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• How America’s Gun Culture Cultivates Civic Virtue
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  Aaron Tao | Sunday, April 7, 2019

  A free society endures only when its people internalize its principles. Owning and shooting a gun promotes self-reliance, personal responsibility, and community.

• Guns or Butter: It’s Time to Be Honest about Which Is Driving Federal Debt
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  Dustin Siggins | Saturday, December 1, 2018

  The facts are clear: while increased defense spending has contributed to the national debt’s massive increases since 9/11, it is federal health care programs and Social Security that have been driving our debt’s growth for years—and will do so even more in the future.

• Why Our High Schools Can’t Keep Up with Our Universities
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  James R. Harrigan Antony Davies | Wednesday, April 11, 2018

  Much has been said about the high cost of higher education in America. And it is, indeed, quite expensive and getting more so at an alarming rate. For all that, though, at least we can say that America gets what it pays for in that we have the best higher education system in the world. In fact, it’s one of our biggest exports, totaling more than $35 billion—fully 5 percent of America’s export market—as of 2015. The same cannot be said for our primary and secondary education systems, with the US consistently ranking at around the middle of the pack among developed nations in standardized test scores. The thing of it is, the average annual cost per student in an American public high school is about the same as the average annual cost per student in an American public university. With the price of educating young people being generally the same for public high schools and public universities, why is there such a huge discrepancy in the outcomes for the students? Is there any way to remedy this situation? Join James Harrigan and Antony Davies as they discuss this and more on this week’s episode of Words and Numbers.

• Is America a Police State?
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  James R. Harrigan Antony Davies | Wednesday, November 29, 2017

  Recently, in a small town in Pennsylvania, an insurance agent for Nationwide Insurance noticed a certain plant growing in a garden on the property he was inspecting. This insurance agent identified the plant as marijuana and notified the police about this nefarious behavior. An elderly couple lived at that property, and while the husband was out at the time, the wife was dragged from her home, in her underwear, while police proceeded to ransack the home for four hours. They found nothing illegal. And that marijuana plant that started this whole debacle? Actually a hibiscus. This is only one of countless examples of this exact sort of “raid first, ask questions later” mentality that police forces in this country have adopted. But it’s only natural that this sort of bad behavior has evolved because of the huge problem of overcriminalization. And when the difference between “criminal” and “lawbreaker” is more than just splitting semantic hairs, something needs to be done. Special guest Clark Neily of the Cato Institute joins James Harrigan and Antony Davies to talk about this and more on this week’s episode of Words and Numbers.

• Remembering Tibor Machan, Libertarian Mentor and Friend
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  N. Stephan Kinsella | Monday, April 18, 2016

  Tibor, you were a big influence in my life: it would not have been the same without you — the world would not have been the same without you.

• FEE Participates in Leadership Summit
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Monday, April 27, 2009
  On Wednesday, April 22, 2009, FEE took part in the seventh annual Values-Aligned Leadership Summit (VALS) hosted by Colorado Christian University. Coverage of the event is available here.
• Reducing Poverty through Economic Freedom
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Friday, June 6, 2008
  The worldwide obsession with poverty eradication is a major threat to economic freedom in developing nations. Through central planning, governments and aid agencies are busy blocking poor people's road to prosperity. The United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)–which seeks to magically reduce worldwide poverty by half before 2015–is the most popular, and disastrous, plan. The MDG Secretariat is urging developed countries to double their foreign aid, which will be used to promote UN programs on extreme hunger; primary education; gender equality; child mortality; maternal health; HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases; environmental sustainability; and global partnership for development. The UN claims that poverty would be history if those issues were addressed. But it ain't so! Things would be worse, considering that poor nations are being encouraged to spend more on the aforementioned programs. This would widen avenues of corruption and increase budget imbalances, both of which have crippled Third World economies for decades. More . . .
  
  

  A NEW article by Kimani S. Njoroge

• Liberty and Political Obedience
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  Sheldon Richman | Friday, October 26, 2007
  Last week I discussed Anthony de Jasay's claim that the freedom philosophy — liberalism — is precarious because it “has always been rather loose, tolerant of heterogeneous components, easy to influence, open to infiltration by alien ideas that are in fact inconsistent with any coherent version of it.” He specifically criticized the utilitarianism of Bentham and the Mills. In light of the deficiency he has identified, Mr. de Jasay attempts no less than a reconstruction of liberalism. More . . .
  
  

  A NEW article by Sheldon Richman
  
  

• The Goal Is Freedom: Liberty and Political Obedience
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  Sheldon Richman |
  Last week I discussed Anthony de Jasay's claim that the freedom philosophy — liberalism — is precarious because it “has always been rather loose, tolerant of heterogeneous components, easy to influence, open to infiltration by alien ideas that are in fact inconsistent with any coherent version of it.” He specifically criticized the utilitarianism of Bentham and the Mills. In light of the deficiency he has identified, Mr. de Jasay attempts no less than a reconstruction of liberalism. More . . .
  
  

  A NEW article by Sheldon Richman
  
  

• Airline Passengers Face Body Scans
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Monday, October 8, 2007
  “The Transportation Security Administration plans to expand its use of screening machines that look under passengers' clothing for hidden weapons.” (USA Today, Monday)
  
  Would competitive businesses treat customers this way?
  
  FEE Timely Classic
  “TSA and Tyranny: Connecting the Dots” by Becky Akers