The Year America Dissolved | CounterPunch.org

It will happen in MMXVII says Paul Craig Roberts.

Abolish the Agriculture Department | Future of Freedom Foundation

The flap surrounding Shirley Sherrod's racial comments is a masquerade to a larger problem of the State's involvement in farming says Jacob Hornberger.

Tuckers found in contempt for failing to pay AG in pre-need settlement | West Virginia Record

Judge Nibert orders sale of Foglesong-Tucker Funeral Home by Aug. 6 to satisfy agreement.

What's Wrong With the American University System | The Atlantic

Plenty say Queens College Professor Andrew Hacker and New York Times reporter Claudia Dreifus in their new book "Higher Education?: Why Colleges Are Wasting Our Money, Failing Our Kids and What We Can Do About It.”

Will misguided patriotism destroy freedom of speech? | The Rutherford Institute

John Whitehead channels Samuel Johnson in saying the scoundrels in D.C. are hiding behind the flag-draped coffins of American soldiers in an attempt to subvert the First Amendment.

Live Aid: 25 Years Later | The Partial Observer

If the past is prologue, then Third World nations will never benefit from celebrity benefit concerts says James LeRoy Wilson.

The Fable of the Bees (UPDATED) | LewRockwell.com

Gary North takes to poetry to explain the current economic environment.

Tom Woods takes questions about new book Nullification

The Right To Nullify This Government | Human Events

Historian and author Tom Woods explains how suprisingly often a misunderstood concept has been used, and why it's needed today.

Inflating War | The American Conservative

Tom DiLorenzo explains who how governments use debt and war to keep its citizens in bondage.