Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 85

Why Classical-Liberal Constitutionalism Has Failed

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the party of laissez-faire and free markets—known today as “classical liberals”—often pushed a political program that included the adoption of written constitutions. The old liberals—such as the American revolutionaries and French bourgeois reformers—thought that written constitutions would offer a substantial barrier to abuses of state power.

The constitutional program of the classical liberals is not to be confused with its underlying ideology—wh...

Obama Judge Completely Blocks Planned Parenthood Defunding

A pro-abortion activist judge recently revised her own ruling and ordered the federal government to continue sending Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood and other organizations that kill innocent preborn babies.

Massachusetts District Judge Indira Talwani issued a revised injunction on Monday against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

A week prior, she had issued a partial block on the law, only allowing Planned Parenthood facilities and other entities that did not commit abo...

The Epstein Thing and Other Things

While most everyone is talking about the Epstein Thing, fewer are talking about the Palantir Thing or the Genius Thing, which may be one of the reasons for the Epstein Thing. As in, it’s another distraction from the important things.

Certainly it is important to know whether there is a high-level blackmail regime that leverages complicity in sex crimes the way the mafia leverages crimes such as murder. In order to become a made man the applicant must first do a piece of work; i.e., kill someone....

The Hypocricy of the ‘Rabbis’ Letter’ Against Exterminating Gazans

Many news-media throughout the world have reported on a “Rabbis’ letter,” which by now has over a thousand signers, and which opposes Israel’s starving to death whatever Gazans haven’t already been killed by Israel’s troops using the bullets and bombs supplied 69% from the U.S. and 30% from Germany. I haven’t seen in any of those news-reports a link to the document itself, but I finally found the letter in Polish, and autotranslated it by Google; and here it is, titled “The Jewish People face a ...

Is the Trump ‘Mystique’ Broken? Does MAGA Sense Betrayal?

The Epstein cloud is metastasizing and becoming a rallying point for deep-seated popular alienation.

The Epstein cloud is metastasizing and becoming a rallying point for deep-seated popular alienation from certain ruling strata. The public begrudgingly has become resigned to accept that their ‘rulers’ routinely lie and steal, but nonetheless they (particularly within the MAGA faction) have dimly come to understand that there may be vice within the body public which they regard as too detestable ...

What’s Wrong With USA Officials and Cronies? What Can People Do?

For many years, whether new lives would begin was determined by complex constraints, and then how long lives would last was limited by poverty, disease, and injury. More recently all of these constraints have been eased.

Vaccines started getting developed.

Genes were discovered, then got characterized, then started getting read.

People’s constitutional right to sue vaccine producers for harms was treated as nonexistent by most congressmen and a president, and by all subsequent majorities of cong...

‘Blind Ideological Zealotry’ Let EU Agree to This Trump Deal

The European Union and U.S. agreed on a trade deal which cements the vassalization of the EU:

After make-or-break negotiations between President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Scotland, the pair agreed a US tariff on all EU goods of 15%.

That is half the 30% import tax rate Trump had threatened to implement starting on Friday. He said the 27-member bloc would open its markets to US exporters with zero per cent tariffs on certain products.

Von der Leyen als...

RussiaGate, COVID-19, and Criminal Psychology

Some my old friends and family members have asked me if I believe that President Trump was justified in accusing former President Barack Obama of committing treason.

Underlying their question is the thought, Surely Obama wouldn’t have dared to commit such a brazen act against the Constitution, the electoral system, and the American people.

Ordinary citizens have always struggled to recognize that the ruling class has always been in the business of sustaining and augmenting its power and wealth, ...

CIA Director Refers Comey, Brennan, and Hillary Clinton for Criminal Prosecution

In the summer of 2016, months before the public was hit with a barrage of headlines about Donald Trump’s supposed electoral collusion with the Russians, American intelligence agencies had already learned of a plan by Hillary Clinton to plant that erroneous narrative into the mainstream. Nevertheless, top-ranking intelligence chiefs did nothing to unravel Clinton’s plan. Worse, according to the current director of the CIA, they magnified that false claim.

The Russia Collusion hoax was not only a ...

Austrian Perspectives on Social Justice

Fiat justitia, ne pereat mundus—Let justice be done, lest the world perish. With these evocative words, Ludwig von Mises sets justice at the heart of his treatise on free market capitalism, Human Action. Echoing the importance of justice, in Law, Legislation and Liberty Friedrich von Hayek described “rules of just conduct” as “the indispensable foundation and limitation of all law.” Hayek considered it important that, “Government certainly ought to be just in all it does.” But what role does the...