May 12, 2008
by Paul Jacob Banned! First alcohol prohibition, then other drugs. Now candy. Yes, candy is now banned on many school campuses. Why? Refined sugar is so bad for you it’s wicked. I’m sure you know many of the major bad...
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May 09, 2008
by Ron Paul In the past few months, American workers, consumers, and businesses have experienced a sudden and dramatic rise in gasoline prices. In some parts of the country, gasoline costs as much as $4 per gallon. Some politicians claim...
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May 08, 2008
by Micah Tillman Your worldview answers four questions, the last of which is, "Why?" Your understanding of humanity -- and therefore of politics, religion, and science -- is shaped by where you locate the source of value, and what you...
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May 06, 2008
by Fred E. Foldvary The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis has announced the gross domestic product for the first quarter (the first three months) of 2008. GDP is $14.2 trillion, and the real (inflation adjusted) growth from the last quarter...
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May 05, 2008
by Paul Jacob Say George Washington were alive today and trying to immigrate to our country. Should we let him in with open arms? Or deny him a green card because he participated in the American Revolution? Have I gone...
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May 02, 2008
by Ron Paul K.K. Forss does not claim medical marijuana solves all his problems. His pain from a ruptured disc in his neck is debilitating. He is unable to go to work or to the First Baptist Church he used...
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May 01, 2008
by Micah Tillman Abuses of the first-person plural, as in the following, are far too common: [H]ave we asked the Japanese to forgive us? We have never as a country, the policymakers . . . . We have never apologized...
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April 29, 2008
by Fred E. Foldvary Sticks and stones can break one’s bones but … The government of Canada prohibits speech directing hatred against persons of a particular color, race, religion, ethnic origin or sexual orientation (the "Hate Propaganda" sections 318 and...
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April 28, 2008
by Paul Jacob We take the most wondrous marvels for granted. We’re annoyed when we have to reboot our computers, for example. And how come we can only do 25 things at once on this magical machine, instead of 35...
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April 25, 2008
by Ron Paul Taxes were on the forefront of many Americans’ minds this week as they scrambled to meet the April 15th deadline to file their returns. Tax policy in this country hurts taxpayers twice – once when they pay...
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April 23, 2008
by Micah Tillman The onslaught Obama endured on ABC over patriotism was not so much an attack by Gibson and Stephanopoulos as preparation for a battle that will always be Conservatives’ to lose. Progressives need to be prepared, but simply...
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April 22, 2008
by Fred E. Foldvary The High Cost of Food Land for growing food has always competed with land used to grow plants with other uses. Farmers who grow cotton could instead grow grains or fruits. Also, forest land has the...
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April 21, 2008
by Paul Jacob Hawaii was the last state to join the union. But it was first in something important. Way back, long before statehood, when a guy named King Kamehameha was in charge, Hawaii established equal rights without regard to...
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April 18, 2008
by Ron Paul There has been a lot of talk in the news recently about the Federal Reserve and the actions it has taken over the past few months. Many media pundits have been bending over backwards to praise the...
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April 17, 2008
by Chuck Muth With this year’s national day of anguish – otherwise known as Tax Day – upon us, this seems like an appropriate time to follow-up on a column I wrote a couple weeks ago about FedEx and the...
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April 16, 2008
by Micah Tillman Recently, Joe Klein has given us yet another instance of a mysterious phenomenon: people feel the need to defend Obama et al. on the issue of patriotism. If a Conservative called a Progressive a “bigot” or a...
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April 15, 2008
by Fred E. Foldvary Do lenders need cops or less temptation? The financial crisis is creating calls to expand the regulation of the financial industry. The Federal Reserve system, Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Departments of...
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April 14, 2008
by Paul Jacob California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger no longer likes term limits. He explained why in an interview with the LA Times. Says Arnold: “[O]riginally I felt very strongly that it was the greatest thing ever done. Because I despised...
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April 11, 2008
by Ron Paul Last month, the House amended the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to expand the government’s ability to monitor our private communications. This measure, if it becomes law, will result in more warrantless government surveillance of innocent...
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April 08, 2008
by Fred E. Foldvary Who benefits from bailouts? When we have an election year coinciding with a real estate crash, we are sure to see Congress and state governments give billions of dollars to landowners who bought near the peak...
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April 07, 2008
by Paul Jacob Do we need another czar? Ask Senator John McCain. In a year he could be president and appointing “czars.” Scary thought. His McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance law squelched too many freedoms for me to rush into rah-rah mode....
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April 04, 2008
by Chuck Muth I live in Nevada, so gambling isn’t exactly a new concept to me. And were I a betting man, I’d bet that former Republican Congressman Bob Barr of Georgia jumps into the presidential race this week as...
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by Chuck Muth I live in Nevada, so gambling isn’t exactly a new concept to me. And were I a betting man, I’d bet that former Republican Congressman Bob Barr of Georgia jumps into the presidential race this week as...
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April 03, 2008
by Micah Tillman Obama’s Chicago history — Wright, Rezko, Ayers — is starting to make him look just like every other Joe “I’ll Do It If It Gets Me Power” Politician. I shouldn’t be surprised: Might may not make right,...
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April 02, 2008
By Carl S. Milsted, Jr. Many liberals are up in arms these days over the USA PATRIOT Act and other recent assaults on our civil liberties. Hurray! Alas, many of these same liberals are chomping at the bit to implement...
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April 01, 2008
by Fred E. Foldvary If they can find new sin, can they find new sense? The Vatican has revised the traditional Catholic “Seven Deadly Sins” with new ones, including “being obscenely wealthy.” Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti, head of the Apostolic Penitentiary,...
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March 31, 2008
by Paul Jacob Sometimes it takes money to do things. Say, to collect signatures for a petition. If you want folks to be hitting the sidewalks all day inviting support for a ballot question, you might want to pay them...
