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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 ...

The Tortured Legacy of the Mexican-American War, Part 4

by Danny Sjursen July 1, 2020

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4  | Part 5 | Part 6 Our militia & volunteers, if a tenth of what is said to be true, have committed atrocities — horrors — in Mexico, sufficient to make Heaven weep, & every American, of Christian morals, blush for his country. — Gen. Winfield ...

The Meaning and the Mind of an American

by Richard M. Ebeling June 23, 2020

One of the continuing and burning issues in America today is determining how we view ourselves and how we view others, including in matters of race. Are we individual human beings who may or may not have by the accidents of birth particular racial and biological characteristics, or do we have certain racial and biological characteristics that determine and ...

Qualified Immunity Is How the Police State Stays in Power

by John W. Whitehead June 18, 2020

What’s been most striking to me is just how one-sided the rules are when Americans take on their own government…. It has been dismaying to learn the extent to which rules and laws shield the government from accountability for its abuses—or even lawbreaking…. It’s been a long and frightening lesson…. The rules seem rigged to protect government lawlessness, and ...