In December 2017, the Free Thought Project reported on the tragic death of 6-year-old Kameron Prescott whose life was stolen from him when police opened fire on an unarmed woman suspected of stealing a car. In June of 2018, the family of the little boy who was gunned...
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The Threat of a Digitized Currency
by Ron Paul | Jul 28, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
If some Congress members get their way, the Federal Reserve may soon be able to track many of your purchases in real time and share that information with government agencies. This is just one of the problems with the proposed “digital dollar” or “fedcoin.” Fedcoin was...
America’s Hobbesian Tyranny
by Jim Bovard | Jul 25, 2020 | Featured Articles
Almost 400 years ago, English philosopher Thomas Hobbes wrote a book scoffing at tyrannophobia—the “fear of being strongly governed.” This was a peculiar term that Hobbes invented in Leviathan, since civilized nations had feared tyrants for almost 2000 years at that...
It Is Time to End Federal Executions
by Rob Faust | Jul 24, 2020 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Last week the federal government executed three inmates. These marked the first federal executions in 17 years. The long lapse in executions may make this seem like a non-issue to some people but all executions are inherently wrong. The Attorney General’s directive...
A Lost Year – Where Do You Go From Here?
by Peter R. Quiñones | Jul 22, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Peter Quinones
The point of no return may have been reached. The effects of the government-mandated shutdowns due to Covid-19 on businesses—especially small businesses—may not be known for months, even decades, but anyone who is paying attention is beginning to realize we are...
To Annex or Not to Annex — Is the Question Moot?
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 22, 2020 | Featured Articles, Justice, Sheldon Richman
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who remains under a cloud of personal corruption, had more or less promised to annex some of the West Bank in July. He's let his deadline slip, we've been told, because he doesn't want to proceed while his buddy Trump is...
Myths and Hoaxes of Sexual Abuse Stoke ‘Politically Useful’ Fear
by Wendy McElroy | Jul 22, 2020 | Featured Articles
"[S]ince love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved."—Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, 1513 For those who want to control a population, fear is more useful than love and far easier to elicit. A...
By 2-1 Margin, House Republicans and Democrats Vote to Stay in Afghanistan
by Eric Garris | Jul 22, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
By a vote of 284-129, the House of Representatives soundly defeated an amendment to establish a plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan. A slight plurality of Democrats supported the measure, with most of the leadership opposing. All Republicans except two voted...









