4th of July

Government as Slave Owner

by Jim Bovard | Jul 4, 2017 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism

Originally published February 1, 2000 The Declaration of Independence proclaimed that “all men . . . are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.” This assertion captured the idealism and the principles of this nation’s Founding Fathers....

Uncelebrating the Fourth

by Harry Browne | Jul 4, 2017 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism

Originally published July 4, 2003 Unfortunately, July 4th has become a day of deceit. On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress formally declared its independence from Great Britain. Thirteen years later, after a difficult war to secure that independence, the new...

TGIF: The American Way of War

by Sheldon Richman | Jun 30, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Sheldon Richman, TGIF

The most striking fact about the United States of America is not its supposed founding principles -- more often lauded than observed -- but how often "the greatest country on earth" has waged war. If we count wars against internal "enemies" (i.e., the Indians), covert...

Mourn on the Fourth of July, 2017

by Thomas L. Knapp | Jun 30, 2017 | Featured Articles, Politics

I visited Washington, DC for the first time in 1980. I was 13. Jimmy Carter was the president. My family only had one day to see the sights. As I remember it, we went through what seemed a somewhat sketchy neighborhood (I was a country boy, so it may have just been...

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They’ll Ruin Your Country Then Piss on You for Sayin’ So

It should be no surprise that the faux-conservative "Rich Men North of Richmond" at the National Review don't approve of the meteoric rise of singer-songwriter Oliver Anthony. "Just what is it this time?" you might ask—did he oppose slaughtering a million Iraqis? No,...

The Gov’t Sterilized the “Feebleminded” in My Hometown

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