Libertarians think that taxation is theft. The government takes away part of your income and property by force. Your payments aren’t voluntary. If you think they are, try to withhold payment and see what happens. An influential book by Liam Murphy and Thomas...
Justice
The “Officer Friendly” Police Fantasy
by Jim Bovard | Nov 14, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
Police in Tempe, Arizona, announced plans in July for a “positive ticketing” campaign to pull over drivers who had violated no traffic laws. A Phoenix TV station reported that the police would give the people they targeted free soft-drink coupons for Circle K as a...
Save the Pearl: New Group Formed to Oppose Tulsa Development Authority’s Eminent Domain Plans
by Conor Beck | Nov 13, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
A community in Tulsa joins together to stop city officials from following through with plans to tear down homes for “urban renewal” Tulsa, Okla.—Today, residents and supporters of Tulsa’s Pearl District announced the formation of a new group, Save the Pearl Coalition....
New DNA Evidence Likely Exonerates a Texas Death Row Inmate. The Government Won’t Test It.
by Billy Binion | Nov 12, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
Rodney Reed is set to die by lethal injection in less than two weeks. Time is running out for Rodney Reed, a Texas man on death row who is scheduled to die on November 20. There are many reasons to doubt Reed's guilt, but the most glaring one is that several experts...
Politicians Suffer Identity Crisis, Should Let Veterans Lead Instead
by Dan McKnight | Nov 11, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism
President Donald Trump withdraws U.S. troops from Syria and is broadly attacked. Hillary Clinton accuses fellow Democrat Tulsi Gabbard of being a “Russian asset,” and Congresswoman Gabbard, an Iraq War veteran and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, calls Clinton...
My First Time to East Berlin
by Jim Bovard | Nov 11, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism
This is the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall — one of the most glorious moments in the modern history of freedom. I first passed through that wall while hitchhiking around Europe in the summer of 1977. After camping in West German woods within mortar...
Crime and Punishment
by Jim Davidson | Nov 11, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
“A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment The guard closed the door. There was an inch of raw sewage water on the floor, and about twenty men were detained in the holding cell. David Mayer and I had been arrested on charges...
The Rule of Law or CIA Coup?
by Scott Horton | Nov 7, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Scott Horton
It's pretty obvious. Americans should support the impeachment and removal of President Donald Trump, but not for Ukrainegate. In fact, they should oppose his impeachment on Ukrainegate grounds completely. Trump’s real offense is waging an un-authorized,...