I’m headed to PorcFest, the annual libertarian festival in Lancaster, New Hampshire, where I will be giving a presentation entitled, “The JFK Assassination: A Fraudulent Autopsy and a Fraudul...
After keeping Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich jailed for more than a year on charges of espionage, Russian authorities released a statement yesterday alleging, according to the Jour...
https://www.fff.org/2024/06/14/update-on-the-gershkovich-case/
The core principle of the libertarian philosophy is what is known as the non-aggression principle. It holds that it is morally wrong for one person to initiate force against another person, eithe...
https://www.fff.org/2024/06/13/gradualism-and-the-non-aggression-principle/
In the recent criminal prosecutions of Donald Trump and Hunter Biden, prosecutors and others emphasized that “no one is above the law.” Really? No one? How about retired Lt. Gen. James R....
Yesterday, June 10, was the anniversary date of President John F. Kennedy’s famous “Peace Speech” at American University in 1963, which was about five months before he was assassinated in D...
https://www.fff.org/2024/06/11/jfks-peace-speech-got-him-killed/
Last month, a British court gave Julian Assange permission to continue opposing the U.S. government’s attempts to extradite him to the United States to stand trial for violating the World War I...
https://www.fff.org/2024/06/10/the-destruction-of-julian-assange/
How ironic that the son of a Democrat president of the United States is having to pay the price for living in a paternalistic state that his own father ardently supports. Hunter Biden is curren...
https://www.fff.org/2024/06/07/hunter-biden-would-not-be-prosecuted-in-a-free-society/
Famous right-wing broadcaster Alex Jones and some of his supporters are claiming that the Deep State is on the verge of shutting down him and his media company, Free Speech Systems, including his...
https://www.fff.org/2024/06/06/the-deep-state-is-not-shutting-down-alex-jones/
On the 28th of last month, the United States celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Border Patrol. According to the website of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Border...
https://www.fff.org/2024/06/05/a-century-of-immigration-control-failure/
In my opinion, Trumpsters and other right-wing acolytes of Donald Trump are correct in their assessment of the grave abuse of prosecutorial and judicial power that led to his criminal conviction....
https://www.fff.org/2024/06/04/donald-trump-victim-but-certainly-no-hero/
When U.S. officials began using NATO to move eastward toward Russia’s borders after the ostensible end of the Cold War, their aim was to provoke Russia into invading Ukraine. Their hope was to ...
https://www.fff.org/2024/05/30/will-the-u-s-proxy-war-in-ukraine-lead-to-nuclear-war/
Advocates of immigration controls oftentimes use the concept of a front door of a person’s home to justify their support of immigration controls. They say that since a homeowner has the right t...
https://www.fff.org/2024/05/29/a-national-home-with-a-government-owned-front-door/
Each Memorial Day, countless Americans recite the standard mantra that has been inculcated within their minds from the first grade of the public (i.e., government) schools to which their parents ...
https://www.fff.org/2024/05/28/remembering-those-who-died-for-our-government/
In the final debate between Mexico’s two leading presidential candidates, Claudia Sheinbaum and Xóchitl Gálvez, before the June 2 election, both candidates vied with each other as to which on...
https://www.fff.org/2024/05/23/drug-war-obtuseness-in-mexico/
I can’t help but wonder what proponents of America’s participation in the old Cold War dinosaur known as NATO are thinking about NATO officials who are contemplating sending NATO military per...
One of the things that has long fascinated me about Social Security is how its proponents portray themselves as “caring and compassionate” for favoring this socialist program. Social Securi...
https://www.fff.org/2024/05/16/where-is-the-compassion-in-social-security/
A couple of days ago, the Wall Street Journal published an editorial decrying the Hong Kong government’s suppression of a song entitled “Glory to Hong Kong.” The editorial points out that ...
https://www.fff.org/2024/05/15/the-wsj-misses-the-real-point-on-chinese-tyranny/
April 30 was the anniversary date when North Vietnamese forces forced U.S. officials to exit Vietnam, much to their chagrin. That was after some 58,000 American men had died for nothing, not to m...
https://www.fff.org/2024/05/14/the-u-s-defeat-in-vietnam-changed-nothing/
When proponents of the Constitution were trying to persuade the American people to adopt it, they said that the only powers that the federal government could exercise were the powers that were ex...
https://www.fff.org/2024/05/13/the-antisemitism-controversy-shows-the-wisdom-of-the-first-amendment/
Libertarian proponents of immigration controls inevitably run into four obstacles in their support of this particular statist program: 1. The non-aggression principle. This is the core principl...
https://www.fff.org/2024/05/09/four-obstacles-facing-libertarian-proponents-of-border-controls/