Iranian FM emphasizes strikes were proportionate self-defense US officials have confirmed that they were given advance notice Tuesday night before Iranian missile strikes against bases hosting US troops, part of what is seen as a concerted efforts to avoid casualties....
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Idaho Republican Party Passes Antiwar Resolutions
by Bring Our Troops Home | Jan 7, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Idaho GOP pressures Sen. Risch: Bring our troops home, expose Afghan war corruption, follow Constitution Bring Our Troops Home Posted onJanuary 6, 2020 BOISE — Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and arguably the most...
Australia and New Zealand Show the True Nature of Social Security
by Laurence Vance | Jan 7, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
Writing at the Christian Post in “Will Social Security Go Broke?” Christian financial advisor Chuck Bentley recently answered a question about Social Security from a “Worried Millennial”: I’m a recent college graduate with my first “real” job. With that comes paying...
An Introduction to Virginia 2nd Amendment “Sanctuaries”
by Michael Boldin | Jan 7, 2020 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics
Over 90 percent of Virginia’s counties have claimed “2nd Amendment Sanctuary” status since the Nov. 5 election that gave Democrats control of Richmond for the first time in decades. But their rhetoric doesn’t match reality. The resolutions are symbolic and have no...
Iraq War IV?
by Scott Horton | Jan 6, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism, Politics, Scott Horton
The U.S.A. has been bombing Iraq for 29 years. And it looks like it’s not over yet: Iraq War I: January—February 1991 (aka The Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm, liberation of Kuwait) Iraq War I 1/2: February 1991—March 2003 (The rest of Bush I, Bill Clinton years,...
The Libertarian Case Against Immigration Controls
by Thomas Eddlem | Jan 6, 2020 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Libertarians have long held the view that free trade is an absolute net benefit. There is no economic model demonstrating that barriers to trade increase aggregate wealth. Free trade as a net benefit is actually one of the few areas where economists of every school of...
The Future Of Civilization Depends On Libertarian Morality
by Zack Sorenson | Jan 6, 2020 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
The header image for this article comes from a mural featured at the library of the University of Oregon. It is set to be replaced because of an accusation of being ‘racist’. The incident is a reminder that our intellectual heritage as members of the ‘American race’...
Why is Housing So Expensive?
by Jeffery Perry | Jan 5, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Something that VIA frequently gets requests for is help with rent payments. Why is it difficult for so many people to afford housing? The standard answer is that it’s those lazy landlords, sitting on piles of money and smoking cigars, who are to blame. This seems to...









