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December 2009

Serious Problems with Obama's Plan to Move Guantánamo to Illinois
by Andy Worthington
What Does It Take to Get Out of Obama's Guantánamo?
by Andy Worthington
There's No Such Thing as a Free Mammogram
by Sheldon Richman
Do We Really Need a Central Bank? (Video)
by Steve Horwitz
Cleared for Release and Still in Limbo
by Andy Worthington
Kill the Insurance Mandate
by Sheldon Richman
Medical Marijuana Does Not Equal Freedom
by Sheldon Richman
Guantánamo: Idealists Leave Obama's Sinking Ship
by Andy Worthington

November 2009

Libertarianism Is the Only Way Out
by Jacob G. Hornberger
Gold, Freedom, and the Fed
by Jacob G. Hornberger
Judge Orders Release of Algerian from Guantánamo
(But He's Not Going Anywhere)
by Andy Worthington
Inconsistent Conservatives and Progressives
by Sheldon Richman
Health-Care "Reform": It's All About Power
by Sheldon Richman
An Evening with Andy Worthington -
"Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo (Video)
by Andy Worthington
Foreign-Policy Blowback at Ft. Hood
by Jacob G. Hornberger
Lessons from the Great Depression (Video)
by Lawrence W. Reed
Ali al-Marri's Eight-Year Sentence
by Andy Worthington

October 2009

Continued Incarceration of the Innocent
by Andy Worthington
The Phony Radicalism of Michael Moore
by Sheldon Richman
The New York Times Shines a Light into the JFK-CIA-Joannides Scandal
by Jacob G. Hornberger
Finding New Homes for Cleared Guantánamo Prisoners
by Andy Worthington
Obama's Tax on the Middle Class
by Sheldon Richman
Eight Years of Big Lies on Afghanistan
by James Bovard
The Great Depression and the Current Recession:
Similarities and Differences (Video)
by Robert Higgs
Dick Cheney’s Pawns on Guantánamo
by Andy Worthington
Exit Afghanistan and Leave Iran Alone
by Sheldon Richman

September 2009

Court Allows Return of Guantánamo Prisoners to Torture
by Andy Worthington
Economics and Moral Courage (Video)
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
A Modest Health-Care Proposal
by Sheldon Richman
Obama Brings Guantanamo to Bagram
by Andy Worthington
An Interview with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Part 2
by Andy Worthington
Health-Care "Reformers" Duck the Hard Questions
by Sheldon Richman

August 2009

What Ted Kennedy Never Learned
by Sheldon Richman
An Interview with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Part 1
by Andy Worthington
Guantánamo and the Courts, Part 3: Obama's Continuing Shame
by Andy Worthington
You Can Trust a Liberal ... to Be a Liberal
by Jacob G. Hornberger
Bombings Worse than Nagasaki and Hiroshima
by Laurence M. Vance
When Will the Health-Care Debate Start?
by Sheldon Richman
Four Arguments against Socialism, including Medicare
by Jacob G. Hornberger
It Can Happen Here
by Scott McPherson
Guantánamo and the Courts, Part 2: Obama's Shame
by Andy Worthington
Appoint a Special Prosecutor in the JFK-Joannides Matter
by Jacob G. Hornberger
Cash for Clunkers
by David Dorn
Obama's Health-Care Snake Oil
by Sheldon Richman
Reciprocity for Concealed Carry
by Scott McPherson
Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Kuwaiti Charity Worker
by Andy Worthington

July 2009

The Health-Care Debate Needs a Dose of Reality
by Scott McPherson
What We Spend on Health Care Is None of the Government's Business
by Sheldon Richman
Shades of Operation Condor
by Jacob G. Hornberger
Martial Law and the War on Terrorism
by James Bovard
Obama and the Guantánamo Deadline: It's Worse than You Think
by Andy Worthington
Failure Leads to "Success" in the Public Sector
by Gregory Bresiger
Water, Water Everywhere, and Not a Drop to Drink in Iraq
by Michael Tennant
Obama's Failure to Deliver Justice to the Last Tajik in Guantánamo
by Andy Worthington
The Fatal Conceit of Health-Care Reformers
by Sheldon Richman
Guantánamo and the Courts, Part 1: Exposing the Bush Administration Lies
by Andy Worthington
A New Stimulus? Washington Never Learns
by Sheldon Richman
McNamara’s Other Debacle
by James Bovard
Judge Rules that Afghan “Rendered” to Bagram in 2002 Has No Rights
by Andy Worthington

June 2009

Guantánamo: Charge or Release Prisonser, Say No to Indefinite Detention
by Andy Worthington
Obama the Health-Care Reformer Should Grow Up
by Sheldon Richman
Celebrate Torture Day by Punishing Torturers
by James Bovard
The Lies Told about the Saudi Hunger Strker Released from Guantánamo
by Andy Worthington
Shut Up about Iran
by Sheldon Richman
The Pentagon's Favorite Demon
by Carlton Meyer
The Attack on Economic Liberty
by Jacob G. Hornberger
The Last Iraqi in Guantánamo, Cleared Six Years Ago, Returns Home
by Andy Worthington
Welcome to Post Office Health Care
by Sheldon Richman
The Latest Torture Cover-Up Scam
by James Bovard
Obama Proposes Swift Execution of Alleged 9/11 Conspirators
by Andy Worthington
Terrorism Is a Crime
by Sheldon Richman
A Child at Guantánamo: The Unending Torment of Mohamed Jawad
by Andy Worthington

