All Posts Tagged With: "state control"
A Man Who Knew the Value of Liberty
[This column was adapted from one published first by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy on its website in February 2007.] A television audience in the millions will feast on the glitz and glamor of Hollywood when the 81st Annual Academy Awards are bestowed February 22. My thoughts will be elsewhere that Sunday night—on a [...]
20Jan2009 | Lawrence W. Reed | 7 comments | ContinuedProperty and Liberty
Property is “the guardian of all other rights,” as Arthur Lee of Virginia wrote in 1775.[1] The Supreme Court declared in 1897: “In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.”[2] Unfortunately, legislators, judges, and political philosophers in the twentieth century [...]
1Sep2000 | James Bovard | 5 comments | ContinuedThe Government Spiral
Eric Nolte is an airline pilot, a writer, and a classically trained pianist and composer of contemporary concert music. The graveyard spiral is a maneuver known to students of airplane accidents as one of the most common reasons that inexperienced pilots unwittingly kill themselves. In this utterly preventable maneuver, a pilot untrained to fly on [...]
1Feb1999 | Eric Nolte | 0 comments | Continued-
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