The Free Liberal

Publisher's Notes: Free Liberalism Defined

One of the things I’ve wrestled with over the last year is labeling the Free Liberal. We don’t really fit into the categories currently available. For the last five years, I’ve referred to myself as a libertarian. But, “libertarian” has...

Review: Banana Republicans

Banana Republicans: How the Right Wing is Turning America into a One-Party State By Sheldon Rampton & John Stauber, Tarcher/Penguin, 264 pages, $11.95 Reviewed by Kevin Rollins The authors of last year’s Weapons of Mass Deception, which exposed the propaganda...

Gessing: America's Supersized Military: More Spending, Less Security

By Paul Gessing It is no secret that spending and the overall size of government have grown dramatically in recent years. A new Medicare entitlement, education spending, and increased agriculture subsidies are among the most prominent and controversial federal initiatives...

Foldvary: A History of Maltreatment

By Fred Foldvary Many causes can be pointed to for the abuse of Iraqi detainees. American troops have been undermanned and ill prepared. The prisoner policy condoned and even encouraged rough treatment in order to extract information. The top chiefs...

Think Integral: Healthy Eating, Happy Living

An Ongoing Dialogue with Michael Ostrolenk about the Integral Concept Kevin Rollins: You’ve said you’ve just recently read Fast Food Nation [by Eric Schlosser]. Michael Ostrolenk: I’m actually just finishing it. I find it really fascinating and it adds to...

Gay Marriage and Traditional Values

By Jim Turner “Bush has condemned the Massachusetts high court for tampering with the ‘traditional values’ enshrined in the Constitution. But we should be grateful for such tampering, or we would still have slavery and women still would not be...

The Federal Anti-Privacy Push

By James Plummer President Bush issued this past week an executive order mandating that the health care industry keep all its records in electronic format. With the HIPAA 'privacy' rules now in effect, and Rep. Ron Paul's annual crusade to...

Bureaucrash Deploys Operation: Enjoy Capitalism

By Kevin Rollins The target was an anti-WTO/IMF protest in Washington D.C. The mission was simple, "To help anti-capitalists know that their lives are improved by capitalism." The team assembled at Starbucks near the McPherson Square protest site. 15 crashers...