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One ironic legacy of the Clinton administration is the rearming of the American citizenry. Each time Clinton and his friends in Congress threaten another round of anti-gun regulations, the American people respond by stocking up on as many guns as possible. This is all to the good: an armed citizenry translates to less crime and more security, and

The press puppy-dogged Bill Clinton as he traveled the country exploiting the troubles of others to pad his legacy. Oozing the compassion that he kept under wraps as he bombed civilians in Serbia, Clinton announced that he plans to use the power of the federal government to fix up dilapidated housing and schools and inspire a renewal of economic

For years, the Right has promoted educational vouchers as an alternative to public schools. This has always been a delusion. The schools that take vouchers become the province of government regulators, while the money for the vouchers is taken out of the hide of taxpayers already being looted for public schools. Vouchers increase, not reduce,

Here’s a test concerning your political philosophy. First the facts, from Forrester Research , as reported in the Wall Street Journal : right now, 64 percent of Asian-American households are on-line, whereas only 34 percent of white households are on-line. That’s a disparity of 30 points. Now the test. Do you regard this as: 1) proof that Asians

Ladies and gentlemen, your attention please to ring number three. Before your very eyes, Republicans will pass what appears to be a tax-cut bill, while Democrats will denounce the plan as fiscally irresponsible. This will set the stage for the final act next year: that great civic fiction we call the election. Yes, it’s the greatest show on earth,

The New Jersey Supreme Court says the Boy Scouts must accept gays as leaders or else. The theory is that gays should have the same opportunity to join the organization as any one else. But this theory is at odds with the free society. The word liberty conjures up a vision of endless opportunity and choice. But liberty also means the right to

The government of Indonesia must stop the slaughter in East Timor, says National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, or else. Or else what? Or else, there will be “implications for the capacity of the international community to support Indonesia’s economic program.” Whoa, that’s some pretty big talk there, Mr. Berger. Imagine: the Clinton

[This speech was delivered at the Mises Institute on the 50th anniversary of the publication of Human Action in 1999.  This year, May 16-18, join Dr. Joseph T. Salerno, Dr. Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Dr. Jörg Guido Hülsmann, Dr. Mark Thornton, and more for a conference in honor of the 75th anniversary of  Human Action  at our campus in Auburn. Space is

You might have thought it was a bad thing that Hurricane Floyd caused loads of property damage, flooded whole towns, interrupted commutes, and generally mucked everything up. This is a fair assumption. But it is one to which economists are sometimes blind. It never fails: after some natural disaster an economist pops up to reassure folks that

The big conundrum after the collapse of the Soviet Union was how to move from socialism to capitalism. The US faces the same problem now with the public-school system. Everyone knows that the status quo has got to go. With the newest report that most high-school graduates can’t even write a coherent sentence, what else are we to conclude? The