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A Senseless Test

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Most Americans received stimulus payments three times from the federal government during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many Americans receive a similar payment in the Spring every year after they file their taxes and claim the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). Some of these “many” Americans, starting last month, began receiving advance payments of their EITC every month. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act was launched in April of 2020. It instituted a refundable tax credit to be applied to 2020 tax returns. The resulting “economic impact payment” was $1,200 for each adult, plus an additional rebate of $500 per qualifying child. The Tax Relief Act of 2020 was launched in December, and it gave every American adult $600, plus another $600 per qualifying child. The third COVID-19 stimulus package passed by the U.S. Congress was the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), launched in March of 2021. It provided American adults with a maximum “recovery ...

Healthcare Reform Is Not Healthcare Liberty

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Libertarians can argue until they are blue in the face against mandatory vaccines, vaccine passports, mask mandates, lockdowns, and other government healthcare measures to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic -- and, now, its Delta variant -- but one thing is for sure: Even if they succeed in their endeavors, it will not constitute healthcare freedom. At best, such libertarians will have improved our lives as welfare-state serfs, but that is a far cry from living one’s life as a genuinely free person. Licensed under Creative Commons. There is but one way that we can achieve healthcare freedom — by totally separating healthcare and the state. Settling for persuading the state to better manage its control over healthcare simply doesn’t cut it when it comes to freedom. Think about slavery. Suppose a group of reform-oriented libertarians in 1855 had persuaded the state legislatures in southern states to ...

Modern Collectivist Trends and How to Resist Them

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The First World War and the Great Depression were, I would suggest, the major events that have shaped most of the political, social, and economic trends for more than a century. The Great War, as it used to be called, undermined the generally “classical” liberal world that prevailed, at least in much of Western and Central Europe and North America before 1914. Not that that world before then was some pristine reflection of the laissez-faire ideal of fully recognized and protected individual liberty, radically free markets, with strictly limited government assigned to only protect people’s right to their respective life, liberty, and honestly acquired property. In many instances, very far from it. By the benchmarks of the world before the heyday of classical-liberal ideas and policies in the middle of the nineteenth century, however, the Western world practiced a high degree of freedom. That period also stands out on the same basis in comparison to the rise of modern collectivism ...

The Empire of Lies Breaks Down

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“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”—Albert Einstein America is breaking down. This breakdown—triggered by polarizing circus politics, media-fed mass hysteria, racism, classism, fascism, fear-mongering, political correctness, cultural sanitation, virtue signaling, a sense of hopelessness and powerlessness in the face of growing government corruption and ...

Surprise! Biden Continues the CIA’s JFK Assassination Cover-Up

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Before I address President Biden’s decision last Friday to continue the national-security establishment’s cover-up of its November 22, 1963, regime-change operation in Dallas, I wish to make one thing perfectly clear: I am not Nostradamus.  Yes, I fully realize that I repeatedly predicted that Biden would never order the release of those 60-year-old assassination-related records that the ...