This past weekend, without fanfare, passed two anniversaries which remind us why Bring Our Troops Home is such a pivotal organization, and why we deserve your continued support. First, it was the 20 year anniversary of George W. Bush signing the 2002 Authorization for...
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The Truth About Oregon’s Drug Decriminalization ‘Disaster’
by Laurence Vance | Oct 18, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Critics are calling Oregon’s Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act a failure. According to Oregon’s ABC affiliate KATU: “Oregon still has among the highest addiction rates in the country. Fatal overdoses have increased almost 20% over the previous year, with over...
Public Policy Created Europe’s Energy Crisis
by Daniel Lacalle | Oct 18, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
An energy policy that bans investment in some technologies based on ideological views and ignores security of supply is doomed to a strepitous failure. The energy crisis in the European Union was not created by market failures or lack of alternatives. It was created...
The Meaning of Inalienable
by Jeffrey Wernick | Oct 18, 2022 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
This article was originally published on June 17, 2021. Biden expressed the uniqueness of America, the idea of America: “You heard me say this before, again and again. I’m going to keep saying it. What’s that idea. We don’t derive our rights from the government. We...
‘Fletch’ Lives in the Courageous Pen of Reporters
by Kym Robinson | Oct 17, 2022 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles
“I must follow the journalistic instinct of being skeptical of everything until I personally have proved it true.”- Irwin Fletcher In the post-Watergate world, fiction was full of lone wolf reporters, the courageous typewriter and camera that pointed where it was...
Federal Privacy Rules Will Give You Less Privacy
by Norman Singleton | Oct 17, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
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...
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...