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• Atlanta Police Rough Up Jay-Walking Historian
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Thursday, January 11, 2007
  “Police in America tonight defended the actions of an officer who allegedly knocked a distinguished British historian to the ground after he crossed the road in the wrong place. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, a self-described 'ageing, mild-mannered' scholar, was held in a jail for eight hours after he inadvertently committed the offence of 'jaywalking' in Atlanta, Georgia, last week. He claimed he was the victim of 'terrible, terrible violence' after he failed to realise the man telling him to stop was an officer and then hesitated to show his ID, instead asking the officer to show his.” (Irish Examiner, Thursday)
  
  Crime in the streets.
  
  FEE Timely Classic
  “Leviathan's Legionnaires” by Becky Akers
• The Goal Is Freedom: Trans-Fattened Government
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  Sheldon Richman | Friday, December 15, 2006
  So people dining out in New York City will be protected from unwittingly — or even wittingly — consuming foods containing trans fats. Trans fats are what you get with partially hydrogenated oils and shortenings, which keep foods like French fries from getting soggy and margarine solid at room temperature.
  
  Trans fats will be banned in the city's restaurants and before long in Chicago and other places because health authorities say they raise cholesterol and cause heart disease.
  
  Ironically, trans fats became popular in food preparation as people were being scared away from the saturated fats found in butter and lard. I'm beginning to think the diet authorities, who unfortunately have their hands on government power, aren't as sure about things as claim. More . . .

  A NEW article by Sheldon Richman

   

• Economic Nationalism, Enemy of the People
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  Sheldon Richman | Friday, November 17, 2006
  “With the 2006 election, America appears to have reached the tipping point on free trade. . . . Anxiety, and fear of jobs lost to India and China, seems a more powerful emotion than gratitude for the inexpensive goods at Wal-Mart. The bribe Corporate America has offered Working America — a cornucopia of consumer goods in return for surrendering U.S. sovereignty, economic security and industrial primacy — is being rejected.” So writes conservative commentator Patrick J. Buchanan in his post-election analysis. Buchanan may be right. Free traders — those who reject the bogus idea of a “national economy” — should be nervous. More . . .

  A NEW article by Sheldon Richman

• The Goal Is Freedom: Mixed Day at the Polls
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  Sheldon Richman | Friday, November 10, 2006
  Americans went to the polls on Tuesday not just to pick legislators and governors but also to vote directly on policies. The results were mixed. By and large people voted thumbs up on the minimum wage and thumbs down on eminent domain for private use. More . . .

  A NEW article by Sheldon Richman

• The Libertarian Nobel Peace-Prize Winner
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  Sheldon Richman | Friday, October 27, 2006
  Last week, with the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank, I underscored the historical-philosophical link between freedom of commerce and peace in classical liberalism. (The article is here.) What I did not know at the time, and what I have since learned thanks to Auburn University philosopher Roderick […]
• The Libertarian Nobel Peace-Prize Winner
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  Sheldon Richman |
  Last week, with the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank, I underscored the historical-philosophical link between freedom of commerce and peace in classical liberalism. What I did not know at the time, and what I have since learned thanks to Auburn University philosopher Roderick T. Long, is that one of the first winners of the Nobel Peace Prize was a man who consciously placed himself in the liberal tradition of Frederic Bastiat and Richard Cobden.
• IRS Taxpayer Assistance Falls Short
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Thursday, October 26, 2006
  “Got a complex tax problem? Phoning an IRS Taxpayer Assistance Center for an appointment won't necessarily produce a solution, a federal audit shows.” (USA Today, Thursday)
  
  It's not really about service, you know.
  
  FEE Timely Classic
  “Is the Income Tax Unconstitutional?” by Sheldon Richman
• Community without Compulsion
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Friday, September 29, 2006
  It's easy to make something bad look good. All you have to do is leave out its essential characteristic. Consider what NPR commentator Bill Harley said recently about taxation and the importance of community. Harley was complaining about the effects tax cuts have had on his town of Seekonk, Massachusetts. Driving to the library one Saturday to return some books, he was disappointed to find it closed. That was the result, he said, of a reduction in the town's taxes. More . . .

  A NEW article by Sheldon Richman

• Eye on the Ball
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  David Veksler | Friday, September 1, 2006

  Like clockwork, the New York Times has produced another page-one story purporting to show that living standards for many Americans have fallen, this time because wages in recent years have failed to keep up with inflation. This has been happening, write Times reporters Steven Greenhouse and David Leonhardt, despite rising productivity and even taking into account the shift from cash to noncash benefits, such as medical insurance. Meanwhile, profits are up.
  
  In other words, workers aren’t getting their fair share of economic growth. More . . .

  A NEW article by Sheldon Richman

   

• To Be (in Congress) Is to Spend, Study Shows
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Monday, August 28, 2006
  “Members of Congress like to talk about holding down government spending but continue to attach their names to very few proposals that would do so, a prominent interest group contends. . . . The National Taxpayers Union analyzed sponsorship of all bills that would have made at least $1 million difference in spending. The nonprofit group, which advocates limited government and low taxes, has been tracking such matters for 15 years. . . . [NTU] said the studies, which began in 1991, all point to the same thing: Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle spend more time thinking up ways to spend money than doing anything else.” (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Monday)
  
  It's what they do.
  
  FEE Timely Classic
  “Deficits Do Matter” by Hans F. Sennholz