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TGIF: Safety in Freedom
by Sheldon Richman | Dec 3, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
With the emergence of the Omicron COVID-19 variant, renewed restrictions on liberty or calls for their reinstatement have broken out around the world. The new wave is probably only beginning, and with it will surely come sermons on how we must face trade-offs between...
U.S. 5th Circuit Court sides with liberty, reaffirming stay against OSHA’s ETS
by Laurie Calhoun | Nov 13, 2021 | Blog, Justice
Hot off the press, here's some light legal reading from the U.S. 5th Circuit Court for everyone to enjoy this weekend. The clear concern with liberty expressed in this finding offers hope that sanity will eventually prevail against the Covid-19 hysterics and medical...

This FALLACY Justified Lockdowns Across the World Ft. Ace_Archist Ep. 185
by Patrick Macfarlane | Oct 3, 2021 | Justice, Libertarianism, Vital Dissent
https://youtu.be/JFEKH3fVsD8 In this week's episode, I am proud to be joined by Ace_Archist. Ace gained his liberty street cred by tirelessly bashing Twitter NPCs over the head with libertarian philosophy and logic. I just had to recruit his help in dismantling the...

How I Ignited Local Resistance to COVID Mandates Ep. 184
by Patrick Macfarlane | Sep 28, 2021 | Libertarianism, Politics, Vital Dissent
https://youtu.be/lpy8mGKJ3qs In this episode, I share with the listeners how I started a local resistance movement to COVID-19 mandates in my county. I hope you'll try the same in yours. Episode 184 of the Liberty Weekly Podcast is Brought to you by: Join Liberty...
Wrong is Wrong. DO NOT COMPLY.
by Laurie Calhoun | Sep 16, 2021 | Blog, Justice
Pharmaceutical rape = forcing people to ingest foreign substances against their will. Coercing people to accept injections which they neither want nor need is like a holding a gun to a woman's head and "asking" her to have sex....

Nullify COVID-19 Mandates Ep. 182
by Patrick Macfarlane | Sep 12, 2021 | Libertarianism, Politics, Vital Dissent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeXKRdws8cY I imagine that many of you, like me are feeling angry and demoralized about Biden's vaccination mandates last week. Many people I know are worried and their number one question is: What can I do? In this episode, I highlight...

TGIF: Why Do We Question Motives?
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 3, 2021 | Featured Articles, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
I don't know if we're in the heyday of questioning the motives of people we disagree with rather than simply rebutting them--character assassination, that is--but it's got me wondering why this is such a popular pastime these days. Think about how often we hear...

Haiti Earthquake Relief Comes with US Marines and COVID-19 Vaccines Ep. 180
by Patrick Macfarlane | Aug 22, 2021 | Foreign Policy, Politics, Vital Dissent
https://youtu.be/RSA4-DOaXIk Despite Washington’s decision not to deploy Marines to Haiti after the July assassination of Haitian president Jovenelle Moise, the devastation of last Saturday’s 7.2 earthquake has provided US leaders the cloak of humanitarian aid for...
The Burgeoning Military-Medical Industrial Complex
by Laurie Calhoun | Aug 6, 2021 | Blog
Liberty and antiwar folk take note: The Pentagon recently announced that the U.S. Army has awarded Pfizer a $3.5 billion contract for the production of 500 million doses of Covid19 vaccine to be distributed worldwide. Mike Church and I discuss this development, along...
No Mandatory Vaccination!
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 27, 2021 | Blog
George Mason University Professor Donald J. Boudreaux has written an article worthy of everyone's attention: "'Externality' Is No Good Excuse for Mandatory Vaccination." Some people think the case for mandatory vaccination is irrefutably made by simply saying that the...

How Conspiracies Operate in Plain Sight. James Perloff & Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Jul 5, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
James Perloff and I discuss his most recent book, COVID-19 and the Agenda to Come - Red Pilled. Find James Perloff here: https://jamesperloff.net/ Order COVID-19 and the Agenda to Come - Red Pilled here. LBRY / Odysee:...

The Con Job of the Century?
by Laurie Calhoun | Jun 22, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Over the course of the past century, a number of truly awe-inspiring heists have been carried out by con artists, whose modus operandi is to exploit human frailties such as credulity, insecurity and greed. Con is short for confidence, for the con artist must first...

Libertarian Challenges Lockdowns…& Wins! ft. TJ Roberts Ep. 168
by Patrick Macfarlane | Jun 2, 2021 | Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Vital Dissent
https://youtu.be/1ydfyOqsigI Last week, I was joined by TJ Roberts, an Austro-libertarian and second-year law student. TJ was ticketed for attending a church service during Kentucky's lockdown. He sued in federal court and won. His victory helped set precedent that...
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Empower the Workers: Decriminalize Economic Activity Between Consenting Adults
The most reliable and effective protection for most workers is provided by the existence of many employers. As we have seen, a person who has only one possible employer has little or no protection. The employers who protect a worker are those who would like to hire...
Chris Rock’s New Special Exposes His Political Ignorance
A common claim among Democrats is that, "It's not that people don't want to be educated, they just haven't been given the opportunity, thus government spending on education needs to increase." If there were ever a group of people capable of "educating" themselves it...
War and Delusion: A Critical Examination
In this episode of the Protestant Libertarian Podcast, Alex Bernardo sits down once again with Laurie Calhoun. Laurie is a philosopher, a cultural critic and an author. She is a senior fellow at the Libertarian Institute, where she regularly writes articles analyzing...
Crime and Poverty
“The theory that crime is caused by poverty is not supported by the known facts. The very poor, in fact, tend to be just as law-abiding as the rich, and perhaps more so. To argue otherwise is to libel multitudes of people who keep to decency under severe difficulties,...
Don’t Be Silent
We should reject the fashionable idea that one should never write or post anything that possibly could be used by bad people for bad purposes. That admonition brings two things to mind. First, it fails its own test. If good people avoid a topic because even...
Can There Be Only One Race?
I'm old enough to remember this 1960s Lay's Potato Chips commercial. (Hell, I'm almost old enough to remember when plays were in black and white!) In the commercial a man (Bert Lahr, the cowardly lion in The Wizard of Oz) faces a challenge from the devil, who has a...