If none of us had ever read a dangerous book or had a friend who was different, if we never joined an organization that advocated change, we’d all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants. We’re going to go with the story because the terror is right here in this room.
– Edward R. Murrow
HORNBERGER'S BLOG
August 8, 2019 Trump's Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and the El Paso Killings
Leftists are tripping over themselves in their attempt to blame President Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric for one of the nation’s latest killing sprees, the one in El Paso, where the killer posted an online screed complaining about the “invasion” of illegal immigrants. Of course, the left is having a more difficult time trying to tie Trump’s rhetoric to the simultaneous killing spree in Dayton, given ...
The Case for a Coercive Green New Deal?
by Richard M. Ebeling
Social and economic crises, real and imagined, often seem to bring out the most wrongheaded thinking in matters of government policy. Following the 2008 ...
The Libertarian Angle: More Mass Killings in America
by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard Ebeling discuss the recent shootings in El Paso and Dayton....
Fat Chance
by Laurence M. Vance
Should employers have the right to discriminate in hiring on the basis of obesity? The Washington State Supreme Court recently ruled that “it is ...
The Rise of the American Gestapo
by John W. Whitehead
Despite the finger-pointing and outcries of dismay from those who are watching the government discard the rule of law at every turn,...