May 2009

Not another Runaway Entitlement Program
by Jim Powell
Guantánamo and the Many Failures of U.S. Politicians
by Andy Worthington
Obama’s Betrayals
by Sheldon Richman
Socialism: Faith Trumps Reality
by Ralph R. Reiland
Why Do We Need the SEC?
by Jim Powell
FDR’s Biggest Mistake During the Depression
by Jim Powell
How U.S. Officials Circumvented the Bill of Rights
by Jacob G. Hornberger
Obama’s Empire
by Sheldon Richman
The Death of Rendition Victim Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi
by Andy Worthington
U.S. Foreign Policy Caused the Taliban Problem
by Jacob G. Hornberger
Liberty Creates Order
by Sheldon Richman
Obama Returns to Bush Era on Guantánamo
by Andy Worthington

April 2009

FDR's Social Security Paradox
by Jim Powell
Jacki Chan's Misguided Concept of Freedom
by Scott McPherson
Government Is the Systemic Risk
by Sheldon Richman
CIA Torture Began In Afghanistan Eight Months before Justice Department Approval
by Andy Worthington
Milton Friedman Was Wrong on Vouchers
by Jacob G. Hornberger
Andrew Napolitano Interviews James Bovard, Ron Paul, and Others on Freedom Watch
by James Bovard
End The Cuban Embargo!
by Sheldon Richman
Ten Terrible Truths about the CIA Torture Memos, Part 4
by Andy Worthington
Ten Terrible Truths about the CIA Torture Memos, Part 3
by Andy Worthington
Ten Terrible Truths about the CIA Torture Memos, Part 2
by Andy Worthington
Ten Terrible Truths about the CIA Torture Memos, Part 1
by Andy Worthington
Clueless Obama
by Sheldon Richman
FDR and Compulsory Unionism Destroyed Jobs
by Jim Powell
The Story of Ayman Batarfi, a Doctor in Guantánamo
by Andy Worthington
FDR's Anti-Business Crusade
by Jim Powell
Taxation with Misrepresentation
by Sheldon Richman
A Safer, Freer, and Wealthier America (Video)
by Bruce Fein
Farce at Guantánamo
by Andy Worthington
Ending the Drug War Would End the Violence
by Sheldon Richman

March 2009

How the New Deal Soaked the Rich, Middle Class, and Poor
by Jim Powell
Abu Zubaydah and the Futility of Torture
by Andy Worthington
A Terrorist-Producing Machine
by Jacob G. Hornberger
How FDR Promoted Price-Gouging
by Jim Powell
Prosecuting the Bush Administration's Torturers
by Andy Worthington
China: Don't Buy Government Bonds!
by Sheldon Richman
Drug-War Idiocy in Federal Court
by Jacob G. Hornberger
From the Trenches of the Drug War: A Street Cop's Perspective
by Howard J. Wooldridge
How FDR Promoted Racial Segregation
by Jim Powell
The Nobodies Known as Former Enemy Combatants
by Andy Worthington
Blame Republicans for Big Government
by Sheldon Richman
FDR, the Great Court-Packer
by Jim Powell
Why the U.S. Under Obama Is Still a Dictatorship
by Andy Worthington
The Cruel Isolation of America's "Enemy Combatant"
by Andy Worthington

February 2009

Obama's Uninformed Optimism
by Sheldon Richman
Socialism’s “Fatal Conceit”
by Ralph R. Reiland
Obama’s “Humane” Guantánamo Is a Bitter Joke
by Andy Worthington
What Is Wrong with Guns in Churches?
by Scott McPherson
President Obama, What about Tomorrow?
by Sheldon Richman
Guantánamo: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
by Andy Worthington
Bipartisan "Stimulus" Nonsense
by Sheldon Richman
Don't "Compromise" on the Bogus Stimulus Bill
by Sheldon Richman
Guantánamo’s Refugees
by Andy Worthington
The Twin Threats of Socialism and Gun Control
by Scott McPherson
The Founding Father of Economic Statism (Video)
by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Don’t Forget Guantánamo
by Andy Worthington

January 2009

U.S. Detentions in the War on Terror: What Was Old Is New Again (Video)
by Joseph Margulies
Hope for Economic Wisdom
by Sheldon Richman
Refuting Cheney's Lies: The Stories of Six Prisoners Released from Guantánamo
by Andy Worthington
From Checks and Balances to Executive Despotism (Video)
by Bruce Fein
Bush Era Ends with Guantánamo Trial Chief’s Torture Confession
by Andy Worthington
The Peaceful Transfer of Violent Power
by Sheldon Richman
Stimulating Consumption Won’t Help Economy
by Sheldon Richman
No End in Sight for the "Enemy Combatants" of Guantánamo
by Andy Worthington
Christianity and War (Video)
by Laurence M. Vance
Government Can't Really Stimulate the Economy
by Sheldon Richman
Gun-Proof Kids
by Scott Mcpherson
A New Year Message to Barack Obama: Free the Guantánamo Uighurs
by Andy Worthington
The Economics of War (Video)
by David R. Henderson

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