The Relegalization of Drugs, Part 1 by Jacob G. Hornberger November 1, 1996 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 A member of the Christian Coalition recently telephoned me and said that she agreed with most of what The Future of Freedom Foundation stands for and wanted to support us. She then asked: "What is your organization's stand on drug legalization?" I responded: "We call for the total legalization of ...
Terrorism, Anti-Terrorism, and American Foreign Policy, Part 1 by Richard M. Ebeling November 1, 1996 Part 1 | Part 2 On July 17, 1996, TWA Fight 800 exploded into a fireball off the southern coast of Long Island and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, just minutes after it took off from John F. Kennedy International Airport. Two hundred and thirty human beings lost their lives. The anger and sorrow expressed by many Americans were understandable, ...
The Clinton Administration’s War on Privacy by Sheldon Richman November 1, 1996 The Clinton administration, self-proclaimed champion of civil liberties and small government, is a big fraud. President Clinton's Department of Justice, it was recently revealed, is wiretapping more and more American citizens each year. It is increasing the number of federal wiretaps by more than 30 percent annually. What's more, the administration is bulking up the budgets of the FBI and ...
Stop Playing Games by Sheldon Richman November 1, 1996 It's time for President Clinton to stop playing Saddam Hussein's tiresome game. How many times will the president prime the American people for military strikes on Iraq, only to go on television and call them off after Saddam has agreed to readmit the UN weapons inspectors? It's like a summer re-run! There ...
Drug War Dementia by James Bovard November 1, 1996 H. L. Mencken observed in 1918: "A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion . . . as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them." In recent years, politicians have found few better ways to frighten voters than with the specter of drugs. The government's war on drug users is annually jailing hundreds ...
The Big Lie by Vin Suprynowicz November 1, 1996 If the failed and unconstitutional "war on drugs" really needed another nail in its coffin, the 60-page report "Illicit Drugs and Crime" by Bruce L. Benson and David W. Rasmussen, professors of economics at Florida State University, should do the job. After studying crime rates in Florida, which poured vast resources into a beefed-up drug war in the years 1984-89, ...
Book Review: The Corrosion of Charity by Richard M. Ebeling November 1, 1996 The Corrosion of Charity by Robert Whelan (London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 1996); 116 pages; £7.00. When the first suggestions were made for "downsizing" federal welfare spending after the 1994 Congressional elections, it was not surprising that various special-interest groups that either receive welfare payments in one form or another or that serve as the administrative or bureaucratic conduits for dispersing ...
What’s So Great about Democracy? by Sheldon Richman October 1, 1996 In this election season, the time might be right for a heretical question: what's so great about democracy? To be sure, voting is better than violence for picking officeholders. But the real issue is what power those officeholders will have. Who rules is less important than which rules. In ...
The Failure of the Republican “Revolution,” Part 9 by Jacob G. Hornberger October 1, 1996 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 The Republican "revolution" was doomed from the start. The reason is due to the fatal flaw in the moral, political, and economic philosophy of the Republican ...
If Liberty Mattered — Once More, a Presidential Candidate’s Press Conference, Part 8 by Richard M. Ebeling October 1, 1996 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 The Washington Times: In your previous press conference, you argued for the reversal of America's military commitments around the world. You said that you would notify our global allies that ...
Zoning: The New Tyranny by James Bovard October 1, 1996 Modern zoning laws presume that no citizen has a right to control his own land, but that every citizen has a right to control his neighbor's. While many people think zoning simply prevents sharply conflicting land uses, such as building a munitions plant next to an apartment complex, it has become ...
The State Threat to Computer Privacy by Sheldon Richman October 1, 1996 The Clinton administration is proceeding apace with a plan to force each of us to give the government a spare key to our houses and offices. Well, that's not literally what they want. They want a spare key to our filing cabinets. That may be cryptic, but in time the reader ...