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Pocahontas Need More Wampum →

December 31, 2019

With campaign contributions down 30% in the last quarter, you might think it’s time for Elizabeth Warren to throw in the tomahawk.

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New Portland Coffee Shop Hires on One Condition →

December 22, 2019

If you enjoy working four hours a day on your feet while completely blitzed out of your mind, and then riding your bike around town aimlessly for a few hours until you finally get hungry for all-you-can-eat sushi, come on down and apply today.

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Support Mikhail Svetov!

November 10, 2019

Mikhail Svetov vocally exposes widespread corruption in Russia on his YouTube channel, which boasts more than seven million views. He discusses libertarian ideas — including how to fight fraud by government officials and abuse by law enforcement — and has revealed video of election tampering.

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Drop Kids Off at Government School When They Turn 5 and Pick Them Back Up Again When They Turn 30 →

November 7, 2019

"Today, we only get, like, 6 or 7 hours with your kids," he said. "It's far too little time to really turn them into good communists. We need at least 24 hours a day to get the desired results."

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Adding the word "democratic" changes everything. Yeah, right. →

October 25, 2019

“We’ve added the word to all of our unpopular practices. Democratic racism, democratic beat-downs, democratic censorship, democratic genocide. All of those things poll much higher if we call them democratic.”

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The Ignorant Brutality of Young Socialists →

October 8, 2019

An eye-opening social experiment unfolded on Mike Gonzalez’s Twitter feed that reveals a lot about America’s new brand of young communists and socialists. Consider it yet another infuriating sign of your tax and tuition dollars at work in “higher” education.

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Who Cares About You? →

October 2, 2019

“How you make it in this world depends more on what you do as opposed to whether people like or dislike you,” argues George Mason University economist Walter Williams.

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Ten Things You Might Not Know About FEE Founder Leonard Read →

September 26, 2019

By FEE editor Tyler Brandt, this article provides many fascinating and little-known details about the amazing life of a great libertarian.

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Crazy Man Becomes Major Presidential Candidate →

September 10, 2019

He believes he can spend other people’s money to buy all the stuff he wants even though he is literally just some guy who smells like bad tuna salad and whiskey.

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How Government Programs Ruined Childhood →

August 22, 2019

“The inevitable result of these expanded government powers is less control over education by parents. As parents lose this control, they cede more authority to government bureaucracies, which in turn grow more powerful and more bloated while parents get weaker and more vulnerable,” writes Kerry McDonald.

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Minimum Wage Craziness: It's Satire But Not Far Removed From The Truth →

August 1, 2019

You could take EVERYTHING that ALL of the Democrat candidates for President know about Economics, put it on a bumper sticker and still have room for the Magna Carta.

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Climate Extremists and Their Totalitarian Streak →

July 29, 2019

What does it say about a point of view when so many of its advocates want to intimidate and shut down other viewpoints? It says that those advocates possess a shameful totalitarian streak.

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How to Deschool Yourself for Success and Satisfaction →

July 12, 2019

Kerry McDonald explains that the first step in taking charge of your learning and livelihood is to shed these schooled myths and become adept at self-education.

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The Beginning of a Nation →

July 4, 2019

“It is to the colonial period we must look for the roots of republicanism and federalism,” writes Thomas Wendel for National Review.

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AOC on Equal Pay →

June 12, 2019

You could put EVERYTHING this woman knows about economics on a bumper sticker and still have room for the Magna Carta.

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Louse-Borne Typhus is the Latest "Progressive" Gift to the People →

June 6, 2019

Tammy Bruce: “This is the idiotic disaster brought to you by unrestrained liberal leadership as it creates problems, then births a bureaucracy that will never deal with it. “

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The "Amazon Doesn't Pay Taxes" Myth →

May 19, 2019

Politicians prefer not to talk about the billion and a half dollars in taxes Amazon paid last year. James R. Harrigan and Antony Davies explain.

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What Did the Obama Administration Know About Those Hillary Emails? →

May 13, 2019

“While a cover-up rigged by the “scandal-free” Obama administration is certainly outrageous, Clinton’s initial actions are worse” — Issues & Insights editorial.

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The Danger of Red Flag Laws →

April 19, 2019

“If Americans continue down the path of sacrificing civil liberties to feel more secure, they may one day find themselves living in a world that resembles the dystopias envisioned by Philip K. Dick and George Orwell more than they would have dreamed possible” — FEE’s Jon Miltimore.

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Man Still Clinging To Outdated Belief In Good, All-Powerful, Generous, Loving Government →

April 15, 2019

Here’s one for the state worshipers.

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“The true meaning of America, you ask? It’s in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman’s badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper. ... In all these things, and many more, you’ll find America. In all these things, you’ll find freedom. And freedom is what America means to the world. And to me” — Actor, poet, and the most decorated American of World War II, Audie Murphy.

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A testament to a friendship that hopefully will endure forever.

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The pigeons in the picture got it right. Marx was a detestable fraud and he should have listened to his mother.

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Matters of belief and conscience should belong exclusively to the individual and his Maker, not legislators and potentates.

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