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2018: The Year to Legalize Marijuana
Marijuana is not as bad as the world makes it out to be.
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Innovation is Being Held Back, but Who’s Doing It?
The market can easily be blamed for holding back humanity, but it is not responsible.
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Choosing Between the GOP and the LP
For a libertarian, the choice between a winnable GOP and a principled LP has no clean answer.
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The Myth of the Social Contract
Taxation is theft, and no social contract was signed that nullifies that statement.
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The Military-Industrial Complex Stands as a Threat to Liberty
With the government using the military-industrial complex to strengthen its position at home, not abroad, liberties are bound to be trampled.
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Gradualism: The Best Friend of a Libertarian in a Statist World
Gradualism isn't compromising.
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'Tis the Season, to Shame the Welfare State
Private charity has proven time and time again it is much more competent in helping the needy than government programs.
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Want to Stop the Next Mass Shooting? Arm More People.
Good people will change this world, not more gun regulations.
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Jury Nullification: A Powerful Tool for the Advancement of Liberty
You may see no better opportunity to advance liberty on an individual yet highly effective level.
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Critiquing Marxism: The Role of Ideas in History
History is driven by ideas that are made by individuals.
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Minarchism is a Political Fallacy
Calling government inefficient and then handing it courts, police, and the military is a contradiction, not a compromise.
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Libertarian Paradise: Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein is a powerhouse and what would seem to be an anomaly, but its success is due to its libertarian tendencies.
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Governmental Regulation: The Antiquated Barrier to Fresh Growth in America - Jesse Stretch
Barriers to growth and virtual impossibilities exist in the governmentally-instituted regulatory system that make starting or growing a small, fully compliant business almost impossible for the average working American.
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Doomed Republic - How Antifa and the Far-Left Will Bring the U.S. to its Knees
History sets a dangerous precedent for what America's future may have in store.
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It is Too Late to Rely on Electoral Politics for Liberty
The only remaining path to liberty is to starve the state of its resources.
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Close Encounters of the Unimportant Kind
How the Pentagon has been spending a whole lot of money on a whole lot of nothing.
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Dear Congress, Do Your Job
Congress has stopped working for their constituents, the American people.
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Adam Smith - Truly an Invisible Hand?
Although Adam Smith argued and developed the Theory of the Invisible Hand, it is important to note that is not his entire theory.
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The Death of Cinema
The falling world of movie theaters can teach us a thing or two about economics.
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Bitcoin's Forgotten Hero: Ross Ulbricht & The Long Silk Road
The story of a man who should be at the forefront of what it means to be a libertarian.
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Unmarked Police Vehicles are Just Another Step into the American Police State
Police vehicles with no clarification of allegiance pose a threat to American liberties.
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From War With Mexico to the Rise of the Republicans: The Politics Leading to the Civil War
How the road from Polk's war to the Compromise of 1850 shattered the Whigs and set the table for civil war.
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Where's the Money? We Could Have Payed Off the Debt by Now
An MSU economist began to review government documents, and he discovered a more serious waste than we could’ve imagined.