“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...
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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...
The Louisville Metro Police Department Child Sex Scandal
by Peter R. Quiñones | Feb 7, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Peter Quinones, Politics
Civil libertarians and police corruption watchdogs have much to celebrate these days. The fact that most people are walking around with high definition video cameras in their pockets has done much to shine a light on what these groups have been talking about for...
The Red Flag Flying Over the Second Amendment
by Jay Chambers | Feb 5, 2020 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics
The Second Amendment is the provision in the Bill of Rights that seems to scare people the most. Why? The Second Amendment lays down the groundwork for the right to keep and bear arms. Specifically, it asserts that the right of the people to keep and bear arms is the...
Ice and Fire
by Laurence Vance | Feb 5, 2020 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics
The relationship between conservatism and libertarianism is a tenuous one. However, such was not always the case. Fellow travelers of both groups were united in opposing Roosevelt’s New Deal. The work of the late economist Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) on the “Old...