Granting "amnesty" supposes that a wrong was committed. But an immigrant without papers has done nothing wrong.
There's no point splitting hairs over whether Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio is the biggest warmonger. Both love the bloody and costly U.S. empire.
The Bill of Rights largely embodied uncontroversial traditional rights of Englishmen.
Trump shares many things with mainline conservatism.
Why should libertarians celebrate the blueprint that made powerful government possible?
What's a war party to do when the Official Enemy won't act like it?
For those who wield power and those who profit by being near it, the system works well.
Clinton's intervention in Libya discredits her claim that she learned the lesson of Iraq.
Terrorism is the use of violence against noncombatants for a political purpose. That's not what's happening here.
Singing about peace and goodwill while cheering America's warrior state is a repulsive spectacle.
The U.S. government and its accomplices are waging actual war. In contrast, terrorists commit crimes.
How likely is an American to be a victim of terrorism?
Nothing about the word radical implies approval of aggression or terrorism.
The explanation is far more political than religious.
Those who insist that market anarchism cannot work because it lacks a monopolistic court of final jurisdiction are wrong.
Assad was our son of a bitch when the U.S. government needed him. Then he outlived his usefulness.
We shouldn't fear extending our hand to those who flee oppression. A world of zero risk is not an option, but the risk here is not significant.
Missing in many media accounts of Paris terrorism was any reference to France's bombing of Syria or that France is Syria's former colonial overlord.
Trump's proposed violence against families and communities is a recipe for social strife fueled by bigotry.
Despite his intentions, Sanders is an unwitting defender of the status quo.
If we really live under a representative government, how can a president take the country to war in Syria without even a show vote in Congress?
Individual persons who did no harm to anyone are being slaughtered and starved with the help of American politicians and military bureaucrats.
A reminder upon the death of U.S. Army Master Sgt. Joshua Wheeler, the first American to die in combat in Iraq since 2011.
The major political parties both push policies that endanger our most basic liberties.
Our lethal and self-defeating Middle East policy appears more aimed at Iran and its allies than at the radical jihadi network that perpetrated 9/11.
An anti-politician politician is someone who holds that the only thing wrong with government is that professionals run it. He or she never eschews power itself.
For liberty lovers it will be a long road to November 8, 2016.
The only defender guaranteed to be present at any attack against you is you.
The ruling elite's machinations bear no relationship to the general interest of Americans. Think what the American empire would be if we refused to cooperate.
How exactly will high import taxes help "make America great" again?
Iran should be thanked for this valuable service.
Iran has not been seeking a nuclear bomb.
The Obama administration, of course, is amenable.
Rothbard's For a New Liberty is an eloquent statement on how libertarians should grapple with political reality.
The good that will come out of this agreement cannot be overstated. But the agreement has a significant downside too.
Imagining an effective strategy aimed at social transformation is an intrinsically complex matter, and no single method will succeed.
Like Scalia, Thomas sides with the ersatz "liberty" of the People (a collectivist notion) against the real liberty of the several persons.
If you think self government means each person is free to govern himself or herself and that the protection of rights and equality under the law serve that end-Scalia says you're wrong.
The state should not be involved in marriage. But libertarians who think that this is all that need be said are wrong.
People demand "gun control" while grieving over the racist massacre in Charleston, but gun rights have proven pivotal to black Americans' safety and freedom.
A world "designed to work perfectly" was no part of major libertarian thinkers' intention.
The president's rationalization for autocratic military action is a license for unchecked global war.
If Magna Carta was a key moment in the West's advancement toward classical liberalism, the trajectory was neither straight nor smooth.
For our own safety, we must disband these squads of killers.
Power thrives in complexity, just as roaches flourish in the dark.
The NSA and kindred agencies have many more arrows in their quiver than Section 215.
The only way for the state to truly respect our liberty would be to dismantle itself.
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