The Supreme Court ruled in March that Americans have no right to learn the grisly details of CIA torture because the CIA has never formally confessed its crimes. The case symbolizes how the rule of law has become little more than legal mumbo-jumbo to shroud official...
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TGIF: The Libertarian Solution
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 10, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
"What's the libertarian solution to social or economic problem X? How about problem Y or Z?" No libertarian needs to wait long before hearing such questions. But strictly speaking, the libertarian philosophy offers no solutions to specific problems. That's not what it...
Minimizing Risk and Maximizing Lethality: This Is Your Security Force
by Laurie Calhoun | Jun 9, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On May 24, 2022, eighteen-year-old Salvador Rolando Ramos murdered twenty-one people, including nineteen young children, at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. The horror of what unfolded over the course of seventy-five minutes is blamed by activists on the fact...
It’s Time for Joe Biden to Exit the Ring
by Jim Bovard | Jun 9, 2022 | Featured Articles, Politics
President Biden often looks like a punch-drunk old fighter sent into the ring once too often. At this point, the only thing lower than Biden’s approval numbers is his energy level. Is Uncle Joe too old to rebound? At this point, Biden is running on little more than...
Actually, Socialism IS When the Government Does Stuff
by Danny Duchamp | Jun 8, 2022 | Featured Articles
Of course, that is too honest to be a real Karl Marx quote. It is a popular meme that is used to mock the allegedly misguided view of many who oppose socialism. It has been famously paraphrased by prominent socialist, Richard Wolff. “Socialism is when the government...
How to Beat Inflation? End the Fed
by Ron Paul | Jun 8, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
President Joe Biden has unveiled a three-part plan to fight inflation—or at least make people think he is fighting inflation. One part of the plan involves having government agencies “fix” the supply chain problems that have led to shortages of numerous products. Of...
It’s 1979, Not 2009
by Thomas Eddlem | Jun 7, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
Break out your mom's bell-bottoms and dad's leisure suit from your parents' attic. It's 1979 again (at least economically) Don't listen to the perpetual doomsayers who claim this is the beginning of the big crash. It's not. Yes, the American economy is a huge mess,...
‘Assault Weapons’ Ban: First Step on the Road to Tyranny
by Jim Bovard | Jun 6, 2022 | Featured Articles
President Joe Biden is seeking to revive his presidency by demolishing the Second Amendment. In a televised address last Thursday, Biden called for a ban on assault weapons, which he portrayed as the epitome of evil. Vice President Kamala Harris caterwauled that...