Freedom News Digest: SATURDAY, MAY 28, 2022

Keith Preston

4 years ago

[O]ne would have to be thoroughly irrational indeed to surrender self-defense rights to the same people who are so thoroughly uninterested in stopping violent felons.
— Ryan McMaken,
“Police Botched the Uvalde Standoff.
Now Gun Controllers Want to Give Police More Power.” [2022]

May 24, 2022
Statist Ecstasy Over Cuban Suffering
American conservatives, especially the Pentagon and the CIA, have to be in a state of ecstasy over an article about Cuba that appeared in last Sunday’s Washington Post. The article stated that “in a nation plagued by malnutrition,” there is no milk for the Cuban people to purchase. The article points out that Cuba “careens through its worst economic crisis in 30 years” …

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THE FREE SOCIETY

Police Botched the Uvalde Standoff. Now Gun Controllers Want to Give Police More Power.
by Ryan McMaken
Mises Institute

Driving in America
by Karen Kwiatkowski
LewRockwell.com

ECONOMICS

Banning ‘Unconscionable Excessive’ Gas Prices Is Risky Economic Nonsense
by Eric Boehm
Reason

A Gallon of Gas Now Costs More Than the Federal Minimum Wage in These US Cities
by Jon Miltimore
Foundation for Economic Education

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Market Manias: The Fed Has Made Things Worse
by Joseph Solis-Mullen
Mises Institute

FOREIGN POLICY

Are Americans Prepared to Fight a Nuclear War over Taiwan?
by Doug Bandow
Cato Institute

America’s Use of Chemical, Biological, and Nuclear Weapons
by Patrick Macfarlane
Libertarian Institute

REGULATION

Your Flight Is Delayed. Thank the Feds.
by John Stossel
Reason

FREE TRADE

Biden Administration Tacitly Admits Buy America Requirements Are Hindering Efforts to Improve Infrastructure
by Colin Grabow
Cato Institute

SOCIALISM

How One of the Most Renowned Architects in History (Accidentally) Exposed the Problems of Central Planning
by Joseph Kast
Foundation for Economic Education

JFK and the Crisis in Ukraine
by Jacob Hornberger
Jacob Hornberger discusses his new book Encounter with Evil: The Abraham Zapruder Story, and …

Restore Our Republic
by Jacob G. Hornberger
As predictable as thunder following lightning, former CIA director William Gates recently declared that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s increasing assertiveness demonstrate the …

The Vicious Cycle Fueled By America’s Toxic Cult of Violence
by John W. Whitehead
We are caught in a vicious cycle. With alarming regularity, the nation is being subjected to a heartbreaking spate of violence that terrorizes…

Federal Testing Debacle Multiplied COVID Carnage
by James Bovard
On a bitter cold January afternoon, lines of people awaiting free COVID tests stretched around the block at a Rockville, Maryland, public library. Looking …

Conservatism, Libertarianism, and John Stuart Mill
by Laurence M. Vance
Although most conservatives of today seem to have forgotten him, conservatives of yesteryear honored and revered Russell Kirk (1918–1994). After receiving his bachelor’s degree …

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