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The Clinton/Gore administration’s policy of depleting the Strategic Oil Reserve to ostensibly hold down oil prices has been widely criticized by industry analysts, Alan Greenspan, and even Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers as being too insignificant to have any sizable effect on oil prices. “It’s a silly idea,” said Carl Weinberg, chief

Al Gore’s 190-page “economic plan,” as detailed as any of the former Soviet Union’s vaunted “Five-Year Plans,” demonstrates that the American Left still does not accept the worldwide collapse of socialism. As extreme as the Gore economic plan is, with its record spending increases, social engineering through the tax system, environmental

The county-by-county electoral map published by USA Today showing that George W. Bush carried 2,434 counties covering 2.4 million square miles, compared to Al Gore’s 677 counties covering about a half million square miles, suggests that the worst fears of one of America’s greatest statesman and political philosopher, John C. Calhoun, may have

The hordes of lawyers that Al Gore has employed to help him try to overturn the presidential election through voter fraud are the latest example of how the rule of law is being destroyed. Florida election laws are clear as a bell in disallowing hand recounts unless there is fraud or machine failure, which Gore is not claiming is the case. The

Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. Ever since Mayor Daley of Chicago “found” tens of thousands of dead people to “vote” for John F. Kennedy in the 1960 election, many Americans have suspected the Democratic Party’s urban political machines to be awash in voter fraud. That suspicion has not been diminished by the actions of the

The state needs to invent an endless series of myths about its powers and importance in order to exist, and there is no bigger myth than the notion that democratic governments are mere expressions of “the will of the people.” No matter how heinous the deeds performed by democratic governments, no matter how much property they steal or people they

California is a beautiful state with a (mostly) mild, sunny climate, which is one reason why so many people live there.  But who would want to move there, it is often asked, if one had to endure chronic water shortages, earthquakes and now, “rolling blackouts?”  These events are typically blamed on either Mother Nature or the free market, but in

Americans have been led to believe that when they celebrate Abraham Lincoln’s birthday each year on February 12 they are celebrating freedom, the preservation of the union, and a reaffirmation of the principles of the Declaration of Independence. This belief is a testament to the notion that in war the victors get to write the history. Lincoln

A recent trip to Santa Monica, California, provided me with a clear explanation of why Californians, despite all their wealth, talent, and resourcefulness, have the energy supply system of a Third World country. Like so many tiny Latin American dictatorships, or the outer provinces of India, Californians can no longer rely on a steady supply of

America’s emergency room physicians met recently for their annual convention and emerged with their well-scrubbed hands extended and begging for government handouts. Terrorism, they say, means that taxpayers will have to hand over additional billions of dollars to the emergency rooms of America’s hospitals. Additional tax dollars would not be