Oath Keepers Protect St. Louis Until Being Disbanded By The Police They...
In response to the looting that has damaged numerous businesses in Ferguson, MO since last Monday’s announceemnt that former police officer Darren Wilson would not be indicted for killing Michael...
View ArticleAn Open Letter To Supporters of Ismaaiyl Brinsley
To Whom It May Concern: Yesterday afternoon, two NYPD officers, Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, were shot at point-blank range by a man named Ismaaiyl Brinsley, who also shot his girlfriend earlier in...
View ArticleThe Problem With Today’s ‘Conservatives’: They’re Not Really Conservative
When Republicans took control of the Congress in the 2014 elections, they did so without an agenda or alternative vision for the country. In spite of this, they hold their largest majority since before...
View ArticleWhy Conservatives and Libertarians Should Oppose the Death Penalty
Are you pro-life? Opposed to big government? Do you believe in reducing government spending? Do you support the death penalty? If you answered yes to all of these questions, then you may want to...
View ArticleLet Us Rediscover the Art of the Peaceful Protest and Civil Disobedience this...
In the year 2015 there are many good reasons to protest: police brutality, injustice, the war on (some) drugs, the war on (some) terror, etc. One thing from Martian Luther King Jr.’s legacy that seems...
View ArticleGeorgia Legislature to Consider Modest Reforms for ‘No-Knock’ Raids
On May 28th, 2014 around 3:00 a.m. in Habersham County, Georgia a SWAT team raided a house the police believed to be occupied by Wanis Thonetheva, an alleged drug dealer. In the chaos of the raid...
View ArticleWhy Are Young Libertarians More Interested In Utopia Than School Choice?
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Veronica Peterson whom I met at a recent Franklin Center conference. She was formerly with California Watchdog.org. As an advocate for libertarian philosophy I...
View ArticleMisunderstanding Law, Government, and Society
Most people… At least most people in modern western democracies… Seem to have a fundamental and unconscious assumption about the nature of law and government, that goes something like this: Law...
View ArticleIn the Wake of Obergefell v. Hodges: Gay Marriage, Religious Liberty, and the...
[Photo: Church of the Pilgrims, a Presbyterian USA Church in Washington DC, via Wikimedia Commons.] On Friday, June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court held in Obergefell v. Hodges that under the Fourteenth...
View ArticleIrwin Schiff (1928 – 2015)
Irwin Schiff: author, lover of liberty, tax protester, and father of Peter Schiff lost his battles with cancer and the federal government on October 16, 2015. There is no shortage of people who are...
View ArticleQuote of the Day: MLK Day Edition
(Re-post) Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech is unquestionably one of the most famous speeches in American history. In listening to the speech today, I found the following passages that...
View ArticleWhat Is The Best Way To Advance Liberty?
In the wake of Rand Paul’s departure from the presidential race, the question being asked is what is the best path to advance liberty? Should libertarians work within GOP, the Libertarian Party, or...
View ArticleWhy I Can’t Take The Libertarian Party Seriously
With the almost inevitable nominations of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton to lead their respective parties, there is a heavy push for an option for the Presidency that gives voters a more palatable...
View Article“That Libertarian” Dr. Marc Feldman R.I.P.
I just received the news that Libertarian Party activist Dr. Marc Feldman died earlier today. The LP posted the following press release: 2016 candidate for the Libertarian Party’s nomination for...
View ArticleFor Social Justice, End Qualified Immunity
In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, so many of us are trying to figure out “how can we stop these things from happening”? Unfortunately, the answer is very murky. It’s hard to do anything federally...
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