Tyranny by the Numbers by John W. Whitehead April 19, 2024 The government wants your money. It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way it can get it. This is ...
The Case for Libertarian Internationalism by Laurence M. Vance April 16, 2024 Libertarians and conservatives share a common enemy. Whether it is described as liberalism, progressivism, collectivism, or socialism; whether its adherents term themselves liberals, progressives, ...
How Long Should the Workweek Be? by Laurence M. Vance April 15, 2024 Bernie Sanders, the self-described socialist, former Democratic presidential candidate, and current independent senator from Vermont, is at it again. For years, he has supported the ...
The Government Wants to Play God by John W. Whitehead April 11, 2024 The government wants to play god. It wants the power to decide who lives or dies and whose rights are worthy of protection. Abortion may still ...
Understanding Freedom and Faith in Freedom by Jacob G. Hornberger April 10, 2024 There are two major obstacles to achieving a genuinely free society in our lifetime: one, a lack of understanding of the genuine principles of ...
Interventionism, Not Capitalism, Has Caused Our Economic Problems by Richard M. Ebeling April 8, 2024 In a Pew Foundation opinion survey report in September of 2022, it was found that only 46 percent of Democrats had a “positive” view ...
Don’t Kill Migrant “Invaders” by Jacob G. Hornberger April 18, 2024 For the last few years, advocates of immigration controls have claimed, with all seriousness, that migrants who enter the United States illegally are “invaders.” Whenever I receive an email from them, I give them free legal advice: Don’t kill the “invaders." After all, in a war in which one nation has invaded another nation, under international law the people in the invaded nation ...
How About Just Cracking Down to Win the Drug War? by Jacob G. Hornberger April 17, 2024 The drug war, as most everyone knows has been going on a long time — decades! It’s just your standard government program. It keeps going and going no matter how much failure, death, and destruction it produces. For example, when I returned to my hometown of Laredo, Texas, in 1975 to practice law, the drug war was going strong. In fact, my very ...
The National-Security Branch Rules the Roost by Jacob G. Hornberger April 16, 2024 If there is anything that confirms that the national-security branch of the federal government rules the roost within the federal governmental structure, it is the Pentagon/CIA torture and indefinite-detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. That facility stands as an ongoing testament to the overarching power of the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA within America’s governmental structure and the deference to their authority ...
End the Drug War in Oregon, Both State and Federal by Jacob G. Hornberger April 15, 2024 Three years ago, in a citizen’s initiative approved by 3/4 of voters, Oregon decriminalized the possession of small amounts of illicit drugs. Last month, the Oregon governor signed into law a measure that undid what the people of Oregon had decided. The reason for this change in direction was that there were severe problems that arose with decriminalization. Two of the biggest problems ...
Anti-Discrimination Laws April 18, 2024 In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the impact of anti-discrimination laws on freedom and ...
The Impact of Massive Federal Spending and Debt April 12, 2024 In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the impact of out-of-control federal spending and debt ...
The Importance of the Price System April 4, 2024 In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the importance of a price system in ...
1913: A Critical Year in the Loss of Liberty March 28, 2024 In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss how 1913 brought into existence the federal income ...