Liberty is sometimes a tough thing to watch. Like the teenager in a horror movie getting up and going to the kitchen while the audience braces itself for what they know full well is going to happen, it’s hard to stand by and watch our friends and strangers alike exercise their right to make choices…
College freshman Tessa Majors was brutally stabbed to death last week in a New York City park. The NYPD believes her murderer is a 13-year-old middle school student. Those facts alone are atrocious. To add insult to injury, the head of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, Ed Mullins, claims that Majors was buying marijuana in the…
History was made on this day in 1933 when the 18th amendment was repealed, effectively ending America’s national prohibition of alcohol, erasing what could arguably be considered the most blatant attacks on personal liberty to come out of Progressive Era. The prohibition of alcohol may be one of the greatest examples in the 20th century…
American economist Milton Friedman rose to prominence in the second half of the 20th century as one of the leading critics of the prevailing economic theories of John Maynard Keynes, whose mixed economy model became the standard for many developed nations during and after the World War II-era. Born in Brooklyn to a Jewish family…
The “Great Vape Scare of 2019” is well underway, as more than 380 people have been diagnosed with a severe lung condition that has been traced back to the use of e-cigarettes and THC vaping devices. So far, seven people have died as a result. But governments rush to ban vape products that may or…
The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it was preparing to ban flavored e-cigarettes along with all flavored non-tobacco vaping products, according to USA Today. “We are going to have to do something about it,” the president told reporters at the White House, describing vaping as a “new problem in the country, according to USA Today….
You can’t believe the shock. I was sitting in a living room drinking absinthe with friends, and I said in passing something like: “This is delicious but wouldn’t it be great if the original recipe with wormwood were legal again?” My friend, the economist George Selgin, said; “This has wormwood in it just like the…
By Mike Maharrey I’ve been fighting federal overreach for years, but now it’s getting personal! I’ve been working with the Tenth Amendment Center for almost a decade. That’s a lot of activism. It should be pretty obvious that I am passionate about the work and that I believe deeply in the principles. You don’t work…
As federal marijuana prohibition slowly fades away into the depths of history, the burgeoning legal recreational cannabis market is poised to usher in a green rush for the US economy. And while many are excited about the fiscal implications of this entirely new economic sector, and rightfully so, there is another “green” market on the…
“I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.” – Al Capone The temperance movement – the collective effort of some to decrease and even eliminate the consumption of alcohol – gained a foothold in the United States in the 19th century and their efforts culminated in the passage of the…