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Three Big Social Security Changes That Should Come in 2025

by Laurence M. Vance September 17, 2024

An article at The Motley Fool that was also posted at Retirely — a financial planning company — about big changes coming to Social Security caught my eye: “3 Big Social Security Changes Coming in 2025 May Surprise Many Americans.” Social Security is the federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program that provides ...

The Government Pressured Tech Companies to Censor Users

by John W. Whitehead September 13, 2024

“Internet platforms have a powerful incentive to please important federal officials, and the record in this case shows that high-ranking officials skillfully exploited Facebook’s vulnerability... Not surprisingly these efforts bore fruit. Facebook adopted new rules that better conformed to the officials’ wishes, and many users who expressed disapproved views about the pandemic or COVID–19 vaccines were ...

The Harris Hidden Tax Hike

by Laurence M. Vance September 3, 2024

Now that Kamala Harris is the official Democratic candidate for president, a look at her tax proposals is in order. According to a Harris-Walz press release that lays out her agenda to lower costs for American families, some of the tax proposals are: Tax incentive for homebuilders who build starter homes sold to first-time homebuyers.

JFK: A Fraudulent Autopsy and a Fraudulent Film

by Jacob G. Hornberger September 1, 2024

The following is a nonverbatim transcript of a talk I gave at the annual PorcFest festival in Lancaster, New Hampshire, in June 2024. In the 1990s, the Assassination Records Review Board discovered the existence of a woman named Saundra Spencer, who told a remarkable story to the ARRB. On the weekend of the assassination of President Kennedy, Spencer was a ...

Supreme Court Unleashes Censors and Betrays Democracy

by James Bovard September 1, 2024

On the eve of the first presidential candidate debate, the Supreme Court gave a huge boost to Joe Biden to help him “fix” the 2024 election with maybe its worst decision of the year. It remains to be seen whether the court’s refusal to stop federal censorship will be a wooden stake in the credibility of American democracy. The court ...

Can Huey Long Save America?

by Laurence M. Vance September 1, 2024

I occasionally read a writer and podcaster known as a conspiracy researcher who writes on a variety of subjects. Donald Jeffries is all over the map politically (reformer, idealist, libertarian, classical liberal, populist, and cultural conservative), has published several books, and has written a Substack column since 2021. His name is not important because it is his ideas, which ...

Ludwig von Mises on Human Action and the Free Society

by Richard M. Ebeling September 1, 2024

Seventy-five years ago, on September 14, 1949, Yale University Press published Ludwig von Mises’s Human Action: A Treatise on Economics. Almost 900 pages in length, it soon became recognized as one of the major works in economics in the twentieth century. Not that this recognition was felt in the economics profession of the time. Few reviews appeared in the professional ...

Book Review: Last Rights

by George Leef September 1, 2024

Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty by James Bovard (Libertarian Institute, 2023) There are quite a few writers who are dedicated to exposing the harm that our leviathan state is doing to the American people, but no one outshines James Bovard. For decades, he has been indefatigable in his work to blow the ...

Should the Government Run Supermarkets?

by Michael Riffert August 28, 2024

The point raised by by Wendy McElroy in her article "Who Will Build the Roads?" (Future of Freedom June 2024) is so clearly evident in the dominant belief that government must educate children. The state’s involvement in education is said to result in a benefit to all — an educated citizenry. Public education is actually a vestige ...

Frédéric Bastiat and Immigration

by Ken Schoolland August 23, 2024

In writing his famous ‘Candlemakers’ Petition’, the famous 19th Century French economist, Frédéric Bastiat, did not address the issue of immigration, but he did write about the treatment of Polish refugees who had fled persecution and were being harassed and deported by French authorities. Wrote Bastiat: …the most ardent wish of a refugee, after the one of ending his exile, ...

Help Us Lead America to Freedom

by Jacob G. Hornberger August 22, 2024

Libertarian ideas matter. They have consequences. When they enter people’s minds, they can change their way of thinking about liberty. I recently delivered presentations at the annual PorcFest festival in New Hampshire and FreedomFest conference in Las Vegas. At FreedomFest, I encountered a man who said to me, “Jacob, I would like you to know that your work at ...

The Political Matrix Sustains the Illusion of Freedom

by John W. Whitehead August 21, 2024

“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.” — Neil Postman What you smell ...