Daily Articles

Tyrants of the Nanny State: When the Government Thinks It Knows Best

by John W. Whitehead October 15, 2021

“Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers’ enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. ...

Why Educational Freedom Is the Best Choice

by Laurence M. Vance October 13, 2021

Thanks in large part to state and local government responses to the COVID-19 “pandemic,” enrollment in public schools has dropped for the last two school years as more and more parents have turned to homeschooling. This decline in parents’ use of public education coincides with the conservative backlash against public schools for what they see as the promotion of ...

Biden’s $3.5 Trillion “Make Big Government Even Bigger” Plan

by Richard M. Ebeling October 11, 2021

President Joe Biden journeyed from the White House to the Capitol building on October 1, 2021. There he admonished and pressured Democratic Party Senators and Congressmen to come together and pass both his $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill and his $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Act, which might more accurately be called the Make Big Government Even Bigger bill. He ...

The Police State’s Reign of Terror Continues

by John W. Whitehead October 6, 2021

Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges. — George Carlin You think you’ve got rights? Think again. All of those freedoms we cherish—the ones enshrined in the Constitution, the ones that affirm our right to free speech and assembly, due process, privacy, bodily integrity, the right to not have police seize our property without a warrant, or ...

Biden’s Demagoguery that Government Spending is Costless

by Richard M. Ebeling October 5, 2021

There is only one way to describe the fiscal mindset of those in the White House and in Congress who are proposing new federal budgetary expenditure and taxing increases in the trillions of dollars: a fantasy land of financial irrationality. The Biden Administration insists on additions to the already bloated American welfare state that will see an expansion in entitlement ...

Congress Doesn’t Need to Bail Out Social Security

by Laurence M. Vance October 4, 2021

The Social Security Board of Trustees has released its annual report on the long-term financial status of the Social Security Trust Funds, and it is not looking good. There are actually two parts to Social Security (OASDI). The Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) program provides monthly benefits to retired workers, families of retired workers, and survivors of deceased workers. ...

Cuba and the Destruction of Conscience

by Jacob G. Hornberger October 1, 2021

Last summer, protests erupted in Cuba against the communist regime over poor economic and health conditions within the country. No doubt operating under pressure from the Pentagon and the CIA, President Biden used the Cuban government’s suppression of the protests as an excuse to strengthen the decades-old U.S. economic embargo against Cuba. Biden proclaimed that he was supporting the Cuban ...

The Biden Crackdown on Thought Crimes

by James Bovard October 1, 2021

The Biden administration is seeking to radically narrow the boundaries of respectable American political thought. The administration has repeatedly issued statements and reports that could automatically castigate citizens who distrust the federal government. We may eventually learn that the new Biden guidelines spurred a vast increase in federal surveillance and other abuses against Americans who were guilty of nothing ...

Predatory Pricing

by Laurence M. Vance October 1, 2021

Uncle Sam can’t seem to make up his mind about how to define predatory pricing. Charge too little for a good or a service and the federal government might term it predatory pricing. But charge too much for a good or a service and the federal government might term it predatory pricing. And here is a related ...

The Importance of Liberty and the Rhetorical Misuse of Freedom

by Richard M. Ebeling October 1, 2021

The seemingly singular concern of modern political debate, dispute, and disagreement is the issue of how and in what forms government will command and control and restrict and regulate the actions and interactions of virtually everyone in society, as well as redistribute the income and wealth of some for the benefit of others. Open the opinion pages of practically any ...

Deserting the Drug War

by Matthew Harwood October 1, 2021

As you leaf through the first few pages of Dr. Carl L. Hart’s book Drug Use for Grownups, you come across a quote from the writer and social critic James Baldwin. It says: “If you want to get to the heart of the dope problem, legalize it.... a law, in operation, that can only be used against ...

America’s Fiscal History: From Liberty to Paternalism

by Richard M. Ebeling September 28, 2021

If passed in its proposed forms, the $3.5 trillion of new “entitlement” programs and spending over the next ten years, and the accompanying call for increases in a wide variety of taxes, will represent the largest expansion of the American welfare state since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society agenda in the second half of the 1960s. It will further envelop ...