Sell NPR to the Highest Bidder by Laurence M. Vance June 11, 2020 Founded fifty years ago as National Public Radio, NPR — as it now always refers to itself — is a nonprofit media organization created by the federal government to replace the National Educational Radio Network (NERN). NPR, which is headquartered in Washington, D.C., functions as a membership organization of separately licensed and operated public radio ...
Tragedies of Our Time: Pandemic, Planning, and Racial Politics by Richard M. Ebeling June 11, 2020 An old adage says that tragedies often come in threes. Certainly, the first half of 2020 has seen a version of this. First, the coronavirus that has infected millions of people and killed hundreds of thousands. Second, the response by most governments to the virus by commanding near universal business lockdowns and stay-at-homes that have wrecked economic havoc on ...
How LockDowns Shattered the Structure of Production by Richard M. Ebeling June 9, 2020 Old fallacies have a way of reappearing, especially, during times of social and economic crises. The current coronavirus crisis has opened the door to a variety of them, including the notion of a “paradox of thrift.” It is the idea that if people save more of their incomes by reducing their consumption expenditures, they will lower the market demand ...
The Wisconsin Model by Laurence M. Vance June 8, 2020 A recent Wisconsin Supreme Court decision should serve as a model for transforming the United States into a free society. Here is what led to it. On March 24, the Wisconsin governor, Tony Evers, a Democrat, directed state health officials to issue a stay-at-home order for Wisconsin prohibiting non-essential travel in order to slow the spread ...
Freedom Requires Resisting Coronavirus Pessimism by Richard M. Ebeling June 4, 2020 “I’m from the government, and I am here to help!” This line has become a cynical joke among large numbers of Americans, and it often cuts across differences of political opinion concerning the role and activities of government in modern American society. This has continued with the government’s response to the coronavirus crisis, and especially the longer it goes ...
This Is Not a Revolution. It’s a Blueprint for Locking Down the Nation by John W. Whitehead June 2, 2020 When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you—pull your beard, flick your face—to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. — John Lennon Brace yourselves. There is something being concocted in the dens of power, ...
Sickness Is The Health Of The State! by David Stockman June 1, 2020 A hundred years ago in response to the horror of WWI, the great Randolph Bourne famously pronounced the truth that “War is the Health of the State.” Said Bourne, War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society those irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate co-operation with the Government in coercing into obedience the minority groups ...
Socialism, American Style, Part 2 by Jacob G. Hornberger June 1, 2020 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 The crown jewel of American socialism is Social Security, a program that originated among socialists in Germany in the late 1800s and then was imported into the United States, where it became an established program in the 1930s as ...
Roosevelt’s Fraud at Yalta and the Mirage of the “Good War” by James Bovard June 1, 2020 This year is the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two. One of the biggest frauds of the final stage of that war was the meeting at Yalta of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and President Franklin Roosevelt. Yalta has become a synonym for the abandonment of oppressed people and helped inspire the ...
Why Do Democrats Hate Donald Trump So Much? by Laurence M. Vance June 1, 2020 Democrats didn’t much care for presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, or George W. Bush — mainly because they were Republican presidents. Just as Republicans weren’t too fond of presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, or Barack Obama — mainly because they were Democratic presidents. But it is no secret that Democrats, whether they call themselves liberals, leftists, progressives, Democratic ...
The Conquest of the United States by China by Richard M. Ebeling June 1, 2020 In March 2020, America was put on a “war footing,” according to the president of the United States and other governmental officials. The enemy was declared to be the coronavirus, and to meet this “invader” many if not most politicians at all local, state, and federal levels called for government-directed command and control of social and economic affairs. Welcome ...
The Tortured Legacy of the Mexican-American War, Part 3 by Danny Sjursen June 1, 2020 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory, and shed American blood upon American soil. War exists, and notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it, exists by the act of Mexico herself. — ...