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A Public Service Announcement from the good folks at the Institute for Humane Studies: Each summer the Institute for Humane Studies sponsors a series of seminars for undergraduates, graduate students, and recent college graduates...
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Being the Government Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry
Being the Government Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry The apology of Richard Clarke, the chief counterterrorism adviser to the Clinton and Bush administrations, for the U.S. government’s failure to protect its...
Racial Identity in Balance
Racial Identity in Balance The Chronicle of Higher Education by Naomi J. Miller Speaking as a multiracial faculty member, I know that many of the regular invitations that I receive to serve on committees...
Coercive Patriotism
Garry Reed sums up my basic problem with the Pledge of Allegiance here: Extracting a government loyalty oath from public school children is legalized extortion. Public schools are institutions of coercion. Students are coerced...
Smedley Darlington Butler: Maverick Major General
March 24, 2004 Smedley Darlington Butler: Maverick Major General American Military University HM261, Military Biography by James Landrith Smedley Darlington Butler was born on July 30, 1881 in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Butler was the...
Gazing At The Stars
First Created March 24, 2004 Gazing At The Stars American Military UniversitySC104, Introduction to Astronomy Dictionary.com defines astronomy as: The scientific study of matter in outer space, especially the positions, dimensions, distribution, motion, composition,...
Quote of the Day
From Jim Henley: As a libertarian, I believe we are always going to be governed by fools and knaves. But these are the wrong damn fools and knaves. (Glove-taker-offer furiously nods in agreement)
Setback in the War on a Tactic
Dr. Ivan Eland, an anti-interventionist libertarian and Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at the Independent Institute on Mayhem in Madrid: It appears that the Spanish people can thank...
Same Old, Same Old
Dr. Robert Higgs, an anti-interventionist libertarian and Senior Fellow in Political Economy at the Independent Institute on Taking Stock One Year After the U.S. Invasion of Iraq: One year ago the United States unleashed...
Veterans for Common Sense News Update
More Shocking Reports of U.S. Torture at Guantanamo POW Camp Posted: 2004-03-13 11:17:00.000 Secret Documents Show U.S. Paid $1 Million to Overthrow Democracy in Venezuela Posted: 2004-03-13 11:26:00.000 Demonstrators push messages at president Posted:...