Daily Articles

Bring All the Troops Home

by John W. Whitehead August 31, 2021

“Let us resolve that never again will we send the precious young blood of this country to die trying to prop up a corrupt military dictatorship abroad. This is also the time to turn away from excessive preoccupation overseas to the rebuilding of our own nation. America must be restored to a proper role in the world. But we ...

Made in France: Biden’s Fiscal and Regulatory Socialism

by Richard M. Ebeling August 30, 2021

Imagine that you are standing at a crossroads with a gate sign in front of each road telling the cost of the respective routes. But one says that if you choose to go this particular way, the expense is 50 percent less than the other, or, maybe, is even free; that is, no toll will be charged. Welcome to ...

Letter to President Biden on the Secret JFK Records

by Lawrence P. Schnapf August 27, 2021

The following letter was sent to President Biden by New York City attorney Lawrence Schnapf. August 20, 2021 Honorable Joseph R. Biden, Jr. The White House Washington, D.C.  Re: John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992  Dear President Biden:  On April 26, 2018, President Trump issued a Presidential Memorandum (2018 Memorandum) postponing until October 26, ...

The State of the Republican Party

by Laurence M. Vance August 25, 2021

Former vice president Richard “Dick” Cheney was one of the architects of the senseless, immoral, and unjust wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—just as he was one of the architects of the foolish first invasion of Iraq (Operation Desert Storm) as secretary of defense under George H. W. Bush. Before this, he served for ten years in the U.S. House ...

How Freedom Dies from A to Z

by John W. Whitehead August 23, 2021

“Plays, farces, spectacles, gladiators, strange beasts, medals, pictures, and other such opiates, these were for ancient peoples the bait toward slavery, the price of their liberty, the instruments of tyranny. By these practices and enticements the ancient dictators so successfully lulled their subjects under the yoke, that the stupefied peoples, fascinated by the pastimes and vain pleasures flashed before ...

The Right to Bodily Integrity

by John W. Whitehead August 18, 2021

We’ve reached the point where state actors can penetrate rectums and vaginas, where judges can order forced catheterizations, and where police and medical personnel can perform scans, enemas and colonoscopies without the suspect’s consent. And these procedures aren’t to nab kingpins or cartels, but people who at worst are hiding an amount of drugs that can fit into a ...

The Soviet Union Is Gone, but the Young Yearn for Socialism

by Richard M. Ebeling August 17, 2021

This August marks the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the end to the Soviet Union. During August 19-21, 1991, hardline members of the Soviet Communist Party and the KGB attempted a coup d’état in Moscow to prevent the political and economic reforms introduced over the prior five years from going any further. The coup failed, and on Christmas ...

Happy Hour May Be Getting a Little Happier

by Laurence M. Vance August 13, 2021

“It’s five o’clock somewhere,” so the song and the story go. This phrase is used by those wishing to justify drinking alcohol at some point during the day instead of waiting until the usual evening hours. But a happy hour is not always just an hour. In 39 of the 50 states, some restaurants, bars, and nightclubs have happy hour from ...

A Deficit of Clear Thinking About Loss of Freedom

by Richard M. Ebeling August 11, 2021

Rightly, much is being made about the size of federal government spending and the annual budget deficits, along with the projected resulting growth in the national debt over the next ten years. But a real and more serious deficit is to be found in the lack of sound and serious thinking and debate about the growing size and scope ...

A Senseless Test

by Laurence M. Vance August 6, 2021

Most Americans received stimulus payments three times from the federal government during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many Americans receive a similar payment in the Spring every year after they file their taxes and claim the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). Some of these “many” Americans, starting last month, began receiving advance payments of their EITC every ...

Infrastructure Bill as Political Plunder and Social Engineering

by Richard M. Ebeling August 4, 2021

Nothing says you really “care” in politics as much as a willingness and, indeed, a demand to spend at least $1 trillion of other people’s money on some supposedly essential public “need.” So, not surprisingly, a bipartisan infrastructure bill is working its way through Congress with just such a $1 trillion price tag. Also, nothing says you are desperate for ...

A New State of Segregation

by John W. Whitehead August 3, 2021

The things we were worried would happen are happening. — Angus Johnston, professor at the City University of New York Imagine it: a national classification system that not only categorizes you according to your health status but also allows the government to sort you in a hundred other ways: by gender, orientation, wealth, medical condition, religious beliefs, ...