I’m always fascinated by people, including libertarians, who convince themselves that they are being good, caring, and compassionate by advocating the continuation of Social Security. Claiming ...
https://www.fff.org/2024/03/27/does-social-security-demonstrate-compassion/
By now, I’m sure that most Americans have their own personal stories about TSA abuse. The U.S. government’s takeover of airport security after the 9/11 attacks has made flying an unpleasant e...
Martin Luther King called the U.S. government “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world.” No one can reasonably deny that he was right. U.S. invasions, occupations, wars of aggression, ...
https://www.fff.org/2024/03/25/a-great-book-on-the-u-s-empire/
More than 30 years ago, Congress enacted the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. Enacted in the wake of Oliver Stone’s movie JFK, which posited that the Kenn...
https://www.fff.org/2024/03/21/cia-secrecy-on-jfk-points-to-criminal-culpability/
After the Pentagon, operating through NATO, succeeded in provoking Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, U.S. official and their allies seized $300 billion in Russian assets. The seizers are now talkin...
https://www.fff.org/2024/03/19/has-the-u-s-seizure-of-russian-assets-boomeranged/
It has become an article of faith that under our system of government, federal officials can declare an emergency, which then purportedly authorizes federal officials to exercise emergency powers...
https://www.fff.org/2024/03/14/no-emergency-powers-in-the-constitution/
I was recently walking through a construction site near my house, where a new townhouse project is being built. The townhouses are four stories high. The basic construction of all four levels has...
The U.S. government just convicted Juan Orlando Hernandez of a drug offense. Who’s he? He’s the former president of Honduras. U.S. officials charged him with conspiracy to import hundreds of ...
https://www.fff.org/2024/03/11/is-the-drug-war-finally-over/
The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not b...
https://www.fff.org/2024/03/07/warrantless-searches-near-the-border/
The war on drugs has been going on for decades. The goal of the war was to prevent people from using illicit drugs. Since the very beginning, the drug war has failed to achieve that end. To deal ...
https://www.fff.org/2024/03/06/the-wars-on-drugs-and-immigrants/
The leftist website Counterpunch has published an article today entitled “Millionaires Stopped Contributing to Social Security on March 2, 2024 .” The thrust of the article is that once someo...
https://www.fff.org/2024/03/05/self-deception-on-social-security/
Many years ago, I traveled to Cuba, which, as most Americans recognize, is governed by a dictatorial regime. One day I took a cab from Havana to a small town named Trinidad. The drive took seve...
https://www.fff.org/2024/03/04/the-tyranny-of-domestic-highway-checkpoints/
A British court is currently deliberating in what is probably the last appeal by Julian Assange in the U.S. government’s efforts to extradite him to stand trial in the United States for illegal...
https://www.fff.org/2024/03/01/the-national-security-state-has-already-won-in-u-s-versus-assange/
The top of the Wall Street Journal’s website states: “Evan Gershkovich: 11 Months Detained.” The statement refers to the Journal’s reporter who has been incarcerated by Russian authoritie...
https://www.fff.org/2024/02/29/prigozhin-navalny-and-gershkovich/
Supporters of Social Security pat themselves on the back for the “compassion” they supposedly demonstrate through their support of this socialist program. They claim that anyone who supports ...
https://www.fff.org/2024/02/27/irwin-schiff-and-the-compassion-of-social-security/
I just finished reading an utterly fantastic new book. With the possible exception of The Future of Freedom Foundation’s 1995 book The Case for Free Trade and Open Immigration, this new book is...
https://www.fff.org/2024/02/22/an-utterly-fantastic-book-on-immigration/
One of the worst results of America’s welfare-warfare state way of life is that it has brought into existence one of the weakest, most frightened nations in the world. Think about that: America...
Seeing the large number of immigrants illegally entering the United States, proponents of immigration controls decry what they label the “open border” between the United States and Mexico. ...
https://www.fff.org/2024/02/20/warped-terminology-on-open-borders/
Upon reading my article of yesterday about master worrywart Gen. Paul M. Nakasone, the retired head of the NSA, a longtime supporter of The Future of Freedom Foundation asked how it would ever b...
https://www.fff.org/2024/02/15/how-can-we-bring-down-the-national-security-state/
Gen. Paul M. Nakasone, who recently retired as director of the National Security Agency, is worried. He’s worried about terrorism, drug cartels, Russia, China, hackers, spies, and other scary t...
https://www.fff.org/2024/02/14/the-worries-of-a-retiring-nsa-chief/