Patricia Ireland and her National Organization for Women have released a statement attacking the Bush budget and tax-cut plan. She points to deficiencies in tax revenue and spending by virtue of accusing Bush of “pushing budget and tax cuts that will hurt women’s physical and economic health as well as the safety of women and families.” No, George
Jim Bovard, in the words of the Orange County Register , is “Washington’s most hated truth-teller.” In his latest book, Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil , he sustains that long-standing reputation with surefire dignity and aplomb. You get a feeling about a book and its author, when, in the
Watching the late-night news yesterday revealed one terribly funny story. Apparently, the Congressional Cemetery in Washington D.C. is owned by an Episcopalian Church and was given the “congressional” name because of the numerous members of Congress that were once buried there. It had been looking shabby and unkempt for years, and the news
I swear, whenever the markets are facing crisis, the mainstream chatterboxes on financial TV and radio finally see it as appropriate to listen to what the “contrarians” have to say. (Contrarian - as in someone who sees fit to think something other than the acceptable Bubblevision customs.) So, while the Bubbleheads obsess on the current market
What is the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.