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Summon Mark Judge to Testify in Kavanaugh Hearings

by Jacob G. Hornberger October 1, 2018

Preliminary Note: See my September 28 article “Brett Kavanaugh: A Black Mark on the Supreme Court?” and my blog post of today, "Trump's Sham FBI 'Investigation' of Kavanaugh." *** Now that Congress and President Trump have allowed a one-week delay in the Kavanaugh confirmation vote to permit further investigation, the FBI is ...

Why Stop with Truman?

by Laurence M. Vance October 1, 2018

The RMS Titanic left Southampton, United Kingdom, on April 10, 1912, headed west to New York. It was the ship’s maiden voyage. There were an estimated 2,224 passengers and crew on board. Four days later, and only about 375 miles south of Newfoundland, the ship hit an iceberg and sank within three hours. More than 1,500 people ...

Understanding the JFK Assassination, Part 1

by Jacob G. Hornberger October 1, 2018

Part 1 | Future parts to be published in FFF's ebook The JFK Autopsy 2 A common refrain about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is, “I guess we will never know what really happened on November 22, 1963.” The reason people express that sentiment is that they have in mind what is called “direct evidence.” Given that there ...

Karl Marx and the Great Socialist Revival

by James Bovard October 1, 2018

Socialism’s popularity is reviving in America. A self-proclaimed socialist won the Democratic nomination for a congressional seat in the Bronx, and Democratic Socialist candidates are thriving in many areas of the nation. The Washington Post reported in July that it’s “been a good summer for the Democratic Socialists of America,” who have “never had more adherents or more clout.” ...

Canons of Libertarianism

by Laurence M. Vance October 1, 2018

The grandfather, godfather, and icon of conservatism, Russell Kirk (1918–1994), although he wrote lengthy philosophical treatises on “the six canons of conservative thought” and “ten conservative principles,” has largely been forgotten and is rarely invoked by mainstream conservatives today. Kirk was born on October 19, 1918 — a month before the armistice that ended World War I. That makes this ...

The IRA and Defensive Violence

by Scott McPherson October 1, 2018

Lo, we shall rise up. And then we’ll make the bugger’s eyes water. — Pink Floyd, “Sheep” In the 1960s, inspired in part by the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, Catholics in Northern Ireland began agitating for radical changes to a system they believed had been oppressing them for nearly half a century. Six counties in Ulster, in the ...

Civil Asset Forfeiture Suffers a Crushing Defeat

by George Leef October 1, 2018

There are a few issues where Americans on both sides of our political divide are in agreement and one of them is the wrongfulness of civil asset-forfeiture laws. Under those laws (which exist at federal, state, and local levels), a person can be deprived of his property merely because a law-enforcement official suspects that it might have somehow been ...

Social Security Is More than Unsustainable

by Laurence M. Vance September 28, 2018

It seems that Russia is having the same problem as the United States when it comes to its government retirement system: the system is unsustainable because the number of retirees receiving benefits is growing faster than the number of workers supporting the system. Soon after his inauguration for a fourth term as president of Russia, Vladimir Putin spoke about his ...

The JFK Assassination, Episode 14

by Jacob G. Hornberger September 28, 2018

In this series of short videos, FFF president Jacob Hornberger summarizes and details the circumstantial evidence pointing toward the U.S. national-security state as the orchestrator of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Watch the entire series. Go to the podcast.

The Rise of Capitalism and the Dignity of Labor

by Richard M. Ebeling September 27, 2018

The market, or capitalist, economic system has transformed the material world in wondrous ways over the last 200 years. Poverty, once the natural condition of virtually all of humanity, is being lifted from people’s shoulders, not only in the Western world but also increasingly around the globe. But the criticisms of free market liberalism continue, among them the idea ...

Empire of Lies

by John W. Whitehead September 26, 2018

“Back in the heyday of the old Soviet Union, a phrase evolved to describe gullible western intellectuals who came to visit Russia and failed to notice the human and other costs of building a communist utopia. The phrase was “useful idiots” and it applied to a good many people who should have known better. I now propose a ...

The Libertarian Angle: Ebeling’s 10 Favorite Books & Authors: Ayn Rand

by Future of Freedom Foundation September 25, 2018

Richard Ebeling is the BB&T Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Free Enterprise Leadership at The Citadel. He became a libertarian while still in high school and has been involved in the libertarian movement for many decades. Who did he look up to? What books have influenced him the most? Richard and FFF president Jacob Hornberger ...