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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 ...

Celebrating the Arrival of Ludwig von Mises in America

by Richard M. Ebeling August 1, 2020

Eighty years ago, on August 2, 1940, the leading living member of the Austrian School of Economics, Ludwig von Mises, arrived in the United States as a refugee from war-torn Europe. Hated by the socialists, viewed as a “class enemy” by the communists, and despised as “racial vermin” by the Nazis, Mises, like so many others, had made the ...

The Tortured Legacy of the Mexican-American War, Part 5

by Danny Sjursen August 1, 2020

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4  | Part 5 | Part 6 The President, in his first war message of May 1846, declares that the soil was ours on which hostilities were commenced by Mexico. Now I propose to try to show, that the whole of this ... is, from ...

Empire Kidnapping on American Streets

by Benjamin James Bartee July 30, 2020

Lest any observer refuse at this late date to acknowledge that the full weight of the police state is pressed on the American citizenry's neck, let the recent developments in Portland, Oregon settle the debate conclusively. Unidentified federal police are now snatching American citizens off the streets of Portland. Their victims receive no due process because ...

Gold and Free Banking versus Central Banking

by Richard M. Ebeling July 28, 2020

In spite of the officially declared “independence” of the Federal Reserve from the immediate political control of either Congress or the White House, America’s central bank is, nonetheless, a branch of the U.S. government that is responsible for setting monetary policy, overseeing a variety of banking regulations, and influencing market interest rates. As a result, politics is always present ...

The Federal Coup to Overthrow the States and Nix the 10th Amendment Is Underway

by John W. Whitehead July 23, 2020

“I don’t need invitations by the state, state mayors, or state governors, to do our job. We’re going to do that, whether they like us there or not.”—Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf’s defense of the Trump Administration’s deployment of militarized federal police to address civil unrest in the states This is a wake-up call. What is ...