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The Libertarian Angle: How to End Poverty (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation April 5, 2019

Is there a way to end poverty? Actually, much poverty has already been eliminated. FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling tell you how. Go to the podcast.

Conservatives, Libertarians, and Family Leave

by Laurence M. Vance April 5, 2019

Former president and conservative icon Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) famously said about conservatism and libertarianism in 1975, If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals — if we were back in the days of ...

The Dangers of the New Democratic Socialism

by Richard M. Ebeling April 3, 2019

In the ancient world, there was often a philosophy of life that the events surrounding man and the world he lived in went in circles and cycles. It certainly seems that way with the recent revival of the case for democratic socialism. After seeming to have been relegated to the dustbin of history following the collapse of Soviet-style socialism ...

The Making of a Monster

by John W. Whitehead April 2, 2019

“But these weren’t the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around—they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late.” — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children The ...

Obama’s Forgotten Frauds and Debacles

by James Bovard April 1, 2019

Former President Barack Obama is again busy lecturing Americans on politics. His speeches have contained many snappy lines that would deserve attention if they came from an untainted source. But Obama as president was guilty of many of the things against which he now warns his fellow citizens. Last September, Obama received the Paul H. Douglas Award for Ethics in ...

Time to End the Postal Monopoly

by Laurence M. Vance April 1, 2019

After blaming the billions of dollars a year in losses by the United States Post Office (USPS) on its failure to charge Amazon enough to deliver its packages — “making Amazon richer and the Post Office dumber and poorer” — Donald Trump, on April 12, 2018, signed Executive Order 13829, which established the Task Force on the United States ...

The America That Was — The Good and the Bad

by Richard M. Ebeling April 1, 2019

We live in a time when an understanding and an appreciation of what a free society can or should be like is being slowly lost. Or so it seems, often, to a friend of human liberty. Political interventionism and a revived interest in “democratic socialism” dominate public discourse in almost every corner of life. Calls are constantly being made for ...

Afghanistan Exit: Swift, Responsible Disengagement, Part 1

by Danny Sjursen April 1, 2019

Part 1 | Part 2 The United States has been at war in Afghanistan for more than seventeen years. Despite many years of effort and billions spent, the U.S. military is still suffering casualties in that remote land. In 2017, fourteen American soldiers died in Afghanistan — some, in fact, shot from behind by their supposed local allies. Already, ...

A Gross Violation of the Constitution

by Laurence M. Vance March 28, 2019

Although Donald Trump had a Republican majority in Congress for the first two years of his presidency, he failed to obtain funding to build his signature wall between the United States and Mexico. Yet now that the Democrats control the House, he is more determined than ever to build his wall. But never mind the Congress, just declare a national ...

No Sanitized Pages in History, Please!

by Richard M. Ebeling March 26, 2019

Imagine that in 1946 the general-secretary of the United Nations had submitted a resolution to the General Assembly stating that Nazi crimes were so horrendous and despicable that the countries of the world needed to impose a blanket censorship on any public reference to or discussion of Hitler or his henchmen. Only the names of victims were to be ...

Don’t Shoot the Dogs

by John W. Whitehead March 22, 2019

“In too much of policing today, officer safety has become the highest priority. It trumps the rights and safety of suspects. It trumps the rights and safety of bystanders. It’s so important, in fact, that an officer’s subjective fear of a minor wound from a dog bite is enough to justify using potentially lethal force, ...

Clarity on Diversity and Pluralism

by Richard M. Ebeling March 21, 2019

Freedom and the free society are once again under direct attack by those who espouse far-greater degrees of government control over people’s lives. Wrapping themselves in the cloak of progressivism, “social justice,” and liberation from oppression and discrimination, they use a lexicon of words that are designed to reflect their view of and desires for the world: diversity, inclusiveness, ...