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Hornberger’s Blog, November 2010

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010 Willie Nelson and the Drug War One of the benefits of the war on terrorism, from the standpoint of the statists, is that it has served to distract attention from the violations of civil liberties and privacy arising from that other famous federal war — the war on drugs. Last week’s arrest of Willie Nelson on pot charges at a Border Patrol checkpoint in Texas brings the drug war and its forever-growing violations of privacy and civil liberties back into the public spotlight. Nelson’s arrest raises two fundamental issues about freedom and privacy. The first issue goes to the heart of the drug war: What Willie Nelson or any other person chooses to ingest is his business, not the business of government officials. The second issue goes to the heart of a society that presumes to be founded on the principles of freedom of travel and privacy: Border Patrol highway checkpoints, which subject people to full searches, are an inherent ...

Hypocrisy’s Coming Election-Day Triumph

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By nearly all accounts, Republicans are poised for a big win, even by historical midterm standards, in the November 2 congressional elections. Many candidates backed by the Tea Party should have a big day. But what will these victories mean for people who are alarmed by the growth of the welfare-warfare state? Not much, I’m sorry to say. Who among the Republicans has presented himself or herself as a peace candidate? Except for Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, I can’t think of anyone. That issue would have provided a target-rich environment for a pro-peace, pro–civil liberties Republican. But unfortunately that term is almost a contradiction in terms. President Obama has not only continued most of President Bush’s policies of widespread killing in the Muslim world and disregard for civil liberties at home; he’s also fortified them in truly frightening ways. Bush did not openly claim the authority to have Americans assassinated without even a whiff of due process. Obama has widened ...

Commentaries – 1998

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January 1998 Any Surplus Belongs to the Taxpayers by Sheldon Richman Let the Presidency Be Diminished by Sheldon Richman No Federal Role in Daycare by Sheldon Richman Social Security Has to Go by Sheldon Richman The Folly of Castro by Sheldon Richman February 1998 Drawing the Line by Sheldon Richman Our Ultimate Resource Gone by Sheldon Richman Such a Deal! by Sheldon Richman The Bipartisan Drug Warp by Sheldon Richman March 1998 What They Don't Know by Sheldon Richman April 1998 Bank Mergers and Progress by Sheldon Richman Forget the Trade Deficit! by Sheldon Richman May 1998 Immigration Controls Cause Exploitation by Sheldon Richman One Entrepreneur Is Worth a Million Consumer Advocates by Sheldon Richman Punishing Success by ...