Count Me Out by Sheldon Richman March 1, 2000 I got a letter from my friendly federal government the other day. It notified me that in about a week I will be mailed my U.S. Census 2000 form. Why they didn't just send the form instead of the notice, I can't fathom. But that's the least of it. The letter tells me ...
CAPSULE COMMENTARY: “State Sterilizations” by Jacob G. Hornberger March 1, 2000 "The reason that the State of Virginia has insurmountable ballot-access barriers that keep Libertarians from appearing on the ballot for statewide races became a little clearer last weekend. (Due to the high barriers, the Libertarian Party has historically been unable to field candidates for governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general.) In its ...
CAPSULE COMMENTARY: “IRS Seizes Church” by Jacob G. Hornberger March 1, 2000 "The Internal Revenue Service has planned its annual pre-April 15 advertising campaign. A church in Indianapolis is refusing to pay federal withholding taxes totaling $5.9 million on religious grounds -- that the monies paid to church employees were not income but rather "love gifts." Well, apparently the IRS doesn't believe in love ...
CAPSULE COMMENTARY: “Gun Control in Kosovo” by Jacob G. Hornberger March 1, 2000 "The Clinton administration's program to confiscate weapons in Kosovo provides powerful evidence of why Americans should be opposing gun-control efforts in the United States. There is one and only one reason that weapons are being confiscated in Kosovo: obedience. A disarmed populace is an obedient populace. Moreover, notice how U.S. ...
CAPSULE COMMENTARY: “Bush’s Compassionate Coercion” by Jacob G. Hornberger March 1, 2000 "Last week, George W. Bush provided a clear-cut example of 'compassionate conservatism.' He claimed that John McCain is against breast-cancer research because McCain purportedly voted against government funding of such research -- sort of like how a person hates the poor when he opposes a public-housing project. When reporters asked ...
Monopoly, Competition, and Educational Freedom by Jacob G. Hornberger March 1, 2000 Unfortunately, while many scholars understand the nature and benefits of the free market in general, they seem to lack a firm appreciation of pure free-market principles in the area of education. An example was a recent speech entitled "Competition" that was delivered to the conservative Heritage Foundation by Gary S. ...
Monetary Central Planning and the State, Part 39: Free Banking and the Benefits of Market Competition by Richard M. Ebeling March 1, 2000 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 ...
Public Master by Sheldon Richman March 1, 2000 First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton apparently wants to represent New York state in the U.S. Senate. She says she wishes to serve the people of New York. Read that carefully. She wants to be their servant. Does anyone believe that? What I'm about to say does not apply just to Mrs. Clinton. ...
Government Equals Force by James Bovard March 1, 2000 Occasionally throughout the 20th century, commentators have clearly recognized the coercive nature of government. British political scientist Harold Laski wrote in 1935: "At any critical moment in the history of a State the fact that its authority depends upon the power to coerce the opponents of the government, to break their wills, to compel them to submission, emerges as the ...
The Contagious Disease Acts by Wendy McElroy March 1, 2000 The Contagious Disease Acts (1860s) in Britain occasioned "the western world's first feminine revolt of any stature." So wrote historian Michael Pearson in his book The Age of Consent: Victorian Prostitution and Its Enemies. The revolt was for sexual equality and against a double standard in the law. The 20-year crusade against the C.D. Acts was led by a ...
Count Me Out by Sheldon Richman March 1, 2000 I got a letter from my friendly federal government the other day. It notified me that in about a week I will be mailed my U.S. Census 2000 form. Why they didn't just send the form instead of the notice, I can't fathom. But that's the least of it.
Lance Armstrong – Going Postal by Max Schulz March 1, 2000 Lance Armstrong touched the hearts of people all over the world when he took his victory laps on the Champs Élysées after winning the famed Tour de France bicycle race last summer. Just three years ago, Lance was diagnosed with cancer. It looked as if he might not live. Incredibly, Lance ...