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Gilchrist, O’Reilly, and the Cowardice Factor

by Jacob G. Hornberger April 9, 2007

A debate on immigration controls vs. open borders was recently scheduled to take place at Pomona College in California. On one side of the debate was a man named Jim Gilchrist, a conservative who founded the “Minuteman Project,” an organization devoted to helping the U.S. Border Patrol arrest, punish, ...

Speaker Spotlight: Joseph Stromberg and Anthony Gregory

by Jacob G. Hornberger April 6, 2007

This weeks speaker spotlight for our June 1-4 conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties at the Hyatt Regency Reston in Reston, Virginia, highlights Joseph Stromberg and Anthony Gregory, both of whom are speaking on Sunday. There are few people in the libertarian movement who understand the case for a libertarian foreign policy better than Joe Stromberg. I ...

Our Patience on Iraq Should Be Exhausted

by Sheldon Richman April 4, 2007

President Bush started the fifth year of his war in Iraq by pleading with the American people for patience. Give the escalation (“surge”) a chance to work, he said. He sees signs of success already, but the Democrats in Congress are showing their impatience, with the House attaching a 2008 withdrawal ...

The Pentagon’s Crooked “Judicial” Process

by Jacob G. Hornberger April 2, 2007

While Pentagon officials are celebrating the terrorism conviction of David Hicks in Guantanamo’s military-tribunal system, the process by which Hicks was convicted and sentenced only confirms that the Pentagon’s “judicial” system is as crooked as a dog’s hind leg. After all, most everyone knew that Hicks, who has been held at Guantanamo for more ...

Why Germans Supported Hitler, Part 2

by Jacob G. Hornberger April 1, 2007

Part 1 | Part 2 The most remarkable part of the movie Sophie Scholl: The Final Days is the courtroom scene, which is based on recently discovered German archives. Sophie and her brother Hans, along with their friend Christoph Probst, stand before the infamous Roland Freisler, presiding judge of the People’s Court, whom Hitler had immediately sent to Munich ...

Thank You, Congress, for Not Taking It All

by Sheldon Richman April 1, 2007

If the government isn’t taking 100 percent of your income, you should be grateful for Congress’s generosity. Because in the eyes of the Bush administration, that’s exactly what it is, generosity. You have no right to what you earn or any other money you might get hold of. In principle it ...

War Lies and the 2004 Election

by James Bovard April 1, 2007

Shortly after he was reelected, President Bush declared that American voters had had their “moment of accountability” regarding the Iraq war. Since he had gotten slightly more than 50 percent of the votes in the November 2004 election, that meant that they had ratified his policies and that Bush was ...

Funding Leviathan, Part 2

by Laurence M. Vance April 1, 2007

Part 1 | Part 2 When the Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan, broached the idea of a consumption tax to replace all or part of the income tax in his testimony before the President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform, he was not alone. There are three other voices that have of late been promoting a consumption ...

Nanny-State Quandary

by Scott McPherson April 1, 2007

Paternalistic agitators must be in a real quandary. A Massachusetts man is suing his former employer for firing him for smoking. The man lost his job as a lawn-care specialist after testing positive for nicotine. Isn’t this great? After all, anti-smoking types have been haranguing us for years about the dangers ...

The Slippery Slope of Nanny-State Politics

by Jeffrey A. Singer April 1, 2007

On December 5, 2006, the City of New York banned the use of transfats in restaurants and food preparation. Ironically, many of the experts proclaiming the dangers of transfats were the ones who urged us to embrace them as “heart-healthy” in the 1980s. William Willett, chairman of the department of nutrition at Harvard University, who was one of the ...

Liberty versus the Morality Police

by George Leef April 1, 2007

Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality by Elizabeth Price Foley (Yale University Press, 2006); 287 pages, $35.00. Most Americans have settled somnolently into the view that whatever laws are passed are all right because they’re the product of democracy. To be sure, there ...

Speaker Spotlight: Richard Vague and Joanne Mariner

by Jacob G. Hornberger March 30, 2007

The two speakers at our June 1-4 conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties who are being highlighted this week are Richard Vague and Joanne Mariner, two people whose lives can be summed up in one word: Courage. Richard Vague, one of our conservative speakers, is one of the ...