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The Post9/11 Roundup of Innocents, Part 1

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Many Americans have been lulled into a false sense of security by the end of the George W. Bush administration. In reality, the government continues to pose grave perils to peoples rights and liberties. And it could take only one shocking incident for the government to once again show its heavy-handed ways. Prior to the September 11, 2001, attacks, the dark side of the Bush administration was barely evident. But within days after those attacks, the government seized almost any conceivable excuse to lock up anyone it chose to target. At a time when many people are lowering their guard against Leviathan, we should recall how quickly the government razed restraints on its power. The Bush administration brought the same mentality to locking up suspects after 9/11 that the Soviet Union used for the potato harvest from collective farms. It didnt matter how many bushels of potatoes were rotten, or how many bushels were lost or pilfered along the way, or ...

A Free Market in Labor

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Labor Economics from a Free Market Perspective: Employing the Unemployable by Walter Block (World Scientific, 2008); 393 pages. The first time I ever heard of Walter Block was in 1980, when a faculty colleague showed me his copy of Block’s book Defending the Undefendable. Knowing of my anarcho-capitalist views, my colleague said simply, “You’ll love this.” I eagerly dove into the book and was immediately hooked. Block didn’t hesitate to follow his Austrian/libertarian thinking to a host of startling conclusions. I am glad to report that he is still at it and has not become one of those deviationists who say, “Freedom is usually good, but ….” This book, a collection of Block’s essays and papers (sometimes with co-authors), deals with the labor market. It is divided into seven sections: wage determination, unions, minimum-wage laws, immigration, redistributive justice, fringe benefits, and a final catch-all including a variety of ...

Out of the Darkness

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It is refreshing to see that speakers at our 2007 and 2008 conferences “Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties” have continued speaking out in the defense of civil liberties and in opposition to the pro-empire, pro-intervention foreign policy that holds our nation in its grip. Many of the lawyers who spoke at the conference are taking a leading role in the national torture debate that is now taking place across the land. These include Bruce Fein, Jonathan Turley, Joseph Margulies, Glenn Greenwald, Joanne Mariner, and Andrew Napolitano. Consider this excerpt from an excellent article from today’s Asia Times entitled “Farewell, the American Century” by Andrew J. Bacevich, another one of our conference speakers: “What are we to make of these blunders? The temptation may be to avert our gaze, thereby preserving the reassuring tale of the American Century. We should avoid that temptation and take the opposite course, acknowledging openly, freely, and unabashedly where we have gone ...