Now at the Journal of Libertarian Studies. 

Abstract

Forget everything that conservatives say about individual liberty, personal freedom, property rights, the Constitution, federalism, capitalism, limited government, the free market, and free enterprise. They don’t mean a word of it because they are such incorrigible drug warriors.

The reaction of conservatives to President Trump’s “lethal, kinetic strikes” by the U.S. military against “narco-terrorists” in boats in international waters who were supposedly transporting drugs to the United States is appalling.

Over the weekend, as a US carrier strike group made its way toward Iran, President Trump told Politico, “It’s time to look for new leadership in Iran.” This pro “regime change” statement came just days after the US and Israel-led covert operation to overthrow the Iranian government was finally defeated by Iranian authorities.

“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace.”

This latest gold surge follows President Trump’s weekend threats of new tariffs on eight countries unless they support a U.S. purchase of Greenland.

Over the past decade, a number of social democrats and left-libertarians have taken to claiming that open borders would be an unmitigated boon for any country that allows limitless numbers of foreigners into its territory.

I know that hyperinflation of the US dollar seems like a remote possibility, but alerting yourself to the possibility of a phenomena can improve your understanding of the phenomena and related issues, allow you to make cautionary considerations, and permit yourself to be psychologically toughened to the entire class of remote, but dangerous, events. During the actual occurrence of such phenomena fear and paralysis can occur. Therefore, prior rational thought, learning, and action can help displace such paralysis and make you better prepared to act in the real world.

This week, ISIS (the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria), also known as ISIL, IS, or Daesh, has reappeared in the headlines following the killing of two Iowa National Guardsman—Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar and Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard—in an ISIS airstrike in Palmyra, Syria. These two American men are only the latest of the over 40,000 soldiers, from numerous different nations, who have lost their lives in the war against ISIS—a war which America’s supposed greatest ally against terrorism, Israel, has not assisted.

In his article “The Irrepressible Conflict,” the historian Frank L. Owsley argued that the doctrine of “State Rights” is a political philosophy of decentralization, a worldview that is provincial rather than national in its orientation. It is concerned not only with the interests of states but also with the interests of regions within states.