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• Insane Homeland Security Spending Doesn’t Make Us Safer
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  James Bovard | Tuesday, January 2, 2018

  After the 9/11 attacks, Congress and the Bush administration pretended that unlimited federal spending was one of the best ways to thwart terrorist threats. In 2002, Congress created the Homeland Security Department, sweeping some of the most inept federal agencies into the new mega-department. Congress also created numerous programs to shovel out more than $30 billion in anti-terrorism funding to local and state governments.

• Consumer Protection Doesn’t Require Government Intervention
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  Richard M. Ebeling | Wednesday, December 13, 2017

  Capitalism is a wondrous human institution for the mutual betterment for all in society. Yet, critics often insist that market systems enable sellers to take advantage of buyers. However, market competition generates the incentives and opportunities to earn profits precisely by not misinforming or cheating the buyer.

• Meet the Special Interests Keeping Marijuana Criminalized
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  Laura Williams | Friday, December 1, 2017

  In this era of political polarization, when Americans seem to agree on absolutely nothing, let me reassure you. We overwhelmingly agree that cannabis should be legal.

  So what’s the hold-up?

• Rich People Don’t Actually “Hide” Their Money
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  John Tamny | Friday, November 17, 2017

  While there are surely some congenital socialist holdouts in our midst, most in the U.S. now acknowledge that socialism and communism don’t work. The 20^th century revealed in bloody fashion what happens when governments become too powerful, such that economic and personal freedom are suffocated. Freedom works, and it works very well.

• Property Rights Help Environmentalists Protect Wildlife
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  Shawn Regan | Sunday, August 6, 2017

  For some environmental groups, oil and wildlife never mix – except when it comes to their own property.

• American Men, Quit Your Whining
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  John Tamny | Tuesday, May 23, 2017

  There is a very popular – and very first-world – narrative that is increasingly being passed around within the US commentariat about the “grave ill” supposedly infecting America: the decline of the working male. Back in reality, this alleged crisis simply isn’t.

• Under the Hood at FEE: Some Lesser-Known Facts, Past and Present
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  Lawrence W. Reed | Monday, February 20, 2017

  FEE is 71 years old this year, one of the oldest existing “free market” educational organizations in the world. You probably already know all that if you’ve been following us for a few months or more. But as you might imagine, there’s an endless array of interesting “under the hood” facts about an organization with our long history and recent, remarkable growth. Here are just a few you might not know.

• Electronic Privacy Laws are Obsolete
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  Daniel J. Mitchell | Monday, February 13, 2017

  DOJ bureaucrats are exploiting old laws that don’t provide clear guidance on how to deal with modern technology. Fortunately, that’s something that should be easy to fix.

• The Intellectual Conceit of IQ Ideology
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  Jeffrey A. Tucker | Monday, August 15, 2016

  The search for some measurable standard of intelligence – and implicitly human value itself – has a deep history that is bound up with the emergence of the planned society, eugenics, and the 20th century leviathan state.

• Afraid of Technology? Here’s the One Rule to Follow
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  Cathy Reisenwitz | Wednesday, July 27, 2016

  Hold onto your shoes, luddites, because now Facebook’s got drones. But the company isn’t dropping bombs or mixtapes – it’s dropping internet connectivity. Not everyone is thrilled.