https://youtu.be/K2-ME6D1bB0 If the government didn't have a monopoly on security, only rich people would be able to have security just like when the government got out of other businesses, the only cars produced were limousines, the only clothes produced were tuxedos...
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Message to Jacobin Magazine: Economic Suppression is Far Worse Than Voter Suppression
by Keith Knight | Nov 27, 2022 | Blog
Imagine two criminals: Criminal 1: Forcibly stopped a woman from having a 1 in 10 million vote to determine the governor of New York Criminal 2: Forcibly stopped a woman from getting the job of her dreams via occupational licensing regulations even though a...
For One Day, Protestors Stopped the War Machine
by Jim Bovard | Dec 27, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
I’ve attended most of the major antiwar protests in Washington since 9/11. At a 2005 protest, a cop tried to whack me on the head with a wooden pole. At a 2007 protest, I snapped a picture showing George W. Bush hanging next to the U.S. Capitol. But my favorite...
The Flexner Report and the Cartelization of Modern Medicine
by Doug French | Jun 11, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
Although we’ve been given a brief respite from COVID-19 pandemic news, it’s likely that the killer of over one hundred thousand so far in America will leap back to the front page and that continuous calls to flatten the curve will return to top of the mind. As a...
Libertarians Should Support #AbolishThePolice
by James Reilly | Jun 8, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
The protests in response to the murder of George Floyd have brought more mainstream exposure to a radical libertarian position than any other other political movement since Ron Paul's presidential run. A number of hashtags calling for the defunding, disbanding and...
Why Its Hard To Fire Abusive Cops
by Tate Fegley | Jun 3, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
What does it take to fire a cop? In comparison to several other high-profile cases in which a police officer has killed someone on video, things have moved remarkably fast in the George Floyd case. The other four officers involved in his arrest were fired from the...
Why We Need Free Markets To Fight Pandemics
by Matthew Tanous | Mar 23, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
The natural response in the face of a pandemic like the one we are experiencing today with COVID-19 is to take immediate and direct action to curb the crisis. We are told we need to have extensive quarantines, citywide lockdowns, and shelter-in-place orders. We...
The WTO Is Both Irrelevant and Unnecessary
by Ryan McMaken | Feb 26, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is in a state of crisis. Despite grandiose dreams of a global trade organization that would enforce global bureaucrats' broad vision for multilateral trade agreements, the world looks more and more like it neither wants nor needs an...
How Rent Control Threatens the American Dream
by Ben Wilterdink | Oct 3, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles
There is a very real shortage of affordable housing across America’s most dynamic areas, but rent control is an ineffective solution to this problem. It’s no secret that many parts of the country are experiencing a housing affordability crisis. Homelessness is...
The US Supreme Court Is Right to Rule In Favor of Tribal Sovereignty
by Ryan McMaken | May 28, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Last week, the Supreme Court ruled found that the legal rights of members of the Crow tribe are not void simply because a US state tries to legislate them away. In the case of Herrera v. Wyoming, the US Supreme court overturned the lower courts' findings that tribal...
The New National ID Systems
by Jim Harper | Jan 30, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
Americans have long rejected a national ID, but many U.S. state governments are quietly developing national ID systems in a variety of forms. One is the uniform identity card system envisioned by the REAL ID Act. That federal law, passed in 2005, seeks to subject...
Mr. President: Close Down More ‘Advisory Councils’
by Chris Rossini | Aug 20, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles
So President Trump closed down his "Manufacturing Council" and no one cheered? What a shame. Why was there a "Manufacturing Council" to begin with? It's not the job of the president to meddle with our economy. His job description says nothing about benefiting...
Mr. President: Close Down More 'Advisory Councils'
by Chris Rossini | Aug 20, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles
So President Trump closed down his "Manufacturing Council" and no one cheered? What a shame. Why was there a "Manufacturing Council" to begin with? It's not the job of the president to meddle with our economy. His job description says nothing about benefiting...
SCOTUS: Patent Trolls’ Loss is a Win for Honest Commerce
by Thomas L. Knapp | May 29, 2017 | Blog
On May 22, the US Supreme Court ruled unanimously — and correctly — on a fairly obscure case that nonetheless has huge implications in an area where millions or even billions of dollars are frequently at stake. In TC Heartland v. Kraft Foods Group Brands, the Court...
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Military Conscription is Slavery: Woodrow Wilson Edition
By the guidelines set down by the Selective Service Act, all males aged 21 to 30 were required to register to potentially be selected for military service. At the request of the War Department, Congress amended the law in August 1918 to expand the age range to include...
The Capitalist Competition Myth
Capitalism involves far more cooperation than competition—think of the number of mutually beneficial transactions you’ve had today compared to the number of competitions you’ve been in today - Chris Freiman, author of Why It's OK to Ignore Politics Democratic...
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...
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