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  • Feb 16, 2007

    The Rent-Seeking Habit

    by Liberty and Power

    Wal-Mart's CEO and his chief nemesis, the head of the Service Employees International Union, have joined forces. They recently appeared together at a news conference to endorse"universal health care," sugar-words for medicine by coercive bureaucracy. No, this is not another article about why a government-based medical system is a terrible idea. This is an article about a business leader looking to the state for a bailout.
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  • Feb 15, 2007

    Congressional Ignorance

    by Liberty and Power

    Former Representative Mark Foley, with his lustful eye for young male pages and his co-chairmanship of the Congressional Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus, certainly embodies the most inappropriate committee appointment in Congressional history. A close second, though, may very well be Congressman Mark Souder as ranking Republican on the House subcommittee that oversees federal drug war policie
  • Feb 13, 2007

    The Freeman

    by Liberty and Power


    The January-February issue of
  • Feb 13, 2007

    Coolidge on "Superman" Hoover

    by Liberty and Power

    "Well, they're going to elect that superman Hoover, and he's going to have some trouble. He's going to have to spend money. But he won't spend enough.

    Then the Democrats will come in and they'll spend money like water. But they don't know anything about money. Then they will want me to come back and save some money for them. But I won't do it."

  • Feb 11, 2007

    Frank J. Menetrez: The Real Reason to Get Out of Iraq

    by Liberty and Power

    This morning I came across a perceptive and thoughtful essay on Iraq. So much commentary dates very quickly. Yet this article was published in October of last year and is as relevant now as it was when it first appeared.
  • Feb 9, 2007

    Health Hazard

    by Liberty and Power

    Back in the days before America had an income tax (yes, son, I've read there really was such a time), proposals to impose the tax were met with warnings that it would be"inquisitorial." Opponents apparently didn't see its potential for manipulating behavior. But what more effective carrot and stick is there than an income tax?

    ... The tax system has no doubt distorted the medical industry along with lots of other things. But any piecemeal way out will surely introduce it
  • Feb 9, 2007

    Are Congratulations in Order?

    by Liberty and Power

    "The President intends to nominate Williamson Evers, of California, to be Assistant Secretary of Education (Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development). Dr. Evers currently serves as a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University."

    Read more here.

    I'm pretty sure this is the first time that a former member of the erstwhile Radical Caucus of the Libertarian Party has been ap
  • Feb 9, 2007

    It Takes a Village

    by Liberty and Power

    [cross-posted at Austro-Athenian Empire]

    We have within our ranks Communists of both varieties, socialists
    of all sorts, 3 or 4 different kinds of anarchists, anarchosyndicalists,
    syndicalists, social democrats, humanist liberals, a growing number
    of ex-YAF libertarian laissez-faire capitalists, and, of course,
    the articulate vanguard of th
  • Feb 6, 2007

    Bush Brings Back Body Bags!

    by Liberty and Power

    Multiply the picture above by 166 times, and try to visualize it. Three rows of one thousand fine young American men and women who will never see their families. Three rows, well over a mile long, of possibilities, futures, children, businesses, of friendships gone, never to be. In each casket, the remains of one more comes home. They each deserve a handshake and a thanks from Pr

  • Feb 6, 2007

    Remembering Corporate Liberalism

    by Liberty and Power

    [cross-posted at Austro-Athenian Empire]

    The main plotline of the Star Wars prequel trilogy concerns an apparent conflict between the central government (the Senate) on the one hand and a coalition of mercantile interests (the Trade Federation, the Commerce Guild, etc.) on the other. As events unfold, however, it quickly becomes obvious to the audience (though much less quickly to the prot