Anyone who thinks the coronavirus pandemic destroys the case for open borders hasn't thought the matter through terribly far. Bryan Caplan explains here. Just to give a taste, in the name of excluding viruses from our shores, the government would have to stop...
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Zerohedge’s CoronaVirus Twitter Ban
by HypocriteTwins | Feb 4, 2020 | Blog
Zerohedge, a famous financial news site, was banned from Twitter for posting “conspiracy theories” about the true cause of the Coronavirus. What proof did they have? Is the ban justified? Tune in!
Liberty Makes Us Unfree, Says the ACLU
by J.D. Tuccille | Jul 26, 2018 | Featured Articles, Politics
What purpose is served by the American Civil Liberties Union? I know that the words "civil liberties" appear right there in the name, but it's increasingly difficult to take that seriously as the organization's mission. Just a month after leaked internal ACLU...
The Persistence of Tyranny
by Ken White | Feb 18, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
Seventy-five years ago this June, the United States Supreme Court corrected its own grave moral and legal error and ruled that the government could not compel Jehovah's Witnesses to salute the flag and take the Pledge of Allegiance at school. Justice Jackson's...
TGIF: The FBI Is Not Your Friend
by Sheldon Richman | Dec 8, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
One of the unfortunate ironies of the manufactured "Russiagate" controversy is the perception of the FBI as a friend of liberty and justice. But the FBI has never been a friend of liberty and justice. Rather, as James Bovard writes, it "has a long record of both...
Practical Reasons to Support the Right to Free Speech
by Eric Schuler | Aug 16, 2017 | Blog
In the wake of tragedies like what happened in Charlottesville, one common impulse to demand new limitations on free speech. This reaction is predictable, understandable, and mistaken. The case for limiting free speech is straightforward enough. The Charlottesville...
UK PM Theresa May Offers More Bad Solutions to Terrorism
by Eric Schuler | Jun 8, 2017 | Blog
UK Prime Minister Theresa May Continues to show how not to respond to terrorism in the wake of recent attacks in Manchester and London. First, she advocated for cracking down on the Internet, and now she has suggested that human rights laws could get in the way of...
1/27/17 Joseph Stromberg on the politics, protectionism and foreign policy of The New Deal
by Scott Horton | Jan 27, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Joseph Stromberg, an independent historian and writer, discusses how the Smoot-Hawley Tariff and worldwide protectionism ground the US economy to a halt in the 1930s; the enduring "accordion effect" of increasing government power and decline of civil liberties during...
FDR’s Internment Policies Haunt Us
by Jesse Walker | Nov 17, 2016 | Featured Articles, Justice
FDR's Wartime Violations of Civil Liberties Are Not a Good Precedent for Anything And you don't get points for not being as bad. Last night on The Kelly File, Carl Higbie, the spokesman for a pro-Trump PAC, defended the idea of a federal registry of Muslims by citing...
09/04/04 – Elaine Cassel – The Scott Horton Show
by Scott Horton | Sep 4, 2004 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Elaine Cassel of FindLaw, and the blog, Civil Liberties watch about her new book, The War on Civil Liberties: How Bush and Ashcroft Have Dismantled the Bill of Rights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PznSryfxFmU
07/03/04 – Elaine Cassel – The Scott Horton Show
by Scott Horton | Jul 3, 2004 | The Scott Horton Show
Philip Dru interviews Elaine Cassel of Civil Liberties Watch and FindLaw about her skeptical view of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decisions in the Padilla, Hamdi, and Guantanamo cases. Her new book, The War on Civil Liberties: How Bush and Ashcroft Have Dismantled...
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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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