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Freedom Daily – 2010

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January 2010 The Libertal Assault on the Poor, Part 2 by Jacob G. Hornberger The Phony Radicalism of Michael Moore by Sheldon Richman The Bush Secrecy Legacy by James Bovard How a Rich and Proud Nation Went Broke by Jim Powell A Lesson in the (Re)distribution of Wealth by Edmund Contoski New Deal Charades by George C. Leef To receive your personal copy of Freedom Daily, subscribe to our print version ($25 per year) or our email version ($15 per year). February 2010 The CIA and the Assassination of John Kennedy, Part 1 by Jacob G. Hornberger The Political Economy of Health Care by Sheldon Richman The Feds Post9/11 Airport-Worker Purge by James Bovard From Safe Republic to Unsafe Empire by Bruce Fein The Rule of Law, Part 1 by Ridgway K. Foley Jr. The Illogic of Gun Controllers by Benedict D. LaRosa Bursting the Myths of the Great Depression by George C. Leef To receive your personal copy of Freedom Daily, subscribe to our print version ...

The Forgotten Failures of the Peace Corps

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This is the fiftieth anniversary year for the Peace Corps. Prior to the creation of AmeriCorps, the Peace Corps took the cake as the most arrogant and overrated government program in Washington. At a time when the agency is being hailed for idealism and almost saving the world, it is worthwhile to consider its early record of debacles and defaults. A 1980s Peace Corps recruiting brochure proclaimed, “Most people talk about world problems. The Peace Corps solves them.” The Peace Corps’s world-saving pretensions were a joke on American taxpayers and Third World folks who expected real help. From its inception, the Peace Corps represented the epitome of emotionalism in American politics. Sargent Shriver, the Corps’s first director, claimed it would “permit America to participate, personally and effectively, in this struggle for human dignity.” Jack Vaughn, Shriver’s successor, declared, “Love — that’s what the Peace Corps is all about.” But the Peace Corps has rarely gotten beyond its loudly trumpeted good intentions. The ...

Hornberger’s Blog, April 2011

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Friday, April 29, 2011 Nutrition and the Nanny State Even while bombing and killing people overseas, the federal government hasn’t forgotten its important role of being a daddy for the American people. According to an article in today’s New York Times, the Food and Drug Administration is issuing rules directed to food companies that target children in their advertising. Since child obesity is a national problem, the FDA is telling the companies that they had better get their act together and stop promoting unhealthy foods to the nation’s children … or else. Wouldn’t you think that what children eat should be a responsibility of parents? Shouldn’t a kid’s diet fall exclusively within the realm of family decision-making? Not when people are living under a nanny state. And hey, it’s not as if the federal government is watching over only the nation’s children. It’s also the daddy for American adults — people whom federal officials look upon as child-adults — that is, adults who must still ...

The Story Behind the Permanent War

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Washington Rules: Americas Path to Permanent War by Andrew J. Bacevich (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2010), 286 pages. During the last decade, left-liberals accused the controversial Bush administration of a wickedness, arrogance, and incompetence that supposedly set that presidency apart from others in American history. Bush was an especially bad warmonger who broke with the traditional and venerable principles that had ...

The Irrelevance of the Second Amendment

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The killing of six people on January 8, 2011, in Tucson, Arizona, and attempted assassination of a “public servant” and her staff members has brought forth a predictable response from the left and gun-control groups: We need stricter gun-control laws to prevent tragedies like the Tucson shooting. But calls for banning extended-capacity magazines, instituting gun-free zones, more thorough background checks, ...