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March 28, 2008
by Ron Paul Five years ago last week, the US military's "shock and awe" campaign lit up the Baghdad sky. Five years later, with hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and nearly four thousand Americans dead, we should pause and reflect...
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March 26, 2008
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March 25, 2008
by Fred E. Foldvary Taxes on Movable Capital are Stupid and Outdated The German government has inflicted a fiscal invasion of the Principality of Liechtenstein, a tiny independent country between Switzerland and Austria. Germans along with other nationals have been...
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March 24, 2008
by Paul Jacob Even the obvious needs defenders. It is obvious that private property rights are vitally important. It is obvious that markets in property encourage development where development is desired. It is just as obvious that a lot of...
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March 21, 2008
by Ron Paul House Democrats recently adopted a budget with massive tax hikes, many of which are directed at those Americans who can least afford them. By allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire in 2010, this budget will raise...
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March 18, 2008
by Fred E. Foldvary Parents must pay school taxes but may not teach their kids On February 28, 2008, California judges of the 2nd District Court of Appeals confirmed the power of the State of California to impose a government...
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March 17, 2008
by Paul Jacob Are America’s politicians resigned to endless budget deficits and rising debt? Well, Comptroller General David M. Walker isn’t. As the designated gadfly of the U.S. government’s flaky finances, he’s done a bang-up job. Or, at least, that’s...
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March 14, 2008
by Ron Paul Congress is poised to pass the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) authorizing up to $50 million in unconstitutional foreign aid. The bill passed out of the Foreign Affairs Committee with a bipartisan agreement to nearly...
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March 13, 2008
by Paul Gessing I was at my local Catholic church one Sunday recently and had the opportunity to listen to a homily from a priest that made me question both my own values and the Church’s. The homily in question...
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March 12, 2008
The smaller the district, the better known the candidate by Fred E. Foldvary Here’s another fine mess the Democrat chiefs have gotten the voters into. The demagods of Michigan and Florida decided to have more punch for their votes, and...
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March 11, 2008
by Paul Jacob It’s that Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times.” Lately I’ve been getting lots of outlandish parodies from my huge research staff, which calls itself “the Internet.” Hey, stop sending me all these goofy parodies, “Internet.”...
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March 10, 2008
by Jeremy Lott When they look at the choices in this year's presidential elections, many libertarians and old-school conservatives are understandably irate. Both Democrats promise to bring the troops home from Iraq -- eventually -- but the real issue at...
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March 07, 2008
by Ron Paul It is becoming harder and harder for Washington and the mainstream media to ignore the ripple effect the collapse of the housing bubble is having on the economy. Inflation is up, cost of food is up, oil...
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March 06, 2008
by Micah Tillman “[F]or all the millions of votes Mrs. Clinton has now won, simple math is still her enemy,” writes Patrick Healey for the NYTimes. And since math is reality (according to Newton’s descendants) we’d expect things to feel...
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March 05, 2008
by Nathan Einbinder Politicians in Washington have long ignored the links between free trade agreements and their negative impacts on both social welfare and the environment. Regardless of his political motives, Barack Obama’s recent negative statements about the North American...
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March 04, 2008
We bid farewell to a thinker little known for his best thinking by Fred E. Foldvary William F. Buckley was a leading American conservative intellectual for half a decade. He died on Feb. 27, 2008 at the age of 82....
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March 03, 2008
by Paul Jacob I misspoke. I shouldn’t have said property owners suffer double jeopardy from eminent domain abuse, as I argued in a recent episode of Common Sense. More like triple. Even quadruple. Until recently in New York State, for...
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February 29, 2008
by Ron Paul One major concern I discussed a few weeks ago regarding the Trans Texas Corridor is where the land will come from. Another concern is where the money will come from. Official government websites for the TTC assure...
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February 28, 2008
by Micah Tillman Introduction During the Ohio debate, Hillary Clinton used the word “value” three times. And each time she did so incorrectly. She’s not alone, however. The mistakes she makes in value theory have become commonplace in America. But...
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February 26, 2008
Got moths? Got campaign contributions? Can’t breathe easy? by Fred E. Foldvary, Senior Editor The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) is planning to spray chemicals in the San Francisco Bay Area in an attempt to eliminate Epiphyas postvittana,...
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February 25, 2008
by Paul Jacob Good news for political bloggers and other practitioners of non-mainstream media. The Freedom of Information Act has been expanded. Apparently, it means that uncredentialed folks will have an easier time learning what the dadblasted government has been...
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February 22, 2008
by Ron Paul For decades we have welcomed new immigrants to our American "melting pot". We respect those who come here peacefully to pursue their American Dream. But Americans have noticed lately that modern problems associated with illegal immigration are...
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February 20, 2008
Paying rent promotes peace by Fred E. Foldvary A Palestinian state is inevitable, and it is also impossible for it to exist without an association with Israel. Thus a confederation of Israel and Palestine is logical and unavoidable. However, as...
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February 19, 2008
by Paul Jacob What if government could throw you in jail for recording what it does in public? That may not be what America is coming to. It does seem to be what Newton, Massachusetts, is coming to. A Newton...
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February 15, 2008
by Ron Paul As a United States Congressman, I take my oath to uphold all of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights very seriously. Unfortunately, too many in Washington DC believe they can pick-and-choose which provisions of the constitution...
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February 14, 2008
by Carl S. Milsted, Jr. Last fall I did a three-part series on the economics of the War on Drugs. I showed how completely outlawing hard drugs was a doomed project, but the government could beneficially prosecute hard drug abusers,...
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February 13, 2008
by Micah Tillman Imagine that you want universal health insurance, and you’ve decided the government should be the one to give it to us. You could have gone with charity organizations or for-profit businesses, but you didn’t. You are, in...
