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Crossing the Rubicon

by Jacob G. Hornberger July 11, 2003

Have you noticed how many Americans get upset over the comparisons that are increasingly being made between the United States and National Socialist Germany? After all, it’s not as though we’re living in a police state, right? Well, if U.S. officials could somehow assure us that the U.S. government’s treatment ...

What’s Happened to America?

by Sheldon Richman July 4, 2003

Who says the government schools and the welfare state don’t work? They work perfectly. They were designed to put the American people into a political coma, and that’s what they’ve done. The objective would never be framed that way. The politicians would say that the purpose was to create ...

Celebrating the Fourth of July

by Jacob G. Hornberger July 4, 2003

Let’s not mince words: The “freedom” that Americans celebrate today is opposite to the freedom that Americans celebrated on, say, July 4, 1890. Think about it: In 1890, Americans were celebrating a way of life in which there was no income tax, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, drug war, gun control, ...

What’s Happened to America?

by Sheldon Richman July 4, 2003

Who says the government schools and the welfare state don’t work? They work perfectly. They were designed to put the American people into a political coma, and that’s what they’ve done. The objective would never be framed that way. The politicians would say that the purpose was to create ...

Drugged Up on Power

by Sheldon Richman July 2, 2003

Congress, pushed by a president who clearly intends to get reelected partly by stealing the Democrats’ ideas, is moving toward expanding Medicare to include prescription drugs. That may be good news for win-at-any-price Republicans, but it’s bad news for sound medical care, and, more important, for individual liberty. Here’s ...

Axing the Drug-Terrorism Ad Campaign

by Paul Armentano July 2, 2003

“Where do terrorists get their money? If you buy drugs, some of it might come from you.” Or so claimed a year-long series of U.S. taxpayer-funded public service announcements (PSAs) alleging that recreational drug use sponsors international terrorism. Nevertheless, despite the Bush administration’s having spent tens of millions ...

Selected Bibliography from The Failure of America’s Foreign Wars

by Richard M. Ebeling July 2, 2003

The following is a bibliography of revisionist works that was included in The Failure of America’s Foreign Wars, published by The Future of Freedom Foundation in 1996. The bibliography was prepared by Richard M. Ebeling. Acton, Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton). “Nationality,” in Essays in the History of Liberty. Indianapolis, Ind.: Liberty Classics, 1985. Ambrose, ...

Introduction to The Failure of America’s Foreign Wars

by Richard M. Ebeling July 2, 2003

The following is the introduction to The Failure of America’s Foreign Wars, published by The Future of Freedom Foundation in 1996. The twentieth century has been the era of the social engineer. Regardless of the labels the social engineer has chosen to use at various times and in different places—communism, socialism, fascism, Nazism, social ...

Preface to The Failure of America’s Foreign Wars

by Jacob G. Hornberger July 2, 2003

The following is the preface to The Failure of America’s Foreign Wars, published by The Future of Freedom Foundation in 1996. For over one hundred years, the American way of life was unique: no income taxation, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, public schooling, economic regulations, or welfare. Except for allowing slavery, government’s role was primarily ...

There Is No Freedom in Iraq, Part 1

by Jacob G. Hornberger July 1, 2003

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Given that U.S. forces have failed to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, U.S. officials have focused on an alternative justification for having invaded that country — to free the Iraqi people from tyranny through military force and to establish democracy after the war. Contrary to popular American opinion, however, ...

Planning and Social Engineering at Home and Abroad

by Richard M. Ebeling July 1, 2003

How often do we look at those around us and think to ourselves: How absurd, dangerous, misguided, or foolish is so much of their conduct? How often do we then think to ourselves: If only they would listen to what we have to say, do as we suggest, learn from our experiences, and act in ways that we know ...

Foreign Policy in One Lesson

by Sheldon Richman July 1, 2003

“The art of economics,” Henry Hazlitt wrote in his classic, Economics in One Lesson, “consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.” This sensible principle has attained the status of Great Truth among ...