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by Joel Poindexter, LewRockwell.com In what is best described as a thinly veiled attempt to further indoctrinate children, the Playmobil and Maisto companies have introduced several toys over the past couple of years that promote drone warfare and police-statism. One…

Let’s be clear: Gun control, as a policy, isn’t about banning guns from society, because someone will always have them. It’s about who will control them. If you really want to reduce gun violence, the first step is to ban…

Bet you didn’t know this one: under the federal Lacey Act, it is a crime to import stuff in violation of another nation’s laws. Thus, Americans are responsible for knowing the laws of foreign countries, even when those statutes are…

This is by no means a comprehensive list. There are many more out there, but these are a few that I check on a regular basis. I have a more extensive (but still not comprehensive) list here. As a demographic,…

Don’t think like a slave. Think like a free man, and you’ll see all the infringements on your God-given liberty. The national debt is a scam in which the members of the Federal Reserve get rich by counterfeiting money, lending…

To live free in this world, you have to understand basic principles of liberty. Unfortunately, these principles are not taught in state schools because individual liberty is antithetical to state power. The last thing our rulers want is for us…

Norovirus (“stomach flu”) is one of the most infectious viruses around. It takes fewer than 20 virus particles to infect someone, so each droplet of vomit has enough virus to infect over 100,000 people. In the United States, norovirus causes…

Hoppe: War and aggression are costly. States go to war because they can, via taxes, pass on the cost to third parties who are not directly involved. By contrast, for voluntarily financed companies war is economic suicide. As a private…