Jon Utley, one of the most dedicated and principled pro-freedom and antiwar activists in the nation, received a well-earned Lifetime Achievement Award from American Conservative magazine at their Washington dinner last week. Jon has been in the forefront of the...
Politics
Immigration Tyranny and Cruelty Come Home
by Jacob Hornberger | May 15, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
I can’t help but wonder if what has happened to Theresa Todd will cause conservative-leaning libertarians to abandon their support of immigration controls, the system of immigration central planning, cruelty, and tyranny that both conservatives and progressives have...

Island Gun Laws: The History of Gun Control and Crime in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK
by Sam Jacobs | May 15, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
“We know that other countries in response to one mass shooting have managed to craft laws that almost eliminate mass shootings. Friends of ours, allies of ours, Great Britain, Australia, countries like ours. So we know there are ways to prevent it.” President Obama,...

Larken Rose & The Case for Anarchism Ep. 115
by Patrick Macfarlane | May 12, 2019 | Libertarianism, Politics, Vital Dissent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmmSy6FfKgc&feature=youtu.be Cohost extraordinaire Keith Knight executes another great interview with Larken Rose. Larken is an American tax protester and anarchist activist. He has authored books including "The Most Dangerous...

The Gold Standard Did Not Create The Great Depression; The Federal Reserve Did!
by Germinal Van | May 11, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Today, the conventional discourse is to believe that the Great Depression was created by a failure of laissez-faire economics; a failure of the free-market; and a failure of an unregulated economy. This is the narrative that has been constructed and which is now...
The Truth About The Second Amendment – It’s Accidentally About Freedom Itself, And Few Realize It
by Zack Sorenson | May 9, 2019 | Featured Articles, Op Eds, Politics
The Second Amendment isn't about guns, it's accidentally all about freedom. I have an ex from Texas. I remember her stories of the good old days. She was 15, riding a motorbike splitting lanes, in the shoulder, whatever. Cops didn't care. I mean, she had no...
The Myth of Consumer Spending
by Bradley Thomas | May 7, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
The recently-reported 3.2 percent growth of the nation’s economy for the first quarter of 2019 was met by a wide variety of interpretations by business analysts. Some said it soothes fears of a coming downturn, while others looked below the headline figure for...
CNN Falsely Claims Venezuela’s Guaido Was Elected President in January
by Jason Ditz | May 7, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Continuing to try to advance the US narrative that Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido is the “duly elected” president, CNN went to the trouble on Sunday afternoon of inventing an entire election to base this around. In the CNN report, they declared “pressure is...