All Posts Tagged With: "guilt"
Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
In the fall of 1989 the communist regimes of Eastern Europe collapsed, and two years later the Soviet Union itself was no more, replaced by Russia and a number of newly independent nations. Communism and its accompanying show trials, gulags, and politically oriented prosecutions, along with the faux legal system that undergirded it, supposedly disappeared. [...]
22Oct2010 | William L. Anderson | 3 comments | ContinuedWho Owes What to Whom?
Note: This column first appeared in the February 2002 issue of The Freeman. For a society that has fed, clothed, housed, cared for, informed, entertained, and otherwise enriched more people at higher levels than any in the history of the planet, there sure is a lot of groundless guilt in America. Manifestations of that guilt [...]
24Apr2009 | Lawrence W. Reed | 8 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – 2008/5
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution by Kevin R. C. Gutzman Regnery • 2007 • 258 pages • $19.95 paperback Reviewed by J. H. Huebert Conservative commentators often tell us that if only we would get back to the Constitution as it was understood, say, 100 years ago, all would be well with our [...]
1May2008 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – June 2003
Dependent on D.C.: The Rise of Federal Control Over the Lives of Ordinary Americans by Charlotte Twight St. Martin’s Press/Palgrave • 2002 • 512 pages • $26.95 hardcover; $17.95 paperback Reviewed by James Bovard Charlotte Twight has written an excellent book to help Americans understand how the federal government is insidiously seizing control of their lives, year by year, edict [...]
1Jun2003 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedWho Owes What to Whom?
For a society that has fed, clothed, housed, cared for, informed, entertained, and otherwise enriched more people at higher levels than any in the history of the planet, there sure is a lot of groundless guilt in America. Manifestations of that guilt abound. The example that peeves me the most is the one we often [...]
1Feb2002 | Lawrence W. Reed | 2 comments | ContinuedInvasion of the Mind Snatchers
Mr. Hultberg is a free-lance writer in San Antonio, Texas. The collectivists have not abandoned their ultimate goal—to subordinate the individual to the State. —Barry Goldwater It has been said that there is a conspiracy in America among powerful elitist bankers to manipulate the political levers of the nation and move our system into [...]
1Jan1995 | Nelson Hultberg | 0 comments | Continued-
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