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The Five Stages of Totalitarianism

by Walker Larson via Mises.org Fears of a growing totalitarian tendency in the US have swelled during 2020–22. But how close are we really to a totalitarian state? How have such regimes come about historically and what are the warning signs? This article will answer these questions by examining totalitarian regimes in the eighteenth and […]

Police Botched the Uvalde Standoff. Now Gun Controllers Want to Give Police More Power. 

by Ryan McMaken via Mises.org First it was Columbine. Then it was Parkland. Now, we learn that at Robb Elementary School, police officers again stood around outside a school while the killer was inside with children. NPR reports today: Frustrated onlookers urged police officers to charge into the Texas elementary school where a gunman’s rampage killed 19 children and […]

Don’t Forget Covid Tyranny

Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr, via LewRockwell.com People are focused on the Ukraine. It’s important that we keep America out of this dangerous situation and end the immoral and futile sanctions against Russia. These have a real danger of provoking a nuclear war. But we shouldn’t forget another danger. This is a danger that actually has […]

If It Can Happen in Canada, It Can Happen Here

by Gary D. Barnett via LewRockwell.com “Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny,” Paul said. “They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and […]

The Media War on Canadian Truckers: Is Freedom Public Enemy Number One?

by James Bovard via Mises.org The denigration of the Canadian trucker protest convoy exemplifies how freedom is now the biggest villain of the covid-19 pandemic. A Washington Post cartoonist portrayed the trucker convoy as “fascism” incarnate while another Post column derided the “toxic ‘Freedom Convoy.’” Anyone who resists any government command is apparently now a public […]

Cannabis and Alcohol: An Industry Comparison

by Aran Ali via Visual Capitalist The following content is sponsored by Tenacious Labs. Cannabis and Alcohol: An Industry Comparison As cannabis continues to build legalization momentum in the U.S., it also finds itself entering a new chapter, and one that steps away from its prohibition past. The industry is now on a path similar […]

Justin Trudeau Ducks the Great Trucker Revolt

by Jeffrey A. Tucker via Brownstone Institute  The resistance reveals itself always in unexpected ways. As I type, thousands of truckers (numbers are in flux and are in dispute) are part of a 50-mile-long convoy in Canada, headed to the capital city of Ottawa in protest against an egregious vaccine mandate imposed by Prime Minister […]

The DC Rally and the Rise of the Resistance

by Jeffrey A. Tucker via Brownstone Institute By long American tradition, protest movements manifest themselves most fully in gatherings in Washington, D.C, starting at the Washington Monument and culminating in speeches at the Lincoln Memorial. At long last, after two years of astonishing attacks on fundamental rights that most everyone once believed were protected by […]

How We Will Win

by Jeff Deist via Mises Institute You do not defend a world that is already lost. When was it lost? That you cannot say precisely. It is a point for the revolutionary historian to ponder. We know only that it was surrendered peacefully, without a struggle, almost unawares. There was no day, no hour, no […]

The Tyrant Says He Means Well

by Adam Dick via Ron Paul Institute Tyrants just about always say they mean well in imposing tyranny. Sweeping prohibitions, coupled with harsh enforcement, the tyrants say, are necessary to advance important conditions, such as health, economic wellbeing, or defense from an enemy’s menace. So it goes as well with United States President Joe Biden […]

Reduce Expectations of Government

by Ron Paul via Ron Paul Institute Inflation was an unwelcome guest at this year’s Thanksgiving gatherings. According to the Farm Bureau, a traditional Thanksgiving meal cost 14 percent more in 2021 than the same meal cost in 2020. Many families went without certain Thanksgiving favorites — or limited their guests — to reduce costs […]