Do We Really Need a Central Bank? by Steven Horwitz November 10, 2009 On December 2, 2009, Steve Horwitz gave the following speech at The Future of Freedom Foundation’s “Economic Liberty Lecture Series.” The speech can viewed below in its entirety.
Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo (Video) by Andy Worthington November 8, 2009 On November 8, 2009, Andy Worthington gave a talk on his new documentary film, Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.
Lessons from the Great Depression by Lawrence W. Reed November 3, 2009 On November 2, 2009, Lawrence W. Reed gave the following speech at The Future of Freedom Foundation’s “Economic Liberty Lecture Series.” The speech can viewed below in its entirety.
Ali al-Marri’s Eight-Year Sentence by Andy Worthington November 2, 2009 So it’s finally over. Ali al-Marri, a legal U.S. resident from Qatar, who was held as an “enemy combatant” on the U.S. mainland for five years and eight months without charge or trial, was finally sentenced in a federal court last Thursday. The prosecution was seeking a 15-year sentence, following al-Marri’s guilty plea in April, when, as part ...
Liberal Delusions about Freedom by Jacob G. Hornberger November 1, 2009 To combat the town-hall protests that sprang up around the nation against President Obama’s health-care plan, one of the favorite tactics employed by liberals was to question the sanity of the protesters. Anyone who showed up at such meetings angrily protesting Obama’s plan to socialize medicine was termed a crazy. That was especially true if a protester happened to be ...
Scott Horton Interviews Jacob Hornberger (Audio) by Jacob G. Hornberger November 1, 2009 Scott Horton Interviews Jacob Hornberger (Audio)
Statist Follies (Video from Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Freedom Watch FoxNews.com) by Jacob G. Hornberger November 1, 2009 Statist Follies (Video from Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Freedom Watch FoxNews.com)
Nationalized Health Care and Economic Fallacy by Sheldon Richman November 1, 2009 It takes a discussion of the role of government in health care to really bring out the economic illiteracy among the politicians and commentariat. The long list of fallacies they have uttered about markets and government is truly stunning. Take competition. President Obama, after several unsuccessful attempts at selling his plan to redesign 15 percent of the U.S. economy, turned ...
Frightening Voters into Submission by James Bovard November 1, 2009 Former Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge has a new book out that reveals that he almost resigned because the Bush administration was hustling bogus terror alerts before the 2004 election. Ridge’s revelation was not surprising to people who had closely followed the tactics Bush used to snare a second term. During the 2004 campaign, residents of swing states were under ...
Nightline/Twitter Web Show — Debate: Do We Need Stricter Gun Control Laws? (Video) by Jacob G. Hornberger November 1, 2009 Debate: Do We Need Stricter Gun Control Laws? (Video)
Langdon, Stark, Bennington, and the Triumph of a Private Army, Part 3 by Scott McPherson November 1, 2009 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 The Battle of Bennington Despite some gallant and spirited attempts to resist Burgoyne’s advance through the summer of 1777, the Continental Army’s Northern Department, first under Horatio Gates, then under Philip Schuyler, then under Gates again, was not inspiring much confidence. “The withdrawal from Ticonderoga reinforced Stark’s view that the northern ...
Keynes and the Assault on Savings, Part 2 by Gregory Bresiger November 1, 2009 Part 1 | Part 2 The reason, I believe, that Keynes’s anti-saving, consume-more philosophy is politically popular is simple: Consumption is immediate and usually enjoyable. Saving requires self-discipline and patience. Also, the philosophy is remarkably bi-partisan. It fits in with the ideas of a massive and ever-growing welfare/warfare state. This ...