As an outsider, I had found the ritual of US presidential elections to be fascinating, a helpless voyeur watching how the ebb and flow of war and peace may unfold for the coming years. By that time, I had lost interest in voting, I had become cynical and jaded wary...
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State Gun Control in America: A Historic Guide to Major State Gun Control Laws and Acts
The Second Amendment guarantees American citizens the right to bear arms, but both federal and state governments determine how citizens may legally exercise that right. And while both federal and state gun control laws regularly change, laws at the state level change...
Andrew Yang – The 21st Century Candlemaker
"(Close) all windows, dormers, skylights, inside and outside shutters, curtains, casements, bull’s-eyes, deadlights, and blinds—in short, all openings, holes, chinks, and fissures through which the light of the sun is wont to enter houses.” -Frederic Bastiat from his...
The Superstition of State Authority
Perhaps the greatest source of state power, Murray Rothbard once wrote, is “its legitimacy in the eyes of the majority of the public.” Thanks to centuries of propaganda, advanced in no small part in government schools over the past several generations, there exists...
News Roundup 9/30/19
Venezuela Trump bans senior Venezuelan officials and their family members from entering the US. [Link] Afghanistan The Afghan election commission had no contact with 900 of the 4900 polling stations. [Link] Indications are that Afghan voter turnout is meager. [Link]...
The Two Biggest Reasons Why Government Welfare Makes the Poor Worse Off
Many non-libertarians will be sympathetic when presented with an argument making the case for the moral superiority of voluntary charity versus government welfare programs. A mental hurdle they can’t overcome, however, is the concern that absent government programs,...
Welfare State: Good Rhetoric, But Bad Outcomes
In poor countries, welfare state represents a system where businessmen and statesmen work side by side (to plunder money from the people) The idea of an economic model able to set an improbable combination of economic liberalism with central planning (a middle way...
Negroes With Guns: The Untold History of Black NRA Gun Clubs and the Civil Rights Movement
With the violent crime rate increasing disproportionately in urban communities, it's no surprise that a recent phone survey of black voters found that 80 percent felt gun violence was an “extremely serious” problem. However, it seems this surge in violence actually...
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