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February 12, 2008
What might sound good really doesn’t work by Fred E. Foldvary Welfare-state liberals, fiscally aggressive progressives, and taxaholic Democrats seek higher taxes on the rich and on big corporations. They think that the rich have more money than they need,...
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February 11, 2008
by Paul Jacob "The government is trying to shut our ears and eyes." That's not me saying that. I'm quoting one Thant Zin, a civil servant in Burma. This gentleman told the Associated Press that Burma's "military regime does not...
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February 08, 2008
by Ron Paul The Constitution guarantees Americans the right to be secure against all unreasonable seizures. My home state of Texas is unfortunately planning on some very unreasonable seizures of land with the monstrous Trans Texas Corridor highway project. The...
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February 06, 2008
by Micah Tillman “[T]hose who could afford it but don't [purchase] health insurance . . . [get] sick, go to an emergency room, [and] all of us wind up paying for their health care.” So said Wolf Blitzer, reporting a...
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February 05, 2008
Bubble of Offices and Shops Follows Housing by Fred E. Foldvary US economic growth slowed almost to zero in the last quarter of 2007, consistent with a coming recession. Government’s data on current national income accounts or GDP (gross domestic...
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February 04, 2008
by Paul Jacob The Democrats took over Congress, pledging to curb the practice of earmarks. They didn’t quite succeed. The omnibus spending bill they produced in December was filled with spending projects of a less-than-national character, most of which no...
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February 01, 2008
by Ron Paul This past week in Washington there has been much talk about the economy. It seems by their actions the leadership and the Fed is finally willing to admit we have a problem, and we need to do...
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January 31, 2008
by Micah Tillman A post by The Free Liberal’s Paul Gessing caught my attention a little while back. In it he was surprised to find himself “Agreeing With Jonah Goldberg.” Goldberg had written a piece on the self-rebranding of liberals...
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January 30, 2008
Going au naturel raises the powerful’s hackles by Fred E. Foldvary [Ed. Note: Warning! This editorial is for sophisticated audiences only! Those easily offended should stop reading right now.] The federal government has been waging war in Iraq and Afghanistan,...
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January 29, 2008
by Chuck Muth Hate is a pretty strong word. But not strong enough to express how I feel about the TSA - the Transportation Security Administration or Thousands Standing Around, depending on your point of view - which runs those...
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January 28, 2008
by Paul Jacob Overkill. That’s becoming the watchword of modern policework. Take the case of Laura Elkins and John Robbins’s home-repair brouhaha four years ago. The couple had begun work on repairing their roof, raising it a bit in the...
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January 25, 2008
by Ron Paul It has been over 6 years since the atrocities of September 11 were committed and there are still some very basic measures that need to be taken to bring the perpetrators to justice and make America safer....
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January 23, 2008
by Micah Tillman As the primaries gather steam I’ve found myself paying a disturbing amount of attention to other people’s opinions. If a candidate has a “surge in the polls,” he gets almost as much press as if he had...
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January 22, 2008
by Fred E. Foldvary The 18-year real estate cycle continues to march on right on schedule. There has been a boom-bust real estate cycle since the early 1800s, with a period of about 18 years. Some doubters point to the...
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January 21, 2008
by Paul Jacob Even repressive regimes can have laws granting citizens certain political rights. What matters is the extent to which citizens are actually allowed to use those rights — you know, in real life. Michigan taxpayers are trying to...
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January 18, 2008
by Ron Paul Congress is re-convening this coming week and I would like to take this opportunity to give my legislative forecast for the coming year. Here are a few things we can expect to see from Washington . First...
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January 17, 2008
by Paul Jacob I don’t like torture. Never have; never will. Sure, I know some expert interrogators argue that they can save lives by extracting information through torture. But other such experts — and in greater number — contend that...
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January 15, 2008
Candidates Seek Small Change by Fred E. Foldvary A parrot could be a presidential candidate if one taught it to screech “change.” It would cry “change, change, change!” all day, and that would amount to the substance of most of...
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January 14, 2008
by Paul Jacob Complain, complain, complain. It’s gotten so bad that a billionaire, Warren Buffett, bemoans that he doesn’t pay enough in taxes. And former President Clinton, after rewriting his history on Iraq, complains, “I still resent that I was...
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January 11, 2008
by Ron Paul One Christmas tradition Congress could do without is the broken process of passing the annual Omnibus Spending Bill, which we recently did right before the holiday recess. Every December Congress fights and argues over spending and never...
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January 10, 2008
“Tear Down This Stonewall” by Kevin D. Rollins and Robert Capozzi Mr. Rockwell, Sometimes, issues come down to a very simple question. Now is such a time. Mr. Rockwell, did you or did you not ghostwrite for Dr. Ron Paul...
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by Chuck Muth How many congressmen does it take to change a light bulb? 400. That’s how many members of Congress recently voted for a bill to force Americans to change the 50-cent incandescent light bulbs they’re currently using and...
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January 09, 2008
By Carl S. Milsted, Jr. Being a small government type, I end up reading lots of rhetoric about George Bush not being a true conservative, that he doesn’t fit in the same mold as Goldwater or Reagan. Some even go...
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January 08, 2008
After the tables have turned by Fred E. Foldvary [Approximately to the tune of Bob Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone] Once upon a time you were a man who bought a lot of land! Speculators like you were buying real...
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January 07, 2008
by Ryan Young There is some conspicuous empty space in the 2008 campaign, and this time not all of it is between the candidates’ ears. This radical departure happened last Thursday during CNN’s Iowa caucus coverage. Pie charts showed each...
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by Paul Jacob Dog bites man — not news. Man bites dog — news. On this principle, NBC News aired a special segment, a while back, featuring billionaire Warren Buffett saying rich guys like him should be taxed more. What...
