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Libertarianism Is the Only Way Out

by Jacob G. Hornberger November 30, 2009

The Future of Freedom Foundation is one of the most important organizations in the liberty movement. FFF does great work educating the public in the principles of free-market economics, individual liberty, and a noninterventionist foreign policy. — Congressman Ron Paul During the social hour after a recent meeting of our Economic Liberty Lecture series, a student posted a message on ...

Gold, Freedom, and the Fed

by Jacob G. Hornberger November 25, 2009

The following is a non-verbatim transcript of a speech I delivered on November 23, 2009, at the End the Fed rally in Philadelphia. With the possible exception of the Internal Revenue Service, the federal agency that is the greatest threat to the financial well-being and freedom of the American people is the Federal Reserve. This is the agency that has ...

Judge Orders Release of Algerian from Guantánamo (But He’s Not Going Anywhere)

by Andy Worthington November 24, 2009

On Friday, District Court Judge Gladys Kessler ordered the release from Guantánamo of Farhi Saeed bin Mohammed, a 48-year-old Algerian, after granting his habeas corpus petition. Her ruling has not yet been declassified, so the reasons for her decision are not yet clear, but it is significant that the ruling now brings to 31 the number of prisoners who ...

Inconsistent Conservatives and Progressives

by Sheldon Richman November 23, 2009

Listening to the leading voices of conservatism and progressivism, one gets the feeling they are not quite listening to themselves. On any given day you are likely to hear each side make arguments against the other that fully apply to itself in some area of public policy. Progressives, for example, tend to be critical (though imperfectly so) of the military ...

The Trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (Video)

by Jacob G. Hornberger November 16, 2009

The Trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (Video from Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Freedom Watch FoxNews.com)

Health-Care “Reform”: It’s All About Power

by Sheldon Richman November 13, 2009

If the politicians who are bent on redesigning the medical and medical-insurance industries really wanted only to curb rising prices and help the uninsured get coverage, they would have zeroed in on the previous government interventions that created those problems. Instead, they are pushing grand schemes to turn our medical decision-making over to bureaucrats. That indicates that the so-called ...

Foreign-Policy Blowback at Ft. Hood

by Jacob G. Hornberger November 10, 2009

Amidst all the debate over whether the Ft. Hood killer is a terrorist, murderer, enemy combatant, traitor, sleeper agent, or insane person, there is one glaring fact staring America in the face: what happened at Ft. Hood is more blowback from U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, specifically the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. Even at this early ...

Do We Really Need a Central Bank?

by Steven Horwitz November 10, 2009

On December 2, 2009, Steve Horwitz gave the following speech at The Future of Freedom Foundation’s “Economic Liberty Lecture Series.” The speech can viewed below in its entirety.

Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo (Video)

by Andy Worthington November 8, 2009

On November 8, 2009, Andy Worthington gave a talk on his new documentary film, Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.

Lessons from the Great Depression

by Lawrence W. Reed November 3, 2009

On November 2, 2009, Lawrence W. Reed gave the following speech at The Future of Freedom Foundation’s “Economic Liberty Lecture Series.” The speech can viewed below in its entirety.

Ali al-Marri’s Eight-Year Sentence

by Andy Worthington November 2, 2009

So it’s finally over. Ali al-Marri, a legal U.S. resident from Qatar, who was held as an “enemy combatant” on the U.S. mainland for five years and eight months without charge or trial, was finally sentenced in a federal court last Thursday. The prosecution was seeking a 15-year sentence, following al-Marri’s guilty plea in April, when, as part ...

Liberal Delusions about Freedom

by Jacob G. Hornberger November 1, 2009

To combat the town-hall protests that sprang up around the nation against President Obama’s health-care plan, one of the favorite tactics employed by liberals was to question the sanity of the protesters. Anyone who showed up at such meetings angrily protesting Obama’s plan to socialize medicine was termed a crazy. That was especially true if a protester happened to be ...