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Ike Was Right and We Are Becoming What We Despise (video)

by Robert Scheer September 14, 2007

On June 1, 2007, Robert Scheer gave the following Speech at FFF's conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.

Conservative Hypocrisy

by Sheldon Richman September 12, 2007

President Bush opposes efforts in Congress and the states to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to include more children from middle-class families who don’t qualify for Medicaid. He says he’s against those efforts because “when you expand eligibility ... you’re really beginning to open up an avenue for people to switch ...

How We’re Restoring the Republic with Truth and Fearlessness

by Karen Kwiatkowski September 7, 2007

On June 1, 2007, Karen Kwiatkowski gave the following Speech at FFF's conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.

Big Government at Home and Abroad, Part 1

by Jacob G. Hornberger September 1, 2007

Part 1 | Part 2 Practically everywhere we look there is a crisis. Public schooling: crisis. The drug war: crisis. Social Security: crisis. Medicare and Medicaid: crisis. Immigration: crisis. Iraq: crisis. Terrorism: crisis. Federal spending: crisis. The dollar: crisis. So many crises! Yet there is a common denominator to all these crises. Focusing on that common denominator provides the key ...

Bush’s Tyranny Thwarted — For Now

by Sheldon Richman September 1, 2007

The news media seemed too preoccupied with Paris Hilton’s detention to notice, but a U.S. appeals court in June struck a major blow for liberty. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Bush administration may not declare a U.S. resident — whether a citizen or not — an ...

Bushs AmeriCorps Fraud

by James Bovard September 1, 2007

Politicians have long used moral doggerel to make citizens docile. Though President Bush is often verbally inept, he has hit the same chords his predecessors played to sway Americans to glorify government workers as moral icons worthy of gratitude and respect. Two months after the 9/11 attacks, Bush announced that he was expanding AmeriCorps and that all of us can ...

The Hidden Consequences of Government Programs

by Bart Frazier September 1, 2007

One of the more insidious effects of government production of goods and services is that the products that would have been produced in a free market — and the innovations that would have arisen — are never seen and therefore are never appreciated. That phenomenon helps to perpetuate the idea that without government intervention, certain ...

Benjamin Ricketson Tucker, Part 2

by Wendy McElroy September 1, 2007

Part 1 | Part 2 Liberty first appeared on August 6, 1881, from Boston, where Tucker worked as a journalist with the Boston Globe; later, in 1892, Liberty moved to New York City, where it was published until its demise in 1907. Fittingly, Liberty’s superscript was a quotation from Proudhon — “Liberty: not the daughter, but the mother ...

“Mr. Speaker, Peace Is Always Superior to War”

by Anthony Gregory September 1, 2007

A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship by Ron Paul (Lake Jackson, Texas: Foundation for Rational Economics and Education, 2007); 372 pages; $19.95. “Mr. Speaker, peace is always superior to war,” said Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) ...

Iraq and Vietnam

by Sheldon Richman August 31, 2007

President Bush, one of the two most famous pro-Vietnam War members of his generation to avoid fighting in that war, has finally accepted what he previously rejected: that there are parallels between the war he ducked out of and his violent occupation of Iraq. (The other best-known famous pro-war war ...

Mugabe’s Fatal Conceit

by Ralph R. Reiland August 29, 2007

Readers of the New York Times got a front-page example recently of what F.A. Hayek called “the fatal conceit” — the idea that some great mind or committee can do a better job than the private market in organizing and directing an economy. Hayek argued that the market automatically coordinates the ...

Autocracy Comes to America

by Sheldon Richman August 24, 2007

We appear to live in a republic. But look closely; it’s clearer every day that we live in a de facto autocracy. President Bush has managed to amass an astounding amount of power simply by scaring the American people and Congress into thinking that our continued existence as a society depends ...