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January 04, 2008
By Micah Tillman If you don’t have “Faith” in your website’s list of “Issues,” you don’t win. That’s really all the explanation you need for what happened on Thursday night. Romney’s inclusion of “American Culture & Values” in his list...
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by Ron Paul Last week I highlighted the irony of sending nearly $1 billion overseas in military earmarks as we close down bases here at home to save money. Our government's flawed foreign policy troubles me this week especially. Benazir...
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January 03, 2008
by Paul J. Gessing I watched the movie Charlie Wilson’s War over the New Year’s Holiday. If you haven’t already seen it – and even if you are not a politics junkie – the movie is entertaining and well-worth watching....
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January 02, 2008
by Micah Tillman An acquaintance recently told me her British countrymen find the American concentration on candidates’ religion shocking. Why is it appropriate to make Romney’s or Huckabee’s or Obama’s faith an issue? I wanted to respond, “Come talk to...
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January 01, 2008
by Fred E. Foldvary The political pendulum in the United States swung towards conservativism starting in the late 1970s, but with the election of 2006, the political mood is now swinging back to liberalism. The elections in 2008 will accelerate...
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December 31, 2007
by Paul Jacob What’s the compromise between spending $14 billion and $15 billion? In Washington, that’s $23 billion.The recent Water Resources Development bill was originally approved by the Senate at $14 billion, and by the House for a billion dollars...
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December 28, 2007
by Ron Paul As the year draws to a close, the battle over spending in Washington is heating up. The Democrats want to expand government healthcare, while the President has vetoed the second attempt to expand SCHIP. The latest version...
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December 27, 2007
by Chuck Muth With the limited-government philosophy in mind, people coming across libertarianism for the first time often ask what the difference is between the two. The cynical answer, especially when you look at the last few years of GOP...
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December 25, 2007
Ron Paul's Free Competition in Currency Act by Fred E. Foldvary I previously wrote about the raid and seizure of the property of Liberty Dollar and its customers by the FBI on November 14, 2007. FBI agents took two tons...
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December 24, 2007
by Paul Jacob I’m a child of the ’60s. I had long hair and still have an album with Jimi Hendrix playing the Star Spangled Banner on electric guitar. Boy, I love that music. But even so, I’m just not...
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December 21, 2007
by Ron Paul As the year draws to a close, the battle over spending in Washington is heating up. The Democrats want to expand government healthcare, while the President has vetoed the second attempt to expand SCHIP. The latest version...
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December 19, 2007
By Chuck Muth Most people learn from their mistakes. But Republicans in the United States Senate aren’t most people. By November 2006, conservative voters had had enough of Republicans in Congress. The GOP majority was spending money faster than Democrats...
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December 18, 2007
How Ron Paul could Win the Presidency in 2008 by Fred E. Foldvary Ron Paul, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas, could win the Republican primary election for president and then the general election in 2008 if...
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December 17, 2007
by Paul Jacob On the Ides of October, the first baby boomer applied for Social Security retirement. A Maryland teacher, born a second after midnight on Jan. 1, 1946, will become eligible to receive early retirement benefits next New Year’s...
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December 14, 2007
by Ron Paul The latest National Intelligence Estimate has been greeted by a mixture of relief and alarm. As I have been saying all along, Iran indeed poses no quantifiable imminent nuclear threat to us or her neighbors. It is...
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December 13, 2007
By Chuck Muth If only we could live on the hot air and posturing of our elected officials. That would eliminate our reliance on food and, with luck, our need for prescription drugs as well. But, alas, Americans are standard-issue...
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December 12, 2007
By Michael Bindner Is government engineering constitutional? Let’s review the bidding, shall we? When the constitution was written, it overtly represented the propertied interest and preserved both slavery and the suppression of civil liberties at the state level, particularly in...
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December 11, 2007
by Fred E. Foldvary As is typical with government, the U.S. federal government chiefs want to put band-aids on the crumbling real estate market. Governments do nothing to prevent economic turmoil, and then when it happens, they magnanimously treat a...
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December 10, 2007
by Paul Jacob Is there something wrong with the job of flipping burgers? Pundits sometimes belittle certain kinds of job growth. For example, they say that all the good jobs, like high-paying manufacturing jobs, are fading away. And eventually we'll...
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December 07, 2007
by Ron Paul Illegal immigration is on the forefront of many Americans’ minds lately and with good reason. The Center for Immigration Studies has recently reported that our immigrant population is now 37 million, up from 27 million in 1997....
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December 06, 2007
by Fred E. Foldvary In economics, the waste of resources caused by a tax has two names. One is the "deadweight loss," a loss to the economy with no offsetting gain. The other name is the "excess burden," since the...
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December 05, 2007
by Donny Ferguson Fox News, CNN, Court TV and the gang will soon descend on Las Vegas as tabloid mainstay O.J. Simpson goes on trial facing charges of armed robbery and kidnapping allegedly committed with accomplices so shady the prosecution...
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05:23 AM
December 04, 2007
by Michael Bindner By now, everyone knows the standard objections to the Fair Tax. The Bush Tax Reform Commission dealt with most of them, from the fact that the numbers don't add up if you remove government sending to the...
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04:38 AM
December 03, 2007
by Paul Jacob My car just died. It needs a new motor. Unfortunately, that costs more than the car is worth. But I don't really even care. You see, as bad news goes, that's nothing. I'm much more focused on...
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04:33 AM
November 30, 2007
by Ron Paul This past week Americans traveled approximately 2 billion miles to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday with family and loved ones. While you cannot put a price on time with family, Americans sure felt the pain of higher fuel...
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02:13 AM
November 29, 2007
by Carl S. Milsted, Jr. The Ron Paul phenomenon has caught the mainstream media by surprise. A fringe candidate with some very extreme views, hostility from the Republican leadership, and tiny numbers in polls of "likely Republican voters" has...
