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The Selective Service is an antiquated, legacy program that has outlived its usefulness to America.

According to the Selective Service website, the program’s mission is “To register men and maintain a system that, when authorized by the President and Congress, rapidly provides personnel in a fair and equitable manner while managing an alternative service program for conscientious objectors.”

Recently, the legal system debated whether women should continue to be excluded from the draft. A better discussion would be whether the draft should be abolished. Regardless of who is supposed to register, the program is ineffective, costly, and unnecessary.

In Philadelphia, the health department wants to regulate whether convenience stores can use bulletproof glass. The councilwoman who is championing this idea calls the bulletproof glass an “indignity” in poorer neighborhoods. Presumably store owners use this bulletproof glass because they think they need it for their safety. Bulletproof glass is not cheap, so they wouldn’t …

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After a return trip from Afghanistan, I was driving through East Texas, and stopped at a small town gas station. I left the gas pumping and went in to use the bathroom. Due to my black beard and darker skin, the two fellows manning the gas station apparently assumed I was not only Arab, but a terrorist, and used colorful racist insults while contemplating their next move. While I was in the bathroom, they considered breaking into the bathroom and assaulting me, in case I had a suicide vest on. I walked out instead of buying road trip snacks, but I was livid that I had already paid them $40 for gas. Had they simply had a sign outside saying “No Ragheads or Sand N*****s Allowed”, I would have never spent any money there. I still get angry when I think about that $40.

In the pages of Foreign Policy, Max Boot argues that the Pentagon doesn’t have the money to do its job. He’s right.

It will be interesting to follow Meghan Markle’s story over the next several months as she deals with many complexities, including the IRS. American citizens who move abroad are still taxed by the IRS and the IRS demands that foreign banks give them information on accounts held by Americans. As a result, it can be …

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In a recent poll, three-quarters of the millennials surveyed said they wanted a third party. For more information, click here:  Read more

The Charles Koch Institute has been surveying Americans’ thoughts on foreign policy. In this piece, they compare that with survey data from veterans. Do American interventions abroad make us safer? Click to read more. Read more

Army reservist Lisa Jaster writes, “Adversity does not build character, it reveals it. Some rise to the challenge while other shrink. There were so many people who grew up in the area, had family close, or knew someone nearby who were helping. What amazed me most was the number of former military members who were …

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“The Libertarian Party defaults to liberty. We want people to be free to make their own decisions without interference from the government and we think that the only proper role of government is to defend people from force and fraud.”  Read more

If you’ve stumbled onto this website the odds are you’re libertarian, a veteran, or both. Veterans tend to support liberty-leaning candidates and positions more than the average American citizen does. Libertarian Veterans can be found along the entire liberty-oriented political spectrum, from the radical margins of Anarcho Capitalism (and Communism for that matter) to mainstream …

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