“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” — The Second Amendment to the US Constitution You can largely determine where a person will fall in the debate over gun...
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(Don’t) Support Your Local Sheriff – He Held a Family at Gunpoint
by Matt Agorist | Jul 14, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
The same department who killed Elijah McClain made the news once again last year—this time for holding an innocent family at gunpoint and forcing them all to the ground because of their own incompetence. The officers were looking for a stolen motorcycle with a single...
U.S. State Department Searching for Ways to ‘Support’ Cuban Protestors
by Dave DeCamp | Jul 14, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The State Department said Tuesday that the U.S. is looking at ways to “support” the Cuban people after anti-government demonstrators took to the streets of Cuba on Sunday. In comments to reporters, State Department spokesman Ned Price downplayed the impact of the...
Uncle Sam Must Cease Intervention in Haiti
by Patrick Macfarlane | Jul 13, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Assassination of President Jovenel Moïse During the early morning hours of Wednesday, July 7, 2021, Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in his home by a team of gunmen. His first lady, Martin Moïse, was critically injured. She was airlifted to Florida...
Another Failed 20-Year War: America vs. Somalia
by Scott Horton | Jul 13, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
This essay is adapted from the Libertarian Institute's Executive Director Scott Horton's new book, Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism. Freedom Works The name "Somalia" has somehow become a slur against Americans who prioritize political liberty. "Oh, you...
My Journey from Marxism to Liberty
by Michael Rectenwald | Jul 12, 2021 | Featured Articles
In the fall of 2016, I was a left communist. As I will show below, I came to this position after a circuitous tour through numerous sects of Marxism. A year later, I had thoroughly renounced Marxism and embraced the views of free market economists and philosophers...
TGIF: Watch the Forest as Well as the Trees
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 9, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
It's always important not to miss the forest for the trees. U.S. government announcements, such as its report of the turnover to the Afghan government of the seventh and last military base in Afghanistan, Bagram, should lead no one to think that U.S. foreign policy...
National Service and the State’s Condemnation of Youthful Independence
by Jim Bovard | Jul 9, 2021 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
"Beatings will continue until morale improves” has morphed from an old joke to the latest prescription for national salvation. “Compulsory National Service Could Unite America,” whooped a New York Times Op-ed headline last week. Prominent media outlets, think tanks,...