All Posts Tagged With: "Bill Clinton"

Fear-Mongering and Servitude

In his 1776 essay, “Thoughts on Government,” John Adams observed, “Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.” The [...]

22Jun2011 | James Bovard | 33 comments | Continued

Democracy Versus Liberty

If a foreign power took over the United States and dictated that American citizens surrender 40 percent of their income, required them to submit to tens of thousands of different commands (many of which were effectively kept secret from them), prohibited many of them from using their land, and denied many the chance to find [...]

1Aug2006 | James Bovard | 2 comments | Continued

Playing by the Rules

During the 1992 presidential campaign, candidate Bill Clinton lyrically and repeatedly praised Americans “who play by the rules.” He did so to indicate that under a Clinton presidency, unlike under the Reagan-Bush regime, such people would not be cheated and harmed by people who break the rules. I was unaware then (as I remain now) [...]

1Sep2004 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 0 comments | Continued

Washington’s Centrally Planned Heating and Cooling

While the Clinton administration had eight years to “save the environment,” it waited until the final days to push through a flurry of questionable environmental regulations. Among these was the regulation that would require increasing the efficiency of central air conditioners and heat pumps by 30 percent. In the arcane language of the energy business, [...]

1Jul2003 | Michael Heberling | Comments Off | Continued

Absolute Power: The Legacy of Corruption in the Clinton-Reno Justice Department

Regnery Publishing • 2001 • 385 pages • $27.95 Reviewed by Arch T. Allen “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Lord Acton’s famous admonition underlies both the title and subtitle of this account of how President Clinton’s promised “most ethical administration” in American history came to include a politicized and corrupt Justice [...]

1May2002 | David Limbaugh | 0 comments | Continued

Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years by James Bovard

St. Martin’s Press · 2000 · 426 pages · $26.95 Reviewed by George C. Leef The battle over the history of the Clinton presidency is on and the early reports from the battlefield indicate that the fight is going in favor of those who prefer truth to spin. The jaw-dropping last-minute pardons seem to have [...]

1Sep2001 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | Continued

It Depends on What the Meaning of "Advice" Is

After the November 2000 election then-President Clinton worked overtime to issue executive orders imposing regulations by presidential fiat that he was unable to persuade Congress to adopt. From the creation of national monuments that place millions of acres of land out of bounds to everyone except those approved by the environmentalist establishment, to workplace safety [...]

1May2001 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | Continued

Grover Cleveland: A Study in Character by Alyn Brodsky

St. Martin’s Press • 2000 • 496 pages • $35.00 Having just endured vacuousness on a grand scale in the last presidential campaign and eight years of verbal subterfuge and prevarication under Bill Clinton, Americans are in need of an inspiration from their political past. They have it in the person of our principled 22nd [...]

1May2001 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | Continued

The Tainted Public-Health Model of Gun Control

Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? —Juvenal Early in the 1990s the American Medical Association (AMA) launched a major campaign against domestic violence, which continues to this day. As a concerned physician, neurosurgeon, and then an active member of organized medicine, I joined in what I considered a worthwhile cause. It was then that I arrived [...]

1Apr2001 | Miguel A. Faria Jr. | 6 comments | Continued

The Rule of Law in the Wake of Clinton edited by Roger Pilon

Cato Institute • 2000 • 240 pages • $9.95 paperback The oath of office obligates the president of the United States to preserve and defend the Constitution, and thus the central function of his job amounts to maintaining the rule of law. The president is not supposed to govern the nation, but the temptation to [...]

1Apr2001 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | Continued

The Never-Ending Welfare Debate

Norman Barry, a contributing editor of Ideas on Liberty, is professor of social and political theory at the University of Buckingham in the UK. He is the author of An Introduction to Modern Political Theory (St. Martin’s Press). After a long struggle, a “revolutionary” welfare reform bill, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act [...]

1Mar2001 | Norman Barry | 1 comment | Continued

The Clinton Regulatory Miasma

It has been a sad spectacle: President Bill Clinton, desperate to salvage his scandal-laced legacy, crisscrossing the nation proposing new spending programs and regulatory initiatives with wild abandon. He seems determined to jettison perhaps his one good bequest to the nation: a less loony left-wing Democratic Party.

1Nov2000 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | Continued

Bipartisan Drug Entitlement

Washington came close to wrecking the U.S. health-care system in 1994. Only resolute resistance to the Clinton administration’s proposal to take over American medicine prevented this nation from proceeding down the disastrous path of nationalized care prevalent around the world. Although defeated in his attempt to gulp down the health-care system, President Clinton has succeeded [...]

1Sep2000 | Doug Bandow | 1 comment | Continued

The Price of Resistance

Consider this remarkable sentence in the New York Times last winter: “Brandishing new data showing that the drug industry earns higher profits and pays lower taxes than most other industries, White House officials say drug companies may bring price controls on themselves if they continue to resist President Clinton’s plan to have Medicare provide pharmaceutical [...]

1Apr2000 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued

New Excuses for Old Failures

Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. Foreign aid, argues President Bill Clinton, is “designed to keep our soldiers out of war.” He threatened to veto this year’s $12.7 [...]

1Jan2000 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | Continued

Health Care: Over the Canadian Cliff?

Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. Everyone in Washington recognizes that Medicare is headed over a financial cliff. The growth in spending continues to outpace that of revenues; [...]

1Oct1999 | Doug Bandow | 1 comment | Continued

A Superpowers Prerogative

Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. Being in love means never having to say you’re sorry. Being a superpower apparently means the same thing. At least, that appears [...]

1Sep1999 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | Continued
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