What You Can Do To Get Liberty Candidates Elected

By Delia Lopez Will we choose to subject ourselves to the despotism of bureaucracy, controlling our every act, destroying what equality we have attained, reducing us eventually to the condition of impoverished slaves of the state? Or will we cling to the liberties for which man has struggled for more than a thousand years? It [...]

The Return of Nullification

By Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Today is the official release date for my new book, Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century. Nullification, as many readers of this site already know, refers to the power of a state to refuse to enforce an unconstitutional federal law. Most Americans have never heard of [...]

Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Gun Rights But Asserts More Federal Power

By Stephen Otto STATESMAN SENTINEL June 28, 2010 The Supreme Court has ruled against the city of Chicago and in favor of Otis McDonald in a 5 – 4 decision.  McDonald had challenged the constitutionality of Chicago’s recent handgun ban. The ruling was based on the argument that the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution [...]

Hollywood, Free Enterprise, and the BP Oil Spill

Hooray for Hollywood? By Tom Mullen Libertarians generally cringe at most of what comes out of Hollywood and for good reason. The consistent message from its movies and movie stars is that private property and free enterprise are the scourge of society, that profits are made by exploiting the poor and working classes, and that [...]

House Shreds 1st Amendment, Fight Moves To Senate

Stephen Otto STATESMAN SENTINEL June 24, 2010 This afternoon the House of Representatives passed the DISCLOSE Act (H.R. 5175), a partisan attack on the free speech rights of libertarian lobbying organizations such as Campaign for Liberty and conservative groups including gun rights organizations like Gun Owners of America, National Association for Gun Rights, and other [...]

DISCLOSE Act Threatens Free Speech

By Nan Swift FreedomWorks.org As you’ve probably read and heard on the news or talk radio, there is a bill looming in Congress that poses a serious threat to our freedom of speech, as protected by the First Amendment. H.R. 5175, the DISCLOSE Act, is the brain-child of Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D, MD-8), who [...]

Cybersecurity Legislation Gives President Internet Kill-Switch

John Birch Society “To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and other laws to enhance the security and resiliency of the cyber and communications infrastructure of the United States.”  These are the words used to describe the latest cybersecurity bill, S. 3480 “Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010,” introduced on June [...]

FEC Launches Attack on Campaign for Liberty

Dear Friend of Liberty, The best way to know you are succeeding in changing Washington is when you get attacked by the FEC. And attack us they have! I’m writing you this letter today not to scare you or to cry wolf.  I’m writing to let you know that our success has its price, and [...]

Racism, Civil Rights, and Libertarianism

Lessons from the Rand Paul controversy By Cathy Young Thanks to Rand Paul, the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Kentucky and son of maverick libertarian Republican Ron Paul, we find ourselves in an unlikely debate about the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the legal permissibility of race discrimination in the private sector. [...]

Revisiting Enron: Failure of the Market or Government?

By William Anderson When Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling were convicted in federal court four years ago, the typical media response was that justice had been done. Bethany McLean wrote in Fortune: Guilty! . . . Guilty! . . . Guilty! Judge Sim Lake’s reading of the jury’s findings had a staccato rhythm [...]

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