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 Convoy.’” Anyone who resists any government command is apparently now a public enemy. The trucker protest was spurred by the Canadian government’s sweeping COVID vaccine mandate. Many truckers believe the risks of the vaccine outweigh the benefit and, more importantly, that they have the right to control their own bodies....
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Defining the State is No Secret
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 concepts or asked the objective question, what is government? For example, we all learned the “Schoolhouse Rock” version of what a government does. We learned how a bill becomes a law and how the different branches function. If you asked the average American on the street “what is government,” you would probably get a similar,...
That Time I Swiped the U.S. Tariff Code
"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 cover-ups succeed because the game is rigged in Washington to blindfold citizens to most federal abuses and boondoggles. But sometimes I found ways to penetrate bureaucratic iron curtains. A few decades ago, trade policy was one of the hottest issues in Washington. Pat Buchanan was revving up his presidential campaign and...
Political Cartoon: Villains
C. Jamison is a cartoonist and graduate from the Corcoran College of Art + Design located in Washington, DC.
Political Cartoon: Blindsided or Blind-Sighted?
C. Jamison is a cartoonist and graduate from the Corcoran College of Art + Design located in Washington, DC.
Political Cartoon: A Monstrous Disaster
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
“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 many members of Congress are thrilled that it will extend until at least mid-March. But Americans would be wise to recognize the growing perils of the militarization of American political disputes. The military occupation of Washington was prompted by the January 6 clashes at the Capitol between Trump supporters and law...
Did We Actually Flatten the Curve?
"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 of the COVID-19 panic, we have been met with admonitions from roadside signs, from well-meaning friends, from talking heads on TV, and from trending hashtags on social media. These pleas have generally had the same form, albeit using different words. Some of them said, “Stay Home and Save a Life.” Some of them were more...
Thanksgiving: The Forgotten History of America’s Thanksgiving and What It Commemorates
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 ignored by Thomas Jefferson. From then on, it was sporadically observed until Abraham Lincoln, who once again introduced a National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving to the United States. Indeed, it was Lincoln who set the day as the last Thursday in November. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt changed the day between 1939 and...
Hamid Hayat Finally Free!
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 cops coerced the youth into ridiculously claiming that his grandfather ran an al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan, where they all practiced terrorist poll vaulting in the basement. I am not making this up. The FBI did. The L.A. Times once published the video of the "interrogation." They gave him 24 years. It was, how do you...