The denigration of the Canadian trucker protest convoy exemplifies how freedom is now the biggest villain of the COVID-19 pandemic. A Washington Post cartoonist portrayed the trucker convoy as “fascism” incarnate while another Post column derided the “toxic ‘Freedom...
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Defining the State is No Secret
by Patrick Macfarlane | Oct 25, 2021 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
A large part of becoming a libertarian is learning the true—objective—definition of terms that are used in common parlance. Just as most people have not reflected on their role in relation to the state, most people have likewise never reflected upon fundamental...
That Time I Swiped the U.S. Tariff Code
by Jim Bovard | Oct 8, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
"Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy,” as Attorney General Ramsey Clark warned in 1967. As a journalist, I have battled federal agencies for decades to try to discover the sordid details of how Americans’ rights and liberties are being shafted. Most government...
Political Cartoon: Villains
by C. Jamison | Sep 16, 2021 | Blog
C. Jamison is a cartoonist and graduate from the Corcoran College of Art + Design located in Washington, DC.
Political Cartoon: Blindsided or Blind-Sighted?
by C. Jamison | Aug 27, 2021 | Blog
C. Jamison is a cartoonist and graduate from the Corcoran College of Art + Design located in Washington, DC.
Political Cartoon: A Monstrous Disaster
by C. Jamison | Aug 26, 2021 | Blog
C. Jamison is a cartoonist and graduate from the Corcoran College of Art + Design located in Washington, DC.
The Military Occupation of Washington DC is a Ticking Time Bomb
by Jim Bovard | Feb 13, 2021 | Featured Articles, Politics
“Tyranny in form is the first step towards tyranny in substance,” warned Senator John Taylor two hundred years ago in his forgotten classic, Tyranny Unmasked. As the massive National Guard troop deployment in Washington enters its second month, much of the media and...
Did We Actually Flatten the Curve?
by Wilton Alston | May 27, 2020 | Featured Articles
"The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly...it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over."- Adolf Hitler (Mein Kempf, Chapter 6: War Propaganda) From the start...
Thanksgiving: The Forgotten History of America’s Thanksgiving and What It Commemorates
by Sam Jacobs | Nov 27, 2019 | Featured Articles
Thanksgiving is the oldest national holiday in the United States. However, it’s observation is not a continuous presence in American history. While the celebration of Thanksgiving predates even the founding of the nation, it was proclaimed by George Washington, then...
Hamid Hayat Finally Free!
by Scott Horton | Aug 17, 2019 | Blog
Remember him? He was the 22-year-old entrapped by Robert Mueller's FBI into ... Actually, he didn't do anything at all! All that happened was the government informant who had infiltrated his family tricked him into saying some bs about loving Osama, before the actual...
Liberty at the Movies: Vice
by Norman Singleton | Mar 2, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Vice tells the story of how Richard Chaney went from being expelled from Yale and drinking and fighting in his spare time to becoming the most influential Vice-President in history. Written and directed by Adam McKay who also directed The Big Short, Vice employs the...
The Antiwar Comic: Some Problems With Trump
by Tony DiGerolamo | Nov 24, 2018 | Blog
Interesting comments with this one. For a long time, I was accused of defending Trump, now that I'm critical of him, those who yelled at me before praise me and vice versa. More comics at the Webcomic Factory.
Bring Me Men: A Review Of “First Man”
by Zack Sorenson | Oct 15, 2018 | Featured Articles
I suppose the review to follow isn't all too apropos of Libertarianism, so to start I'll mention two ways in which it relates. First, of all the bad things The Empire has done, Neil Armstrong's footprint on The Moon represents probably the best thing it has done. ...
The Great Ron Paul, Smeared Again
by Scott Horton | Jul 2, 2018 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics, Scott Horton
So a staffer working for Ron Paul made a terrible mistake today and tweeted out a picture which included very ugly stereotype caricatures of Jews, blacks and I'm not sure who-all. They deleted it immediately after followers replied pointing out the caricatures at the...
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Military Conscription is Slavery: Woodrow Wilson Edition
By the guidelines set down by the Selective Service Act, all males aged 21 to 30 were required to register to potentially be selected for military service. At the request of the War Department, Congress amended the law in August 1918 to expand the age range to include...
The Capitalist Competition Myth
Capitalism involves far more cooperation than competition—think of the number of mutually beneficial transactions you’ve had today compared to the number of competitions you’ve been in today - Chris Freiman, author of Why It's OK to Ignore Politics Democratic...
Blame Mexico? Blame Neocons! Blame Big Pharma! Blame the USA!
ABC News: If fentanyl is so deadly, why do drug dealers use it to lace illicit drugs? I have an alternative explanation. America has been fighting endless wars almost the entire century. Many have come home from these never-ending wars with injuries and pains. Doctors...
My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
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