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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 ...

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 ...