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Castro Campaign Fails When Dems Learn It's Not Fidel →

January 3, 2020

A case of mistaken identity also sunk another campaign earlier this year, as New York politician Bob Stalin rode a wave of early popularity but was forced to drop out as people realized he wasn't that Stalin.

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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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“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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“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.”

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Historians generally posit that the Roman welfare state appeared in the last century of the old Republic, beginning with grain subsidies in 123 B.C. But the racket is even older than that, by at least 300 years. Photo credit: Douglas Rissing via iStock.

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China's Past Through a Lens of Liberty
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China's Past Through a Lens of Liberty
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A new, free eBook from FEE. On Chinese history from a liberty perspective by Lawrence W. Reed and Katrina Gulliver.

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When America Bought Land From Denmark
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When America Bought Land From Denmark
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The U.S. never threatened or bullied Denmark before it peacefully purchased the Danish West Indies more than a century ago.

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