Dec 19
Just 25 years ago, Venezuelans were the healthiest and wealthiest people in Latin America. Today, after numerous victorious elections by socialist politicians, the people eat out of trash cans, die in knife fights in food lines, and resort to prostitution to survive. They rape the environment, killing birds, dogs, cats and anything that breathes or …
Dec 18
Forget the Alien & Sedition Acts, the Palmer Raids, the Red Scare or the McCarthy Hearings. The greatest threat to freedom of speech and press in American history is the scam known as “campaign finance reform.” Government tyrants and despots have a thousand ways to influence elections to promote more powerful government. They secretly (and …
Dec 17
According to the Associated Press, Chinese Muslims are being secretly arrested, imprisoned, or killed on a massive scale. The Chinese government views its Uighur minority as a national security threat. The student’s friends think he joined the thousands — possibly tens of thousands — of people, rights groups and academics estimate, who have been spirited …
Dec 16
The greatest threat to national security has always been–and will always be–the government itself. Consider the “Operation Northwoods” documents, unclassified in the 1990s. The declassified documents showed that the 12 generals and admirals in the Joint Chiefs of Staff–who held the keys to the highest-level “national security” filing cabinets in Washington, D.C.–were planning to kill …
Dec 16
Two years ago, the FCC voted (without Congressional authorization) for a government takeover of the internet. Government trusters called it “net neutrality.” Every claim made by the fanatical government trusters behind “net neutrality was false. Advocates offered hypothetical harms and hysterical prophecies; they claimed that evil corporations might soon start discriminating, or censoring, or charging …
Dec 15
Saturday, December 16 at 4:00 pm, at the Asian Culture Center. Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. 333 South 6th Street. FREE TO THE PUBLIC (but with lots of opportunities to donate to worthy causes, including Lysander Spooner University, Bundy defense teams, and homeless orphans). Rick Koerber, “The Free Capitalist,” will lecture on the Judiciary, criminal justice …
Dec 14
The greatest trusters of government are always the first to be executed when total government is imposed. During the Soviet period, those who most admired government, police, soldiers and central planning quickly rose through the ranks of the Communist Party. But Stalin made sure to remove and kill all loyalists who got too close to …
Dec 13
The U.S. is probably still freer than many societies. But U.S. taxation rates are now greater than the world average. The size, scope and power of government in the U.S. is greater than that of any previous government in world history, and continues to grow. U.S. regulations increasingly prohibit poor people from working, investing, saving, …
Dec 13
Neal Wampler, philosopher, historian, and liberty activist, has been added to the roster of lecturers who will speak at the upcoming Lysander Spooner University symposium in Las Vegas. “The Struggle for Freedom” Symposium will take place Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017 at 4:00 p.m. at the Asian Culture Center, 333 S. 6th St., Las Vegas, NV. …
Dec 13
Startling new report from the Committee to Protect Journalists. As of December 1, 2017, 262 journalists were behind bars around the world in relation to their work, a new record after a historical high of 259 last year. Many of these jailed journalists are in China, Turkey, and Egypt. But the western world is partially …
