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Jim Fedako

In the marketplace, the consumers decide what is "improved." But in government institutions like schools, those doing the "improving" don't care what the consumers think. In fact, they only have a single strategy: spend more tax money.

Gregory Bresiger

Much of the left is against the Iraq war, and so far so good. But, writes Gregory Bresiger, they theorize that the driving force behind the war is capitalism, with imperialism as the highest stage.

Ludwig von Mises

Mises was the first to state it so plainly and clearly: "The program of liberalism, therefore, if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production."