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• Bush Pushes “Stimulus” in State of the Union Address
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Tuesday, January 29, 2008
  “President Bush used his final State of the Union speech to call for a quick shot in the arm for the economy in 'a period of uncertainty' and tout last year's progress in the Iraq war.” (CNN, Tuesday)
  
  Apparently you can fool nearly all the people all the time.
  
  FEE Timely Classic
  “The Lesson” by Henry Hazlitt
• The Goal Is Freedom: An Unstimulating Idea
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  Sheldon Richman | Friday, January 25, 2008
  “It's like taking a bucket of water from the deep end of a pool and dumping it into the shallow end. Funny thing — the water in the shallow end doesn't get any deeper.” That's how George Mason University economist Russell Roberts describes the logic — rather, illogic — of the economic “stimulus” proposals that everyone and his uncle are proposing. If we needed further demonstration of the folly that is the American political-economic system, there it is. More . . .
  
  

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• Study Documents Government Untruths on Iraq
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Wednesday, January 23, 2008
  “A study by two non-profit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks. The study concluded that the statements 'were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses.'” (USA Today, Wednesday)
  
  “War is the health of the state.” –Randolph Bourne
  
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  “Laissez-Faire Anti-Imperialism” by Sheldon Richman
• No-Bid Contracts Enrich Former Officials
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Tuesday, January 15, 2008
  “Federal prosecutors are steering no-bid contracts to former government officials who earn millions of dollars by monitoring companies accused of cheating investors and other schemes.” (Washington Post, Tuesday)
  
  Just another day in the halls of government.
  
  FEE Timely Classic
  “Class Struggle Rightly Conceived” by Sheldon Richman
• “Meet the New Boss. Same as the Old Boss”
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  Sheldon Richman | Friday, January 11, 2008
  FEE has long stayed above the electoral fray, and for darn good reasons. Politics is a poor forum for serious discussion of political philosophy and economics. Complicated ideas don't fit well into sound bites, and the news media and learned pundits are too busy interpreting the latest poll results to explore what's right or wrong with a candidate's ideas on medical insurance, energy policy, or war. Most people apparently like it that way. More . . .
  
  

  A NEW article by Sheldon Richman

  
  

• The Goal Is Freedom: “Meet the New Boss. Same as the Old Boss”
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  Sheldon Richman |
  FEE has long stayed above the electoral fray, and for darn good reasons. Politics is a poor forum for serious discussion of political philosophy and economics. Complicated ideas don't fit well into sound bites, and the news media and learned pundits are too busy interpreting the latest poll results to explore what's right or wrong with a candidate's ideas on medical insurance, energy policy, or war. Most people apparently like it that way. More . . .
  
  

  A NEW article by Sheldon Richman

  
  

• IRS “Apology Payments” Recommended
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Thursday, January 10, 2008
  The Internal Revenue Service should issue 'apology payments' of up to $1,000 to taxpayers whose cases are mishandled, the National Taxpayer Advocate told Congress yesterday. (Washington Post, Thursday)
  
  That would make it all better … NOT!
  
  FEE Timely Classic
  'Congressional Generosity' and the Power to Tax by Sheldon Richman
• Not Every Congressmen Favors Ethanol
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Wednesday, November 28, 2007
  “With oil prices in record territory, presidential candidates stumping for votes in corn-centric Iowa, and congressional Democrats anxious to pass an energy bill to cut the nation's dependence on Mideast oil, this should be the right moment for ethanol. But a plan to dramatically increase ethanol production has become a major sticking point in congressional negotiations to complete work on the bill…. Pro-ethanol Democrats and farm groups want the bill to require a nearly fivefold increase by 2022 in the amount of home-grown alternative fuels that must be blended into gasoline. They say the mandate would reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil and help America's farmers. Democrats on the other side, joined by environmental and food-industry groups, think the mandate could raise the price of corn used for food; harm the environment by using more land to produce biofuels; and gouge taxpayers by expanding ethanol subsidies.” (Los Angeles Times, Wednesday)
  
  Central planning of energy continues.
  
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  “Ethanol versus the Poor” by P. Gardner Goldsmith
• Shocked, Shocked to Find Cheating in Casablanca
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Wednesday, November 14, 2007
  The House Homeland Security Committee has invited “the Hon. Edmond S. 'Kip' Hawley, Administrator, Transportation Security Administration [TSA], Department of Homeland Security,” to a dog-and-pony show today. At a “full Committee open hearing” politicians will tsk-tsk the latest scandal engulfing his agency: not only are its airport screeners cheating on tests of their abilities to detect weapons (and still barely passing them), but the TSA itself is giving them the answers. More . . .
  
  

  A NEW article by Becky Akers
  
  

• Terrorist Watch List Angers Innocents
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Wednesday, November 7, 2007
  “More than 15,000 people have appealed to the government since February to have their names removed from the terrorist watch list that delayed their travel at U.S. airports and border crossings, the Homeland Security Department says. The complaints have created such a backlog that members of Congress are calling for a speedier appeal system that would help innocent people clear their names so they won't fall under future suspicion. Among those who have been flagged at checkpoints: toddlers and senior citizens with the same names as suspected terrorists on the watch list.” (USA Today, Wednesday)
  
  Bureaucracies will be bureaucracies.
  
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  “TSA and Tyranny: Connecting the Dots” by Becky Akers