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What an Inaugural Shame

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What an inaugural shame. President Obama had a chance to raise the country’s vision to a higher level and to move American into an entirely new direction. He instead made it clear that he intends to keep the nation mired in its statist morass. No libertarian ever expected Obama to embrace the libertarian paradigm of economic liberty. As a dyed-in-the-wool statist, Obama remains committed to the statist economic paradigm of socialism, interventionism, regulation, inflation, taxation, and debt. Like statists everywhere, he’s convinced that all this statism is the key to economic prosperity. His economic models are Venezuela, Cuba, and North Korea, which embraced the statist philosophy a long time ago. But where Obama could have moved the nation with a grand vision was in the area of civil liberties and foreign policy. Not having to be concerned about reelection, he could have taken a bold move to restore our nation onto a path of morality, peace, freedom, and harmony. By continuing ...

McDaniel and Botkin Are Wrong: The Troops Never Defended Our Freedom in Iraq and Vietnam

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The controversy surrounding Sheldon Richman’s article “The American Sniper Was No Hero” generated the repeated use of a bromide that is inculcated in the American people from the time they enter the first grade in the public (i.e., government) schools that their parents are forced to send them to — a bromide that holds that the troops defend our freedom when they invade and occupy other countries. A good example of this phenomenon appeared in an article entitled “Smackdown! War Hero Pummels 'American Sniper' Critic,” which appeared Sunday on the conservative website WND.com. The article featured two Vietnam veterans, Navy Captain Eugene “Red” McDaniel, a POW in the Vietnam War, and Marine Major Richard Botkin, author of a book entitled Ride the Thunder: A Vietnam Story of Honor and Triumph. Both men criticized Richman’s article. Oddly, neither of them addressed the central point in the article: that the United States was the aggressor nation in the Iraq War and ...

Fascism versus Socialism: Take Your Pick

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I was recently contemplating the run-off election for president in Brazil between right-winger Jair Bolsonaro and left-winger Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. I couldn’t help but feel sorry for the Brazilian people, given that their choice was between economic fascism, which Bolsonaro represents, and socialism, which Lula represents. What a horrible choice! Jair Bolsonaro. Creative Commons. But it’s not the only time that Latin Americans have been faced with such a choice. In fact, the entire modern-day history of Latin American countries has been a choice between right-wing fascism and left-wing socialism. One of the best examples of this phenomenon was in Chile in the early 1970s. The Chilean people were saddled with socialist Salvador Allende as president, who had been democratically elected. Then, in a violent U.S.-inspired military regime-change operation, Allende was ousted from power and replaced by the fascist right-wing military general Augusto Pinochet.