A Curious Quote & A Historical Lesson “We repeat what was stated in Block v. Hirsh, as to the respect due to a declaration of this kind [an emergency] by the Legislature so far as it relates to present facts. But even as to them a Court is not at liberty to shut...
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Less Driving Amid Outbreak is Hurting Red Light Camera Revenue — Which is Great
by Matt Agorist | Apr 6, 2020 | Events, Featured Articles, Justice
Since states began locking down in mid-March, unemployment has skyrocketed, businesses have shuttered their doors, and these uncertain times have grown more worrisome by the day. There is one industry that is hurting, however, that shouldn’t bother many of us and that...
Will Coronavirus End the Fed?
by Ron Paul | Apr 1, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
September 17, 2019 was a significant day in American economic history. On that day, the New York Federal Reserve began emergency cash infusions into the repurchasing (repo) market. This is the market banks use to make short-term loans to each other. The New York Fed...
Liberty and Slavery
by Zack Sorenson | Apr 1, 2020 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics
Among the common beliefs of libertarians, opposition to slavery is one of the least controversial. Yet, the moral argument against slavery is one of libertarian philosophy’s most enlightening topics. Considering the “why” of libertarian opposition to slavery is...
US Supreme Court Will Hear Police Accountability Case
by John Kramer | Apr 1, 2020 | Featured Articles, Justice
Arlington, Virginia—This morning the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would review the case of James King, an innocent college student who was savagely beaten in 2014 by a police officer and FBI agent in Grand Rapids, Michigan, after being unreasonably misidentified as...
Police, Military Begin Door to Door Searches to Hunt Down New Yorkers Seeking Refuge
by Matt Agorist | Mar 30, 2020 | Events, Featured Articles, Justice
Rhode Island — In perhaps the most unprecedented attack on the Constitution on which the Free Thought Project has ever has ever reported, the governor of Rhode Island has announced that the National Guard will begin conducting house-to-house searches to hunt down New...
The Deep State’s Demolition of Democracy
by Jim Bovard | Mar 26, 2020 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics
“Thank God for the Deep State,” declared former acting CIA chief John McLaughlin while appearing on a panel at the National Press Club last October. In 2018, the New York Times asserted that Trump’s use of the term “Deep State” and similar rhetoric “fanned fears that...
Like Freedom? Then You Won’t Like the FREEDOM Act
by Ron Paul | Mar 24, 2020 | Featured Articles, Justice
Last Monday, a bipartisan group of Senators and a coalition including libertarian and progressive activists thwarted a scheme to ram through the Senate legislation renewing three provisions of the USA FREEDOM Act (previously known as the USA PATRIOT Act). The bill had...