Although Americans believe that they live in a free country — some would even say the freest country on earth — that freedom is limited and relative. The Cato Institute’s Human Freedom Index “presents the state of human freedom in the world based on a broad measure...
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Recovering Addict Explains How Gov’t Spurs Addiction Ep. 150 ft. the Clean Libertarian
by Patrick Macfarlane | Jan 29, 2021 | Libertarianism, Vital Dissent
https://youtu.be/kyuxnMc-NSc In this episode of the podcast, Drew Cook joins me to share his story of recovery and to explain his first hand account of how the state creates addicts. Drew is the host of The Clean Libertarian and has been a long time listener of the...
The Plot to Kidnap Michigan’s Governor
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 10, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On Conflicts of Interest #18, Will and Kyle look at an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in order to try her for "treason," which the FBI claims to have unraveled with help from a number of confidential informants and undercover agents. The...
Getting the Police Issue Right
by James Reilly | Jun 17, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Now that folks are coming around on the idea that law enforcement needs serious structural transformation in this country, let's make our argument a little more robust. The tiniest fraction of people get killed by police. It is not useful to think of this problem as...
Here Come the Waco Massacres
by Scott Horton | Mar 2, 2020 | Blog
Jim Bovard in the Hill on gun control in practice: President Trump declared last week that the law enforcement should “take the guns first, go through due process second.” But the history of federal firearms enforcement shows that due process is often a mirage when...
Prohibition Does Not Work
by Scott Horton | Jan 27, 2020 | Blog
CNBC does a recap of the consequences of the prohibition of alcohol 100 years ago. Don't worry though. This is totally an isolated case. There are no lessons to learn about any other thing here.
You See, Government is Not Your Security Force, They Are Your Deadly Enemy
by Scott Horton | Jan 16, 2020 | Blog
Washington Post: DEA seizes life savings of senile old man without the slightest pretext of a suspicion or belief that the money was involved in any crime at all. Every dollar Terry Rolin had saved over a lifetime was stacked in a large Tupperware container: $82,373....
Pennsylvania Aims To Move Forward Both On Medicinal & Adult Use Cannabis Programs
by Patrick McKnight | Nov 19, 2019 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Pennsylvania Considers New Recreational Cannabis Legislation A new effort to legalize recreational cannabis is coming to the Keystone State. Pennsylvania lawmakers Daylin Leach and Sharif Street are hoping to build support for their latest proposal, Senate Bill 350...
A Beer City Drowning in Regulations
by Nick Weber | Nov 1, 2019 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
On a recent outing to Odell Brewing’s new brewhouse and taproom in Denver’s RiNo neighborhood, a burgeoning part of town filled with breweries, coffee shops and twenty-somethings, I’m reminded of just how pervasive government is when it comes to influencing what can...
State of Illinois To Wipe Arrest Records for Marijuana Convictions
by Steven Woskow | Jun 28, 2019 | Blog
Matt Agorist at The Free Though Project. On June 25, 2019, Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed HB 1438 into law which ends cannabis prohibition and replaces it with a system to tax and regulate cannabis for adults 21 and over. But the bill didn’t stop there, it also includes...
5/26/19 Ted Postol on the Proof that the Douma Attack was Staged
by Scott Horton | May 30, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Ted Postol talks about the recently leaked document from a team of engineers at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which shows that the narrative of the supposed chemical attack last year in Douma simply doesn't fit the science of how the...
TGIF: The FDA’s Assault on Tobacco Consumers, Part 3
by Sheldon Richman | Feb 8, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Updated Feb. 11, 2019 Early one morning last December, Jeff Gracik was heading to his southern California home garage-workshop where he makes his living when he heard a loud, hurried knock on his front door. Thinking it might be a rushed UPS driver, he quickly opened...
Accessories to Murder
by Scott Horton | Feb 3, 2019 | Blog
Every American who supports drug prohibition is guilty.
1/25/19 Sheldon Richman on the FDA’s War on Tobacco
by Scott Horton | Jan 30, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Sheldon Richman talks about his latest piece for the Libertarian Institute, TGIF: The FDA’s Assault on Tobacco Consumers, where he explores the latest government efforts to regulate every aspect of nicotine products. In addition to its control over products containing...
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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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