"The Libertarian creed rests upon one central axiom: That no man or group of men may aggress against the person or property of anyone else.....Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole for 'government'." - For a New Liberty by...
Politics
The NSA’s Encroaching Oversight
by Ken Silva | Feb 28, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics
The NSA’s spy program failed miserably, but some spooks want to expand it The US National Security Agency spent $100 million over three years on illegally collecting millions of American phone records – all for two reports with unique counterterrorism intelligence,...
Data Don’t Speak for Themselves
by Matt Knight | Feb 28, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics
Check out this graph, data for which were drawn from the USDA and CDC: With a correlation coefficient of about -0.94, these data indicate that for the decade 2000-2009 there was a strong inverse relationship between per capita consumption of beef and the number of...
‘I Was Just Following Orders’
by Peter R. Quiñones | Feb 18, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Op Eds, Peter Quinones, Politics
“I was just following orders” is the mantra of everyone who has found themselves on the wrong side of history - who is called into account for their actions as an order taker. How is it possible that everyone from corrupt mayors, to murderous tyrants have been able to...
Short-sighted state governments rack up $1 Trillion in liabilities
by Bradley Thomas | Feb 18, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
As if the national debt and federal entitlement liabilities weren’t enough. Now we get word that state governments have racked up more than a trillion dollars in unfunded healthcare benefits for state government workers. That’s trillion – with a ‘T’. In a report...
The Establishment Feels the Bern
by Geoffrey Pike | Feb 18, 2020 | Featured Articles, Politics
With the rise of Bernie Sanders in the polls, the establishment is worried. The prospect of a two-way race between Trump and Sanders in the general election has the powers-that-be out in full force. The problem is that they don’t want to make it look too obvious with...
Compulsory Education – The Bane of Learning and Freedom
by Christine Smith | Feb 11, 2020 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
Approximately 50-million students, bound by state compulsory attendance laws, are trapped in what is essentially a prison of their bodies and minds. Most Americans never question school compulsory attendance laws itself but instead focus on what occurs inside the...
Democrats Ignore Trump’s Real Violations
by Ron Paul | Feb 11, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
This week the latest Democratic Party attempt to remove President Trump from office – impeachment over Trump allegedly holding up an arms deal to Ukraine – flopped. Just like “Russiagate” and the Mueller investigation, and a number of other attempts to overturn the...