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 …
Future of Freedom Foundation
Impeachment Reminder of Our Toxic Foreign Aid
Foreign aid to Ukraine helped spur the Democrats’ effort to impeach and remove President Trump earlier this year. Ukraine was supposed to be on the verge of great progress until …
The Nonsense of “National Security”
President Trump’s attempt to suppress publication of a new book by his former national-security advisor John Bolton has, not surprisingly, raised First Amendment issues. But there is another issue that …
Religion and Education in a Free Society
Montgomery County, Mary- land, which lies just outside of Washington, D.C., is one of America’s richest and most populous counties. It is also home to the largest school system in …
The “Greatest” Generation’s Refusal to Fight the “Good War”
The most sacred shibboleth of U.S. foreign interventionists is World War II. Whenever the issue of foreign interventionism arises, you can count on interventionists to raise what they call the …
The Meaning and the Mind of an American
One of the continuing and burning issues in America today is determining how we view ourselves and how we view others, including in matters of race. Are we individual human …
Fear in the JFK Assassination, Part 2 (of 2)
Let’s now move to the autopsy that the U.S. military conducted on the President John F. Kennedy’s body on the evening of the assassination, November 22, 1963. Texas law required …
Fifty Years of Statist Policies and Economic Fallacies
It is about fifty years since, as an undergraduate, I took my first economics classes in college. Virtually all my professors were adamant that unrestrained market capitalism was unworkable, and …
Fear in the JFK Assassination, Part 1 (of 2)
One of the fascinating phenomena in the JFK assassination is the fear of some Americans to consider the possibility that the assassination was actually a regime-change operation carried out by …
Seven Days in May
Like many of his counterparts in the mainstream press, Los Angeles Times senior editorial writer Michael McGough is aglow over the apology issued by Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, the …