Big Government

Politics means taking from some and giving to others, says Tom DiLorenzo; only the market economy can truly reveal the will of the people. 

Even under the new regime, fundamental economic freedoms will continue to be at risk, concludes Mark Brandly in his dissection of the Bush campaign manifesto.

Regulations don't consider that safety is not an absolute value that automatically trumps all others, writes Gene Callahan.

Joseph Stromberg explains what it is, why it matters, and how a wholly justified public cynicism can bring it into question with stunning results.

Stealing elections is a sign and symbol of how little regard the left has for the rules the undergird a free society, says Thomas DiLorenzo

The Social Security Commissioner sent out a letter revealing what the system will eventually pay. Gregory Bresiger is not pleased.

You've heard that government policies can cause unanticipated bad effects? This view is confirmed many times over when you consider the current forest-fire fiasco. Government is the cause of the fires that raged out of control across the West this summer, just as surely as if the Forest Service had spread the fuel and lit the match.

For decades, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has been renowned as one of Washington's biggest boondoggles. HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros admitted to Congress in June 1993: "HUD has in many cases exacerbated the declining quality of life in America." Vice President Al Gore denounced public housing projects in 1996: "These crime-infested monuments to a failed policy are killing the neighborhoods around them."

Officials of the state are storming into the backyards of thousands of homeowners and cutting down their trees, writes Gregory Bresiger.
 

The secret of the state's rise was the separation of the ruler from the organization, says Martin van Creveld, who also predicts the state's demise.