Few things in life are more certain than the costs of something exploding whenever government embarks on programs to make them “affordable.” It took just five years after the passage of the “Affordable Care Act” for insurance premiums on the private market to more...
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Prepare: The Supreme Court Might Legalize Warrantless Gun Seizures
by Matt Agorist | Feb 10, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Last week, the Free Thought Project reported on HR 127, the most tyrannical gun bill ever proposed. The bill would target the poor by forcing citizens to pay $800 per year to possess firearms that they are required to register. It also bans multiple legal guns and...
Logic, Exploitation, Homesteading, & Freedom. Stephan Kinsella & Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Feb 7, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/FPZyZ9Ueaik ... the natural inequality of ability and of interest among men must make elites inevitable, the only sensible course is to abandon the chimera of equality and accept the universal necessity of leaders and followers. Murray N....
Does Oregon’s Decriminalization Signal An End to the War on Drugs?
by Bradley Thomas | Feb 6, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Oregon became the first state to decriminalize possession of otherwise illegal drugs. According to this Feb. 1 Associated Press article, “Police in Oregon can no longer arrest someone for possession of small amounts of heroin, methamphetamine, LSD, oxycodone and other...
‘Incitement’ Is A Fake Crime
by Ryan McMaken | Feb 5, 2021 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Former president Donald Trump has been impeached for “incitement to insurrection.” The House Democrats’ claim is that Trump made an inflammatory speech which—a week later—led to the Capitol riot of January 6. The Senate is now considering whether or not to convict...
How Reddit Killed Stakeholder Theory
by Jeff Deist | Feb 4, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
The GameStop saga shows some "equity" movements are more equal than others. Stakeholder theory, the corporate version of social justice, attempts to install this hopelessly amorphous concept of "equity" in the business world. Equity, unlike equality, demands different...
Is Bitcoin A Ponzi Scheme?
by Steven Woskow | Feb 3, 2021 | Blog
Stock analyst Lyn Alden argues it is not. The broadest definition of a Ponzi scheme refers to any system that must continually keep operating to remain functional, or that has frictional costs. Bitcoin doesn’t really meet this broader definition of a Ponzi scheme any...
Presidents Are at Their Worst In War
by David D'Amato | Jan 30, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Last week, as he began his administration, President Biden vowed to wage a “full-scale wartime effort” against Covid-19, signing several executive orders, including a new interstate travel mask mandate. That Joe Biden desires to be and sees himself as a wartime...
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David Boaz (1953-2024)
With great sadness I note the passing of David Boaz today, June 7, 2024, at age 70. He had been ill for some time. He was a good man and a giant of the libertarian movement. Very much because of David's influence and example, libertarian organizations not only...
Provoked Book Update
As many of you know, I'm working on a book called Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine. You may also know that it's way overlong and way overdue. Well, the news is that I got it up to 1,400 pages, and more than...
Wonderful Israeli Best Friends and Most Moral Army in World History™ Torture, Murder Palestinians with Electro-shock, Sodomy
New York Times: Eight former detainees, all of whom the military has confirmed were held at the site and who spoke on the record, variously said they had been punched, kicked and beaten with batons, rifle butts and a hand-held metal detector while in custody. One said...
Nothing New in Military Technology Disasters
Readers think I am highly critical of Western military foibles and bad decisions (I am) but history is replete with mismanagement and poor planning planet-wide in military technology. Like the Indian nuclear submarine disaster from leaving a hatch open on the INS...
What Inequality?
According to research conducted by Phil Gramm, the late Robert Ekelund, and John Early, documented in The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate and summarized in this video: The bottom 20 percent of households have an average annual income...
Immigration Talk
I talk about immigration with Michael Liebowitz on The Rational Egoist.
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