Daily Articles

Nuke Germany Instead

by Jacob G. Hornberger March 2, 2003

Last February, Robert Higgs published an essay on LewRockwell.com entitled “Nuke France”. Higgs has it all wrong. We need to nuke Germany instead. After all, let’s not forget: The Germans started both world wars! And everybody knows that there’s something inherently aggressive about all Germans. Do I need to remind anyone that prior to U.S. entry into ...

Economic Liberty and the Constitution, Part 10

by Jacob G. Hornberger March 1, 2003

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 |  Table of Contents An analysis of the Gold Clause Cases, decided by ...

The Hubris of the Central Banker and the Ghosts of Deflation Past, Part 2

by Richard M. Ebeling March 1, 2003

Part 1 | Part 2 In spite of the fact that the monetary policies of the Federal Reserve System in the United States and the European Central Bank (ECB) have been highly expansionary during the current economic downturn, central bankers at both institutions have taken the time to deliver addresses assuring their listeners that there is no need for ...

The Poisoning of “States’ Rights”

by Sheldon Richman March 1, 2003

Schadenfreude. That’s what I felt watching former Senate majority leader Trent Lott twist in the wind over his expressed wish that Strom Thurmond had won the presidency in 1948. “A malicious satisfaction in the misfortunes of others.” Lott is a typical Republican leader. He occasionally talks about limiting government power, but his actions are those of a conservative big-government wheeler-dealer ...

Government’s License to Inflict Injustice

by James Bovard March 1, 2003

Sovereign immunity is one of the most dangerous concepts to freedom. And the larger and more powerful governments become, the more sovereign immunity becomes a black hole where citizens’ rights can vanish. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes declared in 1907, “A sovereign is exempt from suit there can be no legal right as against ...

Ending the Anachronistic Korean Commitment, Part 2

by Doug Bandow March 1, 2003

Part 1 | Part 2 In the aftermath of the 2000 inter-Korean summit, Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon explained, “We intend to remain a force for stability in that area as long as we are needed.” But U.S. forces weren’t needed even before the summit. South Korea (the Republic of Korea, or ROK) has upwards of 40 times the GDP and ...

Book Review: War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

by Richard M. Ebeling March 1, 2003

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges (New York: Public Affairs, 2002); 211 pages; $23. During the Second World War, my mother worked for the Department of the Navy in Washington, D.C. When I was growing up, she would sometimes look back at those war years with a great degree of nostalgia. She would say that in ...

Racism and the Drug War

by Jacob G. Hornberger March 1, 2003

Its all fine and good that Trent Lott is no longer Senate majority as a result of his praise for Strom Thurmonds 1948 race for president, in which Thurmond endorsed segregation. Its also fine and good that Lotts fellow members of Congress, both Democrats and Republicans, overwhelmingly condemned his racial insensitivity and elected Bill Frist in his stead. But given ...

The Costs and Madness of Empire

by Richard M. Ebeling February 28, 2003

The costs of the American Empire become clearer with each passing day, as the U.S. government releases information about its various global actions and plans. The latest ones relate to the ongoing Muslim insurgency movement in the Philippines and the outlines for the making of a ...

Free or Not?

by Sheldon Richman February 23, 2003

Free Bonus! FanMail!! Time magazine recently published its annual cover story on health, focusing on the relationship between mind and body. To its credit, it contains some rarely heard criticisms of the mental-health laws, which nearly everyone accepts as appropriate in the land of the free. But as John Cloud writes, “ diagnoses can ...

Healthcare Socialism

by Scott McPherson February 21, 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 ...

The French Got It Right This Time

by Sheldon Richman February 21, 2003

(BONUS! Hatemail from op-ed editors in response to this article.) The American put-downs of the French over their unwillingness to sign up for the Coalition of the Willing are a little too glib for my tastes. There’s the story of the American who asked the French citizen if he speaks ...