Like all socialist enterprises, “public education” in the United States is very high in cost and very low in positive results. While some students graduate from public schools with sharp intellectual ...
Article I, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution provides that “Congress shall have the power to prohibit citizens from consuming or ingesting any substance that it deems hazardous to the health, safety, or morals of the people.” On the ...
Restoring the Lost Constitution —The Presumption of Liberty
by Randy E. Barnett (Princeton University Press, 2004); 366 pages; $32.50
Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words.
The dust jacket of this superlative book shows the first page of the ...
The G.I. Bill turns 60 this year. That legislation, of ficially known as the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, guaranteed, among other things, that returning soldiers could attend college at the expense of the federal government, or to be more accurate, ...
Election years are filled to overflowing with political pitches beseeching voters to cast ballots for a particular candidate. And many people do, although often with scant enthusiasm. Choosing between the lesser of two evils is ...
How Capitalism Saved America
by Thomas J. DiLorenzo (Crown Forum, 2004); 285 pages; $25.95.
Back in my days as a college professor, I used to give my students a quiz on the first day of class. It didn’t count in ...
In a previous posting on the FFF site, I argued that the campaign of demonization against Wal-Mart was silly. As expected, a number of people emailed me to tell me ...
A History of Force
by James L. Payne (Sandpoint, Idaho: Lytton Publishing, 2004); 296 pages; $23.95.
Tune in to most news broadcasts and you will probably hear one or more stories dealing with the use of force: armed conflicts in the ...
The major political parties thrive on what are known as “wedge issues.” A wedge issue is one that takes advantage of the fact that many voters are motivated far more by emotion than by reason. ...
Guns, Freedom, and Terrorism
by Wayne LaPierre (Nashville, Tenn.: WND Books, 2003); 246 pages; $24.99.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. Nowhere is that phrase proven to be true more often than in the unending battle between those in ...
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