On July 4, President Biden declared, “Liberty is under assault…rights we assumed were protected are no longer.” Biden, however, was referring solely to a few Supreme Court decisions he deplored, not to the federal supremacy he championed for almost 50 years in the...
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There Is No ‘Master Planner’ Behind the State’s Curtain
by David Hathaway | Dec 1, 2022 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
It’s the state. There is no master plan. There is no big brain running the show. The grand, seemingly “coordinated,” societal evil we observe is just a product of the state. It comes from the state sanctioning a market for evil; a market for the proceeds of theft; a...
News Roundup 10/20/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 20, 2022 | News Roundup
US News The White House will release 15 million barrels of oil from the strategic reserve in an effort to bring down gas prices before the midterm election. AP A month after E.Coli was detected in the drinking water of the USS Lincoln the Navy still can not determine...
Either You Support Secession or Colonialism
by David Gordon | Sep 10, 2022 | Featured Articles
Grant defeated Lee, the Confederacy crumbled, and the idea of secession disappeared forever, or at least that's what the conventional wisdom says. Secession is no historical irrelevance. Quite the contrary, the topic is integral to classical liberalism. Indeed, the...
A Modern Rebirth of Federalism
by David Brady | Aug 24, 2022 | Featured Articles
The FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago resort has resulted in a backlash from Red states against an agency once beloved by the right-wing. Lacking control over either legislative house or the presidency, for Republicans there is little they are...
Former NATO Commander Disguises War Propaganda as Novel
by Patrick Macfarlane | Apr 26, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On March 9, 2021, the former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, Admiral James Stavridis, co-authored a fiction novel with Elliott Ackerman, another former U.S. military officer. The book, entitled 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, imagines a kinetic war between the...
North Korea Tests New ‘Tactical Guided Weapon’ as US, South Korea Set to Begin Joint War Games
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 17, 2022 | News Roundup
North Korea fired two missiles it claims are "new-type tactical guided weapons." The test comes a day before the US and South Korea kick off joint war games. Bloomberg reported a message from the South Korean military claiming the two missiles traveled about 60...
US Deploys Aircraft Carrier Strike Group Off Korean Coast
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Apr 11, 2022 | News Roundup
The US has moved the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group near the Korean Peninsula. The ships are expected to enter the East Sea later this week as a show of force in response to recent North Korean missile tests.
Conscription: First Stop on the Road to Military Despotism
by Ryan McMaken | Nov 11, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The U.S. Senate continues to debate legislation potentially adding women to the military draft in the United States. This week, for instance, Senator Josh Hawley attempted to remove from the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act provisions requiring that “all...
National Review Is a Poisonously Stupid Rag
by Sam Peters | Oct 20, 2021 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
“If an insufficient patriotism is one of the ills of contemporary America,” declares National Review editor Rich Lowry, “then a national divorce would prescribe arsenic as a cure. It would burn down America to save America, or at least those parts of America it...
Sam Colt: The Forgotten History of America’s Legendary Firearms Inventor and Manufacturer
by Steven Woskow | Jul 16, 2021 | Blog
Born on July 19, 1814, in Hartford, Connecticut, Samuel Colt played a vital role in American culture and folklore. The inventor and creator of the first handheld revolver, Sam Colt made it possible to have a handgun that could fire rapidly without needing to be...
American Historians Misjudge American Presidents
by Hunter DeRensis | Jul 7, 2021 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
"They adored him as no man in a democracy deserves to be adored,” Walter Lippmann wrote, describing progressive worshippers of Theodore Roosevelt in 1916. American historians suffer from the same malady, a predisposition to hero-worshipping chief executives (T.R....
LIVE from Chillderburg III Ep. 169
by Patrick Macfarlane | Jun 6, 2021 | Liberty Weekly Podcast
Alright, so here are my live audio recordings from Chillderburg III! The experience was incredible and I was so glad to meet so many people I have known online only for so long. Please give your love to the guests I had on the show. Also, I hope the listeners can get...
Nationalism vs. Patriotism: What’s the Difference and Why it Matters
by Sam Jacobs | May 7, 2021 | Foreign Policy
The terms nationalism and patriotism have very similar and difficult-to-differentiate definitions, but are worth reflecting on a time when they are more popular than ever.
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Reminder: Volodymyr Zelenskyy Almost Started a World War Based on a Lie
On November 15th, the Associated Press reported that "A senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people". Since Poland is a member of the North American Treaty Organization, that would mean that America along...
Christopher Hitchens Lied About the Cause of Terrorism
"The suicide murder community is almost perfectly faith based." - Christopher Hitchens On Real Time With Bill Maher, Hitchens claims that because an Islamist in the 1800's used the Koran to justify atrocities, it means that today the issue with Al-Qaeda is due to the...
War is a Euphemism for Mass Murder
To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest crime — waging war on another...
Empower the Working Class: Abolish Occupational Licensing
It's time to consistently apply the "my body my choice" principle. If consenting adults want to engage in economic activity, no third party should forcibly stop them. Democrats always say "voting once every two years between two politicians is how you express...
Death By Climate: Down 97% in Last 100 Years
Our schools provide many hours of lessons on climate change, but I wonder how many teachers, let alone pupils, are aware that climate-related deaths have decreased by as much as 97 per cent over the past 100 years, as the OFDA / CRED data show. - Why don’t we ever...
Black Youth Unemployment: Before and After Progressives Started “Helping”
A constant trend is progressivism is to use the state to coercively control others under the guise of "helping" them, make things worse, then ignore the problems you caused and never apologize. Sallie Mae loans didn't make college affordable. The Federal Reserve...
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