Intervene Only When It’s In “Our National Interest”?
One of the popular mantras for some conservatives and some libertarians when it comes to foreign interventionism is the following: “We should never intervene abroad except when it is in …
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Lt. Ehren Watada, War Hero
Four facts about the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq are not in dispute: 1. The Constitution required a congressional declaration of war against Iraq as a prerequisite to invading the …
There Is No Right to a Religious Accommodation
Overshadowed by the Supreme Court decision in the case of Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College that struck down affirmative action programs at Harvard University …
Libertarian Reform Is Not Freedom
For the past 25 years or so, the libertarian movement has been dominated by libertarian reformers — that is, those libertarians who have dedicated their lives, energy, time, and money …
Jury Nullification in Memphis!
As I indicated in my blog post last week, “Freedom Fun at FreedomFest,” I was headed down to Memphis this past week for Mark Skousen’s annual FreedomFest, where I would …
The Achilles Heel of the JFK Assassination
The autopsy that the U.S. national-security establishment conducted on President Kennedy’s body has always been the Achilles heel of the assassination. That’s because the autopsy was fraudulent. But because the …
Ukraine and the Cold War
On October 25, 1970, a team of well-armed Chilean thugs attacked an automobile in which Chilean General Rene Schneider was traveling in downtown Santiago. Their aim was to kidnap and …
Dismantle NATO, or At Least Get Out
The United States and other countries are debating whether to admit Ukraine into NATO which, of course, would virtually guarantee an all-out nuclear war between the United States and Russia. …
Why Not Equalize Beauty, Talent, and Intelligence?
A basic premise of the “progressive” (actually, regressive) left is that the rich have too much money and the poor have too little. Therefore, they say, it is justified to …
Why Shouldn’t a University Be Free to Adopt Affirmative Action?
Not surprisingly, right-wingers are celebrating the Supreme Court’s decision to declare affirmative-action policies at American universities to be unconstitutional. In the process, conservatives fail to recognize that they are, at …