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The Case for Legalized Prostitution

by Paul Armentano December 1, 1993

Prostitution may be the world's oldest profession, and laws prohibiting prostitution may well be the oldest example of government regulation and government (sex) discrimination. In a free society, however, all such laws are inappropriate because they violate the basic rights and liberties of the individuals involved. Recent research indicates that over one million women in the United States earn their ...

Book Review: Lenin’s Tomb

by Richard M. Ebeling December 1, 1993

Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick (New York: Random House, 1993); 576 pages; $25. In July 1919, during the Russian Civil War, the Russian philosopher P.D. Ouspensky sent an article from southern Russia to the British journal New Age. He said that he had no idea what the reader knew about what was happening in ...

Religion and Freedom

by Rev. Robert A. Sirico December 1, 1993

It never ceases to amaze me to discover the number of people who see a blatant contradiction between the notions of religion and those of liberty. Nor is this, in my estimation, an inconsequential dichotomy. The late F.A. Hayek, on the occasion of the founding of the Mont Pelerin Society, warned in his presidential lecture that the failure of ...

What President Clinton Should Have Said to the Japanese, Part 2

by Jacob G. Hornberger November 1, 1993

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government arrested American citizens of Japanese descent, placed them in American concentration camps, and confiscated their assets. There were no indictments. There were no trials. There were no convictions. These Americans were simply rounded up, taken away, ...

Free Trade, Managed Trade and the State, Part 4

by Richard M. Ebeling November 1, 1993

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 "The Protectionist creed rises like a weed in every soil," lamented the English classical economist Walter Bagehot in the 1880s. "Every nation wishes prosperity for some conspicuous industry. At what cost to the consumer, by what hardship to less conspicuous industries, that ...

How Police Confiscation Is Destroying America, Part 2

by Jarret B. Wollstein November 1, 1993

Part 1 | Part 2 Under the Comprehensive Forfeiture Act of 1984 and other federal crime laws, any monies a defense attorney receives from a client can be confiscated — either before or after trial — if the government alleges they were the proceeds of an illegal transaction. In March 1992, the Securities and Exchange Commission froze all of the ...

Toward an American Police State

by Donald S. McAlvany November 1, 1993

George Orwell's 1984 has arrived in the U.S.S.A. Just as in Nazi Germany in the 1930s and in Russia from 1917 to 1990, any government agent or agency in America today can confiscate or seize almost any property from any American and there is very ...

Book Review: Market Liberalism

by Richard M. Ebeling November 1, 1993

Market Liberalism: A Paradigm for the 21st Century edited by David Boaz and Edward H. Crane (Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 1993); 404 pages; $15.95. As the 20th century approaches its end, the American people face the challenge of deciding their political and economic future. Socialism has been defeated. The experience of the ...

What President Clinton Should Have Said to the Japanese, Part 1

by Jacob G. Hornberger October 1, 1993

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to visit Japan and to speak to you, the Japanese people, during my first year as president of the United States. I am here not only to fortify friendships between our nations, but also to announce major changes regarding relations between the U.S. ...

Free Trade, Managed Trade and the State, Part 3

by Richard M. Ebeling October 1, 1993

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 "Protectionism is purely and highly socialistic," American economist Francis Walker observed in 1887. "Its purpose is so to operate upon individual choices and aims, so to influence private enterprise and the investments of capital, as to secure the building up, within the ...

How Police Confiscation Is Destroying America, Part 1

by Jarret B. Wollstein October 1, 1993

Part 1 | Part 2 Throughout America, police are now seizing cars, houses and bank accounts — without trial . . . and killing innocent Americans. The police now have the legal power to confiscate anything and everything that you own. Without trial, conviction, or even indictment, police are seizing cars, bank accounts, homes, and businesses from at least 5,000 ...

Laws That Are Criminal

by Otto Scott October 1, 1993

Until recently, forfeiture laws were a part of the English and colonial past. They were revived during the Civil War, when — in 1862 — an Abolitionist Congress permitted the president to seize the homes and estates of Confederate soldiers. This power was used especially during the postwar Reconstruction period ...