The problem is the attempt to forcibly prevent Americans from consuming arbitrarily proscribed intoxicants, which is fundamentally immoral because it sanctions violence as a response to peaceful conduct that violates no one's rights.
June 26, 2020 Conservative Hypocrisy on the Looters
I have found the outrage among conservatives over the looting of private businesses during the anti-police brutality protests to be amusing because it is so riddled with hypocrisy. Conservatives indignantly say that the looters were acting immorally because they trespassed onto privately owned businesses and stole merchandise that belonged to the owners. The essence of this conservative moral outrage is ...
Impeachment Reminder of Our Toxic Foreign Aid
by James Bovard
Foreign aid to Ukraine helped spur the Democrats’ effort to impeach and remove President Trump earlier this year. Ukraine was supposed to be on ...
Religion and Education in a Free Society
by Laurence M. Vance
Montgomery County, Maryland, which lies just outside of Washington, D.C., is one of America’s richest and most populous counties. It is also home ...
The Meaning and the Mind of an American
by Richard M. Ebeling
One of the continuing and burning issues in America today is determining how we view ourselves and how we view others, including in matters ...
Fifty Years of Statist Policies and Economic Fallacies
by Richard M. Ebeling
It is about fifty years since, as an undergraduate, I took my first economics classes in college. Virtually all my professors were adamant that ...
