Conservatism: an authoritarian philosophy that thinks people should be arrested and fined or locked in a cage for engaging in private consensual behavior or peaceful activity that doesn’t violate the personal or property rights of anyone merely because the government doesn’t approve of it.
August 30, 2019 Trump’s Berlin Wall
In 1987 President Ronald Reagan was delivering a speech about the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin. Reagan declared: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” Imagine if Donald Trump had been president back then instead of Reagan. Standing at the same place, Trump would have declared, “Mr. Gorbachev, move this wall to the Southern border of the United ...
The Libertarian Angle: For a New Liberalism
by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard Ebeling discuss Richard's new book,
The American Gulag
by John W. Whitehead
This is how freedom dies. This is how you condition a populace to life as prisoners in a police state: by brainwashing them into...
The U.S. Revives the Personal State
by Richard M. Ebeling
It was French king Louis XIV (1638-1715) who famously declared, “L'etat c'est moi” (“I am the state”), indicating his insistence that he possessed absolute ...
American Apocalypse
by John W. Whitehead
The U.S. government is working hard to destabilize the nation. No, this is not another conspiracy theory....
2002 Landmarks on the Road to "1984" Orwellian Hell
by James Bovard
Next month will be the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Politicians and bureaucrats wasted no time after that carnage to unleash the Surveillance State on ...