Daily Articles

Emigration to Mexico

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 1, 2001

"We may have a big problem down in Mexico. A couple of days ago, the Washington Post reported that an increasing number of Americans are settling in Mexico--600,000 according to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City. Why is this a problem? Well, consider these points: (1) The Americans are not ...

The IRS: Still a Grave Threat to Freedom

by James Bovard February 1, 2001

THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION just succeeded in brow-beating Congress into giving the Internal Revenue Service one of the largest budget increases in the agency’s history. Clintonites had warned that, without a windfall for the revenuers, America was at grave risk of insufficient tax audits. Clinton persuaded much of the media ...

Repeal the Income Tax

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 1, 2001

Defending his tax-cut proposal last night, President Bush said, "Unrestrained government spending is a dangerous road to deficits, so we must take a different path. Let the American people spend their own money to meet their own needs, to fund their own priorities, and pay down their own debts." What ...

FDR — The Man, the Leader, the Legacy, Part 11

by Ralph Raico February 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 It would be a mistake to think that the ...

Book Review: The Mystery of Capital

by Richard M. Ebeling February 1, 2001

The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando de Soto (New York: Random House, 2000); 243 pages; $24.95. CONSIDER THE TERM “the Third World.” Most people probably would conjure up in their minds the image of tens of millions of poverty-stricken people living in Asia, Africa, and South America possessing no means for ...

Full Context Interview with Jacob G. Hornberger

by William and Karen Minto January 31, 2001

Q: Where did you grow up? Hornberger: I grew up on a farm on the Rio Grande near Laredo, Texas, which at that time was the poorest city in the United States. Q: What about your early environment influenced your thinking and character? Hornberger: My father was German-American and my mother was Mexican-American. The integration and confluence of Mexican and American people ...

Don’t Ignore the Man Behind the Curtain

by Sheldon Richman January 2, 2001

There has been something disconcerting in most of the commentary throughout the postelection controversy. This became palpable after the U.S. Supreme Court essentially ruled that George W. Bush had won the presidency. I heard desperation in the voices of those who took to the airwaves to counsel Bush and Al Gore ...

Let’s Retire the Drug War

by Jacob G. Hornberger January 1, 2001

Retired army general Barry McAfree has announced that he is now retiring from his position as America’s drug czar. If only he would take the war on drugs with him. Of all the domestic wars that the U.S. government has waged in the last several decades, the war on drugs has got to be the most immoral and destructive of ...

Background Checks

by Jacob G. Hornberger January 1, 2001

"Why do we need the FBI doing background checks on presidential appointments? Are FBI agents determining whether China, Russia, or Cuba have planted communists among the people selected by the president? Or is this simply an excuse to pry into the private lives of the citizenry? Why aren't the president, ...

Some Real Reaching Out

by Sheldon Richman January 1, 2001

With President George W. Bush having now taken office, theres a lot of talk about his reaching out to the opposition. The logic is this: the presidential race was so close that Bush owes some consideration to the people who voted for Al Gore. Naturally, that means embracing major parts ...

Food, Education, and Health Care

by Jacob G. Hornberger January 1, 2001

HAVE YOU EVER stayed up late at night worrying about whether there would be sufficient food in your community’s grocery stores the next day? Paced the floor over whether there would be the correct quantities of food for everyone? Fretted over whether rich people would buy up everything and leave ...

The Fundamental Rights of the European Union: Individual Rights or Welfare-State Privileges? Part 1

by Richard M. Ebeling January 1, 2001

Thirty years ago, British economist William R. Lewis wrote a monograph for the Institute of Economic Affairs in London entitled Rome or Brussels...? His theme was the contrast between the original motives and purposes behind the establishment of the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1957 through the Treaty of Rome and what the EEC had become by the early ...