The Biden administration formally decreed last week that America’s COVID “emergency” continues. That proclamation was tricky to reconcile with President Biden’s announcement last month on 60 Minutes: “The pandemic is over.” Apparently, that was malarkey—perhaps part...
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Federal Privacy Rules Will Give You Less Privacy
by Norman Singleton | Oct 17, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
History shows that putting the federal government in charge of protecting privacy is like a blood bank hiring Dracula as a nightwatchman. But that’s what the Biden administration wants to do with the Internet. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is currently in the...
What If…?
by Jim Cardoza | Sep 8, 2022 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
What if we were free? What if government sought to serve the people, not control them? What if we own ourselves? What if property rights spring from that premise? What if each of us determine what makes life worthwhile? What if we need liberty to pursue happiness?...
Lessons from Fentanyl
by Laurie Calhoun | Feb 16, 2022 | Featured Articles
The use of drugs is sometimes characterized as a victimless crime, since the person who ingests them will bear the negative consequences should something go awry. Supporters of prohibition, who wish for the government to regulate and limit sales and distribution, are...
News Roundup 1/11/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 11, 2022 | News Roundup
Covid Hospitals are allowing staff who test positive for covid to continue to work. [Link] Biden will require health insurance providers to provide eight at-home covid tests per month. [Link] US News A court upheld the firing of two LAPD officers who ignored calls to...
A Critique of Turkey’s Healthcare System
by Mehmet Aydin | Apr 9, 2021 | Featured Articles
I am writing this article upon the death of Aslı Özkısırlar (38) on account of multi-organ failure. This painful incident...
Idaho Cop Arrested For Repeatedly Raping Immobile Cancer Patient
by Matt Agorist | Feb 15, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In one of the most disturbing instances of police sexual misconduct we’ve reported here at the Free Thought Project a retired police corporal was arrested this week for repeatedly raping a woman so sick with cancer that she couldn’t fight back. Scott Wayne McMikle,...
The Myth of Nordic Socialism
by Eben Macdonald | Nov 1, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
Socialism has failed repeatedly. Wherever you look—Cuba, Venezuela, India, France—the system has caused economic turmoil, stagnation, and even violence and oppression. But fear not, we are told—that was socialism simply “not done properly.” True socialism, however,...
The Statist Origins of Modern Health Insurance
by Bradley Thomas | May 18, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
With roughly 36 million people having filed for unemployment across the country in the last two months in the wake of the coronavirus shutdown, one issue receiving more scrutiny from some quarters is the issue of employer-based health insurance. With so many laid off...
News Roundup 4/28/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 28, 2020 | News Roundup
US News More evidence surfaces to support Tara Reade’s sexual abuse claim against Joe Biden. [Link] The Supreme Court rules 8-1 that the federal government must provide a $12 billion bailout to health insurance companies. The bailout was a promise from Obamacare....
Pandemic Hospital Layoffs Reveal the Prevalence of Wasteful Healthcare Spending
by Bradley Thomas | Apr 19, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
Aside from a few hotspots like New York City or Detroit, hospitals across the country are at such low capacities that many are laying off staff and seeing their bottom lines threatened during the current coronavirus pandemic. For instance, in my home state of North...
How the CARES Act Will Delay Economic Recovery
by Bradley Thomas | Apr 8, 2020 | Events, Featured Articles
The economic fallout of the government’s shutdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic has been unprecedented. Nearly ten million people have filed for unemployment benefits in just two weeks. The 6.6 million claims from the last week of March doubled the previous...
An Unspoken Fear of the Coronavirus
by Peter R. Quiñones | Mar 3, 2020 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Peter Quinones, Politics
You’d think people would be used to it by now. Every couple of years the world is thrust into hysteria by the latest virus that is threatening to wipe out a significant portion of the population. Whether it’s SARS, Dengue, Ebola, Swine Flu or the Coronavirus, fear...
It’s the Bureaucracy, Genius: How Bureaucracy Has Lowered Productivity and Income
by Craig Cantoni | Feb 26, 2020 | Featured Articles
The supposed brightest minds, educated in the supposed best universities, can’t figure out why American productivity has languished in this era of technological innovation, resulting in income growth being lower than it would otherwise be. Well, my mediocre mind came...
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Blame Mexico? Blame Neocons! Blame Big Pharma! Blame the USA!
ABC News: If fentanyl is so deadly, why do drug dealers use it to lace illicit drugs? I have an alternative explanation. America has been fighting endless wars almost the entire century. Many have come home from these never-ending wars with injuries and pains. Doctors...
My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
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...
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