Daily Articles

An Echo, Not a Choice

by Sheldon Richman October 17, 2008

Both major presidential candidates support the taxpayer bailout of Wall Street. They are just arguing over how to do it. If anyone hoped the presidential campaign would be a debate about political philosophy, the role of government, and such things forget it. This is a debate over which man John McCain or Barack Obama should be given virtually unlimited power ...

Losing Liberty in the War on Terrorism (video)

by Bart Frazier October 13, 2008

On June 6, 2008, Bart Frazier gave the following Speech at FFF’s conference Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.

Bush’s War on Civil Liberties

by James Bovard October 10, 2008

On June 6, 2008, James Bovard gave the following Speech at FFF’s conference Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.

War and the Future of the Dollar (video)

by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. October 8, 2008

On June 6, 2008, Lew Rockwell gave the following Speech at FFF’s conference Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.

How Major U.S. Neo-Imperialist Wars End (video)

by Robert Higgs October 8, 2008

On June 6, 2008, Robert Higgs gave the following Speech at FFF’s conference Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.

The Corporate State Wins

by Sheldon Richman October 3, 2008

The Senate’s passage of the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street, and its presumed acceptance by the House, exposes once and for all the true nature of the American political-economic system. It is free-enterprise in name only. In fact, and especially for large well-connected companies, it is nothing of the ...

Two Checks on Tyranny

by Jacob G. Hornberger October 1, 2008

The purpose of the Bill of Rights was twofold: first, to ensure that certain fundamental rights were protected from federal infringement and, second, to ensure that the American people were expressly guaranteed certain procedural rights in federal criminal prosecutions. While all of the rights and guarantees enumerated in the ...

More Bush Freedom Hokum

by James Bovard October 1, 2008

Perhaps no American president has praised freedom as often as George W. Bush. From his declarations that the United States was attacked because of freedom, to the names “Operation Enduring Freedom” and “Operation Iraqi Freedom,” to his proclamations of a “calling” from history to defend freedom, freedom quickly became the cloak ...

The Court Almost Gets It Right on Guns

by Sheldon Richman October 1, 2008

Advocates of freedom barely dodged a bullet when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the right to keep and bear arms, the subject of the Second Amendment, is an individual not a collective right. Opponents of gun ownership have long maintained that the Amendment’s reference to the militia indicates that the right does not apply to private individuals. Thankfully, ...

The Corporate State Fails

by Sheldon Richman October 1, 2008

According to popular myth, the current financial turmoil is the result of Bush administration deregulation. One problem with that theory: there was no deregulation. The last banking deregulation, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley bill, was signed by President Bill Clinton in 1999. Oops. Gramm-Leach-Bliley undid the New Deal-era Glass-Steagall ...

The Nanny State

by Laurence M. Vance October 1, 2008

Whenever some new perceived crisis comes along, Americans typically look to the state as a problem solver. Are we running out of oil? The government should increase CAFE standards so that cars are more fuel-efficient. Is gas too expensive? The government should limit the profits of oil companies. Is the planet getting warmer? The government should mandate reductions in ...

Who Are You Calling Selfish?

by Michael Tennant October 1, 2008

In an early episode of the television series Bewitched, Harold Harold (Paul Lynde), a highly nervous driving instructor, tries to teach Samantha Stephens (Elizabeth Montgomery) how to drive a car. At one point in the lesson he instructs her to go the wrong way in a traffic circle. Samantha, however, ...