PROVIDENCE R.I. (July 18, 2016) – Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo has signed a bill legalizing the production and processing of industrial hemp for commercial purposes in the state, setting the foundation to nullify federal prohibition in practice. A coalition of five Democrats introduced House Bill 8232 (H8232) on May 19. As introduced, the legislation would…
Recently, I reported on the unconstitutional Republican fix for unconstitutional Obamacare. Now it seems Obama himself has an unconstitutional fix for his unconstitutional Obamacare. While the so-called affordable care act has increased the level of insurance coverage in the country, it has utterly failed in one of Obama’s primary promises – that competition introduced through…
The Republican Party has put language into its party platform championing “Right to Try” laws that set the foundation to nullify in practice some Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules that deny access to experimental treatments by terminally ill patients. Last week, the Republican Party platform committee met in Cleveland to discuss a wide variety of…
Americans have an obsession with centralizing regulatory functions in the federal government. Whether it be environmental, business or safety regulations, people reflexively turn to D.C. Most Americans believe only uniform dictates from the feds can adequately regulate various professions and industries. But the field of nursing proves this assumption wrong. In an article published on…
The federal government violates our rights on many levels. Some of those violations are relatively minor compared to more egregious infringements. Yet those smaller instances often vividly reveal of what has been lost on a greater level. An article on the early days of commercial aviation offers a visual description as to what Americans have…
An FBI program to collect iris scans and create a searchable database demonstrates how local law enforcement enables the federal surveillance state. According to documents uncovered by The Verge, the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department has collected at least 200,000 iris scans and submitted them to the FBI over the last two and a half years.…
The bottom line? There is no "liberty vs safety" debate. We can only be safe when we’re free.
Under certain circumstances, seemingly decent human beings are capable of horrific things. So it is with Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who parlayed his sound money bona fides into the top post at America’s private banking cartel and current issuer of our un-backed currency. In betrayal of his own stated free-market principles, Greenspan spent…
The weekend before Independence Day, I recorded an interview with Jeff Deist for the Mises Weekends podcast on strategies for liberty. This was my first time with Mises, and being that their site has been a great resource for me personally over the years, I was really honored to have had a chance to be…
The U.S. Constitution states that the President can make treaties with the advice and consent of the Senate, provided two thirds of Senators present concur.