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The Real Education Litmus Test

by Laurence M. Vance August 16, 2024

The new Republican Party platform adopted last month at the Republican national convention in Milwaukee contains a section on education with nine paragraphs. The second paragraph endorses universal school choice: 2. Universal School Choice Republicans believe families should be empowered to choose the best Education for their children. We support Universal School Choice in every State in America. ...

Politics Has Become Our National Religion

by John W. Whitehead August 14, 2024

“You shall have no other gods before me.”—The Ten Commandments “Christians, get out and vote, just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore.”—Donald Trump Politics has become our national religion. While those on the Left have feared ...

Republicans Can’t Make Up Their Mind on Education

by Laurence M. Vance August 9, 2024

The new Republican Party platform was adopted at the Republican National Convention last month in Milwaukee, their first platform in eight years. Every four years at their convention, Republicans adopt a new party platform, but at the 2020 convention in Charlotte, the Republican National Committee (RNC) “unanimously voted to forego the Convention Committee on Platform, in appreciation ...

Right-Wing Obtuseness on Immigration

by Jacob G. Hornberger August 1, 2024

A columnist for the Washington Post named Jim Geraghty recently chided me in his column for wanting to “abolish the Border Patrol and ICE and all controls on the free movements of people across borders.” With sarcasm dripping from his keyboard, Geraghty concluded, “I suppose that by declaring it to be legal for everyone to cross the border, you ...

Police Have the Right to Lie and Slander

by James Bovard August 1, 2024

To serve and protect, police are allowed to slander and destroy. Cops in many states and localities have acquired the right to lie about their shootings, searches, and practically anything else. Police have routinely planted drugs, guns, and other evidence to incriminate innocent people, while police labs have engaged in wholesale fraud blighting tens of thousands of lives. From a ...

Libertarianism vs. Microlibertarianism

by Laurence M. Vance August 1, 2024

Libertarianism is a consistent and principled philosophy that is absolute in scope and universal in application. We can begin with this classic description of libertarianism by libertarianism’s greatest theorist, Murray Rothbard (1926–1995): Libertarianism is not and does not pretend to be a complete moral, or aesthetic theory; it is only a political theory, that is, the important subset of ...

The Liberal Ideal for Peace and Against War

by Richard M. Ebeling August 1, 2024

Wars, conquest, mass killings, occupation, and plunder have plagued the world for all of recorded history. Primitive tribes fighting over waterholes and hunting grounds. Kings and princes claiming divine right to rule over all those they conquer and impose their violent will upon. Nation-states asserting rights and claims to lands and peoples based on racial, ethnic, linguistic, or cultural ...

“Who Will Build the Roads?” Part 3

by Wendy McElroy August 1, 2024

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 In short, a free-market approach is more practical because it is based on human nature and on demonstrated preferences. By contrast, imposed measures go against human nature: Otherwise, they would not need to be imposed. Rothbard expresses a more practical reason — one among many — why government intervention into the ...

The Right to Not Be Lied To: Making the Case for Truth in Politics

by John W. Whitehead July 31, 2024

Q: “How can you tell if a politician is lying?” A: “When his lips are moving.” “In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true… The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological ...

Engineering a Crisis: How Political Theater Helps the Deep State Stay in Power

by John W. Whitehead July 24, 2024

“The two ‘sides’ of mainstream politics are not fighting against one another, they’re only fighting against you. Their only job is to keep you clapping along with the two-handed puppet show as they rob you blind and tighten your chains while your gaze is fixed on the performance.”—Caitlin Johnstone A failed assassination attempt on a presidential candidate. An incumbent ...

Should Bump Stocks Be Illegal?

by Laurence M. Vance July 16, 2024

In October of 2017, a gunman in a hotel room on the Las Vegas Strip fired multiple guns from his hotel window on a crowd of 22,000 gathered for an outdoor country music festival. After shooting over 1,000 rounds in about 10 minutes, 60 people lay dead, and more than 860 people were injured before the gunman took ...

Project Total Control: Everything Is a Weapon When Totalitarianism Is Normalized

by John W. Whitehead July 15, 2024

“The biggest mistake I see is people waiting for A Big Sign that’ll tell them that things have gone too far. One Big Thing that police or lawmakers or the president/leaders will do that will cross the line. It’ll never come because they won’t cross it. They’ll move the line. That line you think you stand behind is shifting ...