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04:36 AM
November 28, 2007
by Chuck Muth I remember fondly a bumper sticker from a few years ago which read, “The Constitution is the Contract with America .” And as we approach this year’s Bill of Rights Day, there are actually some hopeful signs...
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04:30 AM
by Michael Bindner Why Compromise? Simply put, the controversy over this issue is tearing at the fabric of civil society in this nation. Unless common ground is sought, this is not going to change. This issue, to a large extent,...
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04:22 AM
November 27, 2007
by Fred E. Foldvary Freddie Mac, formally the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, is a government sponsored mortgage company chartered by Congress in 1970. It was hit by a $2 billion quarterly loss in the fall of 2007. Though a...
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04:59 AM
November 26, 2007
by Paul Jacob Michigan sure has problems. Big companies are leaving the state. Unemployment is up, foreclosures and bankruptcies increasing. So, what to do? Well, the governor and many in the legislature pushed for huge tax increases. But a rising...
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05:54 AM
November 21, 2007
by Michael Goodspeed "There is no anti-depressant that will cure a depression that's spiritually based, for the malaise doesn't originate from brain dysfunction, but from an accurate response to the desecration of life." --Dr. David R. Hawkins, Power Vs. Force...
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09:04 AM
November 20, 2007
by Fred E. Foldvary On November 14, 2007, the agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Secret Service raided the premises of Liberty Dollar office in Evansville, Indiana. Liberty Dollar stated that the agents confiscated the gold, silver, and...
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04:46 AM
November 19, 2007
by Paul Jacob Joan Orie Melvin is a Superior Court justice in Pennsylvania. She recently returned to state coffers $14,402.55. It is good to see her return the money. Why? Sometime back, the legislature had given themselves and the judiciary...
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06:32 AM
November 16, 2007
by Ron Paul In the name of clamping down on "terrorist uprisings" in Pakistan, General Musharraf has declared a state of emergency and imposed martial law. The true motivations behind this action however, are astonishingly transparent, as the reports come...
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04:55 AM
November 15, 2007
by Paul Jacob I like millionaires as much as the next person, maybe more. And I also believe in equal rights. But as I see it, no one really has a “right” to our tax dollars, least of all the...
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05:47 AM
November 13, 2007
by Fred E. Foldvary The word “pandemonium” was coined by the poet John Milton as the name of the capital of hell in Paradise Lost. It means disorder, a place of chaos, uproar, and turmoil. The Islamic Republic of Pakistan...
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05:01 AM
November 12, 2007
by Paul Jacob October 3, 2007 Social Security’s long-term financial insolvency haunts us. But our politicians are even more spooked by the solutions. “When I’m president,” Hillary Clinton told the American Association of Retired Persons, “privatization is off the table.”...
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03:59 AM
November 09, 2007
by Ron Paul Representative Charles Rangel’s recently announced plan to address the impending Alternative Minimum Tax’s application to middle-class Americans demonstrates limited economic understanding. The Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) began in the late 1960's because 155 wealthy taxpayers had become...
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06:56 AM
by Ron Paul Representative Charles Rangel’s recently announced plan to address the impending Alternative Minimum Tax’s application to middle-class Americans demonstrates limited economic understanding. The Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) began in the late 1960's because 155 wealthy taxpayers had become...
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06:56 AM
November 08, 2007
by Paul Jacob Politics is a contact sport. That’s not news to Tim Eyman or Mike and Jack Fagan, who run Voters Want More Choices, the Washington State group behind the Taxpayer Protection Initiative, known as I-960 on this November’s...
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05:54 AM
November 07, 2007
By Carl Milsted, Jr. Legalizers claim that drug use – even hard drug use – is a victimless crime; unless a user commits some other crime, such as robbery or violence, the only person harmed by the drugs is the...
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05:32 AM
November 06, 2007
by Fred E. Foldvary The House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel has introduced a big reform of the personal income tax. This begins a debate on tax reform which will continue until the end of the...
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06:52 AM
November 05, 2007
by Paul Jacob Congress passes many bills without reading them. Some are prepared so close to the vote that not even their sponsors really know what’s in them. That’s nothing. Now Congress can push through legislation no one reads even...
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05:05 AM
November 02, 2007
by Ron Paul Since Raul Castro seems to be transitioning to a more permanent position of power, the administration has begun talking about Cuba policy again. One would think we would be able to survey the results of the last...
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08:19 AM
November 01, 2007
by Paul Jacob One newspaper calls Leon Drolet, head of the Michigan Taxpayers Alliance, “a bully.” State Rep. Ed Gaffney calls him a “brown-shirted, knuckle-dragging thug.” The Detroit Free Press calls him “One of the most unpopular figures in Lansing,”...
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05:37 AM
October 30, 2007
by Fred E. Foldvary The chiefs of FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, evidently decided they did not want to be confronted with reporters asking embarrassing questions about their handling of the disastrous fire in southern California. Having been severely...
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08:29 AM
October 29, 2007
by Paul Jacob Why would taxpayers send money to the federal government that was ultimately intended to come back to their state or local governments? That's a recipe for losing a big chunk of our education dollars to those sticky-fingered...
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05:06 AM
October 26, 2007
by Ron Paul A few months back, I wrote back-to-back weekly messages regarding globalism and isolationism. In writing those columns, I focused on the fact that our nation’s interventionist foreign policy was precisely what was isolating us from other countries....
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06:06 AM
October 25, 2007
by Paul Jacob Why do they do it? These people who battle for sanity in the schools, who take on city hall, who recruit people to run for office, who challenge laws in court, who launch voter initiatives for reform....
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05:09 AM
October 23, 2007
Design Mechanisms for Democracy, Prosperity, and Liberty by Fred E. Foldvary The 2007 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was won by Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin, and Roger B. Myerson, all three American economists,...
