Minimum wage laws are suddenly vogue. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 18 states began 2019 with a new minimum wage. Three states have since passed legislation to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour, a wage floor the House of Representatives is seeking to make the law of the land. The…
Around the world, people are marking April 20 by celebrating a drug that has been prohibited by the United States federal government since 1970. History has proven that prohibition never works, and states began implementing policies that conflict with federal law in 1996. By 2016, the majority of states had legalized medical cannabis, and in…
On February 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln was born on Sinking Spring Farm near Elizabethtown, Kentucky. I know Lincoln did some very un-libertarian things that we can discuss at a different time, but in honor of our 16th President’s birthday, here are some quotes from Lincoln that all lovers of liberty can appreciate. “Slavery is founded…
As libertarians we may all have very different beliefs on the size and scope of government, but I think we can all can agree that both self-ownership and private property rights are fundamental to the preservation of a free and prosperous society and that if government is to exist at all its functions should be…
Have a friend who constantly says, “it’s not socialism, it’s DEMOCRATIC socialism?” The next time you hear that, try this on them, “it’s not Nazism… it’s DEMOCRATIC Nazism.” Ludwig von Mises was an Austrian-American economist whose seminal work Human Action is the backbone for modern libertarian views. As a Jew in Austria, Mises fled Europe…
Amber Randall Fifty years ago, an assassin gunned down Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis, Tenn., and took his life. James Earl Ray fatally shot King Apr. 4, 1968, outside the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. King delivered a speech the day before advocating for a strike sanitation workers conducted. Doctors pronounced King dead…
by Josh Guckert In the past month, political commentators have done their best to pinpoint why Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump. With both candidates so massively unpopular, the general consensus has become that Clinton failed to achieve victory in large part because she could not energize the progressive base. Just as she lost to…
The Four Best Libertarian Fictional Characters By Brittni Kates Follow her on Twitter, Like her on Facebook It is now the norm to find all sorts of progressive characters. For example, recently we’ve seen a classic favorite get transformed into a feminist propaganda movie with the new Ghostbusters. It’s really annoying to see progressive characters who…
by Phil Saggese There isn’t a nation in the world that has the entirety of libertarianism put together. For example, in the Netherlands, you can smoke marijuana in front of the police, but the government will also tax your paycheck 52% when your income hits 66,000 euros. In England, Nigel Farage just defeated the EU but…
by Eli Bowman Murray Rothbard is someone who is often quoted by libertarians. His writings and teachings have contributed to what the modern liberty movement is today. It’s difficult to narrow down the 10 best things he said, so what we’ve done is simply given you 10 Murray Rothbard quotes that will make you cry…