History shows that putting the federal government in charge of protecting privacy is like a blood bank hiring Dracula as a nightwatchman. But that’s what the Biden administration wants to do with the Internet. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is currently in the...
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A Nobel Prize Awarded for Economic Destruction
by Ron Paul | Oct 17, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is a 2022 recipient of the Nobel Prize in economics for his writings on how government should respond to bank failures. Honoring Bernanke for his advice on what government should do when banks fail is like giving a fire...
TGIF: Governments Create Problems; Markets Fix Them
by Sheldon Richman | Oct 14, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
My article "Complete Liberalism" prompted an unexpected challenge. An interlocutor, who says he owns a business and thus is not antibusiness, claimed that my article suggested that, unlike government regulators, businesses never get things wrong. Yet business failures...
Pfizer Exec Admits COVID-19 Vaccine Never Tested to Prevent Transmission, Media Silent
by Matt Agorist | Oct 14, 2022 | Featured Articles
In early 2021, CDC director Rochelle Walensky had no problem going on national television and declaring to the world that if you took the covid-19 vaccine "you will not get or spread covid." Within weeks, this was found to be entirely untrue. Dr. Anthony Fauci also...
Nothing But Welfare Queens: American Aid to Zelensky and Tsai Ing-wen
by Patrick Macfarlane | Oct 13, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As it pertains to the American public, Ukraine’s response to the Russian invasion can be summed up with two words: “Zelensky demands.” To date, Washington elites and their politicians have been happy to provide—at public expense—lining their own pockets in the...
Brown Scare, Red Scare, Fake Scare, Who’s Scared?
by Brandan P. Buck | Oct 13, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The demands of the American empire have been used throughout the twentieth century to influence domestic politics and popular opinion on foreign affairs. The exaggerated threat of foreign agents and alien ideologies in league with one’s political opponents has long...
Working Harder for More of the Same in the Fed’s Economy
by Ryan McMaken | Oct 13, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
According to the establishment survey of employment, released last week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, total employment increased, month-over-month by 263,000 jobs. The "job market stays strong" reads one CNBC headline, and the new jobs print was hailed as a great...
Cop Convicted After Forcing Woman To Give Toddler Son Oral Sex (While He Filmed)
by Matt Agorist | Oct 13, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Over the past decade, the Free Thought Project has reported on utterly horrific crimes perpetrated by police officers against society's most vulnerable. From children to the elderly, no demographic is left safe. However, a case out of Iberville Parish in Louisiana is...