Some libertarians dismiss concerns over social media companies’ suppression of news and opinions that contradict select agendas by pointing out that these platforms are private companies, not part of the government. There are two problems with this argument. First,...
Constitution
The European Union’s Distorted Theory of ‘Liberty’
by Brice M. Vanhaelen | Nov 9, 2023 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Today, governments in Europe have a broad answer to the question, “What is the role of government?” A culture of interventionism incrusted over many years convinced European governments that everything can be solved with more money, more bureaucrats, and more plans....
Scandal: Congress Votes to Raise Its Own Pay
by Jim Bovard | Nov 8, 2023 | Featured Articles
“A good politician is almost as rare as an honest burglar,” once quipped H. L. Mencken. After the shenanigans around the latest congressional pay increase, America’s burglars should file a posthumous libel suit against Mencken for that disparaging comparison. There is...
What the Heck is a ‘Scarborough Shoal’…?
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Oct 31, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
News from Southeast Asia this morning was that the Joe Biden administration was again rattling its saber over incidents between the Philippines and China in the South China Sea. At issue are some spits of sand thousands of miles from the United States. Just as a...
FBI = Following Biden’s Instructions?
by Jim Bovard | Oct 30, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Does “FBI” now stand for “Following Biden’s Instructions”? The FBI is doing backflips to boost Joe Biden’s re-election campaign. Unfortunately, federal courts don’t recognize law enforcement shenanigans as a violation of the Voting Rights Act. The FBI is categorizing...
Liberland Has a Right to Be Free
by Aaron Sobczak | Oct 26, 2023 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Along the Danube River in South-Central Europe rests a unique parcel of land. This roughly 2.7 square mile piece of land is sandwiched between Croatia and Serbia. Before the breakup of Yugoslavia, the autonomous regions within the federal republic established their...
What Will Be Mark Milley’s True Legacy?
by Connor Freeman | Oct 19, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Gen. Mark Milley retired on Friday [September 29] as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and handed over command to Air Force chief Gen. Charles Q. Brown. In 2019, Milley took up the post after being nominated by President Donald Trump. He oversaw massive...
Selling Your Soul, And Your Country
by Dan McKnight | Oct 16, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
What is treason? The U.S. Constitution defines “Treason against the United States” as “only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” “Enemies” is a high bar, and ought to be—the penalty for treason is death, after...
Blog
Failing Upward: The USAF and the Woke Circus
Now the excuse for this apartheid memo is "aspirational" but flag officer notions of aspiration become iron law in the ranks below, it is the nature of the military hierarchy. The Supreme Court made this broad-based discrimination in 2022 for officer selection illegal...
Stop the Madness: Existential Martial Incompetence
Jen Psaki’s quote from the podium from 8/31/2021 per the Afghanistan withdrawal in August 2021 during an Offal Office press briefer to the Coprophile Media: “I don’t think anyone assessed that they [the Afghan government & forces] would collapse as quickly as they...
Foreign Interference
People are being told to be alarmed about alleged foreign interference in the upcoming presidential election. Maybe they should be understanding rather than alarmed. The U.S. government conducts a wide-ranging interventionist foreign policy, which can substantially...
Pager-palooza: The Remote Detonation Arms Race Begins
If Israel had this mass remote detonation capability a year ago, why level Gaza when surgical strikes would have sent a more clear message and not set the entire global Islamic world against them (even worse and more vociferously than before)? Inquiring minds want to...
Encourage Work and Abolish Welfare: AZ Sheriff Testifies to Congress
https://www.youtube.com/live/sEjWcefdE0g?si=KFL1XUQdwsRVe5Yg Sheriff Hathaway of Arizona explains the situation at America's border. As libertarians, we should be encouraging people to engage in mutually beneficial voluntary exchanges regardless of arbitrary...
Hollywood Isn’t Real: Precise Space Targeting is Fiction
A billion here and several billion there, pretty soon some technology works. Not. Please dismiss the idea of the all-seeing eye-in-the-sky providing real time weapons launch control. And even if they could provide the data, what system would coordinate and synchronize...
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