President Trump’s latest anti-broadcast media actions are portrayed in legacy media as being unprecedented. While they definitely are outrageous, they hardly are the first time presidents have used federal agencies to go after broadcast opposition.
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Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org
Presidents Have a Long History of Using the FCC to Silence Their Critics
President Trump’s latest anti-broadcast media actions are portrayed in legacy media as being unprecedented. While they definitely are outrageous, they hardly are the first time presidents have used federal agencies to go after broadcast opposition.
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Why the Government Is So Loved by So Many
Men can be trained to regard their exploiters as the virtuous architects of safety and prosperity, as so many so-called "citizens" in America are relentlessly trained to do.
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Henry David Thoreau and the Well-Worn Road to Serfdom
Henry David Thoreau is supposedly an American icon and his Walden an alleged work of genius. In truth, Thoreau was a fraud and his anti-capitalist screeds were intellectually and economically incoherent.
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FBI had 275 plainclothes agents embedded in Jan. 6 crowds
Disclosure by the FBI to Congress answers a long-simmering question but does not reveal what the agents did that day.
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African Slavery: The Other Side
Thanks to Marxist historians, Americans are told that slavery in the 18th and 19th centuries was centered around the United States. The truth is that slavery was widely practiced in Africa long before America was settled and has continued to this present day.
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Keir Starmer set to announce digital ID cards for all UK adults
As in the US, immigration control is used in the UK as an excuse to push more government surveillance and control.
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New Online Texts from the Levellers and David Hart
If you’re not familiar with David M. Hart's online library of texts from classical liberals and libertarians, be sure to check it out here.
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Establishment Fears About Trump’s Focus on the Fed Are About Optics, Not Policy
The political establishment is trying to stoke panic that Trump is “politicizing” the Federal Reserve. But it’s already political. The real danger, from their perspective, is not that Trump is changing the Fed; it’s that he’s making its true nature harder to hide.
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Napolitano: Free Speech and Its Discontents
"Government at its core is the negation of freedom. Hence it wants to silence those who expose its errors and rid itself of those who challenge it."
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The British Healthcare System Remains One of the Worst in Europe
While politicians neglect healthcare and focus on their own public relations, ordinary Britons are increasingly feeling the weight of their own internal health problems.
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Establishment Fears About Trump’s Focus on the Fed Are About Optics, Not Policy
The political establishment is trying to stoke panic that Trump is “politicizing” the Federal Reserve. But it’s already political. The real danger, from their perspective, is not that Trump is changing the Fed; it’s that he’s making its true nature harder to hide.
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Jimmy Kimmel: An American Tragedy
The irony of the Jimmy Kimmel controversy is that he owed his spot at ABC precisely because his work was non-political. Unfortunately in modern America, professional clowns feel they must become political tools.
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Tariffs Won’t Ever Make American Businesses “Absorb Costs”
As tariffs force up business costs, analysts are claiming that businesses will have to “absorb costs” to stay in business. That is not a sustainable strategy, as businesses cannot survive under these high-cost circumstances.
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Jimmy Kimmel: An American Tragedy
The irony of the Jimmy Kimmel controversy is that he owed his spot at ABC precisely because his work was non-political. Unfortunately in modern America, professional clowns feel they must become political tools.
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Why the Government Is So Loved by So Many
Men can be trained to regard their exploiters as the virtuous architects of safety and prosperity, as so many so-called "citizens" in America are so relentlessly trained to do.
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Discrimination Is Libertarian
In a free society, the right to choose whom to associate with is fundamental, even when the choice is controversial.
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How Equal Protection Laws Threaten Free Speech
Equal protection laws supposedly protect individual rights by guaranteeing the law protects everyone equally. However, Murray Rothbard noted that these laws often are used to suppress those rights.
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The mission of the Mises Institute is to preserve, promote and advance the ideas that can create a better, freer, and more prosperous world.
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