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“Systemic Racism” Theory is the New Political Tribalism

by Richard M. Ebeling July 22, 2020

Have you stopped beating your wife? Yes or No? This is the classic question that condemns you as a wife beater, regardless of your answer. Now, welcome to the new world of “systemic racism.” Are you still benefiting from your “white privilege” oppression of others? Yes or No. Either reply unmasks you as a past or present racist. You ...

Tyranny Without a Tyrant

by John W. Whitehead July 15, 2020

In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can present grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all ...

Save America from Cancel Culture

by Richard M. Ebeling July 14, 2020

One of the new fashionable phrases has become “cancel culture,” the idea that ideas, institutions, and people of the present as well of the past must be overturned and dethroned from legitimacy and acceptance in society, so as to expunge the injustices, cruelties, and insensitivities existing in current life and lingering over from history. The question is: what exactly ...

Defund the Drug War

by Laurence M. Vance July 13, 2020

Is it possible to defund the police without causing crime to increase and anarchy to ensue? Certainly. Just defund the drug war. After the tragic death of George Floyd at the hands of a white Minneapolis police officer, a movement was started to defund the Minneapolis Police Department. According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, in 2020, ...

The Question Never Asked about Federal Lands

by Laurence M. Vance July 9, 2020

The Government Accountability Office (GAO), known as the Government Accounting Office until 2004, “is an independent, nonpartisan agency that works for Congress.” It is headed by the Comptroller General of the United States. The GAO likes to be called the “congressional watchdog” because it “examines how taxpayer dollars are spent and provides Congress and federal ...

Liberty Is the Theme of the American Spirit

by Richard M. Ebeling July 8, 2020

July is the month when Americans celebrate the signing and then the announcement of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. While this July 4th was one of the most peculiar in the country’s history because of fears about and government restrictions on social gatherings due to the coronavirus, it is nonetheless one of the great cultural events ...

Seattle Gets It Half Right

by Laurence M. Vance July 7, 2020

The city of Seattle City Council has voted to strike down its drug-traffic and prostitution loitering laws. The vote was unanimous. I should emphasize that it is not drug-traffic and prostitution laws that were struck down, just drug-traffic and prostitution loitering laws. At least the Seattle City Council got it half right. According to Title 12A, Subtitle I, Chapters 12A.10 ...

Ad Hominems Against Freedom

by Richard M. Ebeling July 2, 2020

Statues are historical symbols of people and events from the past, and as such they reflect the heritage and values of a country. In the heightened current racial tensions in the United States, demonstrators and vandals have insisted that monuments glorifying the Confederacy and the old slave South must come down. But this challenge and attack against America’s past, in ...

Socialism, American Style, Part 3

by Jacob G. Hornberger July 1, 2020

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 I grew up in the poorest city in the United States. At least, that is what the Census Bureau told us back in the 1950s and 1960s about my hometown of Laredo, Texas, which is situated on the U.S.-Mexico ...

The FBI’s Forgotten Crimes against Richard Jewell

by James Bovard July 1, 2020

A new movie about Richard Jewell is reminding Americans of one of the forgotten travesties of the 1990s. When he died in 2007 at age 44, his New York Times obituary was headlined, “Richard Jewell, Hero of Atlanta Attack, Dies.” But his heroism was recognized only after the FBI and the media sought to destroy him. On July 27, 1996, ...

Should Social Security Be Expanded?

by Laurence M. Vance July 1, 2020

Time is running out for Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.), the chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security. The Constitution, in Article I, Section 4, mandates that Congress assemble “at least once in every Year.” Each Congress is numbered and lasts two years, with two legislative sessions. The current Congress is the 116th to assemble since the ...

The Coronavirus Crisis and Restoring the Spirit of Liberty

by Richard M. Ebeling July 1, 2020

The year 2020 will, most certainly, go down in history as a momentous one. Having started out in January with most people fairly confident that relatively prosperous times were likely to continue at least into 2021, it witnessed within a couple of months entire economies almost everywhere collapsing into one of the most serious economic downturns of the last ...