The CIA, Assassination, and the War on Terrorism by Jacob G. Hornberger October 1, 2009 In late July, the New York Times disclosed a secret plan by the CIA to assassinate suspected terrorists around the globe. According to the Times, the agency decided against implementing the plan, possibly because of the risk of being prosecuted for murder in countries in which the assassinations would take place. Actually, it’s not at all clear yet that the CIA is ...
Democratic Misrepresentation by Sheldon Richman October 1, 2009 If you want to know how representative government works not in airy theory but on the ground, contemplate these facts: (1) Except perhaps for the rarest exception, no member of Congress will have read the entire final 1,000-plus-page bill that seeks, in the New York Times’s words, to “reinvent the nation’s health care system”; and (2) in July the ...
Second Amendment Battle (Audio from Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Freedom Watch FoxNews.com) by James Bovard October 1, 2009 Freedom Watch Podcast: 10/05/2009 Freedom Watch 42 w/ James Bovard, Dr. Eric Novak, Andy Levy
The Bogus Anti-Terrorist Crackdown on Financial Freedom by James Bovard October 1, 2009 In the post–9/11 era, federal officials are treating cash as they would a suspected weapon of mass destruction. They have created legions of new restrictions and reporting requirements for citizens’ money. But the new controls have done nothing to make Washington any more competent at protecting Americans from real threats. Federal experts estimated that Mohamed Atta and the other 18 ...
Langdon, Stark, Bennington, and the Triumph of a Private Army, Part 2 by Scott McPherson October 1, 2009 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 At the end of June, Burgoyne struck south with more than 7,000 men: 3,700 British regulars, 3,000 German mercenaries, 470 artillerymen, 400 Indians, and approximately 250 Canadian and American loyalists, and with the optimistic hope of gaining more Indian and loyalist troops as they went. As his forces approached the ...
Keynes and the Assault on Savings, Part 1 by Gregory Bresiger October 1, 2009 Part 1 | Part 2 In the long, run we are all dead. — John Maynard Keynes, A Tract on Monetary Reform There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on ...
The Supreme Court’s Attacks on Freedom, Part 2 by George Leef October 1, 2009 Part 1 | Part 2 | The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom by Robert A. Levy and William Mellor (Sentinel, 2008); 299 pages. Bennis v. Michigan (1996) This case gave Supreme Court approval to ...
Telecom Wiretap Immunity (Video) by Jacob G. Hornberger September 30, 2009 Telecom Wiretap Immunity (Video from Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Freedom Watch FoxNews.com)
Talk With Ron Williams — 9/29/09 Hour 1 (Audio) by Jacob G. Hornberger September 29, 2009 Talk With Ron Williams — 9/29/09 Hour 1 (Audio)
Obama Drops Plan For Guantánamo “Indefinite Detention” Law by Andy Worthington September 28, 2009 Last Wednesday, Obama administration officials told the Washington Post, as Peter Finn described it, that the administration “has decided not to seek legislation to establish a new system of preventive detention to hold terrorism suspects.” In some ways, of course, this is a relief. In May, in a major speech on national security, when President Obama first proposed ...
Court Allows Return of Guantánamo Prisoners to Torture by Andy Worthington September 21, 2009 As rumors swirl, suggesting that a number of the remaining 13 Uighur (Muslims from China’s Xinjiang province) prisoners in Guantánamo may soon be relocating to the tiny Pacific island state of Palau, a court case relating to nine of these men threatens to hurl a number of other prisoners in Guantánamo, who have also been cleared for ...
A Modest Health-Care Proposal by Sheldon Richman September 16, 2009 Enough dithering! President Obama says it’s time to act on health care. I agree. But act how? Are we really going to be happy with the pussy-footing proposals floating around Congress? All the so-called reformers want to do is tinker with insurance regulations. But how effective would that be, considering that the insurance companies themselves support the changes? We have taken ...