Life & Property by Tibor R. Machan November 16, 2007 When both life and property are threatened, there is much talk about how property is only stuff, easy to replace, so one should be concerned only or primarily with life. There are even those who disparage the right to private property, claiming it is not really a human right at all. ...
The CIA’s Detention, Interrogation, and Rendition Program (video) by Joanne Mariner November 16, 2007 On June 3, 2007, Joanne Mariner gave the following Speech at FFF’s conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.
The Foolishness and Immorality of Gun Control by Scott McPherson November 14, 2007 I sent a pro-gun commentary from a British newspaper to a liberal friend of mine, and he replied that if we just banned the manufacture of firearms on a worldwide level there wouldn’t be any crime or genocides like the one going on in Darfur. He then suggested that I ...
Heading Towards the Police State by Bart Frazier November 14, 2007 The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. — Thomas Jefferson Every year the United States becomes less free; the state controls more of our lives, takes more of our money, and takes from ...
Vouchers or School Choice? by Sheldon Richman November 12, 2007 The voters of Utah said no to school vouchers on Tuesday. More than 60 percent of voters refused to ratify a bill passed earlier by the state legislature. It would have provided taxpayer-funded vouchers for each government-school student, ranging from $500 to $3,000, depending on family income. Students currently in ...
Legal Idiocy and the War on Terror (video) by Joseph Margulies November 9, 2007 On June 2, 2007, Joseph Margulies gave the following Speech at FFF’s conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.
A Day in the Life of an Unwilling “Federal Agent” by Gary D. Barnett November 9, 2007 Today I received my fourth-quarter 2007 Anti-Money Laundering Training Program notice. After my “mandatory” compliance, I must agree with everything stated in the “training” through the Compliance Attestation System. Although the manner and frequency of this forced training has changed somewhat, it is still required or else, this since the passage of the USA PATRIOT Act. Every quarter, “new and ...
Immigration: Global Warming on the Right by Scott McPherson November 2, 2007 Honest debate on issues such as national health care, free trade, energy policy, and environmental controls is nearly impossible today. Something wicked this way comes, claims the Left, and it trumps any quaint old arguments about freedom and individual initiative. You see, man-made global warming is wreaking havoc on ...
Big Government at Home and Abroad, Part 2 by Jacob G. Hornberger November 1, 2007 Part 1 | Part 2 No matter how much we address the socialism and interventionism that pervade our nation on a domestic level, it will all be for naught if we fail to address the great big elephant in the room — U.S. foreign policy, including the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq. For unless we dismantle the ...
“Patriotic Grace” in Support of War Is No Virtue by Sheldon Richman November 1, 2007 How amazing it is to hear how some people still talk about the U.S. occupation of Iraq at this late date. You’d think even the most naive nationalist would have long ago realized that something is terribly wrong — intrinsically so — with the U.S. “mission” and that calls for “hanging in there” are preposterous. When will the war ...
Do Elections Guarantee Freedom? by James Bovard November 1, 2007 Elections are sometimes portrayed as practically giving people automatic remote control on the government. Elections kindly provide a chance for people to pre-program the government for the following years. The government will be based on the popular will, regardless of the ignorance of the populace or the duplicity of the government. President Lyndon Johnson declared in 1965 that the vote ...
Iraq after the Gulf War: Sanctions, Part 1 by Rahul Mahajan November 1, 2007 Part 1 | Part 2 I am willing to make a bet to anyone here that we care more about the Iraqi people than Saddam Hussein does. — U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, CNN Town Hall Meeting, Columbus, Ohio, February 18, 1998 We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that’s more ...