No matter who is considered the winner of last night’s presidential debate, one thing is painfully clear: Regardless of who wins the election, we will continue to live in an unfree society. The election will simply decide who is going to be our ruler — Donald Trump or Kamala Harris. Unfortunately, the presidential race has been devoid of any discussion of the principles of a genuinely free society. Last night’s debate was no exception. The assumption is that Continue Reading The post Freedom Was the Loser in Last Night’s Debate appeared first on The Future of Freedom Foundation ..read more

As I have written in my last two blog posts (here and here), the U.S. government is prosecuting members of a small political group named the African People’s Socialist Party and its related “Uhuru” movement. The trial is taking place in U.S. District Court in Tampa. The group has been advocating socialism and opposing U.S. imperialism for around 50 years. The feds are prosecuting them as part of their anti-Russia crusade that U.S. officials have been waging Continue Reading The post Tampa Trial on Free Speech Exposes U.S. Hypocrisy appeared first on The Future of Freedom Foundation ..read more

Yesterday, I wrote about a trial in U.S. District Court in Tampa in which federal prosecutors are keeping us safe by prosecuting and hoping to jail members of a group called the African People’s Socialist Party and its related “Uhuru Movement.” (Uhuru is Swahili for “freedom”). The government is alleging that the defendants have been secretly working as Russian agents to sow discord and conflict among the American people. So, they’re going after them for not registering with Continue Reading The post First They Came for the Communists appeared first on The Future of Freedom Foundation ..read more

If you have been pacing the floor over the possibility that the Russkies are trying to influence your vote in the 2024 elections, you can sleep well tonight. That’s because the feds are currently prosecuting four members of the African People’s Socialist Party in a trial in federal district court in Tampa. What is the African People’s Socialist Party? Good question! I certainly had never heard of them, and I’m willing to bet that neither have you. It Continue Reading The post A Federal Prosecution in Florida Is Keeping Us Safe from the Russkies appeared first on The Future of Freedom Foundati ..read more

It absolutely amazes me that there are still people who defend a government-mandated minimum wage. It is truly a testament to the long-lasting effect of indoctrination and propaganda to which students are subjected in public (i.e. government) schools and state-supported colleges and universities. The latest example of this phenomenon is the editorial board at the Los Angeles Times. In an editorial yesterday, the Times called for an increase in the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. Continue Reading The post Economic Ignorance on the Minimum Wage appeared first on The Future of Freedom Fo ..read more

Leave it to Donald Trump’s vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance to enunciate the rightwing view on bureaucracy, a view that is diametrically opposed to the libertarian view. According to an article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, which criticizes Vance for his “disregard for the constitutional balance of powers and the rule of law,” Vance stated in a 2021 interview: “Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state. Replace them with our people.” It would be Continue Reading The post The Rightwing View on Bureaucracy Is Wrongheaded appeared first on ..read more

The Los Angeles Times has just published an article that proposes a way for the U.S. government to oust Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro from power: “The harshest possible sanctions must be leveled against Maduro and all state-owned industries to make an exit plan his best option.” The article was authored by Kristina Foltz, “a researcher and writer based in California and Colombia.” Wow! What a brilliant idea! Ingenious, really. Why didn’t anyone think of that idea before now? Continue Reading The post Leave Venezuela Alone appeared first on The Future of Freedom Foundation ..read more

An editorial in the Los Angeles Times endorses the growing trend to ban cell phones in public schools. The editorial points out that school districts all across the country are enacting such bans. The Times writes: The 2024-25 school year may be the tipping point when adults act to curb kids’ phone addiction and regain their attention. It’s about time…. Nearly three-fourths of high school teachers surveyed last fall said that students being distracted by their cellphones in the Continue Reading The post Should the State Ban Cell Phones In Its Public Schools? appeared first on The Fu ..read more

If a survey were to be conducted asking the American people whether they favor America’s system of “free enterprise,” my hunch is that at least 90 percent of them would respond, “Of course. As an American, I strongly support our nation’s system of free enterprise.” But how many people actually ponder the meaning of that term? My hunch is: Not very many. I’d say that most people favor America’s “free-enterprise” economic system simply because that’s what everyone is Continue Reading The post What Does “Free Enterprise” Really Mean? appeared first on The Future of Freedom Foundation ..read more

To honor Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s endorsement of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (after Kennedy was rebuffed by Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris), Trump announced that if Americans elect him president again, this time around he will order a release of the CIA’s long-secret JFK-assassination-related records. What a crock. What amazes me is that Trumpsters believe anything and everything this guy says, despite his proven track record of failing to tell the truth. Remember: Trump was president Continue Reading The post Trump Is Lying about Releasing the JFK Records app ..read more