Another Drug-War Lesson in Peru by Jacob G. Hornberger April 1, 2001 The war on drugs has now taken two more casualties — 35-year-old missionary Veronica Bowers and her 7-month old child Charity. Last Friday, April 20, a Peruvian interceptor jet attacked and shot down a defenseless single-engine Cessna in which Bowers and her baby were traveling. Surviving the attack were her ...
Yahoo! We Have Free Speech by Jacob G. Hornberger April 1, 2001 A RECENT RULING by a French Court in a lawsuit brought against Yahoo.com reflects the dramatically different way in which Americans and Europeans view the importance of individual liberty. The case involved Yahoo’s online auctions of Nazi memorabilia. In France, as in Germany, such sales constitute a severe criminal offense. While ...
Welfare State Morality by Jacob G. Hornberger April 1, 2001 AS A COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATIVE, President Bush wants to give federal aid to faith-based organizations. His plan has drawn attacks from both leaders on the religious Right and civil libertarians on the Left. Religious leaders object to Bush’s plan on the ground that it will lead to governmental interference with religious organizations. The point they make ...
FDR — The Man, the Leader, the Legacy Table of Contents by Ralph Raico April 1, 2001 Part 1 (April 1998) Early years Part 2 (May 1998) 1905 – 1914 Part 3 (July 1998) 1914 – 1916 Part 4 (August 1998) 1916 – 1918 Part 5 (November 1998) End of the war; 1920 campaign Part 6 (April 1999) 1924 campaign; 1928 campaign — Roosevelt becomes governor of New York. Part 7 (June 1999) Governor Roosevelt: 1928 – 1932 Part 8 (November 1999) The ...
The Disunited States of Europe: The Politics of Power and Privilege, Part 2 by Richard M. Ebeling April 1, 2001 Part 1 | Part 2 FOR SIX DAYS, during December 6-12, 2000, the 15 member-nations of the European Union (EU) met in Nice, France, for a conference that was meant to set the direction and structure for the organization well into the 21st century. On the EU’s agenda were: (a) plans for expanding the European Union to include many of the ...
The Rule of Law, R.I.P. by Sheldon Richman April 1, 2001 THERE IS LITTLE LEFT of the rule of law in the United States of America. To be sure, things are worse elsewhere, but that gives no comfort. We live under a regime in which the traditional features of the rule of law are largely absent. No one claims to be against the rule of law. Quite the contrary. But most ...
April Is the Cruelest Month by Sheldon Richman April 1, 2001 Taxes. Fiscal force. This is the month that you are ordered to reduce your financial life to a series of complex tax forms and get them into the IRS. This is the month that your report to the government is due. The authorities are waiting to hear from you. Don't ...
The Clinton Regime’s Final Bosh by James Bovard April 1, 2001 “WE HAVE A NEW SENSE OF optimism in America.... America has come back under his regime,” declared White House press spokesman Jake Siewert at the final White House briefing of Clinton’s presidency. Siewert recognized his gaffe and quickly repeated himself, substituting the word “administration” for “regime.” But actually, the word “regime” is far more accurate, at least insofar as ...
The Morality of the Welfare State by Jacob G. Hornberger April 1, 2001 As a compassionate conservative, President Bush wants to give federal aid to faith-based organizations. His plan has drawn attacks from religious leaders on the right and civil libertarians on the left. Religious leaders object to Bush’s plan on the ground that it will lead to governmental interference with religious ...
FDR — The Man, the Leader, the Legacy, Part 12 by Ralph Raico April 1, 2001 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 In granting official diplomatic recognition to the Soviet Union ...
Book Review: Revolutionary Language by George Leef April 1, 2001 Revolutionary Language by David C. Calderwood (Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse.com, Inc., 1999); 324 pages; $13.95. AN IMPORTANT but little-known battle between the forces of statism and the forces of liberty of the early 1990s pitted the “law-enforcement” community and national security paranoiacs against one man who happened to believe that people ought to be ...
Book Review: Basic Economics by Richard M. Ebeling April 1, 2001 Basic Economics: A Citizen’s Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell (New York: Basic Books, 2000); 366 pages; $30. WHEN ADAM SMITH completed his criticisms of mercantilism, the 18th-century system of government planning and control, in The Wealth of Nations, he expressed a deep pessimism that the free-trade ideal that he had defended, instead of the regulated economy, would ever be ...