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Vietnam Redux: All Power to Lying Politicians

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Americans are once again dying overseas because politicians have dragged the nation into an unnecessary war. Once the U.S. military invaded Iraq, Bushs approval ratings shot up through the roof. As American blood was flowing, most Americans approved of Bushs conduct. And yet it is precisely when a politicians approval is highest when his power is greatest that the greatest dangers arise, not only for American soldiers but for American freedoms. The Vietnam War vivifies the danger that is created by politicians power over Americans. Conscription effectively gave politicians unlimited power over the lives of millions of young American males. Had it not been for the military draft and perennial government lies Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon and the U.S. Congress could not have squandered the lives of scores of thousands of Americans in the jungles and rice paddies of Vietnam. In 1964, Johnson campaigned for reelection ...

The New England Labor Reform League

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IN GRAPPLING with the same strategic questions that confront modern libertarianism, the 19th-century movement evolved a remarkable organization that engaged in both education and grassroots activism. The New England Labor Reform League (NELRL) sprang from an 1869 gathering of labor radicals in Boston. The leading force in its founding was the editor and writer Ezra Heywood, who lost no time in establishing an anti-statist publishing arm called the Cooperative Publishing Company. The company issued the Leagues Declaration of Sentiments, which stated the NELRLs mission: Free contracts, free money, free markets, free transit, and free land by discussion, petition, remonstrance, and the ballot, to establish these articles of faith as a common need, and a common right, we avail ourselves of the advantages of associate effort. ...

The New England Labor Reform League

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IN GRAPPLING with the same strategic questions that confront modern libertarianism, the 19th-century movement evolved a remarkable organization that engaged in both education and grassroots activism. The New England Labor Reform League (NELRL) sprang from an 1869 gathering of labor radicals in Boston. The leading force in its founding was the editor and writer Ezra Heywood, who lost no time in establishing an anti-statist publishing arm called the Cooperative Publishing Company. The company issued the Leagues Declaration of Sentiments, which stated the NELRLs mission: Free contracts, free money, free markets, free transit, and free land by discussion, petition, remonstrance, and the ballot, to establish these articles of faith as a common need, and a common right, we avail ourselves of the advantages of associate effort. ...