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Our work here at The Future of Freedom Foundation depends on the financial support we receive from people who share our commitment to the principles of a free society. Ever since our inception in 1989, we have focused on making the uncompromising moral, philosophical, and economic case for individual liberty, free markets, and a constitutionally limited-government republic. We strongly believe in the power of ideas. Putting our nation back on the right road — the road to freedom, prosperity, peace, and harmony — ultimately depends on introducing sound ideas on freedom into the general marketplace of ideas. We spread ideas on freedom through our publications: Freedom Daily, our monthly journal of uncompromising essays on liberty, has been published monthly since 1990 and is available in email and print formats. Every month we include articles by Jacob G. Hornberger, Sheldon Richman, author of three books published by FFF, James Bovard, and articles by many other libertarian writers. FFF Email Update, our free daily ...

Guantánamo and Yemen: Obama Capitulates to Critics and Suspends Prisoner Transfers

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For the last 12 days, since Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab slipped through every security net going, and allegedly tried and failed to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit, Republican critics of Barack Obama have tried every trick in the book to undermine the president’s authority, with former Vice President Dick Cheney claiming that the incident demonstrated that Obama’s “low key response” to the failed attack “makes us less safe,” and numerous lawmakers and pundits — joined by a few easily frightened Democrats — stating that no more Yemeni prisoners should be released from Guantánamo, following the transfer to Yemeni custody of six men the weekend before the failed attack. Supporters of Guantánamo, and critics of releasing any more of the 198 men still held, were fired up in particular by an inaccurate report on ABC News, in which it was stated that two former Guantánamo prisoners were amongst the leaders of the al-Qaeda-inspired group in Yemen ...

The Myth of War Prosperity, Part 2

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Part 1 | Part 2 Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy by Robert Higgs (Oxford University Press: 2006); 240 pages; $35. So the New Deal was far from a success. But most conservatives and even many leftist scholars will concede this; they simply adopt a different, and even more widely accepted fallacy, the one of “war prosperity,” which Higgs canvasses in chapter 3. “According to the orthodox account,” he writes, the war got the economy out of the Depression. Evidence for this claim usually includes the great decline in the standard measure of the unemployment rate, the large increase in the standard measure of real gross national product (GNP), and the slight increase in the standard measure of real personal consumption. ...

Hornberger’s Blog, January 2010

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Friday, January 29, 2010 The Constitution Doesn’t Give Rights to Anyone, including Americans by Jacob G. Hornberger An interesting and revealing exchange regarding rights and the Constitution took place recently between defense attorney Bruce Fein, who spoke at FFF’s 2008 conference “Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties,” and Guantanamo military prosecutor Edward White. Fein is representing a ...