Is Secession Racist? by: Austin Petersen Almost one million American citizens have petitioned the White House in recent weeks to secede from the Union. That is more than the amount of people who died in the War Between The States. Anti-government sentiment in the United States is at an all time high and job performance…
Reason.TV is out with a new video asking whether we should abolish government and privatize all social services. David Friedman (son of the late Milton Friedman) discusses Anarcho-Capitalism and how justice would be distributed in a free society. Is the job of government to produce laws that produce freedom? Or is that in essence the…
Libertarian Republic Guest Column by “Samuel Clemens” “Samuel Clemens” is a prominent “true-north” libertarian activist and patriot. In his first column exclusive to the Libertarian Republic he asks ten questions to the American people about Libya, Iraq, Egypt, Palestine and our foreign policy. 10 Questions for the American People Before I begin rapid-firing the questions,…
Is America a nation of sheep? That’s what my former boss Judge Andrew Napolitano at Fox News thinks. He wrote a book about the concept that America is now a country full of people who blindly follow the status quo. But is that true? And if it is, then why? “So this is how liberty…
Is Wal-Mart an evil corporation? People often vilify the store saying they wreck communities by underpaying their workers and not providing enough health benefits. Socialists generally will pick on large corporations assuming that just because they are large, they must be doing something wrong. But in this video, John Stossel goes out of his way…
Teams of activists in favor of government transparency have been filing Freedom of Information Act (FOAI) requests to local governments in recent months. The groups Muckrock and the Electronic Freedom Foundation have filed over 200 requests seeking any information related to the use of drones in the…
My former debate opponent, Ana Kasparian called libertarians “wolves in sheep’s clothing” on her top rated web show “The Young Turks” this week. She was describing those who believe in social tolerance and free market economics as people who Republicans could sell to attract younger voters. Jacobin leftists made the same argument in a debate…
Reason.TV has a great new video out explaining why when the government does something it thinks is in our best interests it usually gets it wrong. The law of unintended consequences means that there are often outcomes that are not the ones intended by an action. They can be good outcomes, bad outcomes or extremely…
My friends over at Stansberry research have an interesting theory about whether or not President Barack Obama will seek a third term for the Presidency. Only one US President has ever served a third term and that was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. That didn’t stop other Presidents from trying however. Ulysses Grant sought a third term…
As Israel delivers punishing retaliatory attacks from Hamas rocket fire, the world has become engulfed in debate of the underlying issues regarding the causes of violence in the West Bank. Although unbiased information is difficult to come by regarding both sides, it appears that Israel is specifically targeting rocket sites used by Hamas for the…