Open Borders Work, Part 1 by Philippe LeGrain March 1, 2008 Part 1 | Part 2 Imagine you were born in a part of the country where farming was no longer productive, or in a rust-belt town where the local factories had closed. You hear of good jobs in California and Colorado, so you decide to move. How would you feel if, when you arrived at the state ...
I Suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Part 6 by James Glaser March 1, 2008 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 Now we come to the very reason that veterans get PTSD. More than likely, there was a traumatic experience or experiences that, you might say, overwhelmed them. Now that I have been through it, I believe that the whole ...
The Legacy of Milton Friedman, Part 1 by Doug Bandow March 1, 2008 Part 1 | Part 2 It has been more than a year since Milton Friedman passed from our lives. What a world he departed. The desire for liberty burns ever brightly. The forces of statism resist ever strongly. How we miss his presence. Although he has left us, his ideas live ...
The Media Versus the State by Wendy McElroy March 1, 2008 Good Night, and Good Luck was the television sign-off of Edward R. Murrow (19081965) the journalistic pioneer often considered to be the finest broadcast news commentator produced by America. Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) is also an Oscar-nominated docudrama that explores the conflict between Murrow (played by David Strathairn) and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy over the anti-Communist crusade he ...
FFF Conference Schedule Now Online! by Jacob G. Hornberger February 29, 2008 We have just gone live with the schedule for our upcoming June 6-8 conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy & Civil Liberties. See it here: Conference Schedule. I know Ive said it before, but it bears repeating: This conference might well turn out to be the greatest and most important ...
Common Sense and the Drug Problem by Hank Sames February 25, 2008 “Largest Pot Bust on Record” ... “State to Fund New Jail Construction” ... “City Police and County Sheriffs Lobby for More Federal Funds to Fight Drugs” ... “Federal Courthouse Overwhelmed with Drug Cases” The headlines are disturbing and are never-ending. The “war on drugs” has gone on since the Nixon administration in the 1970s and ...
Individualism, the Collectivists’ Nemesis by Tibor R. Machan February 22, 2008 It is individualism that the American Founders elevated into political prominence and it is individualism that most politicians and governments, including Americas, find most annoying because it is the bulwark against arbitrary power. If, as the Declaration of Independence states, individual human beings have unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, no one may violate these rights. ...
InfraGard: An Unhealthy Government Alliance by Gary D. Barnett February 22, 2008 There is an organization that is quietly and secretly becoming very large and powerful. The FBI started this partnership or alliance between the federal government and the private sector in 1996 in Cleveland with a few select people. After September 11, 2001, when the general population replaced their rationality with fear, this organization, called InfraGard, continued growing, and with ...
A Sure-Fire Argument on the Second Amendment by Rick Lynch February 18, 2008 With the Supreme Court’s decision to examine the constitutionality of D.C.’s gun ban, the nation once again turns to an intense examination of the wording of the Second Amendment. One way to understand an amendment whose words have confused generations is to study its somewhat confusing text. But another way ...
Naiveté at Business Week by Tibor R. Machan February 15, 2008 Why do some reporters never manage to become educated in the areas they cover? Consider, for example, a recent piece in Business Week, “A Food Fight over Calorie Counts” (2/11/08). The fight is supposed to be between public health officials and the restaurant industry. As to the latter, the report, ...
Going the Way of Zimbabwe and Venezuela? by Jacob G. Hornberger February 11, 2008 The next time some conservative or neo-conservative tells you that inflation is a good thing for Americans because it makes “our” exports less expensive for foreigners, ask him why the citizens of Zimbabwe are having a difficult time making ends meet. In that country, inflation is estimated at more than 26,000 percent. If a little ...
Have a Heart by Glenn Jacobs February 6, 2008 Since Barney Clark received the first Jarvik-7 artificial heart in 1982, more than 350 people have used the device, mostly as a temporary measure until they could receive a heart transplant. In addition to his totally artificial heart, Robert Jarvik, the inventor of the Jarvik-7, has developed a ventricular assist device (VAD), the Jarvik 2000, ...