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FDR – The Man, the Leader, the Legacy, Part 9

by Ralph Raico April 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 | Table of Contents March 1933 proved to be a momentous time in ...

Making Sense of Jewish Stereotypes

by Jeffrey A. Singer April 1, 2000

The stereotype is a printer's aid. This one-piece plate, cast in type metal from a mold taken of a printing surface, produces an unvarying form or pattern, having no individuality. It speeds the process of producing printed material. People use stereotyping to speed up thought processes in their daily lives - only they use a cognitive matrix instead of type ...

No Worry about Gas Prices

by Sheldon Richman April 1, 2000

Isn't it funny that people get upset when the laws of economics operate as expected? Gasoline and crude oil prices have risen lately in response to higher demand and lower supply. So what do people do? They frantically call on the government to do something. Truckers drive ...

Book Review: Reflections on a Ravaged Century

by Richard M. Ebeling April 1, 2000

Reflections on a Ravaged Century by Robert Conquest (New York: W.W. Norton, 2000); 317 pages; $26.95. When the 19th century was ending, there was a great sense of optimism and confidence. The December 31, 1899, issue of the New York Times had devoted practically its entire editorial page to a summary of the magnificent achievements of the 19th century: the steam ...

The Hero’s Hero

by Sheldon Richman March 2, 2000

We can judge a person by his heroes. John McCain would no doubt agree. Revealingly, the hero McCain most often invokes is Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt, a Progressive Republican, was a key figure in America's passage from a Jeffersonian republic to a Hamiltonian despotism. He embodied the late-19th- and early-20th-century vision in which the citizen is ...

Tell All, or Else

by Sheldon Richman March 2, 2000

The Census Bureau wants you to tell it all sorts of things about yourself, but there's one thing it doesn't want to tell you: You may be punished if you disobey. You will search in vain through the census materials you receive in the mail for notice or details of that threat. The notification letter makes ...

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. ...