The Islamo-Fascist Rationale for Abandoning Liberty by Jacob G. Hornberger March 16, 2007 Also see: “The Critical Dilemma Facing Pro-War Libertarians” “The Pentagon's Power to Arrest, Torture, and Execute Americans” “It Can't Happen Here” In my three articles “The Critical Dilemma Facing Pro-War Libertarians,” “The Pentagon’s Power to Arrest, Torture, and Execute Americans,” and “‘It Can’t Happen Here,’” I showed how ...
Bush and Chavez: A Marriage Made in Hell by Sheldon Richman March 12, 2007 If President Bush didn’t exist, Hugo Chavez would have to invent him. Chavez, of course, is the dictator-president of Venezuela who in recent months has taken steps to centralize control of the country’s economy. His accumulation of power is based on the need to resist U.S. hegemony. Some people think that his ...
Leave Americans in Mexico Be by Jacob G. Hornberger March 11, 2007 There is a big immigration problem that has been growing year after year. An increasing number of American citizens are moving to Mexico, and some of them are even becoming undocumented workers. Even worse, they are refusing to assimilate and are even insisting on retaining their U.S. citizenship. Six years ago, ...
Speaker Spotlight: Ivan Eland and Tom DiLorenzo by Jacob G. Hornberger March 9, 2007 Another quick speaker spotlight for our big June 1-4 conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties in Reston, Virginia. Two of our Saturday speakers at the conference will be Ivan Eland and Tom DiLorenzo. Ivan is senior fellow and director of the Center on Peace and Liberty at the Independent Institute, which has taken a leading role in the ...
“It Can’t Happen Here” by Jacob G. Hornberger March 7, 2007 Also see: “The Critical Dilemma Facing Pro-War Libertarians” “The Pentagon's Power to Arrest, Torture, and Execute Americans” “The Islamo-Fascist Rationale for Abandoning Liberty” In my article “The Pentagon’s Power to Arrest, Torture, and Execute Americans,” I explained that the post–9/11 power to designate Americans as “enemy ...
The Horror – Discriminatory Advertising on the Internet! by George Leef March 5, 2007 Nothing has ever made it so easy for buyers and sellers to get together and engage in trade as the Internet. It reduces transaction costs immensely because they can find each other so readily. And if one seller doesn’t have what a buyer wants, all that has been lost is the ...
Mr. President, the CIA Is Already Talking to Syria by Jacob G. Hornberger March 2, 2007 President Bush has decided that the U.S. government is now going to talk to Syria. The reason the president has steadfastly refused to talk to Syria before now is that Syria, he has repeatedly emphasized, is a state sponsor of terrorism. There is one part of all this, however, that is quite befuddling: The U.S. government ...
Why Germans Supported Hitler, Part 1 by Jacob G. Hornberger March 1, 2007 Part 1 | Part 2 It has long intrigued me why the German people supported Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime. After all, every schoolchild in America is taught that Hitler and his Nazi cohorts were the very epitome of evil. How could ordinary German citizens support people who were so obviously monstrous in nature? Standing against the Nazi ...
The Flimflam of Income-Tax Denial by Sheldon Richman March 1, 2007 My recent three-part series in Freedom Daily, “Beware Income-Tax Casuistry” (August–October 2006), provoked some vigorous objection. Unsurprisingly, members of what is known as the tax-protester movement, but which should be called the tax-denial movement, took issue with every aspect of the articles — and more. The movement doesn’t merely object to the income tax on moral, or natural-rights, ...
Ford’s Legacy: Lawless Government by James Bovard March 1, 2007 The death of former President Gerald Ford unleashed a tidal wave of bathos and political bunkum across the land. Ford was far more exalted in death than he had been during his time in office. Slate’s Timothy Noah critically noted, Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington — the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city’s avatars ...
An Open Letter to High-School Students: Pay Attention to Government by Bart Frazier March 1, 2007 To every high-school student in this country between the ages of 15 and 18, this letter is to you. If there is ever something that you should take the time to learn about, it is government. Why? — you ask. If your idea of government is endless babbling by old congressional ...
Funding Leviathan, Part 1 by Laurence M. Vance March 1, 2007 Part 1 | Part 2 The federal leviathan is fed by taxes. According to the Congressional Budget Office, during the federal government’s most recent fiscal year (FY 2006), which ended on September 30, 2006, total revenues were approximately $2.403 trillion. Most of this revenue was, of course, raised as a result of taxes confiscated from the American ...