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Socialism-in-Practice Was a Nightmare, Not Utopia

by Richard M. Ebeling February 24, 2021

It is amazing sometimes how really short humanity’s historical memory can be. Listening to some in American academia and on social media, you would think that socialism was a bright, new, and shiny idea never tried before that promises a beautiful future of peace, love, and bountifulness for all. It is as if a hundred years of socialism-in-practice in ...

The Slippery Slope from Censoring ‘Disinformation’ to Silencing Truth

by John W. Whitehead February 23, 2021

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”― George Orwell This is the slippery slope that leads to the end of free speech as we once knew it. In a world increasingly automated and filtered through the lens of artificial intelligence, we are finding ourselves at the mercy of ...

Three Libertarian Principles for Education

by Laurence M. Vance February 22, 2021

Although the presidency and both Houses of Congress are now controlled by Democrats, some conservatives still think that they can have some influence on the federal government’s education polices. A case in point is a new report by Michael Q. McShane of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), “Where Conservatives Should Lead on Federal Education Policy in 2021.” ...

The Bankruptcy of Conservative Political Paternalism

by Richard M. Ebeling February 16, 2021

Political paternalism – the belief that those in government possess more knowledge, wisdom, and ability to plan, guide, and direct various aspects of people’s lives better than those people themselves – comes in many forms. The American “progressive” movement is euphoric with being, once again, close to power with the new Biden Administration in the hope of intensifying and ...

Impeach the Deep State for Its Conspiracy to Kill the Constitution

by John W. Whitehead February 15, 2021

All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger ...

The Uyghurs as Victims of Chinese National Socialism

by Richard M. Ebeling February 10, 2021

News outlets in the United States and in Europe have again been drawing attention to the oppression and persecution being suffered by the Uyghurs in the western region of China known as Xinjiang. Somewhere between one and two million of them have been rounded up and placed in “reeducation” camps by the Chinese government, with smuggled out stories telling ...

The Hazards of Government Wage Mandates

by Michael Tennant February 9, 2021

President Joe Biden is trying to get Congress to pass an increase in the federal minimum wage as part of a COVID-19 “stimulus” package. However, a recent experiment in mandating higher wages at the local level ought to make him think twice about doing so on a national basis. In January, the city of Long Beach, California, ...

The Patriot Party Platform

by Laurence M. Vance February 8, 2021

Within a week after moving out of the White House, Donald Trump announced the creation of the “Office of the Former President.” According to an official statement dated January 25, “The Office will be responsible for managing President Trump’s correspondence, public statements, appearances, and official activities to advance the interests of the United States and to ...

The Government’s War on Domestic Terrorism Is a Trap

by John W. Whitehead February 5, 2021

This is an issue that all Democrats, Republicans, independents, Libertarians should be extremely concerned about, especially because we don’t have to guess about where this goes or how this ends. What characteristics are we looking for as we are building this profile of a potential extremist, what are we talking about? Religious extremists, are we talking about Christians, evangelical ...

Biden’s Executive Orders vs. American Public Opinion

by Richard M. Ebeling February 3, 2021

In the first ten days of his new administration, following his inauguration on January 20, 2021, President Joe Biden signed more than 25 executive orders changing the direction and content of federal government activities. That is four times as many executive orders as were signed in the same number of first days in the White House as Donald Trump, ...

The Real Problem with Biden’s “Buy American” Policy

by Laurence M. Vance February 2, 2021

Joe Biden has already issued more executive orders during his first two weeks in office than any previous president. One of them is something that Donald Trump could have issued verbatim. On April 18, 2017, Trump issued Executive Order 13788, “Buy American and Hire American.” The policy statement is found in Section 2: It shall be the policy ...

The Deep State’s Stealthy, Subversive, Silent Coup to Ensure Nothing Changes

by John W. Whitehead February 1, 2021

You have such a fervent, passionate, evangelical faith in this country…why in the name of God don’t you have any faith in the system of government you’re so hell-bent to protect? You want to defend the United States of America, then defend it with the tools it supplies you with—its Constitution. You ask for a mandate, General, from a ...