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No One Should Be Forced to Act against His Conscience

by Sheldon Richman February 16, 2012

A question arises from the recent controversy between President Obama and the Catholic Church that aches for an answer: If Catholic institutions have a right to abstain from paying for what morally offends them, why don’t the rest of us? The initial Obamacare rule held that all employers, in fulfilling their new legal requirement to provide health insurance to their ...

In Defense of Censorship

by Laurence M. Vance February 15, 2012

I was intrigued by the headline I saw in an evangelical magazine: “Google, iTunes, Facebook All Censor Christian Views.” The article turned out to be about the recent release at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., of a report by the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) on censorship by “new media” communications platforms. The report is called True Liberty in a ...

The Missing Peace Dividend

by Rich Schwartzman February 14, 2012

I recall watching the TV news the evening that Germans were taking sledgehammers to the Berlin Wall. They were smashing it into little souvenirs, reminders of a world split in two for decades. I allowed myself to feel happy for a people who had never known any type of freedom, anything of life that was not under authoritarian rule. ...

The Catholic Bishops and the Morality of Government Mandates

by Tim Kelly February 13, 2012

The Catholic bishops are absolutely correct in their criticism of the Obama administration’s decision to require all employers, including all religious institutions, to provide health insurance that makes contraceptives, sterilizations, and abortion-inducing drugs available to their employees. The mandate is both unconstitutional and morally objectionable. The Obama administration appears to be making the political calculation that the controversy will subside ...

Bushs Torture Program Began Ten Years Ago

by Andy Worthington February 13, 2012

Last month was the 10th anniversary of the opening of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo, and as this year progresses it is appropriate to remember that there will be other grim 10-year anniversaries to note. This week, one of those 10-year anniversaries passed almost unnoticed. On February 7, 2002, as Andrew Cohen noted in the Atlantic, in the ...

The Jacob Hornberger Show – February 11, 2012

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 13, 2012

The Jacob Hornberger Show broadcasts live Saturday nights at 7pm EST. Visit FFF's Ustream Channel to watch the show live. Video streaming by ...

War with Iran Would Be Madness

by Sheldon Richman February 10, 2012

Barack Obama’s refusal to rule out military action against Iran, and several Republican presidential candidates’ pledge to launch a war if elected, should appall anyone who believes, with the free-market liberal Ludwig von Mises, that “not war, but peace, is the father of all things.” If the U.S. government or Israel were to attack Iran, all hell would break loose. ...

Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano: Two Parties = Zero Difference

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 8, 2012

On February 6, 2012, Mises Chair Lew Rockwell and Future of Freedom President Jacob Hornberger explain how we got to a place where both political parties have the same major policies. Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com

TSA — Tenth Anniversary of a National Nightmare

by James Bovard February 8, 2012

Less than a month after the 9/11 attacks, George W. Bush promised Americans, “We will not surrender our freedom to travel.” In hindsight, he may have been referring to himself and other high-ranking government officials. Because for all other Americans, airline travel has become more arduous and more perilous in the past ten years. The Bush administration and Congress responded ...

Consolidate or Eliminate?

by Laurence M. Vance February 8, 2012

In his 2011 state of the union address, Barack Obama promised to create a leaner, more efficient federal bureaucracy. In his recent 2012 address, the president reiterated his grandiose plan to reorganize the federal government: In the coming months, my administration will develop a proposal to merge, consolidate, and reorganize the federal government in a way that best serves the ...

The Jacob Hornberger Show – February 4, 2012

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 7, 2012

The Jacob Hornberger Show broadcasts live Saturday nights at 7pm EST. Visit FFF's Ustream Channel to watch the show live. Video streaming by ...

Obama Can Stop Israel from Attacking Iran

by Sheldon Richman February 6, 2012

Israel’s highest officials tell American journalists their air force may attack Iran’s nuclear facilities this spring, although Israeli and American intelligence agencies say the Islamic republic has no plan to build a bomb. The officials might be bluffing, but the threats pose a problem for the Obama administration. In recent weeks there has been much in-person contact between the governments. ...