Obama Brings Guantánamo to Bagram by Andy Worthington September 14, 2009 Following briefings by Obama administration officials (who declined to be identified), both the New York Times and the Washington Post reported yesterday that the government is planning to introduce a new review system for the 600 or so prisoners held at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, which will, for the first time, allow them to call witnesses in ...
Economics and Moral Courage (video) by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. September 9, 2009 On September 9, 2009, Lew Rockwell gave the following speech at The Future of Freedom Foundation’s “Economic Liberty Lecture Series.” The speech can viewed below in its entirety.
An Interview with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Part 2 by Andy Worthington September 8, 2009 Part 1 | Part 2 Col. Lawrence Wilkerson served in the U.S. military for 31 years and was chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell from August 2002 until January 2005, two months after Powell’s resignation, when he left the State Department. He is now the chairman of the New America Foundation’s U.S.-Cuba 21st Century ...
Health-Care “Reformers” Duck the Hard Questions by Sheldon Richman September 4, 2009 Advocates of what is called health-care “reform” must lack confidence in their case. Were they sure that more government control of medicine and medical insurance was a good thing, they would answer the opposing arguments rather than marginalize their adversaries as corrupt or crazy. In debating a controversial issue, a good-faith participant rebuts the strongest possible opposing arguments. He doesn’t ...
Ten Tenets of Freedom, Part 2 by Jacob G. Hornberger September 1, 2009 Part 1 | Part 2 This two-part essay discusses ten tenets of freedom toward which we must continue to strive in our efforts to restore freedom to our land. Part 1 of the essay discussed the first five tenets and this part covers the other five tenets. 6. Gun control It would have been more appropriate to have made the Second ...
Welcome to Post Office Health Care by Sheldon Richman September 1, 2009 America’s health-care system has problems — all traceable to government intervention — but it could be worse. And if the so-called reform emerging in Congress is enacted, it will be worse. The nub of the plan is that everyone must have health insurance and that all but the smallest employers should provide it. If someone doesn’t have coverage, he’ll be ...
Auditing the Fed (Video from Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Freedom Watch FoxNews.com) by Jacob G. Hornberger September 1, 2009 09/25/2009 Freedom Watch 37 w/ Dan Ikenson, Jacob Hornberger
How George W. Bush Redefined American Freedom by James Bovard September 1, 2009 George W. Bush is gone from Washington but his legacy, like an abandoned toxic waste dump, lingers on. Like President Franklin Roosevelt before him, President Bush helped redefine American freedom. And like Roosevelt’s, Bush’s changes were perversions of the clear vision the Founding Fathers bequeathed to us. What did freedom mean in the era of George Bush? In Iraq in ...
The Road Waiting to Be Taken by Christine Smith September 1, 2009 Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. — Henry David Thoreau Reading Friedrich A. Hayek’s Road to Serfdom, one is amazed that a book published 64 years ago could paint such an accurate picture of where the United States is ...
Welfare Corruption in the New Deal by Jim Powell September 1, 2009 How likely is it that a big government-spending program — Obama’s or anybody else’s — won’t be manipulated by politicians pursuing their special interests? In two of his recent New York Times columns, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman claimed that Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal was free from corruption. Consequently, he thought it was likely that Obama, too, can have an ...
Langdon, Stark, Bennington, and the Triumph of a Private Army, Part 1 by Scott McPherson September 1, 2009 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Had we a standing army, when the British invaded our peaceful shores? Was it a standing army that gained the battles of Lexington, and Bunker’s Hill, and took the ill fated Burgoyne? Is not a well-regulated militia sufficient for every purpose of internal defence? And which of you, my fellow ...
The Supreme Court’s Attacks on Freedom, Part 1 by George Leef September 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. Americans like lists. Most often, we get “Top Ten” lists, but this book is a ...