Repeating Pentagon Lies on Gitmo Recidivism by Andy Worthington February 8, 2010 What is to be done about the idiocy that has spread, like a poisonous but imperceptible gas, from the Pentagon to Congress, and is now wafting through the White House, deranging all it touches? As it travels, this dismal infection transforms statistical impossibilities into magic numbers, which appear, to the uninformed observer, to confirm the most shameless lies of ...
The Road to Health-Care Serfdom by Sheldon Richman February 5, 2010 I sensed a bit of frustration during President Obama’s state of the union address when he said, “The longer it was debated, the more skeptical people became.” I’m not totally sure what point he thought he was making. After all, it wouldn’t speak well for a proposal if prolonged discussion of its particulars created doubt about ...
When the Military Serves as Police by Jacob G. Hornberger February 4, 2010 What happens when the military is used in a police capacity? You get a “war on terrorism,” one in which people think that the laws of war now apply to the situation. But in actuality, nothing could be further from the truth. What you actually get is a criminal-justice problem that inevitably goes horribly awry, causing the problem to ...
The CIA and the Assassination of John Kennedy, Part 1 by Jacob G. Hornberger February 1, 2010 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 One of the strangest aspects of the investigation into John Kennedys murder was the reaction of federal officials. Whenever government officials are assassinated, the normal reaction of law enforcement is to pull out all the stops in an attempt to ensure that no one who was involved in the crime escapes punishment. Yet ...
The Political Economy of Health Care by Sheldon Richman February 1, 2010 Trouble begins the moment health care becomes a matter of government spending. From then on, unless the policy is reversed, society is on the road to state intervention in peoples most personal decisions. Its easy to see why. If government starts picking up the tab for some peoples medical services, those people will not face the full costs of those ...
The Feds’ Post–9/11 Airport-Worker Purge by James Bovard February 1, 2010 In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the federal government feared that people would lose faith in the government’s promise to protect them. The feds had dismally failed to stop the 19 hijackers who took down four planes and sowed panic from coast to coast. So the government did what it does best: Round up the usual suspects. Starting in ...
From Safe Republic to Unsafe Empire by Bruce Fein February 1, 2010 It is the best of times for the American Empire. The United States bestrides the planet as an unrivalled colossus. Its annual military budget exceeds $650 billion. That staggering sum is greater than the annual military expenditures of the next 25 countries combined. The defense spending of Russia, the superpower opponent of the United States during the Cold War, is ...
Brian Wilson Interviews Jacob Hornberger at CPAC (Audio) by Jacob G. Hornberger February 1, 2010 Brian Wilson Interviews Jacob Hornberger at CPAC (Audio)
Live from CPAC with Tom Woods, Tom DiLorenzo, Mike Church, Jacob Hornberger, David Boaz (Video from Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Freedom Watch FoxNews.com) by Jacob G. Hornberger February 1, 2010 02/18/2010 Freedom Watch: Live fromCPAC w/ Tom Woods, Tom DiLorenzo, Mike Church, Jacob Hornberger, David Boaz
The Rule of Law, Part 1 by Ridgway K. Foley Jr. February 1, 2010 Part 1 | Part 2 Americans laud the rule of law. They invoke its majesty during common discussion and learned discourse. They applaud their storied adherence to this grand old concept and disparage nations and cultures that seem less inclined to live by its guidance. Despite this adulation, I suspect that few of those employing the doctrine could ...
Lawyers Appeal Guantánamo Trial Convictions by Andy Worthington February 1, 2010 Last Tuesday, a little-known court — the Court of Military Commissions Review — convened to hear appeals in the cases of the only two men sentenced in the military commission trial system established by Congress in 2006, after the first version, conceived by Vice President Dick Cheney and his close advisors in November 2001, was ruled illegal by ...
The Illogic of Gun Controllers by Benedict D. LaRosa February 1, 2010 On August 9, 2009, seven people died and three others were badly injured in Dinuba, California, near Fresno, when a car being chased by police for a traffic infraction slammed into a pickup truck carrying five children and two adults. Four of the children in the pickup died at the scene along with the three occupants of the car ...