If one thing can be said in the favor of the Russian government today, it’s that at least it is honest when it comes to naming its agencies. It calls them “police”—the Tax Police and the Ecology Police, for example. The Russian government practices truth-in-advertising. If only CNN were as honest as the Russian government. The post-Soviet Russian
In her April 12, 2001, column in The Washington Post , ominously entitled “ Think of the Children ,” Mary McGrory concludes that the government should help out more. She relates the story Elizabeth “Cookie” Jones of Washington, a young single mother of three who was profiled by Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Katherine Boo in the
In Time magazine’s August 10, 1992, issue, Ted Gup reported on newly disclosed plans that the federal government had developed for salvaging the state in the event of a nuclear attack on the United States by the Soviet Union. “Though the Soviet Union is gone,” the story went, “Washington was once convinced that World War III could break out
In response to the Code Red computer worm, CNET News Executive Editor David Coursey , in his column entitled Cure for Code Red: An Internet border patrol? advocates some measures that, while they may be intended to prevent future outbreaks, would instead ensure a further diminution of our freedoms. Stating that “if our homes were as much under
On June 18, 2002, Joseph Farah, syndicated columnist and founder of the alternative news website, WorldNetDaily.com, published a column entitled “ Why I’m not a libertarian .” (This article was preceded by his column “ Why I’m not a conservative ,” and followed by one called “ Why I’m not a liberal .”) In the June 18 piece, Mr. Farah lists several
Lately, pundits and commentators have suggested that the scandals that brought down Enron, Global Crossing, and WorldCom simply are more proof that trade and enterprise are inherently corrupt and pose a danger to the public. Some have even seriously claimed they represent the failings of a society with too much freedom, as if there could be such a
[This article was o riginally published in 2004. ] The legend of William Tell, the Swiss legendary hero who symbolizes the struggle for individual and political freedom, has its origins in medieval Switzerland, in the tax rebellions that launched the Everlasting League and the defeat of an empire. Settled first by the Tene, then the Celts and then
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