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The Socialist Elixir Is a Deadly Cyanide

by Richard M. Ebeling October 1, 2020

Suppose you saw someone holding a bottle that had a label with the word “cyanide” and he was about to drink from it. You tell him to be careful, that that is poison, and he could die a painful death. He says, no that’s not true, cyanide is a delightful drink, that he has heard that it cures many ...

The Continuing, Poisonous Russia Obsession

by Ted Galen Carpenter October 1, 2020

For more than a decade, there has been pronounced animus toward Russia in the American news media and among hawks, especially congressional Democrats, in the political community. That hostility surged when Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula in 2014. Furious political leaders and Western media outlets slammed the Kremlin’s action as an outrageous case of unprovoked aggression, akin to the ...

Stakeholder Fascism Means More Loss of Liberty

by Richard M. Ebeling September 29, 2020

A strong wave of anti-free market thinking and policy proposals are currently dominating the debates over the role of government in society. From calls for greater emphasis on income equality, to “saving” the planet from global warming, and on to demands for increased attention to claimed gender and racial “social injustice” inside and outside the marketplace, the presumptions are ...

What Is Good for Students Might Be Bad for Taxpayers

by Laurence M. Vance September 28, 2020

The federal Department of Education was created in 1979 by Jimmy Carter and his Democratic-controlled Congress. It was established by the Department of Education Organization Act of 1979 that split the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare into the departments of Education, and Health and Human Services. It began operation in May 1980. Conservatives generally opposed the creation of this ...

No, the U.S. Supreme Court Will Not Save Us

by John W. Whitehead September 24, 2020

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people. — Justice William O. Douglas The U.S. Supreme Court will not save us. It doesn’t matter which party gets to pick the replacement to fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. The battle that is ...

Milton Friedman and the New Attack on Freedom to Choose

by Richard M. Ebeling September 23, 2020

We are in the midst of an open counterrevolution against liberty and limited government in the United States. This may sound like strong language for dramatic affect. But it is really not an exaggeration in the current climate of political discord and antagonism, admittedly amplified by it being a presidential election year when political parties make hyperbole the norm. ...

Disaggregating Keynes Demonstrates Macro Delusions

by Richard M. Ebeling September 16, 2020

The economic downturn that has accompanied the coronavirus crisis has seen huge increases in government deficit spending and mounting national debt in the United States and many other countries around the world. A revived version of Keynesian Economics has emerged rationalizing and justifying massive government expenditures as cures for falling production, rising unemployment, and widening income inequality. It seems ...

What Do Republicans Stand For?

by Laurence M. Vance September 11, 2020

Since this is a presidential election year, and the Republican Party wants Americans’ votes, it is fitting to ask the question: What do Republicans stand for? Writing in Politico Magazine, chief political correspondent Tim Alberta hit the nail on the head: “The supposed canons of GOP orthodoxy — limited government, free enterprise, ...

America’s Fiscal Follies are Dangerously in the Red

by Richard M. Ebeling September 10, 2020

The Congressional Budget Office has recently issued a federal “Budget Outlook Update” for the next ten years in the context of the government’s fiscal condition in the face of the coronavirus and Washington’s spending spree. The message: the deficit for fiscal year 2020 is huge, and the national debt is getting bigger, faster than had been projected before ...

Mile Markers of Tyranny: Losing Our Freedoms on the Road from 9/11 to COVID-19

by John W. Whitehead September 9, 2020

“No one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end.”—George Orwell You can map the nearly 20-year journey from the 9/11 attacks to the COVID-19 pandemic by the freedoms we’ve lost along the way. The road we have been traveling has been littered with the wreckage of our once-vaunted liberties, especially ...

Cryptocurrency and Libertarianism

by Wendy McElroy September 8, 2020

“The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson The impact of cryptocurrency on libertarianism has been profound, especially among the younger generation. To many, the appeal is a mystery because they view crypto as a scam or a delusion of the madding crowd. Austrian economists invoke the ...

Law And Order Howling

by David Stockman September 3, 2020

When all else fails, Fake Republicans like Richard Nixon back in the day and Donald Trump today turn to “Law & Order” demagoguery to incite the electorate in their direction. So doing, they conveniently abandon the real job of the Conservative Party in American democracy, which is to fight against the Government Party (usually the Dems) in behalf of free ...