Men live their lives within a framework of customary relations and patterns for achieving their ends and solving their problems. In the absence of positive force, they have worked out and accepted these patterns voluntarily, or they submit to them willingly. Any alteration of these by government involves the use or threat of force, for that is how governments operate. The old order must be replaced by a new order for the reform to be achieved. The result of the forceful effort to do this is disorder.
–Clarence B. Carson
HORNBERGER'S BLOG
April 4, 2024 The Pentagon's Killing Machine in Ukraine
The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that the Ukrainian government is lowering the draft age for Ukrainian men from 27 to 25. The measure is “part of an effort to bolster its depleted armed forces after two years of fighting Russia’s invasion and facing renewed assaults.” According to the Journal, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “said in February that 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers ...
The Importance of the Price System by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the importance of a price system in ...
Legalize Nitazenes by Laurence M. Vance
I never even heard of nitazenes until last month. They are a type of synthetic opioids called isotonitazenes, or ISOs, that have been detected ...
When Dissidents Become Enemies of the State by John W. Whitehead
When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals. In the current governmental...
1913: A Critical Year in the Loss of Liberty by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss how 1913 brought into existence the federal income ...
The Language of Force by John W. Whitehead
Tyrants don’t like people who speak truth to power. Cue the rise of protest laws, which take the government’s intolerance for free speech to a whole new...
