By Robert Higgs | Wednesday April 8, 2009 at 2:33 PM PDT | 36 Comments
As readers of this blog may be aware, I was the guest on C-SPAN’s “In Depth” program on Sunday, April 5. Afterward, the volume of my e-mail messages rose substantially as people wrote to me to express their opinion of my performance or to ask me questions. Although many of these messages sent approbation, for which...
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Tags: American History, Fascism, Politics, The State, Video
By David J. Theroux | at 12:57 AM PDT | 14 Comments
To follow up on my recent posting, “Obama’s Surveillance State Targets PCs, Laptops and Media Devices,” Computerworld reported on March 15th, in “Obama administration says treaty text is state secret”: The Office of U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), part of President Barack Obama’s office, has denied a company’s request for information about a secretive anticounterfeiting...
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Tags: Civil Liberties, Constitution, Intellectual Property, Law, Personal Liberty, Presidential Power, Surveillance, Technology, The State, Trade