Socialism and Medicine, Part 3 by William L. Anderson July 1, 2008 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Economic historian Robert Higgs has written that people often will hand personal responsibility to the state either when they are fearful that something will happen to them or when they have a fear of losing something. Moreover, governments are able to harness the destructive power of ...
On the Limits of Government, Part 1 by Scott McPherson July 1, 2008 Part 1 | Part 2 Where reason cannot instruct, custom may be permitted to guide; and every nation seems to consult the dictates of prudence, by a faithful attachment to those rites and opinions which have received the sanction of ages. — Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire A pillar of American constitutional ...
The Cult of Executive Power by George Leef July 1, 2008 The Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power by Gene Healy (Cato Institute, 2008); 356 pages. Just in time for the 2008 presidential campaign comes the book we need to get Americans to think sensibly about the office that the candidates are so furiously seeking.
Barack Obama: The Peace Candidate? by Sheldon Richman June 25, 2008 Why would anyone think that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is the peace candidate? True, before President Bush sent an invasion force to Iraq and before Obama was in the Senate, he made a speech saying intervention would be a mistake. But after the invasion, in 2004, he said he wasnt sure how he would have voted when the ...
Clinton and Obama Struggle for Power by Sheldon Richman June 21, 2008 Many Americans are spellbound by the historic contest for the Democratic presidential nomination between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Forgetting the political context, it is indeed something spectacular, even inspiring. A woman and a black man have reached a pinnacle that just a few years ago seemed impossibly far off. If it were happening outside politics, it would be something ...
FFF Conference Photos – Day 3, June 8, 2008 by Jacob G. Hornberger June 20, 2008 The following are photos from day 3 of The Future of Freedom Foundation's conference “Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign Policy & Civil Liberties.” Q & A with Sheldon Richman David Henderson ...
FFF Conference Photos – Day 2, June 7, 2008 by Jacob G. Hornberger June 18, 2008 The following are photos from day 2 of The Future of Freedom Foundation's conference “Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign Policy & Civil Liberties.” Anthony Gregory starts Day 2 Joanne Mariner takes ...
FFF Conference Photos – Day 1, June 6, 2008 by Jacob G. Hornberger June 13, 2008 The following are photos from day 1 of The Future of Freedom Foundation's conference “Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign Policy & Civil Liberties.” Opening Remarks by Foundation President Jacob Hornberger Robert ...
Obama and McCain Are Both Wrong by Sheldon Richman June 2, 2008 Barack Obama’s call for talks with “our enemies” is shaping up as a major bone of contention between him and John McCain in the presidential campaign. As usual, both the Democrat and the Republican get it wrong. Obama says he would sit down with so-called adversaries such as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, ...
The War No One Mentions by Jacob G. Hornberger June 1, 2008 With all the campaign talk about the various wars in which America is involved — the war on Iraq, the war on drugs, the war on poverty, the war on illiteracy, the war on terrorism, and the war on Afghanistan — there is one war that goes unacknowledged and unspoken about ...
Why the Peaceful Majority of Muslims Are Not Irrelevant by Sheldon Richman June 1, 2008 A few years ago, FrontPageMag.com columnist Paul Marek wrote an article titled “Why the Peaceful Majority Is Irrelevant.” His thesis was that even if the majority of Muslims abhor violence, it doesn’t matter because “the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history.... The hard quantifiable fact is, that the ‘peaceful majority’ is the ‘silent majority’ and ...
Photos from FFF’s Conference “Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties” — Album (134 photos) by Jacob G. Hornberger June 1, 2008 Go to FFF's Flickr page to view photos