you ...

O’er the Land of the 39 Percent Free

by Fergus Hodgson August 18, 2011

I hope you enjoyed last weekend, because Friday didn’t mark just the end of your working week; it also marked the annual Cost of Government Day. According to Americans for Tax Reform, each U.S. resident works 224 days to pay for the cost of government, including spending and regulatory compliance, up 27 days from just three years ...

Lethal Injustice

by Christine Smith August 16, 2011

No political philosophy respects human rights, individual liberty, human dignity, and life itself more than libertarianism. Yet, one of the major civil-liberty controversies present in our society is largely ignored by libertarians: capital punishment. In 14 years of involvement in the anti-death-penalty movement, I have rarely met libertarians involved in the issue. Most concerned with it have been from the ...