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The Labor Shortage Is a Government-Contrived Scarcity

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Not long ago, my wife and I decided to go out to our favorite Thai restaurant not far from our home in the Charleston, South Carolina area, which we had not been to for well over a year. With so many retail businesses having returned to a no-mask, no-distancing “normality,” we were looking forward to a tasty inside, sit-down meal. But when we arrived we discovered they were still only doing takeout orders because the management had not been able to find enough willing waiters to rehire. America is suffering from an apparent “labor shortage,” in spite of unemployment levels being significantly above what they were before the government-imposed lockdowns and stay-at-home orders in early 2020. Before these shutdown orders and restrictions on freedom of shopping were imposed by, especially, the state governments and reinforced by federal policies in March of last year, the economy-wide average unemployment rate hit a low of about 3.5 percent of the labor force in ...

Help Us Defend Our Civil Liberties

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On the heels of our very successful online Zoom conference in April and May on “The National Security State and the Kennedy Assassination,” we now wish to do another online Zoom conference this fall on the critical importance of “Restoring Civil Liberties in America.” I am writing to see if you will help us fund this conference. As you know, civil liberties are an essential part of a free society. Our American ancestors clearly understood this. That’s why they demanded the enactment of the Bill of Rights as a condition for accepting the Constitution. Freedom of speech, freedom of association, due process of law, protection against illegal searches and seizures, privacy, trial by jury, and the right to keep and bear arms. They are all critically important aspects of a free society, and they have all been under constant and ever-increasing assault for decades.

If We Are Going to Achieve Freedom

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There is no doubt that when it comes to freedom, the situation in America is not good. Ever since I founded FFF some 31 years ago, our lives as welfare-warfare serfs has gotten progressively worse, year after year.  One option, of course, is to give up. Just surrender and accept our serfdom as a permanent condition and work to improve it.  That’s what libertarian reformers have done. Long ago, they concluded that the federal government was simply too big and too powerful. They saw that popular sentiment favored the welfare state and the national-security state. If they were to be “players,” they felt that they needed to accept the inevitability.  So, they decided to settle for reform. Social Security “privatization.” Health-savings accounts. School vouchers. Regulatory reform. Welfare reform. Pentagon reform. CIA reform. NSA reform. FISA court reform. Drug war reform. Immigration reform. Selective foreign interventionism. Getting libertarian-oriented conservatives in charge of regulatory commissions. And more.

The FBI’s Mafia-Style Justice: To Fight Crime, the FBI Sponsors 15 Crimes a Day

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“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”— Friedrich Nietzsche Almost every tyranny being perpetrated by the U.S. government against the citizenry—purportedly to keep us safe and the nation secure—has come about as a result of some threat manufactured in one way or another by our own government. Think about it. Cyberwarfare. Terrorism. ...

Why a Standing Army and a Welfare State?

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One of the major distinguishing characteristics, philosophically speaking, between our American ancestors and today’s Americans is with respect to the national-security establishment. Our ancestors fiercely opposed that type of governmental structure. Today’s Americans vociferously support it. That was why our ancestors chose to bring into existence a limited-government republic, one that only had a basic, relatively small military. ...