The organization formerly known as Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), now known as Law Enforcement Action Partnership, along with the National Black Police Association, and Fair and Just Prosecution have signed onto a revolutionary letter to Congress urging...
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How to Misuse Global COVID-19 Statistics
by Eric Schuler | Sep 7, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
Have you heard about Somalia's COVID-19 policy? In the official statistics, Somalia has just 3,362 confirmed infections and 97 confirmed deaths from COVID-19. On a per capita basis, the country has a death toll just barely above New Zealand, and below other widely...
New Report on the Nullification Movement in America
by The Tenth Amendment Center | Sep 7, 2020 | Featured Articles
Available formats (right-click to download): .pdf format .mobi format (for Kindle) .epub format (for Apple or Android) “Let us remember that if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom!” Writing as Candidus in...
A Protected Class: Police Union Issues ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards to Civilians
by Matt Agorist | Sep 7, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Known as blue privilege, there is an unwritten law among police officers: when they catch their fellow cop, or even their fellow cop’s family member or friend breaking the law, they are let go without consequence. Situations that have led to the murder of minorities...
A Rejoinder to the Looters: It’s More Than ‘Just Property’
by Ryan McMaken | Sep 5, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
It’s now become fashionable on the left to defend looting as a means of redistributing wealth from allegedly unworthy business owners to the more deserving looters themselves. “It’s just property!” is the refrain, with the implication being that property owners should...
What Bernie Goetz Can Teach Us About Vigilante Violence
by Hunter DeRensis | Sep 4, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
How many times can something be divided before it permanently breaks? In a matter of months, the edifice of a United States has become more and more cracked, after repeated blows from a pandemic virus, state-imposed lockdowns, mass unemployment, police shootings, and...
Police Reform In Congress Is All Talk, and No Action
by Rob Faust | Sep 3, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
A friend, and reader of the Libertarian Institute, asked me a few questions recently. Why did a group of protestors demand that Rand Paul say Breonna Taylor’s name when he was the senator that introduced the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act? Why do we see very little...
Jerome Powell Is Stealing Your Wealth
by Michael Maharrey | Sep 2, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
The Federal Reserve has doubled down on its policy of devaluing your money. During a speech in Jackson Hole last week, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced a shift in the central bank’s inflation policy. In the past, the central bank has targeted a 2...