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• States Can Search Welfare Recipients' Homes without Warrants
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Tuesday, November 27, 2007
  “County welfare officers may conduct routine searches of the homes of welfare recipients to combat fraud under a ruling in a California case that the Supreme Court let stand Monday.” (Los Angeles Times, Tuesday)
  
  Intervention begets intervention.
  
  FEE Timely Classic
  “Why the Welfare State Is Immoral” by Tibor R. Machan
• Government May Search Bank Records without Warrant, Privacy Lawyer Says
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Monday, January 15, 2007
  “Because a person's bank records are not deemed to be private in national-security investigations, U.S. government agencies — including the Pentagon — can request these records without a warrant, an expert in privacy law said Sunday. . . . But just because the activity is legal, [James] Dempsey said, 'doesn't mean it's a good idea. The Defense Department is exploiting a gray zone in the law.'” (Mercury News, Monday)
  
  The right to privacy is apparently fair game in the gray zones.
  
  FEE Timely Classic
  “Rights Without Exceptions” by Jeff Snyder
• Government Can Search Mail without Warrants, White House Says
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Friday, January 5, 2007
  “The White House on Thursday defended a policy allowing the government to open mail without a warrant, despite criticism that the crime-fighting tactic might lead to privacy breaches. . . . The mail controversy erupted Wednesday after a report in the New York Daily News that President Bush on Dec. 20 attached a so-called signing statement to a new postal law. The statement grants the government the authority during emergencies to bypass a law forbidding mail to be opened without a warrant.” (USA Today, Friday)
  
  We should be used to this by now.
  
  FEE Timely Classic
  “The Post Office as a Violation of Constitutional Rights” by Wendy McElroy
• New Alliance Fights Energy Search in Wilderness
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Tuesday, July 25, 2006
  “Valle Vidal [N.M.] has become a battleground in the drive to expand energy exploration on public land, attracting the attention of a growing coalition of hunters, anglers, environmentalists, ranchers, homeowners and politicians across the ideological spectrum. Here and elsewhere in the Western United States, this coalition is starting to resist the push for energy exploration in some of the nation's most prized wilderness areas.” (Washington Post, Tuesday)
  
  A “nation” can't really own things.
  
  FEE Timely Classic
  “Protecting Precious Resources” by Scott McPherson
• Lending Discrimination: The Unending Search
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  Robert Batemarco | Sunday, May 1, 1994
  This paper was delivered at the December 1993 Round Table at FEE. H. L. Mencken once called politics “the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.” You don’t have to spend much time looking around to see just how right he was. Mencken’s characterization fits some […]
• National Service: A Solution in Search of a Problem
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  Thomas J. DiLorenzo | Thursday, March 1, 1990
  Thomas J. DiLorenzo is the Probasco Professor of Free Enterprise, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. This article is adapted from his forthcoming book, Paved With Good Intentions: Economic Nationalism and American Industrial Policy (Cato Institute, 1990). In some intellectual and public policy circles, economic nationalism has struck a fever pitch in the form of […]
• The Search for an Ideal Money
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  Henry Hazlitt | Saturday, November 1, 1975
  The trick is to keep our money out of the hands of political controllers.
• In Search of a New Monetary Order
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  Hans F. Sennholz | Saturday, January 1, 1972
  Monetary alchemists have yet to find an internationally acceptable substitute for gold.
• Undoing the Fourth Amendment
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  Becky Akers | Saturday, October 1, 2005
  Carlos Gonzalez, 21, of Weston, Florida, stands spread-eagled while an officer pats him down. When the officer bends to frisk his legs, Carlos lowers his arms without asking permission. The officer snarls, “Hey,were not even close to being finished. What are you trying to hide?” While a crowd watches, Carlos is ordered to disrobe. He hands over his shoes and belt and empties his pockets as the search continues in mortifying detail.
• Federal Shortfall Equals $670K Per Household
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  James Agresti | Friday, February 17, 2017

  If all $84.3 trillion worth of government debt were spread out among every household in the U.S., each of our families would be on the hook for $670,000.