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How to Tell RINOs From Elephants

by Michael Tennant August 19, 2020

Conservatives frequently dub Republican politicians they deem insufficiently committed to “free enterprise, private property, and limited government” Republicans in Name Only, or RINOs. But are they really phony Republicans? “The Republican Party was always, from its inception, the party of big government in America,” Thomas DiLorenzo observed in his book Lincoln Unmasked. As the successor to the Whig Party, the ...

Watchwords that Threaten Liberty

by Richard M. Ebeling August 18, 2020

One of the more disturbing aspects of our times is the growing distrust, even dislike, and, therefore, disregard for liberty in a seemingly growing number of corners of life. There is plenty of talk about “equality,” “racial justice,” “democracy,” “socialism,” “privilege,” “oppression” and “racism.” But, of liberty, that is, the liberty of the individual to live his own life ...

Millionaires for Insanity

by Michael Tennant August 17, 2020

A coterie of guilt-ridden rich folks calling themselves Millionaires for Humanity has signed an open letter begging the governments of the world to raise their taxes in order to undo the devastation wreaked by COVID-19. “As Covid-19 strikes the world, millionaires like us have a critical role to play in healing our world,” they write. That role, it seems, ...

NATO’s “Unified Front” at Breaking Point

by Danny Sjursen August 14, 2020

Last month, a Turkish warship came one step away from firing missiles at a French naval vessel off the coast of Libya. In response, Paris suspended its involvement in Operation Sea Guardian — a multinational maritime effort to provide security in the Mediterranean Sea and halt the arms trafficking fueling Libya’s ongoing civil war. Initially, only eight ...

Self-Censorship and Despotism Over the Mind

by Richard M. Ebeling August 12, 2020

The political atmosphere in the United States today is one of the most divisive and polarized in a very long time. In my lifetime, the only period with which I can compare it is the 1960s and early 1970s during the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, when there were demonstrations on the streets of many cities throughout ...

COVID-19 and the Right of Assembly

by Tim Fries August 11, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic, or rather the government’s response to it, has raised many concerns over the past few months. In just the last few months, we have seen how some of the lockdown measures represent a major attack on our individual liberty how the closure of churches has undermined

Defund the Pentagon

by Laurence M. Vance August 10, 2020

Many liberals and progressives in the Democratic Party have been loudly calling for the defunding of police departments around the country after the tragic death of a black man, George Floyd, at the hands of a white Minneapolis police officer. While defunding the police — not to be confused with disbanding the police — means different things to different ...

Discrimination and the “Ministerial Exception”

by Laurence M. Vance August 5, 2020

The U.S. Supreme Court issued two landmark discrimination decisions in its term that recently came to an end. However, only one will result in more liberty and fewer lawsuits. For several years, federal agencies and courts were split on the issue of whether the prohibition against discrimination in employment because of sex in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act ...

Paul Krugman’s Ad Hominem Defense of Central Banking

by Richard M. Ebeling August 4, 2020

One of the sorriest aspects of almost all political discussions nowadays is how often they seem to degenerate into rude ad hominem attacks rather than more reasoned arguments over the pros and cons of what public policies might be most conducive to achieving various social and economic goals. An example of this is an opinion piece by economist Paul Krugman ...

Socialism, American Style, Part 4

by Jacob G. Hornberger August 1, 2020

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 It would be difficult to find a better example of American socialism than the institution of public schooling or, as it might be more accurately termed, government schooling. Public schooling is based on socialist central planning. Whether at a federal, ...

Pandemic Follies: Tyranny Won’t Keep Us Safe

by James Bovard August 1, 2020

Politicians have destroyed more than 13 million jobs this year in a deluge of edicts aimed to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 200,000 Americans still died from the coronavirus, but the anti-COVID government crackdowns probably did far more damage than the virus. The COVID crisis has also shown how easy it is for politicians to fan fears to ...

Is Libertarianism Immoral?

by Laurence M. Vance August 1, 2020

“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun,” said the wisest man who ever lived in the book of Ecclesiastes. Although King Solomon wasn’t writing about libertarianism, what he wrote certainly applies to critics of libertarianism. While ...