Supporters of expanding the federal police state have found a new boogeyman to scare the people into surrendering their liberty: TikTok. TikTok is a social media platform that allows users to upload their own videos. It is used by tens of millions of Americans and is...
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To Fight the State, Build Alternatives to the State
by Ryan McMaken | Mar 29, 2023 | Featured Articles
Throughout its history, liberalism—the ideology today called “classical liberalism” or “libertarianism”—has suffered from the impression that it is primarily against things. This is not entirely wrong. Historically, liberalism coalesced as a recognizable and coherent...
Is the Silicon Valley Bank’s Failure the First Domino?
by Doug French | Mar 13, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
If you watched the Fed Chair Jerome Powell testify before the senate and the House, you heard over and over that banks are well capitalized. The non-sequitur should inspire the Shakespearean quote “Methinks you protest too much.” The very next day after the hearings,...
Is Heaven Communist?
by Evan Patterson | Mar 9, 2023 | Featured Articles
Christianity has to deal with a lot of misconceptions. From the idea that Christianity was created by Paul to the idea that Jesus was a cynic, owing to its prestige and power and the desecration of almost everything due to modernist secularism, Christianity has been...
Could a National Sales Tax Be a Viable Alternative to the Income Tax?
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Mar 2, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
Sometime during this 117th U.S. Congress, the long-proposed “Fair Tax” will likely receive its first-ever floor vote in the House. A national sales tax, it would replace not only personal and corporate income taxes, but Social Security, Medicare, estate and gift taxes...
Copyright Laws Are Enabling Woke ‘Re-Writes’ of Classics
by Ryan McMaken | Feb 28, 2023 | Featured Articles
The estate of Roald Dahl this month announced that it would be rewriting many of the long-dead author’s books to better suit a “modern” audience. Translation: The books will be rewritten so the text is more in line with the editors’ notions of politically correct...
Discovering Cooperation Through the Blockchain
by Zack Sorenson | Feb 27, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
In the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, political hurdles and economic roadblocks have prevented the rise of a properly free and healthy society. Competitive pressures have allowed new inventions to be created and competitive barriers have helped innovative...
TSA Still Molesting at Warp Speed
by Jim Bovard | Feb 23, 2023 | Featured Articles
I traveled to Hartford, Connecticut last week for a conference. It was the first time since the start of the pandemic that I had the pleasure of being pawed by TSA agents. Alas, since 2020, neither I nor the Transportation Security Administration have become...
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Failing Upward: The USAF and the Woke Circus
Now the excuse for this apartheid memo is "aspirational" but flag officer notions of aspiration become iron law in the ranks below, it is the nature of the military hierarchy. The Supreme Court made this broad-based discrimination in 2022 for officer selection illegal...
Stop the Madness: Existential Martial Incompetence
Jen Psaki’s quote from the podium from 8/31/2021 per the Afghanistan withdrawal in August 2021 during an Offal Office press briefer to the Coprophile Media: “I don’t think anyone assessed that they [the Afghan government & forces] would collapse as quickly as they...
Foreign Interference
People are being told to be alarmed about alleged foreign interference in the upcoming presidential election. Maybe they should be understanding rather than alarmed. The U.S. government conducts a wide-ranging interventionist foreign policy, which can substantially...
Pager-palooza: The Remote Detonation Arms Race Begins
If Israel had this mass remote detonation capability a year ago, why level Gaza when surgical strikes would have sent a more clear message and not set the entire global Islamic world against them (even worse and more vociferously than before)? Inquiring minds want to...
Encourage Work and Abolish Welfare: AZ Sheriff Testifies to Congress
https://www.youtube.com/live/sEjWcefdE0g?si=KFL1XUQdwsRVe5Yg Sheriff Hathaway of Arizona explains the situation at America's border. As libertarians, we should be encouraging people to engage in mutually beneficial voluntary exchanges regardless of arbitrary...
Hollywood Isn’t Real: Precise Space Targeting is Fiction
A billion here and several billion there, pretty soon some technology works. Not. Please dismiss the idea of the all-seeing eye-in-the-sky providing real time weapons launch control. And even if they could provide the data, what system would coordinate and synchronize...
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