The Federal Government Has Damaged Our Country by Future of Freedom Foundation January 23, 2006 As the situation in Iraq continues to deteriorate, an increasing number of Americans are now questioning the wisdom of President Bushs decision to invade. While the primary reason for peoples increased level of dissatisfaction is the number of U.S. troops killed and wounded, there are many other important reasons that Americans should be questioning not only the U.S. invasion but also U.S. foreign policy in general. With its foreign policy and its invasion of Iraq, the federal government has wreaked great damage and brought great shame on our country. Prior to the invasion of Iraq, President Bush suggested various rationales for the invasion. All of them revolved around the fact that Saddam Hussein, the unelected ruler of Iraq, was a tyrannical and dangerous dictator, one who possibly possessed WMDs. Yet, in dealing with Saddam Hussein, ...
The NRA Gets It Wrong by Future of Freedom Foundation March 10, 2006 The concept of individual rights really isnt complicated, but even some of its defenders get it wrong. Take, for example, the National Rifle Association (NRA). The NRA, of course, concentrates exclusively on the individuals right to keep and bear arms, but that is no excuse for failing to relate that right to the wider context of individual freedom. By failing to do so, the NRA actually undercuts our rights and endangers the very right it seeks to defend. The NRA has called for a boycott of ConocoPhillips, the oil company, because it is trying to overturn an Oklahoma law that would require employers to let their workers keep firearms in their cars when parked on company parking lots. The law was passed by the state legislature after Weyerhaeuser fired a dozen employees ...
The NRA Gets It Wrong by Future of Freedom Foundation April 26, 2010 The concept of individual rights really isnt complicated, but even some of its defenders get it wrong. Take, for example, the National Rifle Association (NRA). The NRA, of course, concentrates exclusively on the individuals right to keep and bear arms, but that is no excuse for failing to relate that right to the wider context of individual freedom. By failing to do so, the NRA actually undercuts our rights and endangers the very right it seeks to defend. The NRA has called for a boycott of ConocoPhillips, the oil company, because it is trying to overturn an Oklahoma law that would require employers to let their workers keep firearms in their cars when parked on company parking lots. The law was passed by the state legislature after Weyerhaeuser fired a dozen employees ...
How the Feds Took Over Farming by Future of Freedom Foundation March 25, 2010 I appreciate all the feedback from readers from last months article, Harebrained Pot and Wheat Decisions. That piece showed how the Supreme Court this year justified banning medical marijuana on the basis of a 1942 Supreme Court decision involving wheat subsidies. This essay will seek to answer some of readers ...
The Failure of Amtrak Reform by Future of Freedom Foundation March 25, 2010 End of the Line: The Failure of Amtrak Reform and the Future of Americas Passenger Trains by Joseph Vranich (American Enterprise Institute, 2004); 264 pages. With Amtrak officials recent threats to shut down unless Congress increases its subsidy and with the Acela fiasco, was there ever a ...
Free Speech on the Ropes by Future of Freedom Foundation April 1, 2010 The First Amendment states that Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech. The Founding Fathers could have done nothing to make it clearer that the government has no right to gag the American people. However, in recent years, the Constitution is proving little or no barrier to ...
Bushs Wiretap Crimes and the FISA Farce by Future of Freedom Foundation April 1, 2010 President Bush proudly announced last December that he is violating federal law. He declared that in 2002 he had ordered the National Security Agency to begin conducting warrantless wiretaps and email intercepts on Americans. He asserted that the wiretaps would continue, regardless of ...
The Most Absurdities per Kilo by Future of Freedom Foundation March 25, 2010 The war on drugs has produced more absurdities per kilo than any other federal policy. Drug warriors have had high-profile belly flop after belly flop. Yet most of the media and the vast majority of American politicians continue to treat this war with deference, if not reverence. One of the biggest ...
The Progressive Era, Part 1: The Myth and the Reality by Future of Freedom Foundation March 21, 2010 Part 1 | Part 2 One of the most enduring set of myths from U.S. history comes from the political and social developments in what is called the Progressive Era, a period lasting from the late 1800s to the end of World War I. (Of ...
Nonsense on the Inevitability of Democracy by Future of Freedom Foundation April 2, 2010 Many Americans are being lulled into assuming that democracy is inevitable. This is a favorite theme of President Bushs beating on the same drumhead used by President Clinton, President Wilson, and other notable demagogues. But the fact that politicians agree does not make ...
Death and Taxes by Future of Freedom Foundation March 31, 2010 A friend of mine recently passed away at his home. This, in and of itself,is not surprising, as he was 80 years old and had cancer, butthis story is about what happened before and up untilhis death. My friend worked very hard formany years, had a successful ...
A Century of Interventionism and Regime Change by Future of Freedom Foundation March 30, 2010 Overthrow: Americas Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer (New York: Times Books, 2006); 400 pages; $27.50. Since September 11, the U.S. government has overthrown the governments of Afghanistan and Iraq. Most Americans appear to think of these actions as defensible in principle ...
