By Mary Theroux | Monday May 16, 2011 at 6:24 PM PDT | 0 Comments
Like millions of families this month, we attended a commencement ceremony this past weekend, at Mills College, a liberal arts college for women in California. Mills was founded as the Young Ladies’ Seminary, and a few years later was bought by missionaries Cyrus and Susan Mills, who relocated it to Oakland and directed its...
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Tags: California, Civil Liberties, Civil Society, Culture, Education, Family, Integrity, Liberalism, Liberty, Natural Law, Personal Liberty, Philosophy, Racism, Religion, Uncategorized
By David Beito | at 12:22 PM PDT | 7 Comments
Kevin Zeese, a leading proponent of the conservative/liberal/libertarian antiwar coalition, is soliciting signers for this excellent letter. If you want to add your name, as I did, send an email to Zeese at kbzeese@gmail.com. Dear President Obama: The wars in which the United States is currently engaged—in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Libya—are undermining U.S....
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Tags: Afghanistan, Imperialism, Iran, Iraq, Middle East, Military, Pakistan, Peace, War
By David J. Theroux | at 11:13 AM PDT | 3 Comments
In their new study, “The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Public Sector Jobs Saved, Private Sector Jobs Forestalled,” economists Timothy Conley (University of Western Ontario) and Bill Dupor (Ohio State University) present their empirical findings of the economic impact on employment of the 2009 Obama stimulus package of $787 billion, entitled the American Recovery...
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Tags: American History, Bailouts, Budget and Tax Policy, Business, Corporatism, Economics, Employment, Government subsidies, Healthcare, Labor, Mercantilism, Money and Banking, Presidential Power, Unemployment, Welfare
By Anthony Gregory | at 10:08 AM PDT | 4 Comments
The U.S. government is blaming Syria for skirmishes at the Israel border. So far, the U.S. has resisted pressures to intervene against the Syrian regime, despite its crackdowns against civilians somewhat resembling those of Libya’s. Hawkish Senators and others have lately called for war with Syria, and of course American political leaders have been...
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Tags: Imperialism, The State, War, Weapons