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The Myth of a Risk-free Life

by Tibor R. Machan November 28, 2007

Skiers sometimes die, as do mountain climbers and motorcyclists and bicyclists, because what they do routinely is dangerous, risky. Indeed, there is very little in human life that does not entail some measure of risk, even fatal risk. When I moved into Silverado Canyon in Orange Country, CA, I did so ...

Iraq 3.0

by Sheldon Richman November 28, 2007

One gets the feeling that even the White House realizes the mess it’s made of Iraq. The other day the newspapers reported that the Bush administration has scaled back its objectives rather substantially. We might call it Iraq 3.0. First the plan was to create a democratic paradise which, domino-like, ...

Advancing Liberty With Your Support

by Jacob G. Hornberger November 26, 2007

Dear Friend of FFF, The Future of Freedom Foundation is seeking your end-of-year financial support. We are fighting harder than ever to move our country in a better, freer, and more peaceful, prosperous, and harmonious direction. We need your generous support to continue spreading ideas on liberty far and wide. Imagine an America that is once again leading the way in ...

The Soviet-Style Attack on NORFED

by Jacob G. Hornberger November 21, 2007

It would be difficult to find a better example of federal heavy-handedness than the recent six-hour federal raid on NORFED, the National Organization for the Repeal of the Federal Reserve and Internal Revenue Code. In fact, it would be virtually impossible to distinguish the NORFED raid from similar raids ...

Should the State License Human Beings?

by Sheldon Richman November 21, 2007

Democratic presidential candidates are tripping over the driver’s-licenses-for-illegal-aliens issue like a bunch of old slapstick vaudevillians. What’s so comical about their antics is that the issue demonstrates that politicians are locked into bad assumptions from top to bottom. Start with driver’s licenses. In one debate Sen. Chris Dodd said driving ...

Life & Property

by Tibor R. Machan November 16, 2007

When both life and property are threatened, there is much talk about how property is only stuff, easy to replace, so one should be concerned only or primarily with life. There are even those who disparage the right to private property, claiming it is not really a human right at all. ...

The CIA’s Detention, Interrogation, and Rendition Program (video)

by Joanne Mariner November 16, 2007

On June 3, 2007, Joanne Mariner gave the following Speech at FFF’s conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.

The Foolishness and Immorality of Gun Control

by Scott McPherson November 14, 2007

I sent a pro-gun commentary from a British newspaper to a liberal friend of mine, and he replied that if we just banned the manufacture of firearms on a worldwide level there wouldn’t be any crime or genocides like the one going on in Darfur. He then suggested that I ...

Heading Towards the Police State

by Bart Frazier November 14, 2007

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. — Thomas Jefferson Every year the United States becomes less free; the state controls more of our lives, takes more of our money, and takes from ...

Vouchers or School Choice?

by Sheldon Richman November 12, 2007

The voters of Utah said no to school vouchers on Tuesday. More than 60 percent of voters refused to ratify a bill passed earlier by the state legislature. It would have provided taxpayer-funded vouchers for each government-school student, ranging from $500 to $3,000, depending on family income. Students currently in ...

Legal Idiocy and the War on Terror (video)

by Joseph Margulies November 9, 2007

On June 2, 2007, Joseph Margulies gave the following Speech at FFF’s conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.

A Day in the Life of an Unwilling “Federal Agent”

by Gary D. Barnett November 9, 2007

Today I received my fourth-quarter 2007 Anti-Money Laundering Training Program notice. After my “mandatory” compliance, I must agree with everything stated in the “training” through the Compliance Attestation System. Although the manner and frequency of this forced training has changed somewhat, it is still required or else, this since the passage of the USA PATRIOT Act. Every quarter, “new and ...