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06:25 AM
October 22, 2007
by Paul Jacob Is there any way to word it? I'm thinking of a constitutional amendment, something citizens in initiative states could vote for that would curtail an absolutely insane practice. I refer to unfunded pension and health care benefits....
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05:22 AM
October 19, 2007
by Paul Jacob Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty has taken full control over his city's long suffering public schools. But he sends his own twin girls to a private school. Does that make him a hypocrite? A bad mayor? Or,...
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06:31 AM
October 18, 2007
by Ron Paul This past week, Congress had an opportunity to permanently repeal the death tax by amending the Tax Collection Responsibility Act of 2007 to include language that ends the estate tax forever. This would have been a good...
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04:28 AM
October 16, 2007
by Fred E. Foldvary Al Gore won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for promoting awareness of global warming, especially with his film An Inconvenient Truth. To reduce emissions, Al Gore proposes a tax shift, replacing the payroll Social Security tax...
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04:08 AM
October 15, 2007
by Paul Jacob The Internet provides a haven from government censorship. But governments often dislike this, especially those in countries with no tradition of free speech. These governments want their societies to have the benefits of cyber access, however. They...
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07:05 AM
October 12, 2007
by Ron Paul With our country's finances stretched thin, our credit limit fast approaching, and our currency inflated to the breaking point, there is no indication yet of any urgency on the part of Congress to rein in spending. The...
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06:42 AM
October 11, 2007
By Carl Milsted, Jr. Last month I made the point that merely going after drug dealers is largely a waste of effort. If we really want to reduce drug use, we should go after users. Of course, we don’t have...
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06:44 AM
October 10, 2007
by Paul Gessing Let’s be clear here. I opposed the Iraq War from the very beginning and, if it were my decision, I’d bring the troops home right away. That said, I think the ongoing controversy over the presence of...
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05:36 AM
October 09, 2007
by Fred E. Foldvary From 1925 to 1963 there used to be signs along American country roads advertising " Burma shave." The Burma-Vita company sold a shaving cream, which it advertised with a series of highway billboard signs where a...
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05:42 AM
October 08, 2007
by Paul Jacob Shocker: Many Oregon politicians don't think Oregon citizens know what they're doing. These politicians are pushing a new ballot measure to undo a property rights measure passed by voters not once but twice. The disputed initiative is...
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07:00 AM
October 05, 2007
by Ron Paul This week Congress is again grasping for more control over the health of American children with the expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Parents who think federally subsidized health care might be a good...
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05:57 AM
October 03, 2007
by Bede Clarke Citizen education, or lack of it, is the prime vested interest of rulers. No ruler was ever disinterested in the content of citizen education. Think of slave holders to get a more absolute sense of it. How...
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06:48 AM
October 02, 2007
Indigenous Rights? Anglo Conquerors Say No by Fred E. Foldvary On Sept. 13, 2007, the United Nations General Assembly approved a Universal Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The protection of these rights depends on the governments of the...
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05:47 AM
October 01, 2007
by Paul Jacob Why did the Ukrainian Canadian cross the border into the U.S.? A decade or more ago, a young teenage Ukrainian visited Minnesota under a charity program. He had a bad heart, and needed help. An American family...
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07:42 AM
September 27, 2007
by Ron Paul After the current turmoil in the markets, I was hoping that new Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke would see the big picture and act judiciously. Instead he signaled, with an aggressive rate cut, that we can expect...
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06:23 AM
September 25, 2007
[Ed. Note: While TFL has a letter section, we received the following comment on the essay The League of Free Nations: A South Park Solution to the UN Dilemma by Gary Jason that merits posting as a feature.] I take...
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05:51 AM
by Fred E. Foldvary In an ideal world, one would be able to copyright writing or music that one creates, and the copyright would expire with the death of the author. One would be able to sue for copyright violation...
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05:48 AM
September 24, 2007
by Paul Jacob Politicians and bureaucrats have power and are often careless about how they use it. Respect for the rights of innocent people? Not always a priority. Not even in New Orleans, where so many are struggling to pick...
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06:59 AM
September 21, 2007
by Ron Paul Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously said “Sunlight is the best disinfectant.” Indeed some of the most malignant growth of our government has been nurtured under a cover of darkness. Literally, in the dark hours of the...
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06:18 AM
September 19, 2007
by Gary Jason I take it as obvious, as do millions of my fellow classical liberals, that the UN is a fatally flawed organization. (By “classical liberals” I mean those who advocate free markets and open democracies, which includes all...
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06:24 AM
September 18, 2007
by Fred E. Foldvary The Wall Street Journal on September 7, 2007, reported the former chairman of the Federal Reserve System as saying, "The human race has never found a way to confront bubbles." He stated this in a speech...
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07:39 AM
September 17, 2007
by Paul Jacob The headline in the British newspaper The Telegraph overstated it: "UK cancer survival rate lowest in Europe." Four paragraphs down we learn, instead, that "In total, 52.7pc of women survived for five years after being diagnosed between...
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07:23 AM
September 14, 2007
by Ron Paul Another NAFTA nail is about to be hammered into the coffin Washington is building for the US economy. Within the next few days our borders will be opened to the Mexican trucking industry in an unprecedented way....
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06:40 AM
September 13, 2007
by Micah Tillman Our political views are hardwired but have nothing to do with our genes. This is the paradoxical message the news media has given us over the last few days. Brain scans show different neural activity in liberals...
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07:27 AM
September 12, 2007
by Carl Milsted, Jr. Last month I announced that I was switching over to the Republican Party in order to support Ron Paul. I recommended that other peace and freedom lovers do likewise, that we could in theory create a...
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04:41 AM
September 11, 2007
by Fred E. Foldvary Public finance and economics textbooks tell us that markets fail to provide adequate public goods such as security, which is why governments provide it. Yet if we look at Iraq in 2007, its government has failed...
