The Rot at the Center of the Empire by Future of Freedom Foundation April 27, 2010 The announcement that the U.S. government had relied on fake and false evidence in the attempt to secure approval of its invasion of Iraq was, by and large, met by a collective yawn from the American people, especially the members of Congress. Its just one more example of the depths of moral depravity to which our nation has fallen. Think about it: After months of enumerating a long laundry list of alternating justifications for invading Iraq and killing lots of people and after looking for every conceivable technical violation of UN resolutions to justify an invasion, it turned out that the federal government had cited and relied on fake and false evidence to persuade the American people and the UN Security Council that an invasion was necessary an invasion that killed thousands of Iraqis, including both ordinary soldiers and civilians. Of course, federal officials are playing the innocent. One ...
Freedom Daily – 2003 by Future of Freedom Foundation April 26, 2010 January 2003 Economic Liberty and the Constitution, Part 8 by Jacob G. Hornberger In Pursuit of Sustainable Development: Political Planning versus the Free Market by Richard M. Ebeling Arrogance is Humility by Sheldon Richman Foreign Dissent on Bush's Imperial Ambitions by James Bovard Hawks and the Free Market by Bart Frazier Guns and Privacy by Scott McPherson Socialism Lives in Public Schools by Thomas L. Johnson Book Review: Misguided Virtue: False Notions of Corporate Social Responsibility, by David Henderson by Richard M. Ebeling back to top February 2003 Economic Liberty and the Constitution, Part 9 by Jacob G. Hornberger The Hubris of the Central Banker and the Ghosts of Deflation Past, Part 1 by Richard M. Ebeling More Like Them than We Care to Admit by ...
Terrorism Debacles in the Reagan Administration by Future of Freedom Foundation April 27, 2010 Many Americans are unaware of the dark side of U.S. foreign policys past. Some conservatives think that Ronald Reagans foreign policy began and ended with the thwarting of the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, there were many other U.S. actions during his reign that did not reflect favorably on the U.S. governments devotion to human rights. There were few common-places that offended Reagan more than the old saying that one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter a delusion that he said thwarted ... effective anti-terror action. As he explained, Freedom fighters do not need to terrorize a population into submission. Freedom fighters target the military forces and the organized instruments of repression keeping dictatorial regimes in power. Freedom fighters struggle to liberate their citizens from oppression and to establish a form of government that reflects the will of the people. In contrast, Terrorists ...
April 19: Freedom’s Birthday by Scott McPherson April 1, 2004 Americans revere a great number of dates that hold special significance for their culture and history. The Fourth of July, Veterans Day, the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. a quick glance through any calendar provides numerous other examples. Yet the one day of most importance, to both the nation and its culture, is the one that is conspicuously absent ...
April 19: Freedoms Birthday by Future of Freedom Foundation April 27, 2010 Americans revere a great number of dates that hold special significance for their culture and history. The Fourth of July, Veterans Day, the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. a quick glance through any calendar provides numerous other examples. Yet the one day of most importance, to both the nation ...
The Trouble with Conservatives by Jacob G. Hornberger March 1, 2006 The trouble with conservatives is that they fail to live the principles of freedom that they expound. The problem, however, is not simply that conservatives set high standards and then fail to meet them after striving to do so. The problem is that conservatives expound standards that they knowingly and deliberately violate. Consider, for example, the mission statement of the ...
The Trouble with Conservatives by Future of Freedom Foundation April 27, 2010 The trouble with conservatives is that they fail to live the principles of freedom that they expound. The problem, however, is not simply that conservatives set high standards and then fail to meet them after striving to do so. The problem is that conservatives expound standards that they knowingly and deliberately violate. Consider, for example, the ...
The Fraudulent Meaning of Elections by Future of Freedom Foundation April 27, 2010 Politicians strive to make Americans view elections as sacrosanct. Challenges to election results are portrayed as heresies that threaten to destroy the entire republic. After the 2004 presidential election, many Democrats went on the warpath over alleged voter fraud and manipulation in Ohio and elsewhere. The Constitution requires Congress ...
Monsters, Inc. by Samuel Bostaph June 1, 2006 In 2001, an animated film from Pixar Animation Studios was released and became extremely popular with both adults and children. Monsters, Inc. is set in the city of Monstropolis, where all monsters live. A corporation that gives the title to the movie employs scarers, monsters who venture out of the city every night to enter the human world through ...
Monsters, Inc. by Future of Freedom Foundation April 27, 2010 In 2001, an animated film from Pixar Animation Studios was released and became extremely popular with both adults and children. Monsters, Inc. is set in the city of Monstropolis, where all monsters live. A corporation that gives the title to the movie employs scarers, monsters who venture out of the ...
Lies and Leviathan by Future of Freedom Foundation August 1, 2006 Big government requires big lies and not just on wars but across the board. The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell. Interventions beget debacles that require cover-ups and denials. The more the government ...
The Perils of Emergency Power by Future of Freedom Foundation April 27, 2010 The New York Times reported on June 23 that President Bush invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to justify warrantless searches of Americans and other peoples financial data. According to Treasury Undersecretary Stuart Levey, the U.S. government may have conducted hundreds of ...