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Texas Bill Would Create Process to Review and Reject Unconstitutional Federal Acts

by Michael Maharrey | Mar 1, 2017 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics

AUSTIN, Texas (March 1, 2017) – A bill introduced in the Texas House would create a mechanism to review federal laws and end state cooperation with enforcement of those determined to violate the U.S. Constitution. This process would set the stage to effectively block...

News Roundup 2/10/17

by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 10, 2017 | Blog

Trump signs three executive orders dealing with public safety. [Link] The first order creates a task force to look into crimes and police deficiencies. [Link] The second executive order directs his staff to develop new laws to protect all law enforcement from crimes....

Sorry, Judge Napolitano: Immigration Isn’t ‘Foreign Policy’

by Thomas L. Knapp | Feb 9, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism

By the time you read this, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit may have handed down a ruling for or against president Donald Trump’s executive order banning travel and immigration from seven countries. Two states (Washington and Minnesota) are suing to kill...

Trump questions lawmakers’ efforts to curb asset seizures by police

by Emily Stephenson | Feb 7, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday there was "no reason" to curb law enforcement agencies that seize cash, vehicles and other assets of people suspected of crimes, a practice that some lawmakers and activists have criticized for denying legal rights. The issue of...

2/1/17 Alex Nowrasteh on whether Trump’s temporary ban of immigrants from certain countries really helps US national security

by Scott Horton | Feb 1, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute's Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, discusses his guide to Trump's executive order limiting migration for people from a list of countries supposedly at risk of exporting terrorists to the US;...

Economics Links 1/27/17

by The Libertarian Institute | Jan 27, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles

Top economics links for 1/27/17 Federal Reserve Bankers Mocked Unemployed Americans Behind Closed Doors - The Intercept Executive Orders Pave Way for Some Savings, but Also More Spending - National Taxpayers Union Asset-Price Inflation Heating Up with Nothing to Show...

News Roundup 1/25/17

by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 25, 2017 | Blog

Donald Trump tweets about the shooting deaths in Chicago. Trump says if the violence is not reduced he will "send in the Feds." [Link] Trump signs executive orders to start the Keystone XL pipeline and finish the Dakota Access Pipeline. Trump signed other executive...

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More on Immigration and Public Property

Inspired by scholar Simon Guenzl, it occurred to me that regarding "state-claimed" so-called public property, people have been wronged not primarily as taxpayers but as potential homesteaders. (See Guenzl's "Public Property and the Libertarian Immigration...

The F35: The Gift That Keeps on Giving

“Soon after publication ‘Superiority’ was inserted into the Engineering curriculum of MIT, to warn the graduates that the Better is often the enemy of the Good, and the Best can be the enemy of both, as it is always too late.” - Arthur C. Clarke Superiority by Arthur...

Thomas Szasz: Champion of Freedom

Today is the 104th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Szasz (1920-2012), the great if unappreciated libertarian and defender of individual autonomy and dignity. A psychiatrist by profession, for over 50 years, Szasz was the foremost critic of the social-control system...

Iran Attack Liveblog (PHOTOS/VIDEOS)

My live coverage of Iran's missile and drone attack on Israel Saturday night, as it happened. Obviously much of this information has either been confirmed, disproven or become obsolete by now, but the thread is full of interesting details that didn't make it into my...

The Dogs of War are in Heat

The dogs of war are always in heat. They bark, they gnaw, they kill and breed. Civilisation a chimera, chewing through bones, tearing at flesh, the killers are never in defeat. No matter how well behaved they act, whatever laws claim to be their collar and what kennel...

Iranian-Americans Weigh in On Tehran’s Attack on Israel

National Iranian American Council (NIAC) president Jamal Abdi has commented on Tehran's major drone and missile attack on Israel on Saturday night. NIAC has worked to improve US-Iran relations and spent years pushing for increased diplomacy. We are deeply concerned...

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Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty

by Jim Bovard

Americans today have “freedom” to be fleeced, groped, injected, harassed, surveilled, vilified, disarmed, beaten, detained, and maybe shot by federal agents. From hapless homeowners hit by SWAT raids to pandemic lockdowns pointlessly paralyzing lives, government...

The Fake China Threat and Its Very Real Danger

by Joseph Solis-Mullen

Today the front pages and bookstores are filled with tales of the so-called "China Threat." From spy balloons to Fentanyl pipelines, genocide to dreams of world domination: CHINA! But is it all true? Is any of it? Now, for the first time, the speciousness of these and...

Questioning the COVID Company Line: Critical Thinking in Hysterical Times

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