A premise is a fundamental proposition that one accepts to be true. It is used as a starting point for reasoning or taking actions. If they are wrong, so is the reasoning or actions that follow. Our premises not only determine our politics, they are basic to our...
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Only I Decide
by Jeffrey Wernick | Nov 1, 2022 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
This article was originally published on May 5, 2021. Jen Psaki, the White House Press Secretary when responding to questions regarding Trump’s extension of his status as suspended from Facebook, said that the Biden Administration expected more from “social media”...
Cop Convicted for Selling Children Fentanyl Out of Police Cruiser
by Matt Agorist | Nov 1, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
When parents of children at Narraguagus Jr/Sr High School in Harrington saw officer Jeffrey Bishop's car parked in front of the school, they likely felt secure knowing that a cop was "protecting" their children. But Bishop was protecting no one. Instead, he was...
Unions Love Big Government More Than Their Workers
by Shane McCarver | Oct 31, 2022 | Featured Articles, Politics
In the second half of his term President Jimmy Carter signed a series of laws deregulating shipping and transportation in the United States. The Staggers Act, signed into law in 1980, would deregulate rail freight shipping. The law eliminated the government price...
Betrayal of the American Left
by Dan McKnight | Oct 31, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
I’m sure most of you remember the liberal protests against George Bush’s invasion of Iraq. They were big, they were loud, they were sometimes rude. And I can’t vouch for all of their hairstyle choices. But they were right. The invasion of Iraq was a criminal...
Can Elon Musk’s Purchase of Twitter Actually Benefit Liberty?
by Michael Rectenwald | Oct 31, 2022 | Featured Articles
Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter and his immediate firing of top brass represents a potential weakening of the Big Digital woke cartel that controls information, censers content, censures and bans users, and serves as a propaganda arm of leftist totalitarian statists....
TGIF: Free Markets and Greed
by Sheldon Richman | Oct 28, 2022 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good." Ever since corporate raider Gordon Gekko, the lead character in Oliver Stone's Wall Street (1987), made that declaration, left-wing opponents of the market economy have regarded that one-liner as the only rebuttal required...
Abandon the Fetish for ‘Unconditional Surrender’
by Ryan McMaken | Oct 27, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On Monday, thirty members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus called on the Biden administration to pursue a negotiated peace settlement or cease-fire with Ukraine. The letter from the Progressive Caucus is careful to praise the administration for its ongoing...