Mises Daily

Lew Rockwell writes: "I was invited to speak at a peace march and rally in Birmingham, Alabama, sponsored by the Alabama Peace and Justice Coalition, and gladly accepted the offer to speak against the war in Iraq."

How urgent is the cause of sound money? Our freedoms depend on it, writes Thorsten Polleit.

Jim Fedako explains that if recycling were really efficient and not wasteful, people would not have to be browbeaten to do it.

A lesser known episode of "The Jetsons" speaks directly to our current plight, writes Jeffrey Tucker.

Clifford Thies asks: Can we really expect government to create quality cities using redistribution, government programs, and regulations? He shows that the worst cities in America are those that depend on government money and tax everyone to pay for it.

Starting this year, writes Gary Galles, every educational institution receiving federal aid must teach about the U.S. Constitution on the September 17 anniversary of its signing. 

Ray Haynes read a dozen books in graduate school about how to plan for economic growth. Then he sat on a City Planning Commission.

They just don't make statesmen the way they used to, writes Doug French. Every week a new revelation comes to light about some senator or congressman's ethical transgressions.

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The Gulf Coast was hit with two disasters: Katrina and government. At every level and in every way, writes William Anderson, it made everything worse.

Far from having assisted in the crisis, writes Christopher Westley, FEMA actively made it worse by urging rescue departments not to assist. How much better off would the Gulf Coast be if FEMA had never existed? Much!