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Nigeria's electronic national identity cards record individuals' personal and biometric data, including fingerprints and photo. The National Identity Number (NIN) is required to open a bank account, apply for a driver's license, vote, get health insurance, and file tax returns.

I joined FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling yesterday to debate the plight of freedom on an FFF podcast. We discussed the war in Ukraine and Americans’ ignorance on foreign policy conniving by Washington and a bevy of other subjects. I commented, “The news nowadays is a horror show that never ends.” I was […]
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The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) issued a decision declaring mandatory vaccines and vaccine certificates (passports) are unconstitutional. The Court noted that both regulations were introduced by narrow segments of executive power branch.

James Fetzer, author of Nobody Died At Sandy Hook, It was a FEMA Drill to Promote Gun Control, was unable to present his evidence in a lawsuit brought against him by a parent of a child reportedly killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. Fetzer plans to take his case to the Supreme Court.

The Department of Homeland Security has released new guidelines on “extremist” behavior, which include questioning the 2020 presidential election, the breach of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, or the COVID pandemic and mandates.

Remember how the notion of freedom was spun by the ideologues of neoliberalism for decades prior to COVID? The freedom to consume. The freedom to make money. The freedom to be plunged into poverty and debt.        Platitudes about ‘individual responsibility’ and ‘standing on your own two feet’. A relentless ideological attack on the state […]

I have people worried that as white writers they will be hit with “cultural appropriation” if they write a novel with characters who are not of their own race. You know the deal — writing about barrios, or ghettos or even a mix of people in a big city, people outside the lily white background […]
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Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes… known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.… No nation could preserve its freedom […]
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Liberals’ Love Affair with Leviathan by James Bovard February 18, 2022 The election of Joe Biden as president magically transformed all federal agencies, ensuring that their iron fists no longer posed any peril to the American people. Or at least that seems to be what many Biden supporters, liberals, and Democrats now believe.Shutting down entire […]
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New York Post, February 15, 2022 Justin Trudeau’s Canadian injustice is just a naked grab for power By James Bovard To save Canadian democracy, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau must first destroy it.  Since the start of the pandemic, Trudeau has acted like COVID entitled him to unlimited power in the name of public safety — […]
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