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I recently received an email from an organization that calls itself “Communitarian Network,” and, being somewhat curious, began to read it. Followers of this organization claim to be seeking “economic justice” and lay out the plans to do so. Now, to their credit, I guess, the “communitarians” say they are against state coercion, although much of

In the midst of war and emergency declarations from the U.S. Department of Justice, we find that the government lawyers who dominate much of the national discourse have not been concentrating exclusively on “national security.” No, John Ashcroft’s minions are trying to gain a new source of government revenue by again looting U.S. tobacco

No one can argue about the current moribund economy, complete with falling stock prices, nonexistent profits, layoffs, airline bankruptcies, and exploding federal and state budget deficits. People certainly have argued about the cause of this downturn (Democrats and their socialist allies insist that the relatively small, backloaded tax cuts of

When I click onto the Drudgereport.com site these days, I often am greeted with an advertising bar at the top of the page that declares, “Boycott France.” As we have heard ad nauseum , France was against the war, so France is against the United States, so we should not buy French products to punish the insolence of those people. For the past few

[Posted May 15, 2003] As we observe the current frenzy of lawyers preparing to sue McDonald’s and Burger King —and even suing Kraft Foods , the maker of Oreos—for allegedly causing their clients to suffer from obesity, we cannot help but wonder what lunatics have taken over the U.S. legal system. This current litigation, which is done in the name

A week ago I received an email that was part of a mass mailing by an anti-smoking activist who was championing all of the new “smoke-free” legislation that is being churned out by state, local, and national governments around the world. Although I am not a smoker, I must admit to having more than a passing interest in the recent assault on tobacco

It has finally come down to this: Martha Stewart must go to prison, or at the very least be forced to step down permanently from her position as CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, a company that she built from scratch. James B. Comey, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, has successfully obtained an indictment on obstruction

As U.S. trade deficits continue to pile up, and as the economy continues in its slow-growth patterns, a number of economic commentators have been accusing American corporations of causing the trouble by “exporting jobs.” Now, given the bounty of economic myths that economists and media pundits seem to foist upon us, one should not be surprised at

In recent weeks, the stock market has staged a mild rally. Though the most recent unemployment numbers are well over six percent, Republicans, as well as a few market analysts, are claiming that the long overdue economic recovery has arrived. While I wish that were the case, the facts demonstrate otherwise; this is not a recovery, but simply an

Like those who were of age the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated, most people can remember intimate details of what they were doing when they first heard that the space shuttle Challenger had exploded. To compound the tragedy, millions of schoolchildren across the country watched the whole thing in shocked amazement. The “teacher in space”