This article was originally published on June 17, 2021. Biden expressed the uniqueness of America, the idea of America: “You heard me say this before, again and again. I’m going to keep saying it. What’s that idea. We don’t derive our rights from the government. We...
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TGIF: Alito’s Challenge to Libertarians
by Sheldon Richman | May 13, 2022 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
In his recently leaked first draft of an opinion that would reverse the abortion-rights cases Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito gives Americans a choice between judges who read their personal preferences into the...
TGIF: What Really Protects Liberty?
by Sheldon Richman | Apr 29, 2022 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated, as if we needed another demonstration, that little stands between the government and our liberty. Champions of individual freedom have been properly disturbed by how much power governments at all levels have seized since the...
Biden to Deploy National Guard to Confront American Trucker Protest
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Feb 23, 2022 | Blog
Inspired by the movement created by Canadian truckers, anti-Covid lockdown and vaccine mandate protests are springing up around the world. The American iteration has been dubbed the ‘People’s Freedom Convoy’ and is set to kick off Wednesday, when truckers will begin a...
Unprecedented: Maryland Repeals Blue Privilege
by Matt Agorist | Apr 13, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
For decades, Maryland and dozens of other states across the union have upheld a special set of rights for cops which citizens do not get to enjoy. It was called the police bill of rights and it shielded cops from accountability by blocking civilian inquiries into...
Boarding Up For Safety In The ‘Land Of The Free!’
by Peter R. Quiñones | Nov 2, 2020 | Blog
It’s telling that we have reached a point where only hyper-partisans are speaking up and attempting to make a “big deal” out of the fact that an election is happening and businesses are boarding their windows and doors in areas where a sizable portion of the...
The Constitution Is Not Your Friend
by Michael Maharrey | Aug 19, 2020 | Featured Articles
One of the biggest misconceptions I hear about the Constitution is that it was written to “protect our liberty.” It wasn’t. At least not in a direct sense. The confusion likely arises from the words of the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be...
What Limits Are Needed On Government During This Outbreak?
by Zack Sorenson | Mar 21, 2020 | Blog
Disease epidemics are perfectly solvable by libertarian theory. If someone is infected with a dangerous disease, and they bring themselves into a position where they can infect others, then they have violated someone's rights. In an ideal ancap scenario, places like...
Police Stole $225K in Cash and Coins, and the Court Said “Okay”
by J. Justin Wilson | Mar 19, 2020 | Events, Featured Articles, Justice
Arlington, Va.—Seven years ago, police officers in Fresno, California, executed search warrants on the homes and business of Micah Jessop and Brittan Ashjian, who owned a business operating and servicing ATMs. Police were investigating a report of illegal gambling....
Fifth Amendment Protections for Account Passwords and Device Passcodes
by Stephanie Lacambra | Apr 26, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
The Bill of Rights at the Border Lately, a big question on everyone's mind has been: Do I have to give my password to customs agents? As anyone who’s ever watched any cop show knows, the Fifth Amendment gives you the right to remain silent and to refuse to provide...
Fourth Amendment Limits on Searching Your Data and Devices
by Stephanie Lacambra | Apr 25, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
The Bill of Rights at the Border More than 325,000 people enter the United States via airports every day, with hundreds of thousands more crossing by land at the borders. Not only is that a lot of people, it’s also a lot of computers, smartphones, and tablets riding...
The First Amendment and the Right to Anonymous Speech
by Stephanie Lacambra | Apr 24, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
The Bill of Rights at The Border The U.S. border has been thrown into the spotlight these last few months, with border agents detaining travelers for hours, demanding travelers unlock devices, and even demanding passwords and social media handles as a prerequisite for...
Does the Second Amendment Even Exist?
by Laurence Vance | Mar 8, 2017 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Gun control was going to be a campaign issue even before the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting back on June 12. Donald Trump was endorsed by the National Rifle Association (NRA) after he spoke at the group’s convention in May and remarked that “the Second Amendment is...
The Right to Hope for Jury Nullification
by Ilya Shapiro | Feb 10, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
Jae Lee came to the United States legally as a child but never became a citizen. In 2009, he pled guilty to a drug crime after his lawyer assured him that he could not be deported as a result. The lawyer was wrong, because the conviction made Lee subject to mandatory...
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Black History Month?
If a Martian social scientist were to visit America, he surely would assume that Black History Month had been concocted by racists. And he'd be right -- for a racist qua racist need not bear ill will toward a particular group. What makes someone a racist is the very...
ESG in Canada
When I talk about ESG it isn’t out of concern for the corporations being regulated, it is out of concern as to how it affects the common man. While many dismiss my concern as a “conspiracy theory” cutting people off from their money and financial institutions is in...
ESG on The Courtenay Turner Podcast
My friend Courtenay Turner invited me on her podcast to get deep into ESG and why it matters.
Reminder: Volodymyr Zelenskyy Almost Started a World War Based on a Lie
On November 15th, the Associated Press reported that "A senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people". Since Poland is a member of the North American Treaty Organization, that would mean that America along...
Christopher Hitchens Lied About the Cause of Terrorism
"The suicide murder community is almost perfectly faith based." - Christopher Hitchens On Real Time With Bill Maher, Hitchens claims that because an Islamist in the 1800's used the Koran to justify atrocities, it means that today the issue with Al-Qaeda is due to the...
War is a Euphemism for Mass Murder
To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest crime — waging war on another...
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