Inessential Government Workers by Laurence M. Vance November 12, 2019 Government “shutdowns” in the United States occur when Congress and the president cannot agree on appropriations bills to fund the federal government before the previous ones expire. Since the current budget and appropriations process began in 1976, the federal government “shut down” three times during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, once under George H.W. Bush, twice under Bill Clinton, once ...
A New Kind of Tyranny by John W. Whitehead November 7, 2019 What happens to Julian Assange and to Chelsea Manning is meant to intimidate us, to frighten us into silence. By defending Julian Assange, we defend our most sacred rights. Speak up now or wake up one morning to the silence of a new kind of tyranny. The choice is ours. — John Pilger, investigative journalist All ...
The History and Meaning of Berlin Wall by Richard M. Ebeling November 5, 2019 This November marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the shaky East German communist government resigned, the Berlin Wall came tumbling down. Large crowds formed on both sides of the Wall. East and West Berliners climbed on top, and then people began using sledgehammers and pickaxes to cut holes in ...
The Kennedy Autopsy 2: LBJ’s Role In the Assassination by Future of Freedom Foundation November 4, 2019 Seven years ago, Jacob Hornberger’s bestselling The Kennedy Autopsy detailed the mysterious events surrounding the autopsy that the U.S. military conducted on President’s Kennedy’s body on the night of November 22, 1963. Hornberger’s new book, The Kennedy Autopsy 2, expands on his earlier work. ...
Yes, Virginia, There Is A Deep State And It’s Feeding The Anti-POTUS Mob by David Stockman November 1, 2019 The prepared statement of the latest UkraineGate whistle-blower is well worth the read. It tells you all you need to know about why the Deep State apparatchiks are coming out of the woodwork in a massive assault on America's duly elected president. They are deathly afraid Trump will begin to dismantle a far-flung Empire which has wreaked havoc around the ...
A Limited-Government Republic versus a National-Security State by Jacob G. Hornberger November 1, 2019 The worst mistake that the American people have made in the entire history of the United States was to permit the conversion of the federal government to a national-security state. That conversion has played a major role in the diminishment of limited government and the destruction of our liberty, privacy, and economic well-being. What is a national-security state? It ...
Banning Guns Will Not Make Schools Safe by James Bovard November 1, 2019 School shootings have become the latest pretext for politicians to destroy the Second Amendment. Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, declared in a Democratic presidential candidates’ debate, “I was part of the first generation that saw routine school shootings. We have now produced the second school-shooting generation in this country. We dare not allow there to be a ...
Why I Am So Passionate about Ending the Drug War by Laurence M. Vance November 1, 2019 Since 2009, I have written about ninety articles on the subject of the drug war, many of them for the Future of Freedom Foundation, and some of them for this very publication. I have maintained throughout these articles that the war on drugs is a monstrous evil that has ruined more lives than drugs themselves; that the war on ...
Examples of Dedication to Freedom by Richard M. Ebeling November 1, 2019 When Austrian economist Friedrich A. Hayek (1899–1992) wrote his famous book The Road to Serfdom (1944) in the midst of the Second World War, he mentioned in the preface that he had often been told by his socialist colleagues that he would, no doubt, hold an important position in a future planned society, if only he would come around ...
The Roots of Mass Incarceration by Michael Swanson November 1, 2019 From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton (Harvard University Press, 2016), 449 pages. Before the war on the drugs there was the war on crime. In 1975 the police department of Washington, D.C., launched “Operation Sting” in partnership with the FBI and the ...
Max Weber on Politics as a Vocation by Richard M. Ebeling October 31, 2019 Political election seasons are always interesting times. An array of candidates offer themselves to the voters, each one promising a bundle of policy programs targeting what government will do for those who elect them, as well as all those who did not vote for them. They are all about how much they want to “give back” and to do ...
FFF Policy Concerning Employee Political Activity by Future of Freedom Foundation October 31, 2019 To Our Supporters: As a result of legal consultation and advice from a Washington, D.C., law firm that specializes in election law and non-profit foundations, The Future of Freedom Foundation has adopted the following policies for whenever an employee of FFF becomes a candidate for public office: The employee will be permitted to continue working in his same capacity at ...