FFF Speaker Spotlight: Laurence Vance and Karen Kwiatkowski by Jacob G. Hornberger May 9, 2008 Laurence Vance is one of the most courageous libertarians I have ever known. A devout Christian, he has been relentless and uncompromising in emphasizing two important points about U.S. foreign policy: (1) Since the U.S. has waged a war of aggression, rather than a defensive war, against Iraq, the killing of ...
One-Party System by Sheldon Richman May 2, 2008 I can predict the winner of the presidential election even now: the government. In a one-party system, that's how things work. One-party system? Yes. The American political scene makes much more sense if you think of the two parties as two divisions of the same party. Admittedly that is hard to do at first. All American politics is presented as ...
FFF Speaker Spotlight: Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. and Robert Higgs by Jacob G. Hornberger May 2, 2008 Ever since I discovered libertarianism, two of my foremost heroes have been — and continue to be — Lew Rockwell and Bob Higgs, who will both be speaking at our exciting upcoming June 6-8 conference “Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties.” Lew is president of the Ludwig von ...
The Demise of Conscience, Part 3 by Jacob G. Hornberger May 1, 2008 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Americans who have supported the invasion and occupation of Iraq, including U.S. soldiers who have killed people in Iraq, might say, “Look, I thought there were going to be WMDs, just like the president did. We all just made an honest mistake.” There are major problems, however, with that position, at ...
Would-Be Rulers without Clothes by Sheldon Richman May 1, 2008 In a presidential debate with Sen. Barack Obama in Texas, Sen. Hillary Clinton scoffed at the idea that buying medical insurance should be voluntary. “It would be as though Social Security were voluntary Medicare, one of the great accomplishments of President Johnson, was voluntary.... We would not have a social compact with Social ...
Ellsberg’s Lessons for Our Time by James Bovard May 1, 2008 Daniel Ellsberg is the kind of American who should receive a Medal of Freedom. Except that the Medals of Freedom are distributed by presidents who routinely give them to “useful idiots” and apologists for their wars and power grabs. It should be renamed the Medal for Enabling or Applauding Official Crimes in the Name of Freedom. Ellsberg knowingly risked spending ...
The Root of All Evil, Part 2 by Gregory Bresiger May 1, 2008 Part 1 | Part 2 The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to ...
The Roots of the Second Amendment by Rick Lynch May 1, 2008 With the Supreme Court’s recent decision to take a look at the constitutionality of Washington, D.C.’s gun ban, we see once again, in every medium imaginable, hundreds if not thousands of commentaries, articles, speeches, and essays on the meaning of the Second Amendment. Words by the millions are being cranked out on the precise definition of “militia” in 16th-century ...
Socialism and Medicine, Part 1 by William L. Anderson May 1, 2008 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 If the financial popularity of Michael Moore’s latest “documentary,” called Sicko, is an indication of popular sentiment in this country, then the United States seems to be ready for what once was called socialized medicine, but today is better known as “single-payer medicine.” All of the ...
Bulldozed by Eminent Domain by George Leef May 1, 2008 Bulldozed by Carla T. Main (Encounter Books 2007); 276 pages; $27.95. In 2005, eminent domain became a hot national issue with all the attention focused on it because of the Supreme Court’s decision in Kelo v. New London. While property-rights scholars and libertarian activists ...
FFF Speaker Spotlight: Joseph Margulies and Anthony Gregory by Jacob G. Hornberger April 25, 2008 Joseph Margulies is one of the nation’s leading attorneys in the defense of civil liberties, especially since 9/11. Future generations of Americans will forever be indebted to him for his courageous and principled stand against kidnapping, torture, rendition, military tribunals, and other “war on terrorism” infringements on liberty and for ...
FFF Conference Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign Policy & Civil Liberties Internship Application by Bart Frazier April 18, 2008 The Future of Freedom Foundation is now accepting applications for student internships for our June 68 conference, Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign Policy & Civil Liberties, at the Hyatt Regency Reston in Reston, Virginia. This is an opportunity for students interested in natural rights and limited government to educate themselves on current events relating to the war on terrorism, foreign ...