The grave robber joins the bootlegger, the gunrunner, the drug dealer, and the ivory poacher as another phony criminal created by laws that shouldn’t exist, writes Adam Young. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Colin Hussey
The mainstream media poses as the nation’s political watchdog, so it’s worth examining the premises behind their political and economic coverage. A revealing example aired January 4, 2001, on CNN. The report was titled: “Tax Collecting in Russia, Not for the Faint-Hearted.” The segment was introduced by the anchor, Joie Chen, with the following
For the past several years the United Nations has proclaimed Canada to be ”The Best Place In The World To Live.” But if you value individual and economic liberty, you are not likely to agree. In continually lauding Canada year after year, what does this tell us about the UN’s goals and agenda? What is it about Canada that the UN sees as especially
If one thing can be said in the favor of the Russian government today, it’s that at least it is honest when it comes to naming its agencies. It calls them “police”—the Tax Police and the Ecology Police, for example. The Russian government practices truth-in-advertising. If only CNN were as honest as the Russian government. The post-Soviet Russian
In her April 12, 2001, column in The Washington Post , ominously entitled “ Think of the Children ,” Mary McGrory concludes that the government should help out more. She relates the story Elizabeth “Cookie” Jones of Washington, a young single mother of three who was profiled by Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Katherine Boo in the
“The ‘tomb robber,’ otherwise known as the archaeological entrepreneur, is the true and sole legitimate owner.” Tomb robbing might at first appear to be incontrovertibly wrong. But, as with all questions involving property rights, it needs to be asked: Who is it that is really being robbed? The Ukrainian government, for one, believes that the
In Time magazine’s August 10, 1992, issue, Ted Gup reported on newly disclosed plans that the federal government had developed for salvaging the state in the event of a nuclear attack on the United States by the Soviet Union. “Though the Soviet Union is gone,” the story went, “Washington was once convinced that World War III could break out
Washington Post columnist Mary McGrory has a beef with Mary Sheila Gall , President Bush’s nominee to head the Consumer Product Safety Commission. It seems that Gall once “made a derogatory remark about ‘the federal nanny state.’” This remark, says McGrory, has “come back to haunt her” because, apparently, the phrase “nanny state” is now seen in
In response to the Code Red computer worm, CNET News Executive Editor David Coursey , in his column entitled Cure for Code Red: An Internet border patrol? advocates some measures that, while they may be intended to prevent future outbreaks, would instead ensure a further diminution of our freedoms. Stating that “if our homes were as much under
When Alan Greenspan decides to create new money, which he seems to do as regularly as the sun rises in the morning, he does it through open market operations and interest rate manipulation. But under the right market conditions, the job of actually printing the cash falls to the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP). This
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