Personal Liberties

Secession as a Solution to the Washington Debt Threat

Feb 12th, 2010 | By Ron Holland | Category: Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics

Frédéric Bastiat must have been looking toward the future of the United States today when he said, “When plunder has become a way of life for a group of people living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it, and ...read more

Tags: nullification, secession, the Union, washington dc
Posted in Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics | 73 comments

Imagining Freedom with the Help of Mises

Jan 26th, 2010 | By Lew Rockwell | Category: Featured, Personal Liberties

I’m finding it ever more difficult to describe to people the kind of world that the Mises Institute would like to see, with the type of political order that Mises and the entire classical-liberal tradition believed would be most beneficial for mankind. It would appear that the more liberty we lose, ...read more

Tags: anarchy, government, liberty, Ludwig von Mises, the State
Posted in Featured, Personal Liberties | 19 comments

The Damage We Can Expect from Obama’s Rush to Universal Healthcare

Nov 23rd, 2009 | By Wayne Allyn Root | Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Personal Liberties

I'll keep this short and simple. Our soldiers are dying in Afghanistan every day. Yet, Obama appears in no hurry to decide how best to support and protect them. To the contrary, Obama stalls and procrastinates claiming he'd rather do it right, than fast. Meanwhile our sons and daughters die…and ...read more

Tags: government, healthcare, Obama
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics, Personal Liberties | 20 comments

The Triumph of Socialism, the Misunderstanding of Capitalism

Nov 13th, 2009 | By Lew Rockwell | Category: Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics

Do you think ideas don't matter, that what people believe about themselves and their world has no real consequence? If so, the following will not bug you in the slightest. A new BBC poll finds that only 11 percent of people questioned around the world – and 29,000 people were asked ...read more

Tags: capitalism, communism, socialism
Posted in Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics | 21 comments

Detroit’s Socialist Nightmare Is America’s Future

Nov 2nd, 2009 | By Porter Stansberry | Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Personal Liberties

One of the most important things to remember about socialism – or coercion of any kind – is it fails eventually because human beings have an innate desire for liberty and a strong need for personal property rights. In fact, the origins of government lie in the need of agricultural ...read more

Tags: America, Detroit, socialism
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics, Personal Liberties | 33 comments

Tobacco Ban Begins

Oct 1st, 2009 | By Samantha Buker | Category: Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics

Hope you bought your last pack of flavored cigarettes by midnight on Sept. 21…or else you’re out of luck. Thank the newly enacted Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. I’m OK with state-by-state action. In fact, I couldn’t have bought the last pack of cloves in Maryland at 11:55 p.m. ...read more

Tags: government, tobacco ban
Posted in Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics | 8 comments

Are We Being Conned About Gold Consfication?

Aug 10th, 2009 | By Doug Hornig | Category: Featured, Gold, Personal Liberties

There’s a lot of Internet chatter these days about the possibility of the U.S. government seizing its citizens’ private gold holdings. What are the chances? Well, it’s always good to bear in mind that there is no telling what the government might do. It’s already doing things that were unthinkable just a ...read more

Tags: consfication, FDR, Gold, inflation
Posted in Featured, Gold, Personal Liberties | 14 comments

Why Minimum Wage Means Maximum Slavery

Jul 31st, 2009 | By Tex Norton | Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Personal Liberties

While we were in Vancouver last week, the dipsticks in Washington, District of Criminals did it again. They increased the Minimum Wage from $6.55 to $7.25 per hour. I don’t mean to preach to the choir, but there goes the remnant of what might otherwise have been the start of a ...read more

Tags: healthcare, minimum wage, price controls
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics, Personal Liberties | 14 comments

The High Cost of Independence

Jul 14th, 2009 | By Bill Jenkins | Category: Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics

Recently we here in the U.S. celebrated the 233rd Anniversary of our Independence Day. It is, as I hope you remember from your history lessons, the day upon which Congress approved the Declaration of Independence. The legal separation from England, however, actually occurred on July 2, two days earlier. This ...read more

Tags: 1776, congress, Independence Day, Thomas Jefferson
Posted in Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics | 5 comments

A 20-Year Bear Market?

Jul 13th, 2009 | By David Galland | Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Personal Liberties

In November of 1997, my partner and co-editor of The Casey Report, Doug Casey, wrote an article titled “Foundations of Crisis,” which leaned heavily on the research of Neil Howe and the late William Strauss. Howe and Strauss have written many books on how generations determine the course of history and ...read more

Tags: bull market, crisis, government
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics, Personal Liberties | 5 comments