Lew Rockwell blog

It seems that every once in a while, our political classes and their media partners place the mantle of "Keeper of the Secret" upon a political figure. After he was assassinated (but not before) John F. Kennedy was given that...

Writes Danny Ajamian: "I have just checked into a hotel in Barcelona, and CNBC was carrying Barack Obama live in Berlin. I think Bush, McCain, Clinton, etc., could have delivered the same speech. "He showed his embracing of one world,...

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Dub-Yuh says "Wall Street got drunk," referring to the Fed/Bush admiistration-generated recession we're in. Naturally, the obvious response by the administration is to throw a $250 billion subsidy at the "drunks" on Wall Street in the form of the Fannie/Freddie...

The progressive Democrats, like Dennis Kucinich, appear to have voted for more bankster-corporate-state welfare. The real defenders of the common man, like Ron Paul, oppose such fascism....

This time to reward the fascist Fannie and Freddie, other corrupt agencies, the banks, and politically connected borrowers. Oh, and this monstrous "law" includes further crackdowns on our privacy for the tax police. Just another day in the district of...

State and local governments, lacking the printing press of the Fed, can only borrow or raise taxes or cut back when revenues fall. And there are real limits on the first two, especially in a depression. So kicking and screaming,...

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Isn't it funny how much gold and silver have gone up in value since the government commanded that they are not money? The contradictions of state socialism are everywhere: Ever since the government stopped declaring war, we haven't had a...

"I want to make it as difficult as possible to open gun stores" in D.C., says the chairman of the D.C. city council....

The "Free Enterprise Action Fund" apparently thinks the SEC can be a force for good: see its press release: "SEC petitioned to warn companies against making false and misleading claims on global warming; Misinformation puts investors at risk, says Free...

I will gladly pile the bodies high in Iran, Obama told government officials in Israel, to protect your nuclear monopoly. I will obliterate homes, businesses, charities, mosques, whole towns and cities. I will kill babies, children, women, men, the sick...

Contra Jeff Tucker, neocon Ben Shapiro views The Dark Knight as a perfect metaphor for the Bushian Global War on Terror. The Joker represents pure evil, with whom no negotiation is possible, just like them doggone towelheads in al-Qaeda; and...

Because by adding the taser to the state's arsenal of tools of political power, the government can generally more efficiently control its subjects (whereas firearms can result lethal and a dead subject means fewer taxes). I say generally because sometimes...

Bush is recorded at a fundraiser explaining his Depression: "Wall Street got drunk." This is a version of Keynes's "animal spirits." Our increasing economic troubles have nothing to do with his inflationary policy and the Federal Reserve, with his wars...

Thanks so much to Niels van der Linden for putting the LRC Podcasts on YouTube....

First we had nipple ring removals and now, 70-year old men made to strip in front of everyone else. The problem? A knee replacement sets off the detectors and, unfortunately, also sets off the state agents. In Chicago, people like...

"I know how to win wars," McKill told an audience of 200 GOP hacks in Baltimore last night. Here's McKill's secret formula: 1. Fly an airplane several miles in the sky dropping incendiary bombs on civilians; 2. Get shot down;...

When you click on the link to the Tom Woods podcast, you can also subscribe to the feed and iTunes....

And since it represented a centralizing coup by the Federalists against the far more libertarian Articles of Confederation, should we care? I interview Tom Woods for LRC Podcast #3....