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05:08 AM
September 10, 2007
by Paul Jacob Some people you can really count on. Some you can't count on at all. Both statements pretty much sum up Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. As in "you can count on not being able to count on him."...
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08:37 AM
September 06, 2007
by Ron Paul Faced with dwindling support of the Iraq War, the warhawks are redoubling their efforts. They imply we are in Iraq attacking those who attacked us, and yet this is not the case. As we know, Saddam Hussein,...
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07:24 AM
September 05, 2007
By Carl Milsted, Jr. I have a grim announcement to make. Cue up the ominous music. I suggest “Imperial March” from The Empire Strikes Back. I’m going over to the Dark Side; I have joined the Republican Party. If we’re...
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05:05 AM
September 04, 2007
by Fred E. Foldvary Natural rights derive from natural moral law, expressed by the universal ethic. They are natural in arising from human nature rather than from any culture of personal belief. The premises from which natural moral law derives...
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07:23 AM
September 03, 2007
by Paul Jacob It's almost back to school time, so we're hearing stories about schools and students getting ready. Unfortunately, in the Washington, D.C. area, these are not children's stories, but horror stories. Just the other day it was reported...
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10:19 AM
September 01, 2007
by Carl S. Milsted, Jr. In a recent column on fmnn.com, I recommended that the Libertarian Party abandon its slogan “The Party of Principle” and adopt a slogan more related to freedom. As usual with such suggestions, there were cries...
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12:55 PM
August 31, 2007
by Ron Paul The recent and tragic bridge collapse in Minnesota raises many questions in Americans' minds about our aging infrastructure, and what is being done to maintain it. Questions such as: "Was I-35 an isolated accident or are we...
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06:10 AM
August 30, 2007
by Jonathan David Morris This is going to be my last column ever. Well, maybe not ever, but at least a little while. Let me put it this way: Remember when ABC put Geena Davis’s “Commander In Chief” on hiatus?...
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05:39 AM
August 29, 2007
by Micah Tillman Recent reports of tension over changing primary dates between the DNC and the Florida legislature lead us to ask: Why are lawmakers deciding when political parties can get together to vote on their candidates? Why, in fact,...
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06:24 AM
August 28, 2007
by Fred E. Foldvary The news media has focused on the subprime real estate loan problem, which has roiled stock markets around the world. These are loans made to borrowers with poor credit. The loans are often made with loose...
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05:58 AM
August 27, 2007
by Paul Jacob After the collapse of Minnesota's Interstate 35W bridge, Governor Tim Pawlenty relented on his opposition to increasing gas taxes to pay for infrastructure. But what was interesting was not the I-told-you-so crowing from Minnesota's tax-increase warriors, but...
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07:35 AM
August 24, 2007
by Ron Paul As markets went on a rollercoaster ride last week, our economy is coming close to a day of reckoning for loose credit policies being followed by the Federal Reserve Bank. Simply, foreign banks we have been relying...
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07:26 AM
August 23, 2007
by Jonathan David Morris Jonathan David Morris: Good morning. I’m Jonathan David Morris, and today I’m joined by a very special guest, George W. Bush’s outgoing chief political advisor, Mr. Karl Frickin’ Rove. Karl, thanks for dropping in. Karl Frickin’...
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05:07 AM
August 22, 2007
By Chuck Muth The nation’s largest health insurer, UnitedHealth Group, wants to buy up Sierra Health Services in Nevada . The merger would give the new company a virtual monopoly over health insurance in the Silver State , reducing competition,...
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05:52 AM
August 21, 2007
by Fred E. Foldvary When the Republican Party candidates for president learned that the Democratic Party candidates had met with Henry Plottre, four of them sought to also have a meeting. The candidates were Jollyami, Mycane, Bumknee, and Runpal. They...
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08:39 AM
August 20, 2007
by Paul Jacob I've never met Norman Borlaug. If I bumped into him at the local diner, I wouldn't recognize him. He's 93, so if I did bump into him, I hope the bump would be figurative, not literal. But...
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05:57 AM
August 17, 2007
by Ron Paul Last week this column addressed the train wreck that federal spending has become. To score political points politicians will make loud noise about fairly small matters such as earmarks, even while refusing to address the real problem....
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07:29 AM
August 16, 2007
by Micah Tillman A caller on Tuesday asked Rush Limbaugh, “why can’t we all just get along?” He felt that Democrat-Republican conflict was, at best, unnecessary. Why not compromise? Limbaugh responded that there can be no compromise on principles. We...
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11:53 AM
by Jonathan David Morris We all know the story about the stupid lady who sued McDonald’s because she spilled hot coffee in her lap. We all know about the fat kids who got fat eating Mickey D’s three times a...
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05:40 AM
August 14, 2007
by Fred E. Foldvary Four of the Democratic Party candidates for president of the United States traveled to London to visit the world’s most famous master of magic, Henry Plottre. When they wrote to him seeking his help in finding...
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05:15 AM
August 13, 2007
by Paul Jacob Last year Google started Google U.S. Government Search, a Web service designed to make finding information about the federal government easier. A few months ago the western states of Arizona, California and Utah, along with my home...
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07:27 AM
August 11, 2007
by Micah Tillman My friends at Enter Stage Right recently published a piece I wrote on the strange idea that marriage should no longer be legal.[1] I thought the proposal was new, judging from the reaction I would invariably get...
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06:50 AM
August 10, 2007
by Ron Paul These last few weeks the House has been in a rush to pass spending bills before August recess. In fact, visitors walking the hallways of Congress become immediately struck by the apparent spending battle between the “conservative...
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05:26 AM
August 09, 2007
by Jonathan David Morris Last week’s bridge collapse in Minnesota was a tragedy. Another word we could use to describe it would be to call it a metaphor. I’m not an engineer, and I’m not going to pretend I’m the...
