A bill prefiled in the South Carolina House would make gold and silver coins legal tender in the state. Passage of this bill would take a step toward creating currency competition in South Carolina and undermine the Federal Reserve’s monopoly on money. Rep. Stewart...
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Homeowners Seek Rehearing in House-Destruction Case
by Andrew Wimer | Nov 25, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
Arlington, Va.—If the government needs to destroy your home to build a freeway or a school, the Constitution entitles you to just compensation. But what if the government needs to destroy your home for some other reason—say, to capture a fugitive who has randomly...
Should we interpret the Constitution so the feds can oversee everything affecting more than one state?
by Rob Natelson | Nov 21, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Constitution lists powers it grants to the federal government, reserving the rest in the states and the people. Over the last few decades, some federal powers—particularly those embodied in the Commerce Clause, Taxation Clause, Necessary and Proper Clause, and...

Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man’s Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It
by Matt Agorist | Nov 20, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
Warrick County, IN — What would you do if you found a creepy device attached to your car that looked like something used to track you? Would you simply leave it there and go on about your business? Or, would you remove it? Well, a man in Indiana chose the former and...

Oklahoma Frees Some of Its Political Prisoners
by Laurence Vance | Nov 15, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
Communist and other authoritarian and totalitarian governments around the world have always, throughout history and at this very time, arrested (or sometimes just simply seized) and jailed (or sometimes just killed) political dissidents and other nonconformists whom...

Yes, Taxation Is Theft
by David Gordon | Nov 15, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
Libertarians think that taxation is theft. The government takes away part of your income and property by force. Your payments aren’t voluntary. If you think they are, try to withhold payment and see what happens. An influential book by Liam Murphy and Thomas...
The “Officer Friendly” Police Fantasy
by Jim Bovard | Nov 14, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
Police in Tempe, Arizona, announced plans in July for a “positive ticketing” campaign to pull over drivers who had violated no traffic laws. A Phoenix TV station reported that the police would give the people they targeted free soft-drink coupons for Circle K as a...
Save the Pearl: New Group Formed to Oppose Tulsa Development Authority’s Eminent Domain Plans
by Conor Beck | Nov 13, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
A community in Tulsa joins together to stop city officials from following through with plans to tear down homes for “urban renewal” Tulsa, Okla.—Today, residents and supporters of Tulsa’s Pearl District announced the formation of a new group, Save the Pearl Coalition....
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Are we already fighting WWIII? Welcome to the Circus! Watch the New Episode of the Kyle Anzalone Show
Welcome back to the Kyle Anzalone Show! In today's explosive episode, we look into the escalating tensions that have many questioning whether we are on the brink of World War III. The recent transfer of long-range missiles from the US to Ukraine marks a significant...
John Boyd: Patterns of Conflict
COL John Boyd was a singular mind in military matters and had a terrific impact on shattering some of the myths that have made the American military art since 1945 so awful and mired in defeat. Boyd was a heavy intellectual lifter in innovative ideas and one of the...
Economics and Everyday Life, 2
"[E]conomic relations constitute a machinery by which men devote their energies to the immediate accomplishment of each other's purposes in order to secure the ultimate accomplishment of their own, irrespective of what those purposes of their own may be, and therefore...
Anti-War Blog – She Was Only Ten Years Old
She was only ten years of age. A girl. A daughter. Innocent. Tala Abu Ajwa was roller skating in early September when Israeli government missiles took her life, along with several other civilians. The image of Tala’s pink roller skates still attached to her young body...
CG Announcement November 2024
Me contemplating the Herculean task before me... I will be pausing Chasing Ghosts from its fortnightly cadence of issuance for the remainder of the year. I am taking the time to regroup and focus on the new occasional podcast, WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast as a...
Economics and Everyday Life
"[T]he general principles which regulate our conduct in business are identical with those which regulate our deliberations, our selections between alternatives, and our decisions, in all other branches of life. And this is why we not only may, but must, take our...
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