All Posts Tagged With: "Bush administration"
How Washington Protects Your Privacy and Liberty
Preserving trust in government is the highest good—at least for politicians. To create that trust, government continually spawns façades to make people believe their rights are safe. Few things better illustrate this charade than the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. In 2004, three years after the Patriot Act was enacted, politicians started to worry [...]
22Dec2010 | James Bovard | 7 comments | ContinuedThe Great Money Binge: Spending Our Way to Socialism
“Can we do it again?” asks Amity Shlaes in her introduction to this book. She is asking about the Reagan revolution of the 1980s. In his final chapter George Melloan answers yes. But it won’t be easy because of the great expansion of government in 2008-09. He calls for a new vision of “Supply-Side Prosperity.” [...]
24Nov2010 | Gerald P. O'Driscoll, Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedThere’s Too Little Trust in Government?
There is one point on which I can unequivocally agree with E. J. Dionne, Jr.’s, column “Can We Reverse the Tide on Government Distrust?”: “So far, the Obama administration has missed the opportunity to demonstrate . . . how it is changing the way government works. How is its approach to . . . regulations [...]
22Oct2010 | Charles Johnson | 2 comments | ContinuedImpostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy
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1May2007 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Peril to Our Privacy
If the Bush administration has its way, beginning in April 2003 individuals’ personal health information–including genetic information–will be shared with data-processing companies, insurance companies, doctors, hospitals, researchers, and others without their consent. This is a major shift from today’s standard whereby patients give their consent before their medical records are shared with third parties. The [...]
1Oct2002 | Sue A. Blevins | 1 comment | ContinuedSocialism in Retreat
Free-market economists have argued for decades that interventionist government policies inadvertently lead to negative long-term consequences that far outweigh the perceived benefits. This has resulted, of course, in cries from the political left that advocates of capitalism care nothing about the indigent, needy, or otherwise downtrodden. So it is with bittersweet satisfaction that one sees [...]
1Oct2002 | Scott McPherson | 3 comments | ContinuedOnly Congress Can Declare War
The Bush administration has been looking at other potential military targets almost since the war in Afghanistan started. But should the President decide he wants to expand the war, he should get legislative approval. After September 11 Congress authorized President Bush to retaliate against any “nations, organization, or persons” he determined to be involved in [...]
1Oct2002 | Doug Bandow | 3 comments | ContinuedThe Inhumanity of Population Control
Once again the Bush administration has come under fire for a decision that runs counter to conventional wisdom. Undeterred by widespread denunciations after opposing the Kyoto Protocol, it announced that funds appropriated by Congress to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) would be cut back. With all the hue and cry about the dangers of [...]
1Aug2002 | Christopher Lingle | 2 comments | ContinuedWartime Curbs on Liberty Are Costless?
In one of the most provocative opinion articles of recent times, “Security Comes Before Liberty” (Wall Street Journal, October 23, 2001), Jay Winik argued (1) that in previous national emergencies, U.S. presidents took strong repressive measures against citizens and other residents of the country, (2) that the repressive measures implemented so far by the Bush [...]
1Mar2002 | Robert Higgs | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Sustainable–and Young–Hydrocarbon Energy Age
As the Bush administration confronts the economy’s growing need for affordable and reliable energy, the critics of the hydrocarbon-based energy economy are back to the drawing board. The “soft” energy path of subsidies and mandates for conservation and nonhydro renewable energy—hatched during the 1970s energy crisis and popularized during the eight years of Clinton/Gore—was not [...]
1Nov2001 | Robert L. Bradley Jr. | 3 comments | ContinuedEthanolics Anonymous
In June the Bush administration reported to Congress that the federal ethanol incentive program has done precisely the opposite of what was intended. Instead of reducing gasoline consumption, foreign oil dependency, and air pollution, the program caused Americans to use 473 million more gallons of gasoline in 2000 than in 1999. In fact, if this program remains in place, it actually will increase gasoline use by 9 billion gallons from 2005 to 2008.
1Nov2001 | Lawrence W. Reed | 2 comments | ContinuedStop the Presses!
This just in: The law of supply and demand works. That seems to have come as a surprise to many people. Back in July, at the height of the summer driving season, the gasoline prices that had everyone so upset were—falling! As Associated Press reporter Lisa M. Collins wrote on July 17: Dire predictions of [...]
1Oct2001 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued-
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