Public-Access TV: Fascism in Action by Scott McPherson March 1, 2007 Imagine a public-access aisle at your local grocery store. The store would provide the goods it can profit from on other aisles, but there would be a special aisle where certain merchandise would be offered because the local government required it to be offered. Local residents would go to city council meetings and produce petitions signed by their neighbors saying ...
The Active Authoritarianism of Teddy Roosevelt by George Leef March 1, 2007 Bully Boy by Jim Powell (Crown Forum, 2006); 329 pages, $27.50. Most historians rank Teddy Roosevelt as one of America’s great or near-great presidents. That is mainly because he is regarded as a “progressive” — a trustbuster, a proponent of government regulation of the ...
The Pentagon’s Power to Arrest, Torture, and Execute Americans by Jacob G. Hornberger February 28, 2007 Also see: “The Critical Dilemma Facing Pro-War Libertarians” “It Can't Happen Here” “The Islamo-Fascist Rationale for Abandoning Liberty” The president and the Pentagon now wield the omnipotent power to arrest, torture, and execute any American they label an “enemy combatant.” It is impossible to overstate the significance of this power. ...
Stop Them! by Sheldon Richman February 26, 2007 What is going on in America? The Bush administration’s own National Intelligence Estimate says the situation is so bad in Iraq that the term “civil war” is inadequate to describe it. A government inspector confirms what we already knew: that serious doubts about Iraq’s putative weapons of mass destruction and ...
Imperial Hopefuls by Sheldon Richman February 22, 2007 As the parade of presidential wannabes grows longer, the people paying attention this early are probably asking themselves, “Can I picture so and so as president?” This is a bad question on many levels. Politics, and presidential politics most especially, is little more than theater. The candidate who can create the right ...
Know When to Fold ’Em by Sheldon Richman February 17, 2007 Hawks such as Sen. John McCain who oppose Senate resolutions against the so-called troop surge in Iraq make a pernicious argument. Such a resolution “is basically a vote of no confidence in the men and women we are sending over there,” McCain said. “We’re saying, ‘We’re ...
Student Scholarships and Speakers Robert Scheer and Richard Ebeling by Jacob G. Hornberger February 16, 2007 As I pointed out in last weeks conference update, we have received a donation that enables us to give 5 free student admissions to our June 1-4 conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. If you are a student and would like to attend the conference, please send us an essay on any aspect of foreign policy and ...
Freedom? Fat Chance! by Ralph R. Reiland February 16, 2007 Harper’s magazine reports that Americans burn an extra 938 million gallons of gasoline each year because we’re too fat. That estimate of how much the nation’s chubses are wasting in gas comes from a study by Sheldon Jacobson, professor of computer science at the University of Illinois and director of the ...
The Critical Dilemma Facing Pro-War Libertarians by Jacob G. Hornberger February 14, 2007 Also see: The Pentagon's Power to Arrest, Torture, and Execute Americans It Can't Happen Here The Islamo-Fascist Rationale for Abandoning Liberty The 9/11 attacks exposed a major fault line in the libertarian movement. On one side of the divide were those libertarians who contended that the 9/11 attacks were a direct consequence of U.S. foreign policy specifically the bad things that ...
Student Scholarships and Speaker Spotlights by Jacob G. Hornberger February 9, 2007 We have received a donation of $2,500 to cover five student scholarships for our June 1-4 conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. If you are a student who would like to attend the conference, or if you would like to nominate a student to attend, ...
Restore a Republic before It’s Too Late by Jacob G. Hornberger February 5, 2007 The schedule for our big upcoming conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties on June 1-4 at the Hyatt Regency Reston in Reston, Virginia, is now online. The updated schedule contains the titles of all the talks by our 24 speakers. This stands to be one of the most exciting and important conferences in the ...
U.S. Hypocrisy on Iran by Sheldon Richman February 2, 2007 “It has been clear for some time that Iran has been meddling in Iraq,” says White House spokesman Gordon D. Johndroe. “We don’t believe that behavior, such as supporting Shia extremists in Iraq, should go unchallenged,” John Negroponte, the U.S. intelligence boss, added. Meanwhile, President Bush has authorized American ...