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06:24 AM
August 07, 2007
by Fred E. Foldvary Henry Plottre was an English boy who went to magic school to become a wizard. He was a brilliant student and mastered how to make rabbits appear, how to make buildings disappear, and how to say...
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06:56 AM
August 02, 2007
by Jonathan David Morris Anyone who’s ever spent any time on YouTube knows it’s the Internet’s greatest time-suck yet. Thirty second clips spawn 30 minute sessions as one bumbling weatherman leads to another, till suddenly you realize you’ve spent the...
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08:53 AM
July 31, 2007
by Fred E. Foldvary A fundamental principle of morality is that good does not cancel evil. Yet this is what advocates of carbon credits seek to do. They think if a person pollutes the environment, this evil is cancelled by...
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06:09 AM
July 30, 2007
by Paul Jacob Something a bit odd is happening in Michigan. Public school districts are advertising . . . in newspapers, on radio, through the mail. All sorts of enterprises advertise for customers, of course. What's odd is that it...
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11:14 AM
July 27, 2007
by Ron Paul Last week, I wrote about the ideology of globalism and how it underlies certain government policies. Managed trade agreements, international military adventurism, and amnesty for illegal immigrants all emanate from this ideology. Yet globalism has a consequence...
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07:31 AM
July 25, 2007
by Jonathan David Morris Is it just me or has this been the best week in the history of American professional sports? Somehow, in the course of the last few days, the usual sports discussion has evolved to include steroids,...
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04:28 AM
July 20, 2007
by Ron Paul The recent defeat of the amnesty bill in the Senate came after outraged Americans made it clear to the political elite that they would not tolerate this legislation, which would further erode our national sovereignty. Similarly, polls...
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07:19 AM
July 19, 2007
by Jonathan David Morris It’s great to see so many Republicans jumping off the George W. Bush bandwagon. Now that it’s considered political suicide for the GOP to support its own president, maybe we’ll finally have a party in Washington...
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06:25 AM
July 18, 2007
By Chuck Muth Last month Anna Nicole Smith's will was admitted to probate. Up for grabs is $710,000 - maybe more depending on the final outcome of Marshall v. Marshall . Yes, that's right. Even though Smith is dead, her...
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06:55 AM
July 17, 2007
by Fred E. Foldvary President Bush is promoting the independence of Kosovo from Serbia, but why? Kosovo has been under the administration of the United Nations. The Kosovars, as ethnic Albanians, seek to be an independent country, while the Serbs...
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06:56 AM
July 16, 2007
by Paul Jacob Sundry censors among the party now in power in Congress — those ardent foes of the Culture of Corruption — are eager to "solve" the problem of telecommunicated "hate speech." You know, like conservative talk radio and...
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08:09 AM
July 13, 2007
By Jonathan David Morris You may have heard that a budget impasse caused a one-day shutdown of Pennsylvania’s state government this week. The only thing I don’t understand is why the news reported this as if it were a bad...
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10:29 AM
July 11, 2007
by Fred E. Foldvary In June 2007, Florida's governor signed into law a ballot measure that would enact a big reduction in the state's property taxes. There will also be a referendum on an additional tax cut in January 29,...
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09:55 AM
July 09, 2007
By Paul Jacob Could Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards actually be right about something? Not where to go to get a haircut, mind you, I mean about there being two Americas. There is the vibrant America . . . and...
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10:28 AM
July 06, 2007
by Ron Paul This week Americans will gather around the grill, attend parades and watch fireworks displays, all in the celebration of the signing of our Declaration of Independence. At the same time, we will have thousands of bureaucrats, troops...
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04:36 AM
July 05, 2007
by Jonathan David Morris I’ve spent the last two weeks writing about immigration. I’m going to do it one more time this week, for two important reasons: (1) Because I have another point to make; and (2) Because I’ve never...
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09:44 AM
by Jonathan David Morris I’ve spent the last two weeks writing about immigration. I’m going to do it one more time this week, for two important reasons: (1) Because I have another point to make; and (2) Because I’ve never...
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09:44 AM
July 03, 2007
by Fred E. Foldvary Who should own the North Pole? There are international agreements on Antarctica and the Arctic, which says that no country may claim land in the polar areas. Now that is about to change. Russia's president Vladimir...
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08:32 AM
July 02, 2007
by Paul Jacob Nine hundred forty-seven dollars and 37 cents per page. I suppose you could say that's the price that Representative William Jefferson, Democrat from Louisiana, paid for keeping bribe money in his home fridge. The FBI found his...
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07:59 AM
June 29, 2007
by Ron Paul The debate in Washington has again turned to federal funding of stem cell research, with President Bush moving to veto legislation passed recently by Congress. Those engaged in this debate tend to split into warring camps claiming...
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06:11 AM
June 28, 2007
by Jonathan David Morris After writing my column on immigration last week, an old colleague wrote and raised a fair point: It’s easy to say open borders equal freedom, but what do you do when immigrants show up and start...
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05:23 AM
June 27, 2007
By Alex Peak I am currently annoyed at Facebook. I shall enumerate the reasons below. I Facebook used to be the perfect networking website for campus groups, such as my group, the College Libertarians of Towson (CLT). Whenever we were...
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09:24 AM
June 26, 2007
by Fred E. Foldvary The federal government has initiated an anti-trust action against the Whole Foods grocery company to prevent it from merging with Wild Oats. A “trust’ is an organization that can be treated as a legal person; big...
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07:51 AM
June 25, 2007
by Paul Jacob There are about a dozen candidates in each party I don't want to see as president. So I guess that limits the possibilities. We could do worse than former Senator Fred Thompson. Look where he is on...
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06:47 AM
June 22, 2007