Is your state destroying your money? Most states are, but several have taken action in the last few years to support sound money. You can find out how your state ranks in the 2019 Sound Money Index compiled and published by the Sound Money Defense League and Money...
Libertarianism
It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way
by Scott Horton | Dec 30, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism, Scott Horton
This is all wrong. The entire war on terrorism, and every bit of the suffering, spending and lost liberty that has come with it, has been an unnecessary evil. At the time of the September 11, 2001 attack which got this new era of war started, the enemy in Afghanistan...
Why It’s Time to Ditch New Year’s Resolutions
by Chloe Anagnos | Dec 30, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
New Year’s resolutions don’t work. According to US News, 80 percent of New Year’s resolutions don’t live to see the light of day by the second week of February. With just eight percent of resolution-makers actually following through, it’s clear that the odds are not...
Bags, Germs and Stealing
by Nick Weber | Dec 30, 2019 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Denver is jumping on the plastic bag tax train, joining ranks with New York, California and several other Colorado jurisdictions, but will the bag tax be effective at changing habits or improving environmental conditions? Admittedly, there are far worse tyrannies to...
The Roots of Mass Incarceration
by Mike Swanson | Dec 27, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton (Harvard University Press, 2016), 449 pages. Before the war on the drugs there was the war on crime. In 1975 the police department of Washington, D.C.,...

As Americans Distracted by Impeachment, Congress Silently Killed Cannabis Reform—Despite Support
by Matt Agorist | Dec 27, 2019 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
In case you have been under a rock, Donald Trump is getting impeached. He is not getting impeached for invading countries on false pretenses, engineering coups to overthrow democratically elected governments in foreign countries, sending weapons to the largest state...

The 21st Century of War
by Peter R. Quiñones | Dec 26, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism, Peter Quinones, Politics
As the second decade of the 21st Century comes to a close, and the corporate press is doing everything in its vast power to keep people’s attention on impeachment, it is easy to overlook that the last 20 years should only be defined by one subject; war. Since shortly...

A Trend Worth Considering – The Price of Gold Since 1971
by Michael Maharrey | Dec 23, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
As we approach the end of 2019, gold is on track for a healthy yearly gain. To date, the yellow metal is up over 16% on the year. It’s always interesting talking about gains in the price of gold because when you get down to it, it all depends on when you got into the...