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• Washington Struggle's to Cut Spending
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Tuesday, December 27, 2005
  “If nothing else, Washington's tortured, year-long budget debate shows that cutting federal spending may be even more difficult today than it used to be. . . . Not that it's ever been easy. For at least the last quarter-century, the federal deficit has been a perennial problem of US politics. As defense and entitlement spending has grown, most everything else that the US government does has been squeezed and squeezed again in search of savings.” (Christian Science Monitor, Tuesday)
  
  They cut less than one half of one percent of $13 trillion (over five years)… how hard were they looking?
  
  FEE Timely Classic
  “The Costs of Tax and Spend” by John D. McGinnis
• Warrantless Eavesdropping Allowed after 9/11
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Friday, December 16, 2005
  #8220;Months after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying, according to government officials.#8221; (New York Times, Friday)
  
  Who protects us from our protectors?
  
  FEE Timely Classic
  #8220;Ignoring Real Privacy Problems#8221; by James Plummer
• The Absurdity of “Saving Jobs”
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  Timothy D. Terrell | Monday, December 1, 2003
  Timothy Terrell teaches economics at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. In any period of economic distress there is a renewed search for political solutions to unemployment. It seems obvious that jobs must be saved, and the government must be the key to preserving those jobs. So we get another round of government intervention: economic […]
• Privatizing Airline Safety and Security
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  Thomas L. Tucker | Friday, November 1, 2002
  The events of 9/11 underscore the importance of improving the safety and security of air travel. The government’s response to the terrorist attacks employs a command-and-control approach. That approach ought to be questioned. After all, it was the Federal Aviation Administration’s system that failed on 9/11. Why should we expect additional controls to be more […]
• Book Review ~ Ethics as Social Science: The Moral Philosophy of Social Cooperation
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  Leland B. Yeager |
  Edward Elgar o 2001 o 352 pages o $160.00 Reviewed by Gene Callahan Professor Leland Yeager has had a long and distinguished career as an economist. The focus of his economic research has been on monetary issues, but regular readers of his work will know of his wide range of interests and not be surprised […]
• Library Story
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  Ted Roberts | Tuesday, October 1, 2002
  The universe is full of mysteries; like when does the phone company collect the coins in pay telephones? (Have you ever seen a guy in a phone company uniform lugging a satchel full of quarters out of the airport phone booths?) Why is it that your driver’s-side windshield wiper is always the faulty one? and […]
• Michael Bellesiles and Guns in the Early Republic
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  Clayton Cramer | Sunday, September 1, 2002
  Professor Michael A. Bellesiles’s Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture makes the claim that hunting with guns was rare in America before the 1830s.1 According to Bellesiles, few Americans hunted, few Americans wanted guns, and few Americans owned guns in the early Republic (the period from the American Revolution to 1846). What […]
• What Happened to China?
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  Harold B. Jones Jr. | Thursday, August 1, 2002
  Asked to pick from among the world’s nations the one with the best prospects for years ahead, an early fifteenth-century futurist would have bet on China. All the indicators pointed to it as destined to outpace every other civilization on the planet. Among the things the futurist might have noted was Chinese technology. In 1400 […]
• Sting Operations and the Separation of Powers
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  Joseph S. Fulda | Saturday, June 1, 2002
  To detect and prosecute laws prohibiting victimless crimes, government typically curtails civil liberties and, by standing in for a real victim, creates opportunities for abuse and corruption in sting operations. Sometimes, prosecution of these crimes is furthered by offering various considerations to one member of the conspiracy at the expense of the others. This would […]
• Absolute Power: The Legacy of Corruption in the Clinton-Reno Justice Department
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  David Limbaugh | Wednesday, May 1, 2002
  Regnery Publishing • 2001 • 385 pages • $27.95 Reviewed by Arch T. Allen “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Lord Acton’s famous admonition underlies both the title and subtitle of this account of how President Clinton’s promised “most ethical administration” in American history came to include a politicized and corrupt Justice […]