Stealth Expansion of Government Power
By Murray Weidenbaum
Posted in Articles on 20 August 2009
Stats: 31 views and 3 Comments The government of the United States is in the midst of debating major new undertakings, ranging from health care to climate change to energy development to tax reform.  Yet far more fundamental is a basic but stealth shift in national priorities—in the form of a rapid and pervasive expansion of ...
Sotomayor, Freedom, and the Law
By Sheldon Richman
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 17 July 2009
Stats: 3 views and 25 Comments The dreary Senate hearing on the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court left me so in the doldrums that my only chance for solace was to dig out my copy of Freedom and the Law (1961) by Bruno Leoni. Leoni (1913-1967) was a professor ...
The Misrepresentation of Healthcare Reform
By Sheldon Richman
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 26 June 2009
Stats: 986 views and 17 Comments In the debate over medical reform, everyone can find a public-opinion poll to support his or her position. Robert Reich, who favors deeper government involvement in health care than we already have, wrote recently, "In the most recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, 76% of respondents ...


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