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What The Drug Warriors Have Given Us
Does anyone still think the “war on drugs” is a good idea?
That may strike some people as an odd question under the circumstances, so let’s take it from another direction. Have you seen the news stories about the violence on the border being perpetrated by the Mexican whiskey and cigarette cartels?
No? That’s probably because there was no such violence and are no such cartels.
So why are there violent cartels in marijuana, cocaine, and heroin but not in whiskey and cigarettes?
All together now: prohibition.
17Jun2009 | Sheldon Richman | 8 comments | ContinuedA War to End All Banditry
Even before the United States wound down its military operations in Afghanistan, it began looking for targets elsewhere. But policymakers must remember that Washington’s primary interest is thwarting transnational terrorists who target Americans, not combating local criminals and insurgents around the globe.
After just three months, the Taliban was overthrown, the al Qaeda network was disrupted, [...]
The Perils of Positive Rights
Tibor Machan is a professor at the Argyros School of Business and Economics, Chapman University.
One of the most powerful ideas opposed to the free society is a notion political philosophers call “positive rights.”
Sounds good, doesn’t it? What could be wrong with being positive? Sounds like something out of Anthony Robbins or Norman Vincent Peale.
But this [...]
The ILO’s Strange Use of Words
Charles Baird is a professor of economics and the director of the Smith Center for Private Enterprise Studies at California State University at Hayward.
Last June the International Labor Organization (ILO) put forth its “Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work.” U.S. Labor Secretary Alexis Herman asserted that the declaration is “a big step forward [...]
America: An Adventure in Seven Live Ideas
Dr. Evans, professor, philosopher, poet, lecturer, died in 1954. This article is condensed from an unpublished manuscript.
When our indomitable Founding Fathers crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the eastern shores of the Western Hemisphere, they brought a cargo of five live ideas:
• The Greek Idea: The Primacy of Reason
• [...]
Natural Laws of Human Relations
Mr. Bateman is a Vice-president and Director 05 Anderson, Utayton & uom2aany.
Human relations, like science, are bound by certain inexorable laws which men violate at their own risk.
Even demagogues and dictators respect the natural laws of science. Yet all of us to some degree fail to have equal respect for the natural laws [...]
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let it Happen
By Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous
