My speech presented at the Ludwig von Mises Institute supporters' summit on October 18, 2025.
Private Property: The Sacred Guardian of Individual Liberty
read more
The Sordid History of U.S. ‘Aid’ to Colombia
President Donald Trump is rattling his saber against Colombian President Gustavo Petro to punish him for accusing the U.S. government of murdering Venezuelan fishermen. Trump has boasted of the killings by the U.S. military but claims all the targets were drug smugglers. He has threatened to suspend all U.S. government handouts for the Colombian government. Trump warned Petro that he "better close up" cocaine production "or the United States will close them up for him, and it won't be done nicely." Tapping his own psychiatric expertise, Trump proclaimed that Colombia has “the worst president...
Are You On a Secret TSA Watchlist?
In 1999, the Supreme Court recognized that the “‘constitutional right to travel from one State to another’ is firmly embedded in our jurisprudence.” Unless, of course, federal agents secretly disapprove of you, your beliefs, or your suspected connections. The Transportation Security Administration has vexed Americans for more than twenty years. Last week, three separate idiotic TSA surveillance programs were exposed by Congress and the Trump administration. In 2021, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) created a secret watchlist of individuals who publicly opposed President Joe...
Trump Pulls Plug on Hunger Hucksters
The Trump administration is ending one of the biggest statistical scams in Washington. For thirty years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued an annual “food security” report that politicians used to fabricate an illusion of mass hunger. USDA announced that it is canceling that annual survey because "the data is rife with inaccuracies slanted to create a narrative that is not representative of what is actually happening in the countryside.” That annual survey was “costly, politicized, and [does] nothing more than fear monger," USDA said. Those were some of the most honest...
Is Cover-Up of Epstein’s Financial Crimes Finally Collapsing?
In 2025, the Justice Department declared that billionaire Jeffrey Epstein "harmed over one thousand victims”—mostly young females, many of them underage. But a dozen years before his suspicious death in a New York prison cell, Epstein "was granted immunity from federal charges, as were all of his potential co-conspirators,” as The New York Times reported in July. That bizarre blanket immunity was a “get out of jail free” card for scores of men who sexually abused under-age females. But the Trump administration announced in July that the subject was closed. President Donald Trump has since...
Canadian Hikers Get the COVID-Style Tyranny Treatment
Canadian politicians are creating one bonfire after another of freedom and individual rights. COVID crackdowns established persecution precedents that politicians in some provinces refuse to allow to gather dust. Politicians are claiming the right to financially cripple anyone who makes a single misstep in violation of the latest idiotic decrees. On August 5, Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston decreed a $25,000 fine for anyone walking in the woods or otherwise violating a new prohibition that covered both government and private lands. The prohibition will continue until October. Houston...
Politicians Multiply Mental Illness
Almost 25% of government schools nationwide are now surveilling the mental health of students. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker recently signed a bill to bring “universal mental health screening” to two million Illinois students as part of his Children’s Behavioral Health Transformation Initiative. But this rescue effort will ravage many students and is a warning shot to parents across the nation. Manhattan Institute fellow Abigail Shrier warned that the new Illinois law will mean “tens of thousands of Illinois kids get shoved into the mental health funnel and convinced they are sick. Many or...
Waco and the Death of Congressional Oversight
How many atrocities can the federal government get away with? Americans are still vexed by the answers that Congress failed to deliver in 1995. Thirty summers ago, Washington was fixated by a Capitol Hill showdown over the greatest federal abuse of power of the decade. Unfortunately, trusting congressional hearings to discover the truth is like trusting a roomful of monkeys with typewriters to write great novels—it might happen, but only in an eternity. As comedian Milton Berle quipped long ago, “You can send a man to Congress but you can’t make him think.” On February 28, 1993, scores of...
Podcasts
