The Nanny State’s Road to Serfdom by Jeffrey A. Singer May 1, 2007 A reader wrote me about my article “The Slippery Slope of Nanny-State Politics,” which appeared in the last issue of Freedom Daily. The article derided the rise of the “nanny state” and its threat to our way of life as a free people. I had written that New York ...
Sophie Scholl: A Life of Moral Courage by Wendy McElroy May 1, 2007 The 2005 German film Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (Die letzten Tage) depicts the anti-Nazi heroine Sophie Magdalena Scholl (May 9, 1921 February 22, 1943). Sophie and her brother, Hans, were leading members of a nonviolent resistance group called the White Rose. Five students in their early twenties formed the group in 1942 at the University of Munich. The ...
The Sham of the Padilla Trial by Jacob G. Hornberger April 30, 2007 Jury selection in the Jose Padilla case is now under way in federal district court in Miami, but the trial is nothing more than a sham. Why? Because no matter how the jury rules, Padilla is almost certain to remain incarcerated for a long time. If Padilla is convicted by the jury, the judge ...
Why Markets Are Dreaded by Tibor R. Machan April 27, 2007 In one of those vapid, in-house disputes often published in The New York Review of Books’s letters-to-the-editor sections, we can read about a disagreement among educational experts under the heading “Scandals in Higher Education: An Exchange” (4/26/07). Well, not much of a disagreement because none of the participants gives ...
Single-Day Registrations Now Available by Jacob G. Hornberger April 27, 2007 Because we have received many requests for daily registrations for our June 1-4 conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties, we have decided to open up the conference to per-day registrations. The new per-day registration fees will be as follows: Friday, June 1: $195 Saturday, June ...
The Lesson of Virginia Tech by Sheldon Richman April 25, 2007 The lesson from the horrors at Virginia Tech is that no one can really, fully delegate to another his right to and responsibility for self-defense. You may feel the municipal or campus police are looking out for you, but no police force can guarantee to be where you need it when ...
The Real Tragedy of Waco by Glenn Jacobs April 23, 2007 April 19 marked the 14-year anniversary of the BATF-FBI massacre of the Branch Davidians at Waco, Texas. Some might say that the use of the word “massacre” is harsh, instead opting to call it a “tragedy.” After close examination of the events of April ...
Leading CEO to Speak at FFF Conference by Jacob G. Hornberger April 23, 2007 Note: Please forward this page to your friends. Richard Vague, one of the nations leading CEOs, has been added to the roster of speakers at The Future of Freedom Foundations upcoming conference "Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties." Mr. Vague joins 23 other outstanding libertarian, liberal, and conservative speakers who will address these two critical issues during our ...
Speaker Spotlight: Laurence Vance and Ted Galen Carpenter by Jacob G. Hornberger April 20, 2007 This week were spotlighting Laurence Vance and Ted Galen Carpenter, both of whom are among the 24 speakers at our June 1-4 conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties at the Hyatt Regency Reston in Reston, Virginia. If there was ever a person who reflected the genuine patriotism ...
What’s to Lose? by Sheldon Richman April 20, 2007 The other day President Bush charged the congressional Democrats with wanting to “legislate defeat” in Iraq. It’s a standard political ploy to smear one’s opponents, but maybe we should follow this line of thought (if that’s not too dignified a word) and see where it leads. What would an American defeat ...
Once Again, Gun Control Doesn’t Work by Jacob G. Hornberger April 18, 2007 To belabor the obvious, murderers do not obey restrictions on gun possession, contrary to the long-repeated suggestion of the gun-control crowd — that if we simply enact such restrictions into law, murderers will comply with them. As we once again see in the context of the Virginia Tech massacre, ...
Imus’s Free-Speech Rights Were Not Violated by Jacob G. Hornberger April 16, 2007 Contrary to what some people are suggesting, the firing of Don Imus for his racist comments about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team did not constitute censorship and it did not violate Imus’s freedom of speech. Instead, the controversy revolved around the principles of private property, freedom of contract, and the ...