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Muslim Radicals Strike at U.S. Foreign Policy

by Sheldon Richman March 21, 2011

U.S. Rep. Peter King's recent hearing on the domestic radicalization of Muslims was an act of misdirection. While King, a New York Republican, no doubt exaggerates this phenomenon, he might as well have held a hearing on why objects drop when let go. The answer is obvious. The violence the U.S. government inflicts on the Muslim world is the ...

Auberon Herbert, Part 2

by Wendy McElroy March 20, 2011

Part 1 | Part 2 On other issues, Auberon Herbert predictably sided with working people. In 1869, he acted as one of the presidents of the first national Cooperative Congress. As its name suggests, the Cooperative movement focused on establishing cooperative societies and arrangements, such as mutual insurance agencies. When Herbert’s Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State first ...

The Jacob Hornberger Show: The Immorality and Destructiveness of the Welfare State (video)

by Jacob G. Hornberger March 19, 2011

The Jacob Hornberger Show broadcasts live Saturday nights at 7pm EST. Visit FFF's Ustream Channel to watch the show live. Download the MP3 here, or subscribe to the RSS feed

The Story Behind the Permanent War

by Anthony Gregory March 18, 2011

Washington Rules: Americas Path to Permanent War by Andrew J. Bacevich (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2010), 286 pages. During the last decade, left-liberals accused the controversial Bush administration of a wickedness, arrogance, and incompetence that supposedly set that presidency apart from others in American history. Bush was an especially bad warmonger who broke with the traditional and venerable principles that had ...

Condolences Yes, Assistance No

by Laurence M. Vance March 15, 2011

Thanks to the tremendous technological advances in communications that have taken place over the past few years, the whole world has now heard of and seen the destruction wrought by the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan. With thousands already confirmed dead, and many thousands more missing and presumed dead, the thoughts and prayers from people of every nation ...

Obama’s Disgrace

by Sheldon Richman March 11, 2011

The words could have been spoken by a government official in Orwell’s 1984: “Today, I am announcing several steps that broaden our ability to bring terrorists to justice, provide oversight for our actions, and ensure the humane treatment of detainees,” President Barack Obama said. What Obama actually did, the Washington Post reported, was to sign “an executive order ... that ...

Obama Turns the Clock Back on Guantánamo

by Andy Worthington March 10, 2011

Those of us who have been studying Guantánamo closely were not surprised when, on March 7, President Obama announced that he was lifting a ban on trials by military commission at Guantánamo, which he imposed on his first day in office in January 2009, and also issued an executive order establishing a periodic ...

Glenn Beck Show with Judge Andrew Napolitano: Peter King’s Muslim Hearings

by Jacob G. Hornberger March 9, 2011

March 8, 2011, on the Glenn Beck Show (Fox News) Judge Napolitano interviews Jacob Hornberger and Zuhdi Jasser on the Peter King's Muslim Hearings (video at 27:40)

The Irrelevance of the Second Amendment

by Laurence M. Vance March 9, 2011

The killing of six people on January 8, 2011, in Tucson, Arizona, and attempted assassination of a “public servant” and her staff members has brought forth a predictable response from the left and gun-control groups: We need stricter gun-control laws to prevent tragedies like the Tucson shooting. But calls for banning extended-capacity magazines, instituting gun-free zones, more thorough background checks, ...

Democratic Liberalism, Limited Government, Free Markets: Necessary Partners? (video)

by Tom G. Palmer March 8, 2011

On March 7, 2011, Tom G. Palmer gave the following speech at The Future of Freedom Foundations Economic Liberty Lecture Series. The speech can viewed below in its entirety. Tom Palmer is Vice President for International Programs at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, General Director of the Atlas Global Initiative for Free Trade, Peace, and Prosperity, a Senior Fellow ...

The Jacob Hornberger Show: Civil Liberties Prerequisite to a Free Society

by Jacob G. Hornberger March 5, 2011

The Jacob Hornberger Show broadcasts live Saturday nights at 7pm EST. Visit FFF's Ustream Channel to watch the show live. Download the MP3 here, or subscribe to the RSS feed

Scott Horton Interviews Jacob Hornbeger

by Jacob G. Hornberger March 3, 2011

Scott Horton from Antiwar Radio interviews Jacob Hornbeger Audio