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Thank Goodness We Can Ignore the Wars

by Sheldon Richman March 28, 2007

New York Times foreign-affairs columnist Thomas Friedman laments that most Americans are disengaged from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. During a recent radio appearance, Friedman cited comedian Bill Maher’s complaint that “the enemy” has had to fight only 140,000 Americans rather than all 300 million of us. You hear this a ...

The Pentagon’s Power to Jail Americans Indefinitely

by Jacob G. Hornberger March 26, 2007

The presiding judge in the Jose Padilla case has held that the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of a speedy trial does not protect American citizens from being indefinitely incarcerated by the Pentagon. Padilla had filed a motion to dismiss the case on the ground that the federal government had denied him his right to a speedy trial. Padilla ...

Immigration Policy Reveals What We Are

by Sheldon Richman March 25, 2007

The new compromise immigration bill is drawing lots of flak, not least from conservatives who object to granting amnesty to millions of so-called illegal aliens in the country. (I prefer to think of them as independent migrants.) Here I have to agree with the conservatives. The illegals shouldn’t be granted ...

Speaker Spotlight: Daniel Ellsberg and Joseph Margulies

by Jacob G. Hornberger March 23, 2007

Previous Conference Updates: Speaker Spotlight: Ivand Eland and Tom DiLorenzo Student Scholarships and Speakers Robert Scheer and Richard Ebeling Student Scholarships and Speakers Justin Raimondo and Karen Kwiatkowski Conference 2007 Speaker Spotlight: Lew Rockwell and Bob Higgs Conference 2007 Speaker Spotlight: Jim Bovard and Ralph Raico FFF Conference: Restoring the Repubic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties First of all, we ...

Shssh! Don’t Tell Americans How We Treat “Enemy Combatants”

by Jacob G. Hornberger March 21, 2007

The case of accused terrorist Jose Padilla is moving toward a jury trial on April 16 in U.S. District Court in Miami. It is still unclear whether the presiding judge in the case, Marcia Cooke, will order an evidentiary hearing on Padilla’s motion to dismiss the charges based on the government’s outrageous pre-trial conduct while ...

War, Civil Liberties, and Libertarianism

by Anthony Gregory March 16, 2007

For more than 12 years, since I was a high-school freshman, I have counted the champions of freedom as my greatest heroes. I have long admired those who, throughout history as well in the present, have spoken truth to power and stood up against tyranny, especially when it mattered most, and especially when it was ...

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 ...