Big Government

In a usual wartime situation, the government massively expands and then falls back only partially after it is over. The present circumstances, however, are even worse than wartime.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development says it wants to eliminate tax havens because their practices are harmful, if not criminal. What it really wants is to eliminate tax competition.

Alan Bock's book, Waiting to Inhale, gives readers an inside look at the forces behind the movement to give medical patients access to the legal use of marijuana.

CNET's Executive Editor David Coursey claims that we can head off future government intervention if we only do what is needed today.

Vigilance about co-opted semantics is vital because language mediates thoughts, actions, and hence public debate and policy.

Regulators and their political backers believe that only government can protect people from the risks of everyday life. Adam Young explains.

On May 29, the commencement exercises at Estero High School in Fort Myers, Florida, took place without eighteen-year-old honor student Lindsay Brown. The reason? A school official saw a kitchen knife with a five-inch blade on the floor of her car in the school parking lot and reported it to the local sheriff. Lindsay was suspended for five days, arrested on a felony charge, and spent part of May 21 in jail. Miss Brown, who accidentally left the knife in the car while moving some belongings over the previous weekend, is one of the more recent victims of the "zero-tolerance" policies most public schools have adopted toward prohibited items.

Doctors and patients fed up with the current medical system are negotiating something entirely new, and the AMA is very unhappy. 

The lands were public and the firefighters government employees. These two facts have much to do with why they died. Walter Block explains. 

In the 1950s, the government hatched a plan for martial law, state-planned production, and rationing in the event of a nuclear holocaust. It would have failed.