No Justice for Omar Khadr at Guantánamo by Andy Worthington October 25, 2010 Exactly two years ago, when I began writing a weekly column for The Future of Freedom Foundation on Guantánamo, torture, and other crimes and abuses committed as part of the Bush administration’s “war on terror,” I focused on the story of Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen who was just 15 years old when he was seized after ...
Hypocrisy’s Coming Election-Day Triumph by Sheldon Richman October 22, 2010 By nearly all accounts, Republicans are poised for a big win, even by historical midterm standards, in the November 2 congressional elections. Many candidates backed by the Tea Party should have a big day. But what will these victories mean for people who are alarmed by the growth of the welfare-warfare state? Not much, I’m sorry to say. Who among the ...
States Rights, the Constitution, and Individual Liberty (Video) by Jacob G. Hornberger October 13, 2010 Speech given at Virginia Liberty Fest //
Torture and the Ghailani Case by Andy Worthington October 11, 2010 Terror ruling threatens civilian prosecutions,” screamed the Los Angeles Times last Thursday. “Ruling in ’98 East Africa embassy bombings is setback for US,” wailed the Washington Post. The headline writers were referring to the federal court trial, in New York, of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a former CIA “ghost prisoner” (for two years and two ...
Liberty, Legislation, and Law (video) by Don Boudreaux October 10, 2010 On October 4, 2010, Donald J. Boudreaux gave the following speech at The Future of Freedom Foundations Economic Liberty Lecture Series. The speech can viewed below in its entirety. Professor Donald J. Boudreaux was the Chairman of the Department of Economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, from August 2001 to August 2009. Previously, he was president of ...
War Does Not Produce Prosperity by Sheldon Richman October 8, 2010 Many bad ideas go under the rubric “Keynesian economics,” but perhaps the worst is that government spending — no matter what kind — can genuinely stimulate of an economy and increase the general welfare. To see how ridiculous this idea is, have a look at what the leading Progressive Keynesian, Paul Krugman, and leading conservative Keynesian, Martin Feldstein, agree on: ...
First Guantánamo Habeas Appeal to U.S. Supreme Court by Andy Worthington October 4, 2010 Last week, two years and three months after the U.S. Supreme Court in Boumediene v. Bush recognized constitutionally guaranteed habeas corpus rights for the prisoners held at Guantánamo, Fawzi al-Odah, a Kuwaiti prisoner held for nearly nine years, became the first prisoner to appeal to the Supreme Court “to protest federal court interpretations of detainees' right to ...
Natural Rights, the Declaration, and the Constitution, Part 1 by Jacob G. Hornberger October 1, 2010 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 We live in a country whose economic system is a welfare state and a government-managed economy and whose foreign policy is now based on an extensive overseas military empire and perpetual war, along with ever-increasing infringements on the civil liberties of the people. The economic consequences of the welfare-warfare state have ...
The Post-9/11 Feeding Frenzy by Sheldon Richman October 1, 2010 Militarism is the one great glamorous public-works project upon which a variety of elements in the community can be brought into agreement. — John T. Flynn, As We Go Marching (1944) Those who understand the exploitative nature of big government realized that the U.S. response to the 9/11 attacks had little to do with the security of the American people and ...
Liberty Fest Interview (Audio) by Jacob G. Hornberger October 1, 2010 with Scott Lee on Freedom & Prosperity Radio //
Clinton’s Forgotten Dictatorial Tendencies by James Bovard October 1, 2010 It seems like a century since Bill Clinton was president of this country. Unfortunately, the abuses of George W. Bush and the pratfalls of Barack Obama are causing many people to raise their estimate of Clinton’s presidency. But he earned his disdain fair and square, and a brief reminder of his abuses is in order. From concocting new prerogatives to ...
The Incessant Growth of Government Bureaucracy, Part 2 by Gregory Bresiger October 1, 2010 Part 1 | Part 2 A government bureaucracy may be difficult to establish, as supporters of expanded Obama health-care socialism discovered. But the friends of collectivism should take heart. No matter how many times people reject their calls to venture farther down the “road to serfdom,” no matter how many times American outrage is expressed at town halls across ...