Daily Articles

Health-Care Socialism

by Scott McPherson June 1, 2003

Some ideas die hard. Among the most resilient is the Utopian belief that health care could be cheap, free, and available to all, if only we’d let the government take care of it. It was in the spirit of reviving this tragically unwise socialist idea that former president Bill Clinton and Sen. John Breaux (D-La.) addressed separate audiences last ...

Why Socialism Is the People’s Choice

by James Ostrowski June 1, 2003

Why is socialism more popular than capitalism? We have had 150 years to dissect socialism in theory. We have had 100 years to see socialism in action. Socialism, extensive government control over the economy, is a disaster in theory and a disaster in practice. The superiority of capitalism over socialism has been amply demonstrated by Ludwig von Mises, F.A. ...

Freedom of Movement

by Jim Rogers June 1, 2003

...Removing the barriers to the free movement of people, labor, capital, and intellectual capital is what the European Union is all about and what the euro is designed to promote. If you are a member of the European Union, you no longer need a visa or passport for internal travel no more than does a U.S. citizen to go ...

Book Review: The Mind and the Market

by Richard M. Ebeling June 1, 2003

The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Modern European Thought by Jerry Z. Muller (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002); 487pages; $30. In the 1920s and 1930s, the well-known Italian classical-liberal historian Guglielmo Ferrero attempted to explain the reasons for the social disruptions and civil wars that European society had gone through from the time of the French Revolution in 1789. ...

What the Republicans Should Have Said

by Scott McPherson May 28, 2003

According to the Washington Times, “Six Washington-area lawyers ... say they’d be happy to file suit against landlord ... who ... cited a prospective tenant’s Republican affiliation when rejecting request for housing.” “I assume someone will inform about the fair-housing laws,” one self-described ...

Phony-Baloney Constitutionalists

by Sheldon Richman May 26, 2003

Conservatives favor strict construction of the U.S. Constitution. How do we know? They never stop telling us so. But judging by what they say about the late Iraq war, we may conclude that most conservatives are just phony-baloney constitutionalists. These politicians, such as Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-Ariz.), and ...

Property Rights and the “Right of Return”

by Richard M. Ebeling May 26, 2003

The Israeli government has been taking the position that any hope for a permanent peace settlement with the Palestinians must be preceded by a number of preconditions. One of the leading preconditions is that the Palestinian authority reject any claim for a “right of return.” What this refers to is the fact that, during the 1948 war ...

Moral Responsiblity for Iraqi Graves

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 23, 2003

Given the failure of U.S. forces to find Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, the newest justification for the president’s invasion of Iraq has become the mass graves of Iraqis killed by Saddam Hussein’s forces after the Persian Gulf War in 1991. “If we hadn’t invaded,” the reasoning goes, “Saddam ...

Where are Saddam’s Weapons of Mass Destruction?

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 23, 2003

The Mists of Falsehoods Wild Weapons Chase Iraqi Arsenal Now Seems a Phantom Menace Weapons Failure Weapons of Mass Doo-Daa The Absence of Weapons, and What It Means Something Fishy for Haddock WMD? MIA Bush's WMD ...

Better Late than Never on Sanctions

by Sheldon Richman May 16, 2003

The Bush administration wants the United Nations to lift the economic sanctions against the now-Hussein-less Iraq because they impose cruel hardship on the Iraqi people. Better late than never. Some of us have been saying for years that the sanctions were a cruel and futile attempt to undermine Saddam Hussein’s regime ...

The O.P.S.B.

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 16, 2003

Prior to and during President Bush's recent war on Iraq, there were multitudes of old American men (i.e., men more than 40 years old) who eagerly supported sending American troops into battle. Those American men who lacked the courage to “support the troops” in this way were denounced by ...

If They Hadn’t Been Breaking the Law, This Wouldn’t Have Happened

by Jacob G. Hornberger May 16, 2003

The federal governments response to the deaths of those 18 illegal Latin American immigrants in South Texas was predictable because its the same response that the feds have made every time such a tragedy has occurred. The governments response: criticism, condemnation, and prosecution of either the immigrant for illegal entry or the transporter of the ...