The Oklahoma City Bombing by Jacob G. Hornberger May 1, 2001 The Oklahoma City Bombing With the upcoming execution of convicted mass murderer Timothy McVeigh, much has been made of McVeigh's indifference to the fact that included among the 168 deaths in the Oklahoma City bombing were 19 children. McVeigh has referred to the children's deaths as "collateral damage." But it's important that we not forget that McVeigh is not ...
Free Trade without the “But” by Sheldon Richman May 1, 2001 Heads of state throughout the Western Hemisphere gathered recently in Quebec City to talk about setting up a hemispheric free-trade zone. But as usual, the politicians spoke with forked tongues. When these guys say “free trade” they really mean “free trade, but.” There are more ...
The “Good-Government” Attack on Free Speech by Sheldon Richman May 1, 2001 I keep waiting for a swell of sanity to wash Senators John McCain and Russell Feingold’s campaign finance “reform” bill away once and for all. But I am beginning to despair that there isn’t that much sanity around anymore. The polls show that most people don’t care about campaign finance issues. ...
Teens for Lower Taxes by Ken Sturzenacker May 1, 2001 Adults in the executive and legislative branches of the nation's various governments may not want to pay attention, but they should. A Junior Achievement survey of middle school and high school students nationwide completed in March shows that six out of seven (83%) teens believe taxes in general are too high. ...
McVeigh Isn’t the Only One Who Doesn’t Care by Jacob G. Hornberger May 1, 2001 Much has been made of convicted mass murderer McVeigh’s indifference to the fact that 19 children were among the 168 deaths in the Oklahoma City bombing. McVeigh has referred to the children’s deaths as “collateral damage.” But it’s important that we not forget that McVeigh is not the only ...
What Makes an American? by Richard M. Ebeling May 1, 2001 WHAT MAKES SOMEONE an American as opposed to, say, an Englishman, or a Frenchman, or a German, or an Italian? Within these other countries, the answers are fairly simple. For example, a German is someone who can demonstrate that his ancestors were German-speakers originally from those areas in which Germans have ...
Kill the Death Tax by Sheldon Richman May 1, 2001 ARE WE SUPPOSED to be impressed that some of the country’s richest men want the government to continue taxing estates? I don’t see why their opinion on this matter is worth more than anyone else’s. After all, just because someone is good at making money, that doesn’t make him an authority ...
Space Tourism by Ken Sturzenacker May 1, 2001 As the American tourist who paid $20 million to the Russians to ride along with their cosmonauts for a week-long visit to the international space station, American multimillionaire Dennis Tito is having the time of his life The U.S. space agency, NASA, which shares ...
Government as Parasite by Sheldon Richman May 1, 2001 The Republicans still don’t get it. They say they want a tax cut because “the surplus is the people’s money,” but their heart isn’t in it. If they truly believed that, they wouldn’t quickly add that we need a tax cut to avert a recession. They supported the tax cut before ...
Dictatorship out of Thin Air by James Bovard May 1, 2001 FEDERAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS turn bureaucrats into dictators who need not care a whit about public health. Instead, federal agencies blindly pursue both power and publicity. The result is one absurdity after another — and scant attention for the real health threats that Americans face. On July 12, 1999, the Justice Department announced that it was suing Toyota for $58 billion ...
A Republic, Not an Empire by Sheldon Richman May 1, 2001 Predictably, the key lesson of the recent China incident has not been learned. That lesson is this: America was designed as a republic and should not act like an empire. When it does act that way, the American people, not to mention the people in other countries, suffer. Why does the U.S. government need to send spy ...
The Free-Soil Movement, Part 1 by Wendy McElroy May 1, 2001 Part 1 | Part 2 In 1837, in order to encourage a westward migration of the poor and unemployed from the industrial East, the journalist Horace Greeley proclaimed, “Go West, young man, go forth into the Country.” The vast public lands in the West were seen as a safety valve for the increasing labor unrest of Eastern cities. Twenty-five years ...